Kohtalo Paha

Kohtalo Paha is a player character from Harkoth's Legacy, first debuting in Spinflux's Solo Session. He is a human monk played by Deeto, best known for his bouts of schizophrenic mania, talking to voices that don't exist, and his odd refusal to ask for help.
== Personality ==
=== Spinflux's Solo Session ===
Kohtalo is very cocky even flexing his strength to Spinflux and getting annoyed when confronted.
=== Harkoth's Legacy ===
Kohtalo is a carefree, cunning guy who doesn't seem to have much concern for taking things seriously. On the other hand, Kohtalo is shown to be irritated when not having the funds to purchase what he wants. He also seems to have a mental illness, as he keeps screaming about voices in his head and how much he wants them to get out. He is very prideful, often taking sole credit for something the group accomplished or hoarding the rewards of said accomplishments all to himself. 
He's also incredibly racist towards Goblins, calling them boot-lickers.
== History ==
=== Spinflux's Solo Session ===
Kohtalo was spectating the fight between Mahoraga and Phantasm in the Abyss before Spinflux rudely interrupted the spectacle, gaining Kohtalo's attention. When asked to stop the fight between Mahoraga and Phantasm, Kohtalo gets pissy and tells Spinflux that he's the worst enemy imaginable. He toys around with Spinflux, first using Scream of the Dead and then Boogie Woogie to disorient Spinflux. Having his fun, he intends to end the fight with Imaginary Technique: Hollow Purple, but is surprised when Spinflux is alive after directly taking the blast. In a quick change of plans, he steals Professor Proxy's Bus, knocking Professor Proxy into the Quantum Fridge in the process, and takes off, leaving Spinflux alone in the Abyss.
=== Harkoth's Legacy ===
In the opening of the campaign, Kohtalo sat with the other Harkoth Hunters within Theo's bar in the town of Old Mirefield. Upon being presented with Theo's wares, he bargained for a discount, being told that Theo already applied it. Kohtalo attempted to prod Theo to open his box, but was unsuccessful until Xotal used his puppy eyes. Kohtalo asked about the curses on the items within the box, being told ultimately non-useful information and being utterly flabbergasted and disgusted by the prices of the items, having to haggle to get them lower. Kohtalo gave in to the haggled price, buying the Sanguine Slinger, soon asking Venzorwyn if he knows how to shoot a gun. For some reason, Kohtalo was struck with a streak of dementia, forgetting how long he had been with the Harkoth Hunters. After Theo brought out cheese for Xotal, Kohtalo asked Xotal if he would share, and upon being told no, asked Theo for more food. Theo tried giving him ham, ale and bread but Kohtalo shut them down, saying he's allergic to ham and instead ops to take more cheese cubes. Shortly thereafter, Kohtalo asks the other Hunters if they are virgins, completely unprompted, mentioning that Faust certainly wasn't. He then went to take a piss, returning shortly later and disgusting the party as he asked if their pee streams ever split in two, which most of the party members looked at him with a weird face. Joining the planning session once again, Kohtalo suggested the idea of disguises, but was shut down almost immediately after by Venzorwyn and Faust, recounting their various inconsistencies, the former being a large dragon that wouldn't be able to hide, and the latter being "green and smelly" respectively. Kohtalo soon remembered that he was the only one who could potentially disguise as a full human, apart from the then-missing Billy, who is too arrogant to put down his crown for anything besides a fishing cap.
Kohtalo was alarmingly neutral when Venzorwyn put his trust into him and Faust to sneak into the Baroness' manor. He accepted the plan, thinking it was a good bonding experience between him and Faust, and asked Venzorwyn for uppies, which Venzorwyn responded with grabbing his scarf like a cat. After being set down on the roof, Kohtalo slid down it with Faust, landing ever-so-slightly more gracefully than him. Kohtalo soon slowly opened the door to the Baroness' parlor, Faust close behind, making an ever-so-slight creak as he did so. Kohtalo soon asked Faust about his desired approach, suggesting they "divide and conquer", completely forgetting the advice Theo gave to him about the location of the amulet. While conversing with Faust, he heard the faint footsteps of a nearby guard approaching them, and hid behind the door they entered through. This worked, although he was shocked when Faust hid behind a curtain. Certain Faust was going to get caught, he was preparing to shoot the guard in the head, but somehow the Guard figured the curtains just smelt like shit. After the coast is clear, Kohtalo and Faust continue the search.
