Old Tony

**Old Tony** was a character played by Tekking101 in Rustage's D&D Isekai Streams. He originally came from a suburb in Omaha, Nebraska, USA from the year of 2021 and was known as the local janitor working at the Ralston Arena. Old Tony was also nicknamed Knight of the Carwash by Daniel Greene.

## Appearance

Old Tony was introduced as an average guy at work in his blue janitor's clothes. After getting isekai'd he received Paladin plate armor and a shining white pendant with shield and little wings engraved on it which tastes like blueberry. He carried around a dust bin that served as his shield and a broom stick as his weapon. Old Tony also appeared to have a rather strong and big physique especially for his age.

## Personality

Old Tony was a very kind and down to earth person who had lived a relatively simple life. He loved the outdoors and his hobbies included hunting, fishing and hiking. Every Friday night, after work, he would stop by the local bar and have some drinks with his friends. He was an avid sports fan, specifically American football, which he also played while in college. He cared for his wife and children above all else, feeling that he absolutely must survive and return home to them, no matter what. He thought about his family often and decided to start taking pictures of the various locations and people he met in the Isekai world to show his family upon his return. Tony typically tried to avoid violence whenever reasonable to do so, such as when the enemy was noticeably weak or cowardly. He would often try to talk things out or simply ask the enemy to flee if he felt bad for them. However, if provoked or attacked first he would not hesitate to retaliate. He had less qualms about fighting non-humanoid creatures such as plants and animals. Tony also placed great value on the lives of his friends. After the death of William Shakespeare, he proceeded to punch Shark in the face for the disrespectful way he handled William's body. Due to his belief in universal redemption, and due to the aforementioned corpse desecration, he decided to take the Oath of Redemption to redeem The Shark.

## Abilities and Powers

As a Paladin, Old Tony had a high AC, was very strong and had the ability to sense evil. Notably, after being Isekai'd, Tony gained the ability to regenerate his wounds after a good night's sleep.

### Divine Sense

As a Paladin the presence of strong evil registers as a noxious odor. As an action, he can open his awareness to detect such forces. Until the end of his next turn, he can know the location of any celestial, fiend, or undead within 60 feet him that is not behind total cover. He knows the type (celestial, fiend, or undead) of any being whose presence he senses, but not its identity. Within the same radius, he also detects the presence of any place or object that has been consecrated or desecrated, as with the Hallow spell.

He could use this feature a number of times equal to 1 + his Charisma modifier per day (3/day). When he finished a long rest, he regained all expended uses.

### Lay on Hands

Old Tony's blessed touch can heal wounds and has a pool of healing power that replenishes when he takes a long rest. With that pool, he can restore a total number of hit points equal to his paladin level x 5 (25 hp).

As an action, he can touch a creature and draw power from the pool to restore a number of hit points to that creature, up to the maximum amount remaining in his pool.

Alternatively, he can expend 5 hit points from your pool of healing to cure the target of one disease or neutralize one poison affecting it. Old Tony can cure multiple diseases and neutralize multiple poisons with a single use of Lay on Hands, expending hit points separately for each one.

### Divine Smite

Starting at 2nd level, when Old Tony hits a creature with a melee weapon attack, he can expend one spell slot to deal radiant damage to the target, in addition to the weapon's damage. The extra damage is 2d8 for a 1st-level spell slot, plus 1d8 for each spell level higher than 1st, to a maximum of 5d8. The damage increases by 1d8 if the target is an undead or a fiend, to a maximum of 6d8.

### Rebuke the Violent

Starting at 3rd level, immediately after an attacker within 30 feet of Old Tony deals damage with an attack against a creature other than him, Old Tony can use his reaction to force the attacker to make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the attacker takes radiant damage equal to the damage it just dealt. On a successful save, it takes half as much damage.

### Emissary of Peace

Starting at 3rd level, Old Tony can use his Channel Divinity to augment his presence with divine power. As a bonus action, he can grant himself a +5 bonus to Charisma (Persuasion) checks for the next 10 minutes.

### Shield of Faith

A shimmering field appears and surrounds a creature of Old Tony's choice within range, granting it a +2 bonus to AC for the duration.

