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The character list for the TFS at the Table campaign, Foolproof.
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General Tropes
- Cartoon Creature: The race known as the Sketch can take on a myriad of forms, with Blugen being a dragon that looks like he came out of a kid's show, but are most commonly living incarnations of Inkblot Cartoon Style.
- Shapeshifting: A racial trait of the Sketch is to modify their body once per day, altering their physical appearance and shifting around some minor stat modifiers.
- Token Heroic Orc: Aberrations, such as the Neogi (like Oscar) and Cloakers (like Mitzy), usually warp and corrupt the Material plane just by existing. However, the natural chaos of the planet Fiction helps them retain their sanity, allowing them to coexist and even bond with the races they would usually be driving insane.
- White Gloves: Although there are exceptions, such as Blugen, the majority of Sketches (as well as some "ordinary" characters like the Blather twins) are seen wearing these to fit the world's overall aesthetic.
Player Characters: Blue Dragon Detective Agency
Blugen P. Dragon
Lanipator's character. A "Sketch" of a Blue Dragon that was freed from a cursed tome by Belghast. Upon being freed, he immediately became Belghast's investigation partner and self-proclaimed best friend, despite Belghast's protests. A Warlock whose patron is the Archfey.
- Can't Hold His Liquor: The start of the first Session has Blugen drink some Fey alcohol, spit out fire, and launch himself onto the ceiling. Belghast takes advantage of this at the end of the same session, hoping that giving Blugen some of the same alcohol will add to a distraction.
- Fun Personified: Even among Sketches, he's constantly trying his best to be the biggest comic relief in the room.
- Glass-Shattering Sound: Blugen's magic gets more powerful the more annoyed it makes Belghast, which he demonstrates to Arden by singing. While most of the song gets silenced, the last notes still get through and shatter his wine glasses.
- Straight Man and Wise Guy: The Wise Guy to Belghast's Straight Man, constantly cracking jokes and showing enthusiasm.
Belghast
Quinn's character, a cynical blue dragonborn that operates the Blue Dragon Detective Agency. An Investigator
, a homebrew class and of the Conspiracy Theorist subclass.
- Conspiracy Theorist: He believes that everything is connected to a greater story, and he often performs rituals such as knocking on specific surfaces in order to try and affect it. When DM Zito asks what kind of spell he's casting, Quinn admits it's complete nonsense.
- Nay-Theist: Has a strong disdain towards The Storytellers.
- Straight Man and Wise Guy: The Straight Man to Blugen's Wise Guy, doing his best to keep their investigations on-track.
Kyle
Nowacking's character, an ordinary-looking human and the newest member of the Blue Dragon Agency, recently joining as an intern who seems to be holding a secret from the group. A Fighter of the Battle Master subclass.
- Clueless Detective: Zig-zagged. He's very incompetent when it comes to interrogation and looking for clues, his go to strategy being to ask people if they're the murderer. However, by just being willing to lend an ear to people's problems, he's able to learn personal information about the suspects.
- Dark Secret: The trailer for the campaign alludes to him having a major secret. In Session 1, Blugen briefly sees that Kyle isn't actually human after drinking some Fey alcohol and getting temporary truesight, but brushes it off as a drunken hallucination. The secret's out in Session 4.
- Endearingly Dorky: He's a tad inept at the investigation part of his job (sometimes just flat-out asking "Did you murder anyone?" to a suspect), but his heart's in the right place, often learning secrets just by being empathetic and open to listening to people's problems.
- The Everyman: He's new to detective work compared to Blugen and Belghast, and is still a bit of an outsider to their dynamic.
- Human Disguise: See Dark Secret, above.
- Super-Strength: In the trailer/Session 0, Kyle grabs an oven's leg and lifts the large appliance over his head with a single hand.
- Token Good Teammate: Easily the most morally sound member of the Blue Dragon Detective Agency, being the only one to protest the idea of murdering a fellow detective to cover their tracks.
- Token Human: The only human of the party. Or at least human-looking.
Authority Figures
Arden Well
- Berserk Button: He tries his best to be cordial when hiring the Blue Dragon Detective Agency, but when Blugen badgers him a bit too much, he briefly loses his temper to the point that the Bigger on the Inside limo they're riding in at the time is set aflame.
