Characters who had the dice go against them…

Habib (1st level Fighter), NPC
- Scout for the Brotherhood of Gorm. Habib was taken down in the second round of a fight with four oil beetles. After being blinded by the squirting oil, he walked directly into a fatal chomp from one of the bugs. His mangled body was later recovered by the Brotherhood for burial.

Agnar Locksmiter (1st level Dwarf), PC
- Bodyguard hired on to the trade caravan that left Drakesford. Took it upon himself to act as protection for the cleric, John Masterson. Sadly killed later on after choking to death on yellow mold spores. His body was brought back to the Brotherhood’s upper tier headquarters, where a casket was made for him and placed in the ceremonial chambers below with the rest of the slain Brotherhood members.

Assim (1st level Fighter), NPC
- Another member of the Brotherhood of Gorm. Assim was the ever-reliable front-liner who took a ridiculous amount of punishment but just kept on fighting. He seemed to develop a pretty good friendship with John along the way, although he was quite dubious of the brash Darien Drake. Killed by a doppleganger in his sleep who then attempted to assume his identity, but Assim’s body was soon discovered and the doppleganger was destroyed. Truth be told, he was one of my favorite NPC’s to play.

M’Tilda (2nd level Thief), NPC
- A member of the ill-fated trade caravan along with John and Agnar. M’Tilda ended up in the upper headquarters of the Warrior Maidens of Madarua, but was outright rejected as a potential recruit because of her thieving ways. She badly wanted one of their masks because the faces looked beautiful to her, and she believed her own face to be quite hideous. Proved to be a valuable asset to the party, thanks to her skills at finding secret doors and detecting noise and her accuracy with a thrown dagger. Like Assim, she was killed in the night by a doppleganger who attempted to take her place in the party until John and Darien discovered the truth.

Youssef of the Desert (2nd level Magic-User), NPC
- Short-lived member of the party, who found John unconscious in tier 5 and looked after him until Darien, M’Tilda, and Assim discovered his location. Youssef was also an outsider, although he was from a desert tribe as opposed to city folk like John and Darien. After becoming stranded in the pyramid, he joined up with the Magi of Usamigaras and soon went on a quest to find a rare flower that, according to some ancient texts Youssef uncovered, could indeed be the ‘cure’ the Cynidiceans need to bring them back from their drug-fueled dream world. He was the first killed by the dopplegangers after being left alone with three of them.