Casper Python

In The Toxic Turnabout

Casper Python is the main villain of The Toxic Turnabout. He is a cunning businessman with an unexpectedly dark side, and the father of Viper Hypnalis.

## Pre- AA DnD Canon

Casper Python and Mirage Hypnalis were married briefly, and divorced when their daughter, Viper, was a toddler. He owns the company, Vaneemus, that makes green energy from the venom of snakes, and is extremely rich.

He worked with Pennan, Inc., to illegally acquire money and materials, including snakes, for his business, and had them hire Calisto Yew to steal a music box he knew contained a rare and expensive antidote to the snakes' venom.

## The Toxic Turnabout

Casper Python makes his appearance briefly in Session 1, where Viper steals money from him, and he demands that she gives the money back. Then, off-screen, when he hears that Kylie Badgai killed Ronan Hyde (and, in the process, the police came close to discovering his secrets), he went straight to her jail cell and tried to enlist her help in silencing the party by kidnapping one of them and using them as bait, threatening her daughter's saftey if she told anyone what he had said. She declined his offer, and used what he had told her to subtlety help the party survive his traps.

He then testified to the police about his snake, a North American Green Cobra, which was an incredibly rare breed. Venom of a North American Green Cobra was found in the bloodstream of Ronan Hyde, and a snake scale was found on the crime scene. However, they had no reason to suspect him, and he went home.

In Session 6, Python's plan went extremely well, and he very nearly killed the party in his basement lair underneath Pennan, Inc., until Gage Hotrodd showed up, and distracted him by pretending to stab Calisto. The group ran for it, but Python threw a poisoned dagger, which landed in Connie Icheon's back. He was then heard having a conversation with an unseen person, probably over the phone.

When the group caught up with him, Python, in the hopes that if he talked longer, Prosecutor Icheon would die before help reached her, explained how he had been using Pennan, Inc., and Ronan Hyde, to acquire illegal materials for his business, and how he had tried to get Badgai on his side. However, when Connie didn't die, he realized that Badgai must have told them about the antidote to the poison that was in the music box, and conspired with them to help them steal it. He became enraged, threatening her daughter's life.

The police showed up shortly, and Python was taken into custody. However, he called on the many resources at his disposal, and had himself bailed out, and evidence against him "lost". He then went straight to Mirage Hypnalis's apartment, where he implied that he would take advantage of her, and then kill her, and asserted that he was leaving the country with Viper, who he would also kill if she tried to fight back. However, unbeknownst to him, Viper was nearby, and took a recording of him saying this-- grounds enough for his second arrest-- and tag-teamed with her mom to knock him out.

Casper Python was then sentenced and sent to jail, where he remained indefinitely.

## Trivia

* The puns in Casper Python's name are Asp and Python.
* Casper Python, despite running a crime ring, faints at the sight of blood.