NPC Spotlight

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First up on Npc Spotlight (where I will be posting images and giving details on the npcs in ITM) is the import export expert short jim.



Here are some details you may or may not know about short jim.



Short Jim is a member of the Hiliya Caravan a company made exclusively of merchants

He retired from adventuring two years ago

2/3thirds of his profits go towards autism research

He is 71 thus making him 63 when he was awakened

His real name is James Riley

He is a father of 3 and grandfather of 7 although none of his family is awakened

The last mission he did before retirement involved killing a dragon cult who was stealing money from hetairia companies

He once killed a dragon with his bare hands

The Fall is one of the thirteen legendary weapons of the hetairia and also happens to be his personal weapon



Come back next week when he talk about another NPC.

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This week's spotlight belongs to Kikyo Juro, someone with a vested interest in the blazing dawn.



Now for some details you might not know about your benefactor.

• She has personally lobbied to get wushu accepted into the olympics
• Kikyo is 27 making her the youngest shadow
• Kikyo is the only recent instance of a person being born awakened, as such despite her young age she is one of the most senior awakened
• She has type O blood
• Japan Post Holdings have donated over 80,000,000 dollars to v-day upon kikyo's insistence
• The blazing dawn is the third company that Kikyo has personally backed
• She personally trained over 100 of the top hand to hand experts within the hetairia
• She is the hetairias top hand to hand expert and is considered one of it's most deadly combatants though few have seen the full extent of her abilities
• Kikyo's family possess the rare ability to detect nightmare attacks before they happen

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Let's keep the ball rolling with an npc that not only gives you missions from week to week but also is a fellow member the NLSTG.



Here are some details you might not know about Christie, or front desk girl as some of you know her.

• Christie writes a local hetairia newsletter
• She doesn't officially work for any one company but offered to deal with mission requests for the area as a whole
• She has gone out of her way to memorize all openly available information on all awakened associated with the Nevada county hetairia office
• Christie was selected for NLSTG membership by a facebook contest
• She is a competent Flutist
• Before becoming awakened she was a psychology major working to be a social worker
• She has a younger brother and is good with children
• Charlie Stevenson, a well known hetairia gambler, is her uncle

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Last weeks was out a little late, so what wanna fight about it!? This (last) weeks awakened is the first awakened the blazing dawn ever met.



Here are some details you might not know about James O'halloran

• The iron arrow was started by James older brother, who was killed by a lucky shot from a jitterbug
• He possesses a limp in his left leg from when he was a kid
• James was a homicide detective investigating a cult before being awakened four years ago
• He was thought killed at the cults hands but had actually faked his death after awakening
• He recently returned and joined the hetairia a month before his brothers death
• The iron arrows works extensively with the pinkertons at James insistence, his hatred for nightmares run deep
• There is a rumor saying that James was put up for membership in the NLSTG but was barred from entering for unknown reasons
• The iron arrow possess little money or resources but have a disproportionally high amount of influence from killing nightmares
• James's largest accomplishment was killing a pair of illusions taking the form of Mephisto and Baal by himself

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This (for real this time) week's NPC spotlight is not only the shadow to the pinkerton company but also the current trainer of the NLSTG.



Here are some facts you may not know about Allan Pinkerton

• He was the first Chicago detective
• Allan and his older brother Robert formed the Pinkerton National Detective Agency now known as Pinkerton Consulting and Investigations
• No one knows exactly when he was awakened
• He never sleeps
• His granddaughter now leads the Pinkertons with him as her shadow
• Joan Carfrae, his late wife, is secretly buried in Valhalla, a burial ground for the family of awakened
• The pinkertons started hunting nightmares on July 1, 1884
• Allan was chosen unanimously among the shadows to train the NLSTG

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You did not notice that this should have been last weeks, agreed? good.