Kohtalo, once again forgetting Theo's advice, headed into the den downstairs, eyeing the gilded goodies atop the fireplace's mantle, inspecting them to see if he could find the amulet, being unsuccessful. Considering his time wasted, he went back upstairs to reconvene with Faust, who reminded him of where Theo said the amulet would be. Kohtalo opened the door to the parlor shortly thereafter, getting the pair spotted by the guard from before. Shortly after the guard called Faust a liar for refusing to admit he stunk up the curtains, Kohtalo told Faust to play dead. This somehow worked, prompting the guard to pick up both of them by one of their ankles and carry them outside to clear the manor of corpses, buying Kohtalo just enough time to free himself by using one of his Cursed Techniques, Boogie Woogie. He used Boogie Woogie to switch places with the Baroness, prompting the latter to be held by the guard. This success was short-lived, however, as when the Baroness freaked out when she noticed the "zombie" within her midst, she was let out of the guard's grasp, preventing Faust from claiming the amulet. After Faust is freed, Kohtalo told him to play the lyre as fast as he can, rushing to tackle the Baroness to the ground in the meantime, pantomiming grabbing her neck to try and scare her guard. Seeing that the guard isn't fazed by him, Kohtalo tore off the Baroness' amulet, then using Boogie Woogie once again to swap with the Baroness to dodge out of the way of the guard's rather poorly-placed slash. After this, Kohtalo complimented the Baroness' bosom, getting slapped in the process.
After Venzorwyn and Xotal returned to the pair's aid, Kohtalo told Venzorwyn to admire the Baroness' breasts, with the latter responding by telling the former to be serious for longer than 5 minutes. Kohtalo tries saying he has no reason, but Venzorwyn ignores him and puts him on his back. Kohtalo thinks about opening the amulet he got from the Baroness, but decides to wait incase it was an Area of Effect curse. Upon arriving at Theo's bar, Kohtalo unwrapped the amulet, finding it to be wrapped in a heavily-obfuscated, stained story scroll about a group of adventurers defeating an evil king. Kohtalo chose to keep the scroll, and was upset at Theo's purchase price. He tried to pressure Theo by asking Faust if his wife would like the amulet, but this did not work. Because of this, Kohtalo decided to hold onto the amulet for later use, putting it into a pocket where he'll forget it for a good period of time.
Later, when the Constable came to raid Theo's bar, Kohtalo hid behind the side of the door opposite Venzorwyn, ready to strike the Constable and his guards. Kohtalo later used his Blood Manipulation technique to launch a Piercing Blood attack at the Constable and one of his men, striking them both and taunting them as he dodged their reactionary attacks. Kohtalo soon complimented Faust's mockery of one of the guards, and soon landed precise blows on the Constable and one of his guards, knocking the former over and preparing the latter for Faust's finisher. During the party's final night with Theo, Kohtalo complimented Venzorwyn's craftsmanship when it came to his new runes.
Upon reaching the docks, Kohtalo hears whispers of Harkoth's Blade, and is enamored by the potential power of the blade, deciding alongside the others to pursue it while spreading his name once more, just as he did in the past.
After washing up in the Grim Thicket, Kohtalo is the first to want to run after the humming, thinking that a "hot honey" must be behind that song. He is forced to stop when Venzorwyn grips him, but they follow the voice anyway after Xotal runs eagerly like a dog to a dog treat. After meeting Netilla and learning she dragged them there, Kohtalo complimented her strength. After being left alone with Xotal, a mistake on the part of Venzorwyn, he immediately asked Xotal if he wanted to raid Netilla's house. To try and convince him, Kohtalo suggested that Netilla might be a "pedophilist", not a pedophile which is a completely different thing, although its quickly stopped by the voices in his head shouting at the world Pedophilist, making him scream out in agony and crumple to the floor. As the remainder of the Hunters returned, Kohtalo and Xotal left to complete their task: finding Asporion Mushrooms. While they walk alongside the trail, Kohtalo quickly remembers why he never scavenged for food, and let Xotal do it instead. After returning to Netilla and letting her brew the potion, Kohtalo is hesitant to drink it after the former joked that it was poisonous. He took a hefty whiff of the brew, forgetting how to waft, but finds that it is genuinely harmless, saving it for later. After this, Kohtalo asks Netilla how she got her "gyatt", saying that it's hot that she worked for it, prompting the latter to strike a "funny pose" and slap Kohtalo for being perverse, something that Kohtalo will remember as the black bar appears in the corner of the screen. Before they leave, they find Billy had been on the boat with them, and was actually just fishing nearby. As he hops onto the Venzorwyn express, Kohtalo looks into Billy's fishing buckets and see he has over 19 pounds of fish.
