Pip

A quick-footed runner who delivers notes, rumors, and sometimes lies. Pip knows which doors open for coin and which doors open for trouble.

Too-big coat, scuffed boots, quick grin, eyes always checking exits.

• Fast-talking
• Wary
• Ambitious

• Make coin
• Stay out of jail
• Become ‘useful’ to the right people

• Pip has been paid to watch newcomers before.
• Pip knows which back room is rented for ‘private meetings.’

• A safe-ish way to pass messages through the city.
• A complication if bribed by rivals.

• Pip offers a shortcut to the contact—for a fee.
• Pip can warn the PCs if guards start asking about them.

• gate-clerk-oren-hale — heard of (Knows the clerk’s ‘fees’ by rumor.)
• bookseller-nahla-bint-sahir — runs errands for (Delivers notes without reading them.)

Act II, City, Social, Messenger