This (last) week's NPC spotlight is the legendary weapon smith and member of NLSTG's assault squad



Here are some details you might not know about Engiss

• Engiss was awakened sometime before the supposed second coming in 1843 when he made himself known to the hetairia
• He was Melchior's successor as the guru of life
• Allan Pinkerton personally asked him to join the NLSTG
• He prefers to not fight directly, considering his time in the spotlight to have expired
• Engiss is a Scottish immigrant who moved to new york in 1926 where he still lives
• He created the thirteen legendary hetairia weapons because he believed the nightmare lords would return
• Engiss does not decide who recives the legendary weapons he creates after he first passes them on
• Only two original owners of his weapons exist being him and James Knight, leader of knight errant who's sword is one of the legendary weapons

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This week on NPC spotlight is a another member of the NLSTG, this time another member of special tactics and reconnaissance.



Here some things you might not know about Fate

• Fate's ability to see the future has never been wrong although her visions are sometimes blocked and she cannot decide when to receive a vision
• Fate is a girl of few words or friends, no one really knows that much about her
• She technically is part of the Horizon Group, a company that deals in social media and entertainment
• She is twenty years old and was born in Avignon
• No one actually assigned her to the NLSTG, though no one questions her joining
• Her reputation for seeing the death of awakened is enough to convince many awaken to surrender as soon as she enters battle
• It is not lucid guessing, the future does not change
• She can see the future!

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This week on NPC spotlight I will be posting ALL of the remaining NLSTG members just for you guys, cause I'm that great (David's pretty cool too for drawing them I guess).

First we have a the smiling assassin of the NLSTG's Special Tactics and Reconnaissance.



Here are some details you might not know about Enki

• Enki was given the nickname the smiling assassin from the family of the first man he killed
• His father Honesto is a very famous hetairia bomb maker
  
• He murdered a jitterbug with a steak knife when he first awoke
• Enki planned to be a watchmaker before awakening and is still very capable at repairing timepieces
• The smiling assassin specializes in wetwork, poisons, demolitions, and reconnaissance
  
• The shadow known as Edge selected Enki for the NLSTG but refused comment when asked why
• Enki is part of a 'oner' company, a type of company with only one combat personnel and a large support staff

Next we have a electrifying member of the NLSTG's assault squad.



Here are some things you might not know about Miles

• Miles Collins awakened mere days before meeting the blazing dawn, making him the least experienced member of the NLSTG
• He lives with his older brother Vince who originally turned him onto comics
• Compared being part of the NLSTG to being in the 'broke avengers'
• His friend Marianne tried to convince him to try out for the avengers before he became selected for the NLSTG
• He was chosen by Facebook on Christie's suggestion that he would be a 'local not predisposed to going along with the blazing dawn'
• Miles works for the Auburn Attack Association, a security company that offers discounts for local security work
• Miles is capable of generation a 600 billion watt lightning bolt at his strongest, this is 100 times stronger than the strongest recorded natural lightning strike

Third up we have assault squads very own stubborn support.



Here are some things you might not know about Isabella

• She is support staff for the The Diadon Dotards, a small research and development company in Ireland
• Isabella comes from a long line of merchants who disapproved of her not taking up the family calling
• She owns a large amount of pet birds
• Vitrol's shadow volunteered her to join the NLSTG
• She grew up in Italy and returns there monthly to visit her mother
• Isabella once managed to turn a demon lord into smoke using a toadstool, sulfur, and angel dust

Next is the mysterious agent of artillery squad.



No one knows anything about Smith Johnson, that name is probably a lie as well

Fifth up is the self proclaimed second in command of the NLSTG and one of the big guns of artillery.



Here are some things you might not know about Jushiro Kageyama

• Jushiro awoke during a blood moon when he was seven years old
• He was found to be talented with mechanics and mech piloting not long after
• Jushiro is the only awakened ever to hail from the island of Tashirojima
• The Japanese military trades his service in for money to help the victims of the Tohoku Tsunami which did extensive damage to the island
• His mech, the scarlet thunder, he made himself with his own specifications
• Kageyama's most well known accomplishment was defeating a DG cell enhanced tequila gundam that was attacking Aogashima, Jushiro saved everyone including Tequila's pilot

Sixth now we have the elder member of vanguard



Here are some things you might not know about Thaddius

• Thaddius Mulberry has been awakened for 24 of his 78 years
• He is an accomplished gardener who is visited by awakened the world over who come to see his work
• Despite his advanced age Thaddius single handedly saved Nevada County from a horde of frost giants about 2 years ago
• Despite seeming to have powers similar to a geomancer or a spirit summoner Thaddius is neither and his powers are very hard to define
• The State Corporation Grid of China volunteered Thaddius to join the NLSTG
• Thaddius is part of the green mile mostly as a technicality, although he does occasionally do missions for them
• His wife died a few years ago and none of this kids or grand kids are awakened

Seventh is the NLSTG's vanguard squad's Russian manwolf.



