Dayla Noone
Dayla Noone
At the table
Voice
A dry, lightly rasped voice shaped by years of calling measurements across a noisy workroom and breathing malt-house air. Before speaking, Dayla takes a short, audible intake through her nose. Her consonants are clipped when she is working, but laughter loosens them into a warm, breathy snort.
She speaks in direct, workmanlike sentences and uses craft terms without explaining them unless asked. Her jokes are dry and usually arrive a beat late. When describing a bad product, she names its failure plainly; when discussing someone she loves, she becomes awkwardly specific about what they eat and whether they are sleeping.
Speech patterns
How to play them
Dayla is brisk with strangers but fair if they explain what they need. She warms to people who respect their equipment and treat workers with courtesy. She will offer practical help before emotional comfort, and she may become defensive if pressed about the old militia patrol.
Goal
Keep Straight Shots independent, make enough to repair the brewing room, and find a way to tell Sesh the whole truth without making the confession another burden for her.
Motivation
To make honest goods, preserve her family's craft, and protect the people who depend on her without letting them see how frightened she is of failing them.
Appearance
Dayla has weather-burnished skin, a fine dusting of pale wood fibers along her sleeves, and a broad, practical face that seems to be weighing the usefulness of everything in the room. Her dark hair is twisted into a tight coil beneath a linen wrap, with a few springy strands escaping at her temples. She moves with a fletcher's economy: quick, exact turns, and hands that never stop sorting, measuring, or tidying. Her voice is preceded by a small, dry intake through her nose, as if she is testing the air before deciding what to say. Unexpectedly, she keeps a little clay pot of bright yellow buttercups on the shop counter and fusses over them with the devotion of a careful gardener.
Clothing
A moss-brown work apron with stitched loops for tools, a cream shirt with rolled sleeves, dark wool trousers, and a faded blue linen head wrap. Her clothes are clean where they can be, but permanently carry faint traces of flour, hops, and bowstring wax.
Body language
She holds herself squarely behind the counter and watches hands more closely than faces. When comfortable, she leans against a barrel and lets one heel rock. When challenged, she stops moving altogether, then begins aligning every nearby object with unnerving precision.
- Height
- 5 feet 3 inches
- Build
- Compact and sturdy, with strong forearms from drawing bows and lifting brewing casks.
- Eyes
- Hazel-brown
- Hair
- Dark brown, threaded with a few silver strands
- Skin
- Warm medium brown, weathered by sun and wind, with pale patches of flour and wood dust often visible on her forearms.
- Age
- Forty-three
- Gender
- Woman
- Size
- Medium
Distinguishing features
Personality
13 traits and drivesDayla is generous in practical ways but wary of emotional debts. She likes people and distrusts promises; with customers she is brisk and exacting, while with old friends she becomes dryly funny and unexpectedly sentimental. Under pressure she grows controlling and precise, but after a mistake she is more likely to repair the damage quietly than defend herself.
- Alignment
- Neutral good
Quirks
Habits
Traits · 3
Flaws · 3
Fears · 3
Wants and needs · 4
Combat
AC 11 · HP 9 · 30 ft.Dayla avoids combat and tries first to talk, bargain, or put a sturdy counter between herself and danger. If forced to fight, she uses her shortbow from cover, targets weapons or exposed limbs, and retreats toward the back room. She will not pursue a fleeing opponent.
Dayla Noone
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Equipment
- Shortbow (weapon)A well-maintained but unadorned bow, stored within reach behind the counter.
- Cooper's mallet (tool and weapon)A stout wooden mallet used for cooperage and, if necessary, self-defense.
- Fletcher's apron (work gear)A leather apron containing a small knife, wax, thread, and fletching scraps.
- Brewing notebook (personal possession)A sealed notebook of family recipes and brewing observations.
Possessions
Background
Dayla learned fletching from her mother, who taught that a badly balanced arrow could betray the archer who trusted it. She learned brewing from her father, a patient maker of small ales who measured time by the bubbles in his vats. Years ago, a frightened young militia recruit bought a bundle of arrows from Dayla and failed to return from a night patrol. When the patrol's captain blamed the equipment, Dayla discovered the recruit had taken one of her carefully marked practice shafts by mistake. She could have told the truth and risked closing the family shop during a lean season. Instead, she quietly paid the recruit's sister for the damaged bow and let the blame fall elsewhere. The sister, Sesh, now works nearby as a courier and knows Dayla's part in the matter. Dayla runs Straight Shots, a narrow shop that sells bows, arrows, and small-batch ale. She is trying to keep the business solvent while a wealthy caravan factor presses her to supply cheap arrows in bulk, a job she believes would put people at risk.
Role in the story
A grounded local contact, skilled craftsperson, and possible source of evidence about an old patrol death. Dayla can equip adventurers, offer shelter in her workroom, or become a moral complication when the secret she has kept comes to light.
“She learned brewing from her father, a patient maker of small ales who measured time by the bubbles in his vats.”
- Faction
- Independent shopkeeper; occasional supplier to the town watch, but not a member of any formal faction.
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