When they arrive in Elmwood, Kohtalo proposes the idea of selling Billy's fish for funds, which the rest of the party to see to agree with. For unknown reasons, presumably just to annoy him, Billy only gives Kohtalo a single gold piece after selling his fish haul in Elmwood. This prompts Kohtalo to become the stingiest man alive, competing with the likes of McScrooge, due to spending all of his previous job's money on the overpriced shitstorm of Theo's Sanguine Slinger. He realized he was getting hangry and went on the search for food, having an episode outside of the beef stand when they offered him a huge block of beef for 3 gold. He had to get individual slices for 5 silver, and when he was walking to the cookery, Venzorwyn offered him a loan. Due to not being retarded, Kohtalo obviously didn't take the loan and just made his sandwich. As he leaves the cookery, he begs the air and the moths that flew out of his pocket to not let his sandwich being ruined, to which the universe responds by bringing the Red-Skull Raiders to town.
Trokk stole Kohtalo's sandwich, adding insult to injury as Venzorwyn and Billy left Kohtalo and the others to deal with it, and due to Xotal's miss with his big stick, Trokk dropped the sandwich on the ground, permanently soiling it. This incident sparked a long-standing rivalry between Kohtalo and Trokk that would last until the end of the universe. He stanced up with Trokk, having to REALLY look up due to Trokk's large stature and Kohtalo's average height. In a fraction of a second, he throws Trokk into a building and lands an attack that was so rarely seen through out Kohtalo's prime that the very concept of it was missing from the history books, a Black Flash. This heavily injures Trokk, who throws Kohtalo off of him and runs away into his army like a pussy. During the rest of the battle with the Raiders, Kohtalo bitched at Netilla for failing a potion throw, called an enemy sniper retarded not long after for missing an arrow, and plans to leave Netilla to her death when he realizes they're outnumbered. Shortly after this, Kohtalo picked up a pebble from the ground and made a remarkably precise throw onto Trokk's head, something which he is very proud of and has stored away in his long-term memory vault.
Soon, the party gains the idea to overthrow Trokk and become the new leader(s) of the Raiders, but first Kohtalo tries to win them over with words but is unsuccessful. Faust gains a reckless idea, climbing atop the broken market stand and dancing for the gnolls, trying to distract them long enough to get the party to leave, using it to taunt Trokk. This barely works as only a sniper joined Faust, so Kohtalo steps in with his superior moves and breaks down while Faust switches to playing background music. As Faust and Kohtalo boogie, Xotal soon goes full “feral rabbit mode”, getting on all fours as he blasts his attacker away from him with an eldritch blast. The Red-Skull-Raiders appear to massive haters, as they begin to try and mess up Kohtalo's performance, but he's just too smooth with it, like honey on nice warm bread. Trokk, intimidated by such moves, recalls his army and flees west. Xotal, using power from an untapped well inside of him, casts Shatter directly on Faust, planning to kill the nearby invaders so the Harkoth Hunters can rest. Kohtalo switches out and leaves Faust, due to his immortality factor, but quickly comes back when it turns out that Faust didn't outright die. Kohtalo helps Faust up and lets him get the finishing blow on the remaining gnolls.
Due to beating the Red-Skull-Raiders off, pause, the Harkoth Hunters are treated as heroes, which Kohtalo immediately takes advantage of, demanding for gold and a free night's stay at the Elmwood Motel. While talking, Kohtalo feels different, realizing that a new technique has emerged inside of his body, one that he's never seen before, but can guess it's origins. After settling in at the Inn, Xotalo asks why the Raiders wanted their flesh, to which Faust gives Xotal an ethics lesson, saying its important to keep track of people's emotions and how they feel. Faust's ideology disgusts Kohtalo, side-eying Faust under the pretenses of him smelling like shit. Kohtalo turns back to the Innkeep and asks for any issues around town, to which the party learns of the Ashen Hand, a cult that routinely steals from Elmwood to appease their God. Liking the sound of them, Kohtalo makes the executive decision for the party to go vandalize the Ashen Hand for food as a reward. 
Before leaving, Kohtalo decides to ask around and see if the town has any problems and finds that the fishmonger keeps having his boat harassed by a large fish in the water. The party promises to help him, and the fishmonger offers to give them free fish, due to not having much money left after buying Billy’s stock of fish. Xotal tries to jump into the water to chase after the fish, but falls in and begins to drown. Kohtalo decides to save Xotal with Boogie Woogie, swapping Xotal for one of the local fishermen, almost at the fisherman’s expense, to save Xotal. Faust makes some illusory fish in the water to prompt the fish to breach, allowing Kohtalo to swap the fish for another fisherman with Boogie Woogie. Kohtalo and Xotal hold a rock competition, seeing whoever can hold the biggest rock, and Kohtalo is immediately rucked by Xotal, who triumphantly holds a rock x4 his size and smushes the fishes head.