### Spells

As a Paladin Old Tony's had some magical capabilities and can access certain spells

* **Searing Smite**: Tony's weapon flares with white-hot intensity, and the next attack deals an extra 1d6 fire damage to the target and causes the target to ignite in flames. At the start of each of its turns until the spell ends, the target must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, it takes 1d6 fire damage. On a successful save, the spells ends.
* **Thunderous Smite**: When Old Tony hits with a melee weapon attack during this spell’s duration, his weapon rings with thunder that was audible within 300 feet of him, and the attack deals an extra 2d6 thunder damage to the target. Additionally, if the target was a creature, it must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be pushed 10 feet away from him and knocked prone.

## Equipment

When he was transported to the other word everything Old Tony had on him was transported as well, including a bottle of bleach, his trusty mop, which he now uses as a weapon. Additionally, he had his wallet, a ring of keys, a notepad/pencil, and a smartphone.

His smartphone is, as of Episode 3, a vessel being used by the spirit of Palladium, the god he freed with his pendant. Palladium's presence in the phone has given it seemingly infinite battery life, as well as radar-like app that allows Tony to detect the locations of the other shrines after he becomes aware of them.

As of episode 24, his mop sword is broken and anything else of value has been burned or plundered by the Shark.

### Bow and Arrows

Before departing from The Peak, Old Tony bought a bow and arrows by trading his bottle of bleach with he used the bow solely for hunting purposes. after the fight with Viletta he gave the short bow to Little feather because she didn't have a weapon, however Tekking clearly forgot this as afterwards he used the short bow in Scratown to break the rope off a dead human hanging from a gallow which caused a mass argument from the crowd who were watching the hanging

### Paladin Pendant

A Blueberry flavored Pendant that Palladium imbued with a fraction of his power and as such was capable of summoning people throughout history to Vestoria. The person summoned by the pendant gains the basic abilities of the Paladin class and slowly starts gaining more powerful abilities of the class as they explore and level up in Vestoria. the pendant can also be used to free Palladium from his holy site. Old Tony was in possession of this pendant.

## Relationships

### **The Party**

#### **Norman**

While he and Norman didn't see eye to eye every now and then, he did trust his anime knowledge in order to get through Vestoria.

#### **The Shark**

The two hit up pretty well even after learning that Shark worked for the Mafia. However their relationship turned soured after the Shark used Shakespeare's corpse in a disrespectful manner. After some time of healing, the two were back on speaking terms and their friendship seemed to get better than it was before. The Shark held Old Tony in high esteem,; giving a eulogy before respectfully looting his carbonized remains.

#### Cody

He and Cody respected each other as fellow members of the party. However he ignored Cody request of not hunting. Cody saw Tony as a father figure.

#### **William Shakespeare**

The two of them got along pretty well and were good friends. He took his death the hardest out of the party.

### **Allies**

#### Phynn

Like the rest of the party, he does his best to take care of Phynn. He also tried to make Phynn not end up like the Shark.

#### Palladium

Despite godly status, the two of them were casual friends, even though Old Tony saw Palladium as a bad person.

### **Family**

#### Becky

Old Tony's wife who's 59, works as a bank teller in Omaha. She likes shiny things.

#### Kyle

Old Tony's son who's 33, works as a lawyer in Houston, Texas. Him and Old Tony seem to be quite close as he was the one who recommended Old Tony's current smartphone.

#### Lisa

Old Tony's daughter who's 30, studied film and moved to Los Angeles after graduating. She currently works as a set designer. Was said to be into the "Vegan Craze" though Old Tony doesn't seem quite to know what it is.

### **Friends**

#### Douglas

Someone that Old Tony knew during his college days, during a trip to Arizona, apparently got very drunk and "made some bad choices with a rattle snake". Tony uses this story as a cautionary tale to Norman after he expressed interest in finding a snake-lady.

