BugReport

**BugReport** is a character in *Magical Girl Policy*. He is a student at Schuyler Adamson University and member of the campus nerd club SFEERS. He appears throughout the "Party" series of MGP Vignettes as a player in Todd Walker's *Keeps and Kobolds* campaign. "BugReport" is his online handle, and his real name has not been stated.

## Personality

BugReport is a rational, calculating person who keeps his eyes open for ways to give himself the edge, even in a noncompetitive setting like *Keeps and Kobolds*. He is skeptical and difficult to get interested in new things, but when his attention is caught he likes to show off his skill to others.

He is a member of the nerd club SFEERS, mainly its tabletop gaming sector. He is highly experienced in the tabletop RPG *Keeps and Kobolds*, with his favorite part of the game being the optimization of character stats and skills. Using his vast knowledge of the game and its mechanics, he likes having powerful characters that can handle challenges with ease, though at the cost of not always giving the story or roleplay aspects his full attention. In DataMiner's campaign, BugReport's character was a mage called Alaniya, who, thanks to BugReport's optimized character building, could cast numerous spells in quick succession. In Todd's campaign, BugReport's character is a thief who can easily overcome traps and pick locks.

## Biography

### Background

Four or more years ago, BugReport was a player in a *Keeps and Kobolds* campaign led by DataMiner. The group, which included Todd Walker, met every Saturday for several years. Back then, BugReport's character was a mage called Alaniya.

One year ago, the group's sessions become less frequent due to DataMiner, now an SAU senior, often being too busy to host, until he eventually cancels the campaign entirely. Sometime later, however, Todd decides to create and DM a campaign of his own modeled after DataMiner's. BugReport and fellow SFEERS members AegisBloom, Hambone, and Travesty all join as players. Besides Hambone, however, they are not very engaged with the game. The session just prior to "After Party", which was supposed to be a dramatic one that would push the story forward, went particularly poorly. BugReport doesn't care about the story and focuses only on improving his extremely powerful thief character, who easily deals with any traps Todd tries to spice things up with. One of Fretribution's suggestions to Todd is to incorporate the events of DataMiner's campaign, which Todd originally conceived as taking place a century prior to his own, into the plot in order to pique BugReport's interest, such as by having the party enter a tower once home to BugReport's old mage. Todd follows the advice, and the players get more motivated with each session.

Two months later in "Party Hard", Travesty's character Rook the golem learns that his new axe is cursed and fills him with some of its souls each time he invokes its strength-enhancing ability, which has a mysterious spiritual effect on the golem. BugReport warns against using the axe, as it contains souls captured Infarious, a demon lord from DataMiner's campaign, and he also feels the curse is not worth it on a gameplay level, but Travesty decides it would be in character for Rook to not be held back by such concerns, so Rook continues to wield the weapon and doesn't tell the other characters about the curse.

Eventually, the group moves their *Keeps and Kobolds* sessions from the library to Todd's dorm. After two more months, in "Life of the Party", the group realizes what Rook's axe-arm is doing to him and want to remove it so the curse can be lifted, but he refuses to part with the souls now residing in him and prepares to attack his friends. Assured that Travesty could simply create a new character in the event of Rook's death, BugReport considers killing the golem, but the group agrees they would rather spare Rook if possible. AegisBloom takes charge, sharing with the others the mechanics of the soul-filled weapon. Hambone suggests detaching Rook's axe-arm during the fight, a task which Aegis nominates the lockpicking skill of BugReport's thief. The ensuing battle and its result is not shown, but in "Housewarming Party" it's stated the session was extremely fun.

## Relationships

### DataMiner and co.

For over three years, BugReport was a player in DataMiner's *Keeps and Kobolds* campaign, which everyone was heavily invested in thanks to DataMiner's DM skill and long term planning. BugReport's character, Alaniya, was a mage that specialized in casting spells in rapid succession. BugReport used this and his game knowledge to be a major asset to the team, which included Todd. One year ago, however, DataMiner became too busy to run the campaign, and the group disbanded.

### Todd Walker and co.

BugReport and Todd were both players in DataMiner's campaign, with Todd getting into the group thanks to his brother once being involved with it. After DataMiner's campaign was canceled, Todd started one of his own as a successor, with BugReport, AegisBloom, Hambone, and Travesty as players. At first, Todd is unable to get BugReport to care about the story the same way DataMiner could, and BugReport's thief being able to easily disarm seemingly any trap made it difficult for Todd put the party into tense situations. BugReport gets significantly more interested after Todd starts connecting the plot of the new campaign to the old one. Among the party, BugReport often plays the cynic who rationally thinks things through, often in terms of gameplay consequences, but will also show off his character's powerful skills to aid his friends even in what he deems less sensible endeavors.

### SFEERS

BugReport is a member of SAU's nerd club SFEERS and has been for at least one year. He is active in its tabletop gaming group.