The fishmonger is amazed at their process, and, as a man of his word, gives back half of the party’s fish that Billy had sold them, including the marlin. Xotal tries to eat some of the fish but is dragged away by Kohtalo, who claims that the fish is his, despite Xotal doing all of the work, including the killing. Instead, he gives Faust 10 fishes, claiming Faust did all the work, telling him to eat them, and Faust tells him to eat them instead, due to Faust not needing to eat. Xotal carnally eats the raw fish in a graphic display, biting into the skull of one and watching its brain matter spill out. Using the uncooked fish as a way to test out his unknown Cursed Technique, he releases a fire arrow dubbed Fuga to almost perfectly cook the fish, which he’s pretty content with. After their meal, Kohtalo asks Netilla to retrieve the cart before the party makes their way to the Ashen Hand’s outpost.
At the outpost, the party watches as a man hurriedly pulls a cart full of jars of an unknown substance into the outpost, with the door locking behind him. Netilla knows what the substance is, identifying it as dangerous Grimwood sap. The party walks up to the standing Guards and lets Kohtalo work his magic, summoning Fuga to attempt to impress the guards with his awesome fire skills and saying he's a disciple of Pyros, just as they are. One of the guards activate his Pyrrhic Boon to humble Kohtalo's ego, but he just got a silent crowd as it wasn't very impressive. One of the guards at the gate activates his Pyrrhic Boon and tries to use it to humble Kohtalo’s airheaded ego. Eventually, Xotal’s pestering and performance work well enough to get Xotal and only Xotal behind the gate. Unable to see what's going inside, Kohtalo tries to convince the guards that he is Pyros’ disciple, but he bluffs too close to the sun, and they point their weapons at his face. Kohtalo gives up on converting the Ronins to the right side of history and pulls out his Sanguine Slinger and shoots a guard in the face, draining a bit of his blood. He immediately uses Reverse Cursed Technique to heal that back and swaps with a visible archer up on top of a look out. The secondary archer who was just out of view notices that his comrade was placed upon the floor, and when he turns to look at the spot he was supposed to be, he gets vaporized by Kohtalo's Black Flash. Kohtalo then deals with the rest of the archers, landing another Black Flash in the meantime. When he's finished with the archers, he looks overboard and causes Xotal to switch positions with a nearby enemy, making that enemy feel betrayed and with a little bit of egging on from Kohtalo, joins the Harkoth Hunters.
Within a few more quick decisive moves, the Party has defeated all of the other Ronins and now are presented with a large wooden door blocking their path to the rest of the camp. In a stroke of genius, Xotal charges up his Shit Breath while Kohtalo uses his Fuga to result in a humongous explosion, sending shrapnel everywhere, killing the nearby Ronins, and destroying a large chunk of the secondary Archer Tower’s foundation. The resulting explosion also makes Toshiro admit that Kenji, who Kohtalo assumes is his boss, has no clue what he’s doing when it comes to the might of Fire. The Party bursts into Kenji’s headquarters, using Kohtalo’s Boogie Woogie to quickly swap him into the middle and taunt him. Kenji, being forced to take his own kunai, got covered in the oil coating the blade as Kohtalo attacked him. The Party, who has a collective intelligence over 2, uses their brain cells and lights Kenji on fire, who screams out in agony. For a last attack, Kenji charges at Kohtalo and tries to kill him, but he figuratively flies too close to the sun and perishes before even getting his blade close.
In the final few moments before the Ashen Hand base is destroyed, The Party rushes throughout it and gains all the stored treasure they can carry in the cart, along with finding a few wagons’ worth of Grimwood Sap, with the name Alistair being written on it, presumably meant to be shipped to him. As they collect their goodies, they ride off into the forest, leaving behind the fallen Ashen Hand.
As they're leaving, Kohtalo tries asking Faust for the map, but Faust bitch slaps his hand and forces Kohtalo to look through his torso to read it instead. Feeling like a small beta, Kohtalo tries bringing the party back to Elmwood to rest and claim the rewards. The party agrees, and deciding to just get it out of the way, officially elects Kohtalo as their leader. Kohtalo, riding this new high, decides to name them the Campaigners, but was instantly beraded with insults and was almost fed a knuckle sandwich by the voices in his head. He changes his opinion and uses the name "The Harkoth Hunters", which he supposedly had used before in an unofficial sense but he couldn't remember that at all, and forces Netilla to drive them back to Elmwood.