Here are some things you might not know about Boris

• Boris awoke 14 years ago when a black spiral dancer mistook him for a werewolf in human form, the dancer didn't make it
• He belongs to three wolf moon, named for the original three members, their logo was later turned into a shirt
• Boris volunteers for green peace when he needs a break from missions
• His powers enhance themselves greatly on full moons and blood moons
  
• Has a small wolf companion named Charlie
• Was reluctantly chosen by Exxon Mobil
• Once killed a hunter, turned prometheus, turned mage, turned vampire killing more world of darkness in one death then most people will ever meet

This next cat and his brothers need no introduction being the slickest members of vanguard.



Here are some things you might not know about Ceaser

• Ceaser's brothers are actually clones he created that suffer from MPD
• He is a descendant from the pirate Black Ceaser
• His greater rune weapon pistol, Gwan Star, was passed down through his family from Black Ceaser
• Ceaser taught himself to fight and tends to use direct and unpolished moves in combat
• When fighting people Ceaser has the uncanny ability to guess their next move which seems to make up for his lack of supernatural abilities
• Ceaser grew up in a home for children with mental disorders in Los Angeles until it was burned down one day by jitterbugs, that is when he awoke and his 'brothers' appeared to save him
• He was selected by the Pinkertons to join the NLSTG

Ninth on our list of members are assault squad's violent fists.



Here are some things you might not know about Johnny

• Johnny awoke 4 years ago when his sister was killed by bleeders, he beat them to death with his bare hands in a violent rage
• He works for the tattooed serpent, a group of awakened that are part of the triad
• Johnny has 67 magic tattoo's on his body
• He can play the guitar and is part of a punk band called Commie Electric Chair
• His favorite part of being awakened is the ability to make all his warrants to away
• Johnny grew up in Macau where he still lives when not traveling
• The State Grid Corporation of China selected him under pressure from the tattooed serpent
• He once fist fought a great wyrm red dragon and although it escapes it supposedly has a huge scar and missing eye from what he did to it

Next up is the NLSTG member I'm sure most of you forgot, your expert tracker and mystic artillery.



Here are some things you might not know about Ben

• Ben's father is Ungoro the legendary monsters hunter
• He refuses to kill monsters and prefers to track and study them
• Ben is a member of the Azure Eyes, a company dedicated to the understanding of blue magic
• When he first awoke he refused to kill an Ahab's whale not realizing it was a nightmare and it killed a small child
• Ben is a capable dream walker and can track people through their nightmares as well as influence them through their dreams
• His father gave him a harp capable of subduing any monster or nightmare
• Vitol suggested that Ben join on the logic that some nightmare's may try to hide from them

And finally the member most of you were really waiting for, mild mannered shrine maiden by day and defender of love and justice by night.



Listen close true believers to learn the heroic back story of THE SWARM!

• Although the name of the swarm's secret identity is unknown it is known that she was a shrine maiden who found a mystical beetle necklace that channels her incredible powers
• The Swarm is actually a legacy character and there have been 5 swarms before her throughout history
• It is rumored that her earth grudge fear technique is created from the 5 previous swarms
• The Swarm has to put active effort while talking to make the beetles that are her face not move, since most people find that incredibly disturbing
• The Swarm once saved Tokyo from Ebirah and Kamacuras at the same time
• She considered getting a giant beetle mecha that transforms, but the beetles that make up her hands are not coordinated enough to pilot it
• Andy the shadow from Exxon Mobil suggested The Swarm for membership in the NLSTG