Strike Gently

### Description

The (deceased) POS corporate toy maker competitor who "legally bought the rights" to the Wumpus factory in Hupperdook because Bea had been "legally dead" for five years. He has a homoculus paralegal named Block Firmly and was under the mind control of Dol Rhevtield's cult.

After obtaining the Wumpus factory and business, he started doing fucked up experiments on the poor goblins. He is responsible for creating the smoke monster that turned all the goblins into Cybermen and personally victimizing Bernard. These are war crimes and he will answer to whatever justice Bea decides is fitting.

He makes second-rate toys out of cheap materials, really sacrifices quality for profit which he also lacks. He also has a shortage of personal style and doesn't have a backbone.

Bea was going to crush him/sacrifice him to the smoke monster but Smashmouth prevented her from enacting gross amounts of violence on his frail whimpering body. His safe place is a bunch of clouds, what a pansy.

He spent a considerable amount of time trying to get Dircc to read Ayn Rand, drinking whiskey, and ransacking the factory.

**Strike** hit his head again and it changed his personality a little more, and we realize Strike can read, another literate on our side. We follow the lead to the teleportation circle outside the city, Bea tries tasting the circle - it tastes igneous - and both Dircc and Bea recognize the sigils. Champ gets impatient and jumps right in, followed by Gen, followed by everyone else.

We emerge on a plateau in darkness by a desert; Xhorhas. There's a headless statue surrounded by stones and hooded figures. Strike Gently calls out "well met" like an idiot. The artist formerly known as Lord Desmond is in the center of the circle, menacingly. Strike joins the chanting because he was escorted forwards and is trying to play to his old boss. Lord Desmond monologues and Strike tries to ally himself with Desmond, but Bea pantses him.

Desmond lets Greg go with Champ and the magical barrier falls. Lord Desmond disappears and so do the cult members, above the plateau is a huge Beholder who also turns around and leaves. All this somehow translated into Smashmouth collectively making a deal to promise to stop coming after the BBEG. We tell Strike to do his lawyer thing because contracts made by minors are invalid, and he gets mad when he learns Beholders are above the law and officially joins our side.

We learn that Strike Gently doesn't even speak goblin.

We go back to the factory to rest and recuperate. Bea goes to look for Bernard because she misses her friend, finds him turned off on the fourth floor. Bea mission impossible dimension doors into Strike's room and beats the heck out of him for unplugging her boy. They have a mage hand fight in the hallway and she makes it really spooky in there for him. She takes him to the hospital wing but Strike can't fix Bernard because he's not very good at anything.

Strike admits to burning the paperwork he stole from Bernard when he hit him over the head, and then he admitted to burning it. The documents including his ownership of the factory. Burnt away.

### Appearance and Personality

He's a high elf libertarian who only wears a fun loincloth garter sort of garment. When we arrived at the factory, he had an eye on his chest armor (that disappeared as Dalton made him more naked and unlikeable). He looks like Grant Anthony O'Brien.

He is extremely racist towards Dircc and it's weirdly mutual. The energy was off, it was too hostile.

### Death

Bea wakes everyone else up, tells Champ we're playing a "Who can hit Strike the most" game, and tells Gen we're killing him. Dircc counterspells everything Strike attempts. Gen walks out of the room, Greg pulls Champ out as well. Bea gives Strike the opportunity for last words but he doesn't use them. She says "thanks for absolutely nothing, it's time to go to the big grease stain in the sky." Before he dies, he messages Dircc "My blood is on your hands" to which Dircc looks at his hands and replies "No it's not. " Dircc casts spare the dying and we discover and infinite blood glitch. Dircc asks if he can have the body for something, Bea tells him yeah go for it.