The townsfolk celebrate the Hunters once they enter, being given food and a free night's stay at the Elmwood Motel. Kohtalo, underestimating his awesome ability to reserve and ration, tries to cash in the voucher for the Motel. As he goes into the building, he can hear the party talk about leaving him here, which he knows they won't just bluff about it. Instead of sleeping, Kohtalo hands over all the items he stole from Kenji's corpse and gives it to his Ronin friend, Toshiro, making him essentially a knock-off of Kenji, but cooler. Kohtalo then convinces the rest of the Hunters to get their revenge against the Red Skull Raiders with their new strength. Forcing Netilla to drive them once more, they begin to catch up to the RRR's tracks, leading them to a bridge that connects two isles. They're halted by the RRR themselves, who have rigged the bridge to the brim with explosives, ready to detonate in a moment. Venzorwyn, presumably coming out of the shadows, throws Faust and Kohtalo by the scruffs to stop the explosives from detonating. Kohtalo's trajectory wasn't perfect, intentionally or not, as he scrapes his face along the wooden planks of the bridge, but gets up to see that both sides have rushed to the end of the bridge, battling on the new isle.
Wanting to strike fear inside of the enemies who had tarnished his party, he hypes up Venzorwyn, who is by far the most physically strong of the party, saying "[Venzorwyn] has the strength of 10,000 men!", with Venzorwyn roaring as loud as his vocal cords can. Trokk wasn't intimidated, calling their bluff and forcing his army to attack. Venzorwyn rushes in and wounds one of the charging soldiers, while Faust is hyping up Kohtalo, soaring his ego to further levels. He hands Faust his Sanguine Slinger before following Venzorwyn's momentum and hits an incredible trick shot, piercing four of the soldiers in a row with Piercing Blood, heavily wounding them and slowing their assault. Sensing an enemy soldier flanking the party, he switches spots with Toshiro and deals with it before anyone is heavily harmed. Xotal tries to offer the enemies fish, but Kohtalo steals the idea and says it louder, saying that with their whole fish supply will be sent to feed the RRR's if they just surrender and work under them.
Trokk, hesitant at first, agrees and says that he and his army will always be ready to fight for the Harkoth Hunters. They'll just need to blow into a trumpet that's reminiscent of their natural war cry. Faust was given extreme priority, being the one who controls the Magic Conch. As the two parties disperse, the Harkoth Hunters continue on their travels, stumbling across the fabled Hall of the Crimson Furies. It's represented by a large praying lady, but a large iron gate protects the main dungeon. Venzorwyn, protecting his title as the Perfect Specimen, lifts open the iron gate, shouting "I'M ALWAYS STRONG ENOUGH!!". To the amazement of the party, he lifts it open halfway, providing plenty of space to crawl across. The Hunters pass the gate, with Kohtalo attempting to play Limbo, before falling on his ass and quickly trying to play it off. When inside, they see a large arena surrounded by 3 walls, each wall having a closed door. Alongside those walls were statues, each with red, glaring eyes. The floor comprises 14 different runes, only one being identified as a Barrier Rune. Kohtalo, rushing to get to the doors, flops a fish onto the plate in front of him. Although nothing seems to happen at first, besides the plate turning red, he quickly notices that a statue is glaring directly towards him. Before he knows it, it projects a large fireball at him. He quickly ducks for cover as the fireball rings against the iron gate behind him, hitting with such force that it shakes its very foundation. Although not intentionally, the statue had provided a massive warning to the other members besides Venzorwyn, who has a natural heat resistance.
Through brute force and unexpected intelligence from Xotal, the party can quickly walk past the first door. Kohtalo decides that because Faust and Xotal had made such important contributions, they shall get the chests first, and Billy will get the next one because of his minor contributions. Inside the room lays two chests, which Xotal agrees to take the left, while Faust gets the right. Xotal opens his first, unboxing 10 gold and a Cloak of Billowing. Xotal's not interested in currency, so he gives the 10 gold to Kohtalo as proof of their friendship, which is very well received on Kohtalo's side. Faust hurries and opens up his chest, excited for the great loot he'll find. He looks inside and sees a cursed brooch and some gold, but notices that the chest is incredibly moist. As he looks at his hand, he's viciously grabbed by the chest's tongue, turning out to be a Mimic. Venzorwyn, who already struggles to feed two mimics, calls dibs on the chest and rushes away to go feed it. Although Faust is pissed, he's happy he's not dead and proceeds with the rest of the Hunters to find the 2nd path, which takes considerably less time because of their experience with the first. They quickly get to the 2nd door and let Billy get the chest's reward, which turns out to be 20 Gold and a Forest Pearl. Kohtalo seems confused by what a Forest Pearl is, and is berated for not knowing even though he wasn't the one who traded with the gnomes, and neither was Billy. Venzorwyn returns after devouring some nearby wanderers, properly naming his new Mimic: Chester. Kohtalo notes he would've named it Woody, but Venzorwyn replies saying that Kohtalo should shut the fuck up and not recommend more names. Faust then remembers he didn't empty the chest, as it had groped him in various ways before he could. Venzorwyn plops out the loot from Chester, seeing the loot it had before. Venzorwyn gives the Brooch to Kohtalo, as he senses Cursed Energy lurking inside of it, and the Gold to Faust.