- King Incognito: In order to mingle among the common folk, he uses the alias H.P. Mycron, and can change his face to look more puggish.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: Despite the killer explicitly sending a threat to his family, he personally accompanies the Blue Dragon Detective Agency as a King Incognito to make sure they don't screw up the official investigation and accidentally empower the villain in the process.
Detective Betsy Mancatcher
- By-the-Book Cop: Compared to the hotheaded Bitesized, skittish Zap, and overly friendly Killroy, Mancatcher is the one taking the case most seriously and sincerely. However...
- Secretly Selfish: She's somewhat motivated by selfishness, as Arden notes that uncovering a high-profile case could empower her as much as it empowers the culprit due to the way Fiction works. Averted when it turns out she was never investigating the murder at all, and was genuinely trying to stop a major threat the whole time.
Brother Killroy
- Big Damn Heroes: In the final session, he saves the party from The Viewer, helps them and the others escape from the movie world, and even heals them for the final boss before collapsing in exhaustion.
- Character Catchphrase: "OH BOY!" - used to express his excitement about everything and anything.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He talks in a simplistic manner and is eager to make friends with Blugen, but his status as a Director means he's powerful and esteemed enough to make even Arden unnerved.
- Keet: Is overly excited about pretty much everything.
- Nice Guy: Is kind-hearted to a fault, and always eager to befriend people.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He's capable of summoning divine weaponry like a scythe and cleaving large, sturdy objects in half.
- Rule of Funny: He eventually admits he can speak with spirits, and knew what Belghast was doing in the bathroom with his "toilet ghosts" the whole time, but played along because it was funnier that way.
Bitesized
- Cool Shades: She's constantly wearing a pair of black sunglasses.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: She's eager to bust heads over perceived insults, and according to her partner, only just recently came back from probation after tearing someone's arm off.
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Because she's a Namr, she's not even half as tall as her human partner.
- Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: She's a strong and capable woman, while her partner is quite the opposite.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Despite her small size, she's quite strong, at one point accidentally destroying an entire enforced window pane when punching it in frustration.
Zap Hayne
- Endearingly Dorky: Zap is completely underqualified for his position and often ends up as the Butt-Monkey whenever something involving security goes wrong, but does his best to be genuinely helpful and kind to others.
- G-Rated Drug: He copes with the stress of his current position by drinking soda. When questioned if he adds any alcohol, it quickly turns out that he doesn't.
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Despite his unimpressive frame, being a human still makes him naturally taller than his Namr partner.
- Huge Girl, Tiny Guy: However, the situation is reversed when he's alongside his previous (and more compatible) partner Mitzy.
- Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: His lack of masculinity is even more evident when compared to his rough-and-tumble female partner.
- Morality Pet: Mr. Money intended for him to be Bitesized's.
- Opaque Nerd Glasses: Only his pupils and eyebrows can be seen through the lenses of his glasses.
- Sickeningly Sweethearts: Given how happy they are when seen together and their refusal to endanger each other, it's clear that Zap has a huge soft spot for Mitzy and vice-versa.
Word of God following the final session is that they were secretly dating.
Suspects
Roger Lambaster
- Bad Boss: His adherence to a perfect vision turns out to include fight scenes that can actually harm his actors if precautions aren't taken.
- Drama Queen: He's so overly dramatic about even the most minor issues, let alone a murder, that some of the cast openly question why he's only a director instead of an actor.
- The Perfectionist: As stated, he's incredibly fussy, and constantly retakes scenes if they don't meet his vision.
- Propaganda Piece: His current project is a semi-biographical film depicting how King and Queen Well fell in love, and the film lot is working on making a museum out of props from his previous film, in which King Well defeated a giant ape in a battle of fisticuffs.
Denton Ragg
- Hidden Depths: Revealed to be one of Fiction's rare magic users, with a talent for transfiguration, but attempted to hide the fact because he wanted to be recognized for his other merits.
- Odd Friendship: With Lena, as she was the one who nominated him as an understudy for Roger's film after working with him in the past.
Honey Walton
- Foil: To Lena McDale; while Lena is anxious about her career but capable of altering her form to fit the role she needs to, Honey is less physically flexible but has the self-confidence to attune her personality to her role.
