Jasper spent his early live as an undead in Khemri, where he attempted to join a Shambling Undead team, but was rejected because the players thought he was too dumb. So Jasper set off to find a city where the standard for wisdom was lower than it was in the capital. Along the way he met The Prophet and his entourage, who gave him food, a sleeping bag, and friends. Eventually Jasper found his way to Numas. With The Prophet's (minimal) financial backing, he founded the Numb Brains. Though he would never admit it to anyone, he is more than skeptical about The Prophet's grand plans to raise an army and take the crown for himself. Nonetheless the two correspond over snail mail, not as leader and follower, but as good friends and confidants.

Like many Necrarch Vampires in Numas, Maximus lives in a wealthy and exclusive portion of the local community. Even as far as the other founding members of the Numb brains, he looks down upon the other species as inferior undead. A notion that he clings to desperately, because he is not exceptional himself. Even Jasper he thinks of more as an almost-equal rather than a team leader. While his hatred of every non-vampire makes him a social outcast of the team, it also gives them an scapegoat for all their fights, and almost no one would want him to quit.

Unlike fellow-founding member Maximus, Riley spent a lot of time socializing with non-vampires. Though this might have been because, as Maximus once put it, "She is so slow outside of games that she probably couldn't get away from them in time!" Nonetheless, aside from Ana, Riley was the most universally liked player in the Numb brains, and certainly the most approachable of the high-ranked vampires.

Timmy the Tame was a board game fanatic who never cared very much for sport. But when his close friend Maximus joined the first roster of the Numb brains, he was guilt tripped into joining the team himself. Much to his surprise, he fell in love with blood bowl, and the star-position of being a vampire among skeletons. Tim was the biggest wildcard of the founding roster, having never played blood bowl before, but quickly finding his stride.

Eliza was by far the most naturally-talented of all the Numb Brains founding players. She had even played a full season as a bench player with a now-defunct, semi-pro Necrarch team in the Numas city center. Unfortunately, she walked away form her one season with no new skills to show for it, and a severe case of game-time anxiety. While her love for the game pushes her to keep playing, her emotional health screams at her not to.

Jasper recruited Henry not because of his character, but because of his vibe. Henry has been unremarkable when he was alive, and had developed a vibe that allowed him to blend in to any social situation. In Henry, Jasper saw the social glue that the Numb Brains needed. As the initial and sole Wight on the team, playing mirror to none other than Jasper himself, Henry was worried that he would not be good enough. "You'll be fine--adequate. You'll be adequate," Jasper replied, giving Henry his first nickname in both of his lives. A small part of him hopes he can leverage his unique position to become more than adequate, though the thought of the pressure that comes along with specialty scares him.

Wane was the local chainsaw murderer. He had originally planned on beginning a career as a politician when he died. However his numerous cold blooded murders disqualified him by technicality (One cannot artificially increase their voting block while planning their candidacy). This disqualification is celebrated by everyone in the Numb Brains, because it granted them their only player who excelled at their position before they died.

Lily was hired as Ana's replacement shortly into the Numb Brain's first season. While almost certainly a better player, nobody would be able to replace Ana's emotional support. Finding herself in an immediate leadership position, Lily's power went to her head. She was much stricter on the team during practice. There was a distinct lack of baking. In fact, Lily tolerated no milk, for herself or anyone else.

Even when he was alive, Steve was a heartless man. Nobody ever truly liked him, and he never pretended to like anybody. Socially, he spent most of his time in large groups, where his presence was tolerated by default. When Jasper met him when first recruiting for the team, even he was made uncomfortable by Steve's incredible lack of emotional intelligence. "This", Jasper thought, "would be an excellent tool to militarize against other blood bowl teams." And so Steve was recruited to the comparatively-high ranked position of Acolyte.

Madlyn was Eliza's assistant during her one-season career in a semi-pro team. She was granddaughtered into the Numb Brains when Eliza joined, but because of the relative lack of skilled players she was brought onto the team proper.

Jayden has the distinct honor of being the originator of the team name Numb Brains. When the original meeting about the name happened, after initial recruitment, there was a lot of concern that a fanciful team name would set expectations too high. Eventually Maximus said they should name the team after how they insulted Jayden, and everyone agreed. He also has an unusual affinity for carrots. He doesn't eat them, but he decorates his apartment with them and washes them regularly.

Stacy was the one of the last founding members to join the team. When it became clear Jasper wanted some more skeletons to fill out the roster, Ana reached out to the local still-living shoemaker who had recently lost his daughter in a tragic accident involving involving a rouge table. She fills a more supportive role in the team, and is often forgotten by other players and accidently left out of team photos.

Richard didn't know what blood bowl was until his third practice. And even then he wasn't entirely sure. Most other founding members agreed that he probably didn't even know the game was played with a ball, since he had never seen one in play. Jasper recruited him out of pity, but the team keeps him around as a body to keep them away from the line of scrimmage. "Better him than me," the other skeletons would say behind his back.

Oliver was excited to try out for the Numb Brains during their first-ever recruitment wave. However, he was turned down because Jasper hadn't seen anything noteworthy in him. When he found out that there was some last minute recruitment before the team's first game, he lubricated his body to be more difficult to block on the field. His plan worked, but because he had devised his plan in a hurry he had not thoroughly lubricated. After his recruitment, he lubricates himself before every game, but refuses to do it thoroughly, believing that it would be bad luck to lubricate more than at his tryouts, and more likely for the ref to notice.