## History

Tony was born in 1963 and apparently lived a fairly ordinary life. As was the case with his family line, his father, Richard, was a lawyer while his grandfather, Don, was employed in some manner of blue-collar work that benefited society. During his childhood his grandfather would take him hunting. He frequently makes references to his college years, implying he was much more wild during that time, smoking pot and partying. He played football for the Cornhuskers but stopped after an injury to his ankle, which still bothers him occasionally in his older age. While in college he learned HVAC repair. At some point Tony met his wife Becky and got married, having 2 children together. After their children grew up and moved away, he was enjoying a quiet life with his wife and their two golden retrievers before he got Isekai'd.

A bunch of stuff happened

After encountering Frank's tower in the Scorchlands, the party encountered a tlexolotl. After failing to stop its regeneration ability, the beast used its recharged pyroclasm ability to carbonize Tony. After witnessing the death of a father figure, Cody was finally driven to use a spell focused on the taking of a life, ending the threat.

After giving a eulogy, The Shark looted the carbonized remains of his ally. He took some credit cards, which he knew how to use.

## Trivia

* Tekking has stated that he made Old Tony specifically modelled after his Dad.
* His favorite football team was the Green bay Packers.
* Old Tony's favorite song is Free Bird by Lynird Skynrd
* His great-uncle fought in WW2.
* Old Tony played all sorts of sports in high school and college, from football, to boxing and wrestling. He was in the middle of pursing a career in football when he suffered an ankle injury that prevented him achieving his dream.
* Old Tony has a 5 inch dong
* Old Tony was of both Scottish and German origins
* Old Tony mother died from a heart attack in 2017
* Old Tony had a BMI of 27.1, making him overweight
* It is unknown which credit cards Old Tony had, but it is likely that even if The Shark knew how to use them, they would be from companies that did not yet exist in the 1920's. The biggest exception being American Express.
* Old Tony is the first Player Character to die in Isekai DnD. In terms of campaigns run by Rustage as part of his career, the first PCs to die were Chip, Ragnar, and William, in that order. However, for the last 2, those deaths were not permanent due to being within a time loop. In terms of the other livestreamed campaign Rustage is a part of, the first PC to actually die was Rai. The Duros and Verona which the Devil's Luck pirates have killed were from alternate timelines, so they do not count as PCs since they were not under the control of their players, Noble and 2Spooky respectively.
	+ If you take the sequence of events leading to Old Tony's death to start from the tlexolotl recharging its pyroclasm ability, the probability that he would die would be around **2.072%**. Old Tony had 8 hp left, meaning that the pyroclasm ability would have to have dealt 50 damage or higher to have successfully ended him. The ability did 12d6 damage, required a DC 15 dexterity save to succeed, and recharged on 5-6. The probability of the ability doing at least 50 damage was ~10.36%, the probability that it would hit Old Tony at full damage (Tony rolling a nat 12 or less) was 60% , and the probability that it recharged at all was a 1 in 3 chance. If you multiply all of those together, you arrive at 2.072%.
	+ Additionally, Norman had a 62.5% chance to hit for 10 damage on a failed save from the tlexolotl (nat 14 or lower, so 70% chance) , in which case,the tlexolotl would have had a 56.25% chance to move onto the pyroclasm sequence. Meaning, you could say it was a **1.1655%** chance from Norman's spell and onward that this death would have happened.
	+ The last preventative measure that could have saved Old Tony was Cody's cure wounds spell. Cody had the uniform potential to cure between 4 and 11 hit points (1d8+3). This meant that the tlexolotl had 8 equally likely scenarios where it rolled lethally 3.77%-27.92% of the time (>46-53). This ends up averaging out to ~13.65375%. Meaning that if you then account for the other factors of the tlexolotl surviving, recharging, and being able to hit Old Tony, then the overall final probability that Old Tony died in this aftermath scenario would be **~1.536%.**
* Schmidt is the Germanic equivalent of the name Smith
* Anthony is a name derived from Anton, meaning "priceless". Anton was a son of Heracles, and it was said that Marc Anthony's family was descended from them. Hence the spread in its popularity.

## Quotes

* "I thought I took drugs back in the day- OH WHAT THE HELL"
* "Are you in the mafia?"
* "Son, Do not...fuck...a snake. Alright? You'll not like the outcome."
* "Are you fucking with me right now son. Are you really from the 20's or did you just get spirited here from a costume party?"
* "So, that's a real fucking dragon?"