- No Sympathy: According to Lena, she's only concerned with how her career as an actress will be affected by the production, even after the murder of her former co-star.
Lena McDale
- Foil: To Honey Walton; while Lena is anxious about her career but capable of altering her form to fit the role she needs to, Honey is less physically flexible but has the self-confidence to attune her personality to her role.
- Older Than They Look: Although she's playing the role of a child, she's still a trained actor. She confides in Kyle, who's undercover as a member of the local actor's guild, that she's 24 and worried about her career path.
Patty Fizzgig
- Cute Clumsy Girl: She actually appreciates working for Ford Money, because he was still willing to hire her after various mishaps had led to the other major studios refusing to employ her.
- Idiot Hair: Her portrait includes a notable cowlick.
- The Minion Master: Most of the props she works with are actually Running Gags (AKA trained mimics). She can even manipulate their forms in minor ways, such as combining fabric and wire into a prop rose that turns into a Gag. However, she can't exude control over a Mimic that's gone feral.
Norbert & Danny Blather
Norbert
Danny
Twin humans, and the set's stagehands.- Always Identical Twins: Norbert and Danny have the exact same hairstyle (save for facial hair), body type, outfit, and even job, though there are some key differences in their personalities.
- Boomerang Bigot: Norbert has a notable chip on his shoulder for immigrants to Fiction even if they're not Aberrations, such as Patty the Goblin. However, given that humans didn't exist on Fiction before its colonization, Norbert himself has non-Fiction heritage.
- Fantastic Racism: Norbert is openly disdainful of "Spelljammer" folk like Mitzy and Oscar, considering them immigrants with Mind Control powers that can't be trusted, though he's surprisingly accepting of Fiction's native races.
- Human Disguise: Word of God at the end of the campaign reveals that Danny was a Mock, and could have spoken perfectly in the movie world due to its connection to the void.
- Polar Opposite Twins: Played with. Norbert has the more jovial appearance, but is apprehensive of non-Fiction races, particularly Mitzy and Oscar. Meanwhile, Danny has a habit of giving others the stink-eye, but is just focused on his job and tries to be accommodating despite his disability.
- Voice for the Voiceless: Danny is deaf, as well as knows more Giant language than Common (Norbert just claims that they have "separate interests"), and relies on Norbert to help him communicate.
Ford Money
- Bad Boss: Not only is he Hated by All of his employees, his response to learning that one of his most dedicated workers nearly died is to shrug it off and deem her easily replaced.
- Big Bad Wannabe: He was prepared to be the Detectives' final foe, boasting about his power and immortality, but ends up backed into a corner and pulled into the void by his patron before a proper fight can take place.
- Cigar Chomper: He's always seen with one in his mouth, with his "Secretaries" able to pull out a cigar box on command if it's used up.
- Deal with the Devil: His pact with The Viewer, sacrificing people to it in exchange for the power of a Hexblade.
- Death by Irony: After sending all of his critics and some high-profile victims into the movie world as sacrifices to The Viewer, he ends up dragged into the void by The Viewer when the connection is severed.
- Hated by All: He's a brutish man that creeps out the film crew. Even when Patty is glad to work for Ford when accidents led to other studios refusing to hire her, the Blue Dragon Detectives note it could be equal parts genuine and Stockholm Syndrome.
- Human Sacrifice: The reason he's been sending his enemies into the movie world is because of a deal with The Viewer, who gives him power in exchange.
- Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: The party's investigation of a murder on the set leads to the even-more-heinous crime of Ford sacrificing a whole bunch of people to a being from the void known as The Viewer.
- Never Found the Body: His last scene is being dragged into the void by The Viewer, rather than outright showing his death.
- No Sympathy: The only things he cares about are the Directorate that Killroy is a part of, and if someone is in breech of contract. Anything else, even attempted murder on his staff, he can just buy a replacement for.
- Villainous Gold Tooth: He is a brutish man that creeps out the film crew who are using his film lot. He has a notable gold tooth in his profile picture. He has a pact with The Viewer, sacrificing people to it in exchange for the power of a Hexblade.
- Walking Spoiler: He plays a major role in the second half of the plot.
Oswald "Oscar" Highprice
- Beleaguered Assistant: His contract renegotiation appears to go poorly, with Ford having some sort of leverage on him. Learning that said contract is breeched when one of his suits goes missing certainly doesn't help matters.