When Kohtalo puts it on, he can feel a surge, both in his physical abilities and his ego. He confidently walks onto the plates, stepping on a few wrong ones and dodging the fireballs before finally getting onto a correct one and taking the Brooch back off. Before the Hunters can start planning their pathway toward the door, Billy decides he's very low on his Salmon Grinding Etiquette and leaves with the Forest Pearl. The Hunters, even faster than before, figure out the path and walk inside the last remaining door. Venzorwyn opens the chest and takes out 20 gold and a Clockwork Amulet. He pockets the Amulet for himself and gives the 20 gold to Xotal, who then gives it to Kohtalo, who appreciates the gesture. Before they leave, they feel a surge in their powers once more, with Kohtalo re-igniting an old Cursed Technique he used for travel, Enveloping Shadow. Kohtalo uses it and summons his shikigami connected to the technique, named Oz, who waves towards the party. As the sun falls behind the large plains of the Isles, our Hunters return to Elmwood and cash in the voucher for a free night's stay.
Before Kohtalo falls asleep, he notices skeletons playing in the Motel's lobby and gives him a Gold Coin to play Wonderwall. They ask for him to play an example, as they've never heard of Wonderwall, which he quickly does. They understand the gist of what he played and fill the lobby with a soothing tune to let the weary travelers and hunters who've chosen the Elmwood Motel to rest. Although Kohtalo first had to bang his head on a rock to get the voices in his head to shut up.
After having a nice breakfast in the Elmwood Motel, the party discusses for a brief while as to where they should go next, debating whether to head east to Imitra, north to the Boreal Ridge to handle more of the Ashen Hand, or west to investigate the spooky house Netilla discussed previously. Xotal laments their lack of haste in helping the people further north, but Kohtalo really doesn't care and makes the party check out the spooky house, with Venzorwyn and Billy not coming along for unknown reasons, prompting Kohtalo to joke about them being in a relationship. 
Descending deeper into the Thicket, the party hears hissing roars and thunderous noises, before passing through the darkest parts of the Thicket. After this, they find a house within a clearing just past the darkest point. Netilla reaffirms to Kohtalo that this is the house she had mentioned days prior. The party decides to have Netilla enter the house with them due to her supposed knowledge, WHICH SHE KNOWS JACKSHIT ABOUT, SHE WASN'T A USE AT ALL, I COULD'VE FUCKING WIPED MY ASS WITH HER AND THAT WOULD'VE BEEN MORE USEFUL, and tell Toshiro to stand guard, due to thinking that he would piss himself due to the frights inside the house. Once inside, Kohtalo steals a couch with the assistance of Oz, and gets frustrated with some vines that won't break open with his awesome omega powers. The voice inside of Kohtalos head makes fun of him for getting a loveseat, remarking about his lack of love, but Kohtalo just ignores him since he knows enough about love. Kohtalo steps back from the chest and notices Faust and Xotal fearing the candle, to which he just puts it out and calls them cowards.
When they enter the next room, Kohtalo immediately rips off one of the official flowers heads and critically injuring another. He lets the others have a few more attacks and deals another critical blow onto the enemy, which leads Netilla into the killing blow. Kohtalo unknowingly sustained some injuries during battle, and was given a health potion by Netilla to sip on. He didn't care and just showed why he was the throat goat and chugged the whole thing in a matter of seconds. He tries to check the cards on the table but Xotal had an autistic moment and stole them before he could check what the hands were. Past the next door was a wine storage, and instead of summoning Oz to help, he forced Netilla to help carry one of the barrels back to the cart. Due to her sheer stupidity, she bumps the barrel into a wall, causing its cork to pop off. Kohtalo isn't one to waste good wine and chugs the whole barrel. He seems to be fine until he begins to drunkenly stumble across the place, requiring Xotal's assistance to stay upright. The pair exits through the backdoor and walks into the Manor's greenhouse, which hosts a variety of monstrous plants. At the very end of the hall was an outstandingly ugly fungal monster with a large eye and even larger claws, holding shears that the party assumes is what they need to cut the vines that hold their treasures. Kohtalo pukes at the sight of the monster and feels much better, able to stand on his own without any assistance. He asks the fungus if he had an extra pair of shears, to which no response. Xotal then begins to speak in a different langauge, but Kohtalo was either too drunk or too lazy to recognize Xotal was using a spell that lets him translates languages.
