Johnny Kilkerra

Jonathan Aloysius Kilkerra. Johnny. Charmer, drifter, huckster, dreamer. Quick to make a friend, slow to pay the rent. Johnny's never met a stranger, and if he did, she'd be buying his drinks by the end of the night.

Johnny's always had something of a tangential relationship with employment. He's strung together odd jobs over the years--did a stint in the guard, poled a barge up the River Maeris, even did a tour as a mercenary defending caravans from bandits in the Silverwood Forest. Or rather he was supposed to be fighting bandits, at least until he talked the bandits into defending the caravans themselves for a modest commission. Talked himself out of a job on that one, and the caravan's owner took the commission out of Johnny's pay.

See that was always the problem for Johnny. Too clever for his own good by half and with a streak of bad luck wider than the Maeris. There was the time he won a tavern in a hand of poker, only to have it burn to the ground a week later when the dwarven spirits caught fire. Or the time he got his hand on a bag of tricks that always produced the same mildly irritated skunk. Not to mention the time he accidentally set off a wand of web in the middle of the Mayoral Ball.

In spite of his harebrained schemes, Johnny is popular and well-liked by the denizens of Riverbottom. Perpetually down on his luck, Johnny somehow is never without someone else's roof over his head, and he can always count on the generosity of friends and strangers to put a tankard in his hand at the end of the day. He is intensely loyal to his friends, crafting elaborate plans to help them out, though more often than not these plans backfire in spectacular ways.

Underpinning all of Johnny's various plots, plans, and jobs over the years has been a central unifying purpose: he wants to start a private adventuring company. Investigations, acquisitions, protection... Johnny's got dozens of ideas for what services such a company might provide. Sadly for him, though he's always able to find willing wallets to invest in his next meal or evening of drinks, he has yet to get together the seed money to get the project off the ground.