<em>Important NPCs:</em><br/><br/><div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/0J5kxdl.jpg?1)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Lakshmi Bey, Professor of Applied Clockworks<br/><br/><strong>Role:</strong>In Control of the University, until someone more politically ambitious comes along.<br/><br/><strong>Motivation:</strong>Progress<br/><br/><strong>Brief Description:</strong>Professor Bey strives to make the world a better place through use of clockwork devices to ease the burden on mortals. She takes great joy in finding inspired young minds to give them the tools to bring the world into a new age of learning.<br/><br/><strong>Background:</strong>Lakshmi was one of the star pupils of the Hexville University, and was nominated by her thesis mentor to take over his position when he retired. She is enthusiastic about running the University, and likes to think she has the tools to help people all over the city. While she can do well at politics from time to time, she doesn't have much taste for it and would rather be teaching.<br/><br/><strong>Notes:</strong><br/>- Denounced by Ixeor Turn 3<br/>- Denounced by Niles the Nerdist Turn 3<br/><br/><br class="clear_left"/><br/><br/><div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/rBf5Aqk.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Grizzy B, or Grizelda Bloodbones if you want to be formal about it.<em>ALLY OF NILES THE NERDIST </em><br/><br/><strong>Role:</strong>Journalist. She may be able to write of your exploits, or slander your foes!<br/><br/><strong>Motivation:</strong>Freedom<br/><br/><strong>Brief Description:</strong>Grizzy runs the<em>Hexville Gazette</em>which is mostly a gossip and scandal rag but sometimes also serves as a source of real news as well.<br/><br/><strong>Background:</strong>Grizzy came to Hexville U on a scholarship from the Blood Barrens, an orcish homeland. Upon seeing the freedoms that Hexville has to offer she adapted a much more modern name and occupation, vowing never to return to her family business of conquest.<br/><br/><br class="clear_left"/><br/><br/><div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/1nB8WaN.jpg?1)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Jen'Mawg of the Forever Road<br/><br/><strong>Role:</strong>Explorer. Who knows what she might come back with if you sponsor her expeditions!<br/><br/><strong>Motivation:</strong>Harmony<br/><br/><strong>Brief Description:</strong>A being of a race that hails from another plane, Jen'Mawg is the instructor in planar travel and cosmology at Hexville U. She has been lobbying for a hands on extraplanar "field trip" for some time.<br/><br/><strong>Background:</strong>Jen'Mawg has a long and storied history that you can read all about in her treatise<em>There and Back and There and Back and There and Back Again</em>.<br/><br/><br class="clear_left"/><br/><br/><div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/eNP9Nmz.jpg?1)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Doctor Paolo Meselnik<br/><br/><strong>Role:</strong>Mad Genius. Maybe he needs a voice of reason reigning him in. Maybe he needs a push over the edge.<br/><br/><strong>Motivation:</strong>Power<br/><br/><strong>Brief Description:</strong>A doctor who isn't above playing god. Which god varies in any given moment.<br/><br/><strong>Background:</strong>A former student of a necromancer who tried to seize power in Hexville a few years back, Paolo was pardoned for putting his skills to good treating the sick and ill of Hexville. Now he mostly operates out of the University hospital, teaching the few students who can handle his very hands-on methods.<br/><br/><br class="clear_left"/>