After idling around for a bit too long, a nearby plant licks its lips and wants to suck Kohtalo dry. Kohtalo responds with saying he wasn't a tall glass of water and lights the plant on fire. Xotal, having an autistic moment, spits out an almost impossible amount of salvia and saves the plant, naming it Audrey. The party decides to just kill the beast, something Kohtalo was going to do regardless, and attempts to attack the beast. Kohtalo had one unexpected variable in his plan, and that was how light he was. He gets pushed out of the way and sees that Xotal is being attacked. Fiending for some challenge, he swaps place and hits the fungus in the eye, suprised when his strike is absorbed and therefore his fist is sucked into the eye. While Faust heats the shears and forces the monster to drop them, the monster tries using his freed hands to force Kohtalo deep into his gaping, ugly, stinky, rude maw, which he obviously resists with his superior strength.
He swaps places with the maw and disorients, allowing for a good kick into the monsters back. Netilla, finally able to not be a useless bitch, throws a health potion directly into Kohtalo's mouth, which was a waste since Kohtalo didn't really need to heal. Kohtalo quickly takes it out of his mouth and throws his hand together to make a Piercing Blood, laying the fungus to rest at ease. He sees Venzorwyn has returned from his make out session with Billy, and that Xotal has kept the gay flower, something that will 100% not be used against him in the future. 
Kohtalo then blacks out and reawakens to find himself opening a treasure chest, finding a tiddle of gold and some fine china. Venzorwyn enters the kitchen and forces Kohtalo to help him serve the party, to which he puts the fine china in front of everyone and invites Toshiro inside to eat. He takes three potatoes but gives one to Toshiro so he could also eat. After their nice meal, they head upstairs and split into groups, all entering their own room, with Kohtalo and Toshiro entering a parlor. They play on the piano beautifully for a few short moments before stealing the gramophone. They gather infront of the vined door and watch as Faust cuts the vines holding it secure down. Inside, they find a purple guy wearing a mask made out of bark. He asks why they're interrupting his studies, but they don't answer as they just robbed his house. They mention they killed his groundskeeper, but it doesn't illicit much of a reaction from him. He just says he was a gift from Cedric of Imitra, and that king Harkoth would've liked to see what was going on with them. Xotal asks about Harkoth and his blade.
Sylas tells the party that he used to work with Harkoth, knowing that the blade was his source of his greatest power, but it drove him batty. It made him lose everything about what it meant to be a ruler, being driven by his power, greed, and lust, making questionable decisions. Sylas and Cedric left Harkoth out of fear of what he had become, and formed their own separate organizations. Kohtalo asks where to find it, but Xotal tries ignoring the fact he even said that and lies to Sylas' face. Sylas questions Kohtalo’s desire to destroy the blade, having an inkling that the incarnation of evil is lying to him about his intentions. Sylas is reluctant to trust the party, namely Kohtalo, but soon sends them on a quest to see if their intentions are pure. He tells them to leave him to his studies, but if they really want to pursue the blade, he needs to prove they are worthy. Kohtalo thinks he has to fight Sylas, but the remainder of the party does not agree. After this, Sylas asks the party to speak with Cedric, and find out his progress on his experiments, and find out what is going on in the Isles, and what needs to be done to contain the power of the Blade. Sylas does not wish to fight the party, but if they fight him, he will spare them no mercy. After the party discusses the quest amongst themselves, Sylas reaffirms to the party that he is a scholarly figure, and he values knowledge.
As the party is ready to leave, Sylas affirms to them that he knows what has gone on within the manor, knowing about the wine and the couch, and upon being questioned about how shocked he was at their entry, he tells them that he wanted to know their intentions, citing his curiosity, as he has used it to learn about the plants and organisms of the Thicket. He tells them that he even worked to help Cedric figure out what his groundskeeper really was, and tells the party that the groundskeeper isn’t the only one of his kind, and that there are more waiting to be discovered. Sylas tells the party that he wishes to go back to his studies, and upon Venzorwyn telling him about the potatoes, Sylas tells him to bring more potatoes back with him, as he does not wish to go back into town today. The party, against Sylas’ wishes, takes the couch and Audrey anyway. After flying them away from the manor, Venzorwyn reveals what he and Billy had been working on, as they had built a house for the party within the Grim Thicket, on an enclosed island.
