Slugcat

*-Slugcat, Anniversary Game, p1-forest*

*-Slugcat, Anniversary Game, p16- An Unexpected Broadcast*

## Xx\_5lug\_c4t\_xX

Popsplay and original version of Slugcat.

**Slugcat** (aliases Xx\_5lug\_c4t\_xX, 5lug\_c4t, and Punished "Slug" Cat) was a player character in *Anniversary Game,* played by ThePopStarDude. He is based on the main characters' species in the video game Rain World.

## Character Profile

 **Ability/Skill** | If you without a reasonable doubt (the GM must agree) use your oratory skills to defer someone from committing violence for their action, both you and the player who would have used violence will heal a heart through the power of friendship. You are never allowed to reveal this ability.

## Endgame Results

Darth Vader - Attacked Jabba The Hutt with a lightsaber
Luke - Attacked Erika with a lightsaber
Tense - Attacked Erika with Diogenes's large jug
Cerbera - Attacked Erika with an empty plate of spaghetti
Erika - Attacked Tom with the Blue Truth Ability
Jabba the Hutt - Attacked Darth Vader with a Blaster
Little Red Riding Hooded Merc - Killed Wayne Togami by drawing up the bridge
Hungry Burger - Used his shitposting ability to harm Tense
Shrieker - Threw a bomb into the Barracks and killed Diogenes, Byakuya, and Spooky Ghost
Tom - Hit Louise on the head with a hammer

 Beast Team Objective
 Home Objective
 Dead?

WIN + LOSE + WIN = (+1) **GOOD ENDING**

## Narrative Arc

### Phase 1-7

During Phase 1, Slugcat ran for king of the Beasts and succeeded. He campaigned for peace with the humans and had a strong opposition for war. During phase 2, as the Forest was being created, Slugcat set the Beasts' team objective to be "*Hold a grand objective in the Forest*". This was swiftly changed to "Hold a grand festival in the forest."

Slugcat ordered all beasts to hide the fact he was king, instead treating his father Jabba the Hutt as king of the Beasts. Slugcat appointed kingly candidate Altered Beast as his military advisor and started working together with them. Under the guise of Royal Emissary, Slugcat entered the human village during the early phases and started friendly relations with the other team.

During Phase 5, Slugcat's personal objective was set to be "*Prevent a war between humans and monsters from forming during your reign as king. A war is defined by at least 1/3 of both sides having committed violence to the other side, and there being a general consensus afterwards that a war happened.*"

### Phase 8-13

After the assumed Human queen Catra, Altered Beast and Wayne Togami were killed in the explosion in p8-outside, Slugcat fled to the motel. Faced with the indiscriminate killing and loss of his friends, Slugcat became enraged and started to doubt his stance for unconditional peace. During this time, he changed the Beasts' team objective to "*Exact punishment on Erika Togami. Punishment means any kind of removal of personal freedom or violation of other rights, physical assault or capital punishment.*"

However, Umaru Doma and the Gamers managed to bring Slugcat back to his original senses and remind him of the importance of good social relations. The events of p8-outside still left Slugcat deeply affected, and an execution party was formed to intercept Erika Togami for the murder of queen Catra.

During p10-barracks, Slugcat was conflicted on whether to imprison Erika or execute her. He held a vote, and only one person voted for imprisonment, and he ordered the successful execution of Erika Togami. Positive with the idea that interpersonal violence would be easily culled from now on, he left for an investigation of the last alive Togami member, Byakuya.

After the execution of Erika, Slugcat found the dead body of his brother Raiden in p11-bigass. After reasoning that The Red Riding Hooded Mercenary must have been behind the murder, Slugcat's hopes for nonviolence were weakened greatly. During p13-outside, Slugcat faced Red and found about her having gone berserk.

Faced again with the prospect of execution versus imprisonment, Slugcat proposed a voluntary quarantine for Red for the rest of the game, while others called for killing her. He worked with The Spooky Ghost to tranquilize Red and drag her inside the treehouse, while also wishing Ghost luck on their quest of finding Poco. However, Red escaped to Motel, where Slugcat was also headed, all while Poco's corpse was seen by everyone in the area, thrown via the catapult to inside the Barracks.

### Phase 14-16

At this point Slugcat had seen too much death, loss, and betrayal to keep up hope. He shed his gamer facade and took upon a more eloquent, albeit ominous tongue. He let Red go free and confront Hungry Burger without opposition, and decided to simply head back to the treehouse. It was at this time that Slugcat started to reference indeterminate plans to broadcast some kind of message to the Beasts.

During p15-outside and p16-treehouse, Slugcat showed little activity aside from lamenting the development of the story and referencing his plans again. While everyone else thought phase 16 would be the last of the game, it was in the treehouse that Slugcat had finally changed the Beasts' team objective to "*At the end of the game, there must be a public consensus of a majority of the beasts that Slugcat is an uncontested dictator ruling over all beasts and the Forest, and in the absence of a qualifying human monarch, has the just right to lay claim on their Village and rule over the entire Land."*

After phase 16, a video was broadcasted to every area in the game. In this video, Slugcat expressed that the reason for distrust and instability in the Village and Forest was due to weak leadership, illustrated by the fact the human monarchs had all died at this point. Slugcat revealed the new team objective and ordered every Beast to vote whether they stand with or against Slugcat as a dictator and whether he is free to rule over the Humans as well.

### Phase 0

During the final phase of Anniversary game, all alive players gathered together to discuss the future of the Forest and Village. Slugcat received largely disbelief and negative responses, although some beasts did outwardly support his dictatorship. In the end, the vote was a perfectly balanced 8 yays against 8 nays. Since the Beasts' team objective was to have a majority for the dicatorship, the team objective was a loss for all Beasts and the future of the land, along with the future of Slugcat, was left undetermined.