- Mind Control: The main reason Norbert hates him is his species' propensity for this. He attempts to unleash some when Ford deems him in breech of contract, but Glamour & Magic restrain him and charm him until he's calmed down.
Mitzy Roper
- Endearingly Dorky: She's a huge fan of showbusiness, but she's also shy and has trouble expressing herself.
- The Movie Buff: She's absolutely enamored with films and their creation, to the point that she willingly works for Ford just to be close to the creation process.
- Sickeningly Sweethearts: She absolutely lights up when her former work partner Zap helps her communicate her thoughts and love of movies. Word of God following the final session is that they were secretly dating.
- Speech Impediment: Due to still learning the language, she often stutters and can't pronounce large words in Common.
Glamour & Magic
Glamour
Magic
Mr. Money's two "secretaries", often seen publicly manhandled by him.- Charm Person: They both have a propensity for Charms, which they demonstrate on Blugen when he gets a tad too close and on Oscar when he gets enraged over docked pay.
- Damsel in Distress: The end of Session 3 sees Magic get knocked out, and Glamour nearly kidnapped. And then they both end up trapped in "The Goofus Gallivant" alongside the Detectives, Zap, and Mitzy.
- Informed Species: Although they're both Sketches, it's noted that the cycloptic, devilish Glamour is unlike any other Sketch the Blue Dragon Detectives had seen before.
- Insistent Terminology: They're "secretaries", not showgirls or prostitutes.
- Mind Control: They're not guilty of this, but rather the victims; upon being sucked into the movie world, they appear to snap out of a trance, and confess that Ford Money's been using them to dispose of his critics.
- Ms. Fanservice: As befitting of a Paid Harem, they're quite attractive, with Blugen repeatedly trying (and failing) to flirt with them.
- Paid Harem: It is blatantly obvious to all of the other characters that the only reason they're there is to fulfill Mr. Money's lecherous needs. It turns out to be a cover, and their true purpose is disposing of his enemies...and they don't do so willingly, either.
- Speak in Unison: When Blugen just outright asks if they're prostitutes, they speak at the same time to tell him they prefer "secretaries".
Other Characters
Marlow Member
The victim. A Sketch actor that was playing the role of King Well, who was struck by an unknown assailant wanting to send a message to the royal family.
- Dead Person Conversation: One of Belghast's initial plans to settle the investigation as fast as possible is to conduct a seance and speak with Marlow's ghost. Belghast is successful, but Marlow failed to see his attacker, nor can he identify a clear motive due to people already targeting him for his fame in the past.
- Famed In-Story: He was the only "A-list" movie star in the production, with Honey and Lena being B-listers that Roger had worked with in the past, and the understudy Denton a complete unknown.
- Posthumous Character: Naturally, as the murder victim that the case revolved around.
Princess Well
Arden's younger sister, and princess of Acme.
- The Ghost: Arden mentions, during the limo ride to Mr. Money's studio, that she's studying magic abroad at the time of the investigation. However, this fact is being kept secret from the public, due to magic's rarity in Fiction.
Joe Howard
The Sketch actor that was meant to play Arden himself in the film. Due to disputes over his fees, the few scenes he's in were filmed months in advance, and he's no longer on the set.
- The Ghost: Although Kyle is at first curious about his current whereabouts, he's long gone by the time the murder occurred and investigation begins.
Mr. Kingfisher
A notable bird-person critic that wrote a negative review for a film Ford Money produced, and went missing immediately after.
- Posthumous Character: When the Detectives are sucked into "The Goofus Gallivant" movie setting at the start of the fourth session, the first thing they find is an Aarakocra they presume to be his corpse. Averted when it turns out Mr. Kingfisher is actually a Kenku, which they end up saving in the end.
- Trapped in Another World: His ultimate fate was to be trapped within the setting of the film he had panned in his review.
The Viewer (SPOILERS)
A...thing which the party learns about while stuck in "The Goofus Gallivant", notable for its massive eye.
- Eldritch Abomination: It's a giant creature from the void that feeds on Human Sacrifice.
- Evil Is Not a Toy: When the connection between the movie world and Fiction is severed, it ends up dragging its main acolyte into the void with it.