Despite having the quest freshly handed to them, Kohtalo wants to go up north and destroy another Ashen Hand headquarters. Venzorwyn flies the party and then goes back to building the house for Billy. Inside the Boreal Ridge, the party witnesses the horrors of the frozen land, every person, building, statue, and item is covered in a thick layer of ice as though frozen in mere moments. While walking through the land, the party finds a puppy rooting through the garbage that they immediately befriends thanks to Xotal’s affinity for animals. They find the tagged collar on his neck that reads “Fenrir”, and the party notices that Fenrir has a fire in his belly and a warm heart. The story scroll soon fills in another passage about a friendly fluffball with a dormant power. As the party proceeds earlier, they find puddles around, as though someone melted the ice, something that should be impossible with the raging blizzard overhead. Kohtalo notes to himself that it's obviously the fire dog, but doesn't say anything.
Soon, they find the Ashen Hand, once again, led by another of the leading siblings, Aoi. The party sends Toshiro in to try and make peace with them, confusing Aoi. She sees Toshiro wearing Kenji’s mask, and is questioning him due to Toshiro telling them that he was captured by  the party and forced to wear his fallen master’s gear as part of a sick game, but Toshiro’s knowing betrayal of the Ashen Hand’s code of honor attracts the ire of Aoi. Toshiro’s cover is blown, and he yells for Kohtalo to aid him, with Kohtalo sending him in in Toshiro’s place thanks to a clever use of Boogie Woogie. Kohtalo taunts Aoi and her party, saying they should've given up while they were ahead. The party follows in after him with Toshiro's advance, and so begins the war. 
Kohtalo focuses mostly on the back section of the Ronins, defeating multiple and dragging Aoi around the place to combo with Toshiro, who he could tell was enjoying beating up his former superiors. He only stopped his assault when Toshiro was forced to a state of needing help. Kohtalo rushes over and helps him up, getting an arrow in the back. He's surprised by the pinpoint accuracy of the arrow, as not only did it strike him to a critical point of vitality, it influenced him to take a Final Stand and land a Black Flash on the remaining archer, much like their predecessors. With the battle won, Kohtalo loots the bodies and summons Oz to return to V&B's House to ready themselves for the journey to Imitra.
== Notable Moments ==
* Flexing on Spinflux before kicking his ass
* Knocking Professor Proxy into his Quantum Fridge
* Convincing Faust to "Play Possum"
* Having a mental breakdown over voices in his head
* Asking if Netilla had worked for her Gyat, or was blessed with it.
* Throwing a fit over how broke he was.
* Guzzling an entire barrel of wine
== Powers and Abilities ==
=== Kohtalo's Segmented Cursed Techniques ===
Main page: Kohtalo Paha/Segmented Cursed Techniques
Kohtalo Paha, at the peak of his power, had created 13 different techniques by segmenting his brain to register how Cursed Energy works, becoming an unstoppable force of nature. He knows he'll be able to reach that strength again and push it even further once he's gotten all of the rust taken off his new body.
== Trivia ==
* Kohtalo is the only player character to appear in another campaign prior to his own, appearing in The Saviors of Sunset City prior to Harkoth's Legacy.
* Kohtalo was inspired by Sukuna from JuJutsu Kaisen, and uses the Cursed Techniques of several others from the series.
* Kohtalo is not actually allergic to ham, just having a distaste for it.
* Deeto had alot of trouble writing the backstory for Kohtalo, having atleast 5+ rewrites.
* Kohtalo originally had 53 Cursed Techniques to his name, being decided by a wheel, similar to Spinflux. This list was eventually cut down to 26, then being cut down to 14 after a test battle with Venzorwyn showed he had too many spells to his name and a very bloated kit. As it was being cut down to 26, FennekinGalaxy suggested turning the list into a set of prepared techniques that he gains more of and enhances as he levels, removing the randomness to his powers. FennekinGalaxy suggested this because he didn't want to spin a wheel, but he had to anyways because of Cursed Storage.
* Kohtalo had a lot of design changes as well, originally being a lot darker and having straighter hair in his first design.
* Von has a rare body condition called " " where his body will randomly make up new allergies. These allergies affect Kohtalo with mental symptoms instead of physical ones.
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