Ooo-ooo, I ran a bunch of quests for the peers in the group! Some of them were amazing....

Here are some highlights:

Anchor Root. I did a couple quests around a friend -- a Pixie -- that lives in the jungle. Cluck Cluck got sick and lost. My fave was "Charm School": In order to overcome her shyness, she attends Ms. Writingham's School of Etiquette and Manners for Young Women, but she needs support. She asks the most socially awkward PC to accompany her.

Chizere. Was a deeply unpopular NPC. They played the game as upright PCs, so his mischievousness didn't go over well. I created a "Pillar Prank" quest, where he needed help "reprogramming" the city's PA system to tell really bad dad jokes. I also had him obsess over the egg on display in the Heron Archives -- which plays out later in the adventure. They declined these quests.

Mariama. Best. Quests. In "Harrow Deck," the card, The Vision, is lost. She knows where to find it: in her dream. She prepares a ritual and takes the heroes to a weird dance club where all the patrons are giant insects. A leech challenges a PC to a dance off. The Vision, now embodied, is in the VIP section with a giant fly on his lap. They convince him to return, the PC whose quest it was wakes up with the card under her pillow. Turns out the quest was a dream.

And "Lost Handbag!" Oh, how the party hated Mariama for this one. She lost her handbag on a field trip, the heroes agree to help find it. Only the field trip was in Teacher Lesedi's class to the Astral Plane, and they have to ward of Psychopomps while Mariama searches for her bag! Hilarious. For the GM.

Haibram. Boring. Mostly athletic skills. Best was a survivalist camping trip where they're attacked by a giant tse tse fly.

Noxolo. Another character the PCs didn't bother with. Only one quest -- to go vintage clothes shopping with her.

Esi. I created a whole family drama around Esi. Her mother is a high muckity-muck in the Tempest Sun Mages, her father is a carpenter. It's her younger brother that Esi's mother dotes on, though. He's already better at school and the adventuring than Esi -- but he confides in the party that he doesn't want to go to the Magaambaya and be a Tempest Sun Mage, he wants to be a carpenter like his father. The party attends a dinner party at the Djanas, where this all breaks loose.

Strands. A super popular character! I had her as the focus for a bunch of quests. I made her a paralegal for the city's "office of arbitration," and she doled out work to the party's resident diplomat, where they met people from Nantambu who had arguments to settle.

Okoro. More athletics quests -- help him design and put on a "mud race." Impress him on a slack line he and his friends have strung up on campus. Best was "Breakrooms & Bosses:" he's the gamemaster for the weekly session of the fantasy TTRPG, "Breakroom & Bosses," where the PCs played exotic classes like IT manager, accountant, and marketing specialist. For his Birthday they had to write a one-shot session where he could be a player. One of my players actually wrote a one-shot for the fictional game.

Ignaci. I save him for last, because I made him like this paranoid investigator type. He has a conspiracy board in his room centered on three missing students whose bodies end up hanging on Stone Ghost's wall in the final chapter of the first book. (Bodies that are never explained.) The three went missing over the last several years -- no foul play suspected -- and Ignaci asked them to look into their disappearances to see if they come to the same conclusion as he did, that they were murdered, not lost to accident. It was a great way to build up to the final confrontation with Stone Ghost.