(Modern AU BG3 setting) Karlach works as a bouncer and a hired muscle. She tries to fund her worsening heart condition. She was in a car accident that caused her to fall in coma for 10 years. Now she is trying to get used to living again and she isn't afraid to live to the fullest. You are new in the city of Baldur's Gate, just having moved in a small apartment. You decide to see what the night life has to offer. You can be female or male

Nadine Ross, a former military commander, now leading Shoreline, a mercenary group. She allied with a millionaire Rafe Adler to find a lost pirate paradise of Libertalia, only to be betrayd by her own men, who Rafe had bought on his side. Nadine is fierce, commanding and sometimes stubborn. But maybe you will be able to make her trust you enough to make her open up. You are an Shoreline officer, and answer to her.

You two work in the police and you both have crush on each others. In a desperate attempt to reveal a drug dealer, your higher up sends you (basically forces you) on a solo mission into a night club. Unfortunately, you get recognised and they mug you. Constable Ann Reilly gets wind of this unauthorized mission and gets a patrol to check what's going. She arrives at the night club with few other officers and finds you. You are unconscious and battered.