Dr B’Leph

Dr B'Leph by G McDermott.

**Dr B’Leph Amouensis** is a grung artificer, and one of the protagonists of Anarchy in the Astral Sea. He is played by Sam McKay.

## Description

Dr B'Leph Amouensis is a particularly small grung standing at 2 and a half feet tall. His skin is a dull green with cyan streaks patterned across his limbs and face. The top of his head is coated in keratinous outgrowths. He wears a worn out cotton vest with a leather apron layered with dwarven metal plates and a pair of proto-welding goggles. He is always found carrying a 3 foot long hammer which chugs out steam.

He is accompanied by the 7 foot tall grey and blue steel defender Glogg, who wears a hefty backpack and a trenchcoat.

## Biography

B'Leph was born in Waterdeep, where he made a meagre living in the sewers. After a series of statistically unlikely (but not impossible) events which may or may not have involved murdering a wizard, B'Leph found his way to the Astral Sea. Here he developed a preposterous number of financial products without fully acknowledging the consequences of selling them to the warring gith. B'Leph settled in Tu'narath, where he acquired a doctorate and a steel defender as part of an estate sale.

He was married with at least one child in Tu'narath prior to the events of Anarchy in the Astral Sea. However, due to his increasingly unhinged financial schemes and accruing an incomprehensible amount of debt, his wife has since left him for another man. It seems as though he is required to pay alimony payments to sustain the lifestyle of his former wife and their new partner, so to fund their extravagant lifestyle he and his steel defender Glogg joined the crew of Captain Glorp aboard the Wave Rider before both's untimely demise.

## In-game Characteristics

Dr B'Leph started the adventure as a level 10 Battle-smith Artificer Grung. On the approach to the colour pools he took another level of Artificer and continued the adventure as a level 11 Artificer. He is accompanied by his 7 foot tall steel defender Glogg.

## Trivia

* Dr B'Leph is a member of several "Reverse Funnel" schemes and runs *Astral Sea Insurance Ltd.* the latter of which failed to take account of the rampant piracy present in the Astral Sea. At some point prior to the events of Anarchy in the Astral Sea, B'Leph agreed to underwrite an insurance policy on the Lich Queen Vlaakith CLVII. This seemed to have been one of Bleph's better decisions, until the crew of the Big Purple People Eater of Souls 2 took it upon themselves to hunt down Vlaakith in their search for the spark of godhood.
* Dr B'Leph is one of the oldest members of Captain Glorp's crew and as such has formed a close bond with the ship's former first mate - Incorrect.
* Dr B'Leph has been travelling with his companion Glogg for the last 5 years having acquired him as part of an estate sale in Tu'Narath. Glogg is useful for all kinds of things including "lifting" and "reaching for the tin of beans on the top shelf".
* Since reaching level 11 Bleph, has crafted a tiny servant - Pirate "PP" Parrot - for Incorrect, which wears a small hat that stores the spell enlarge/reduce.
* In Talking is a Free Action, Sam outlined a potential scenario for Dr B'Leph's untimely demise: being bludgeoned to death with the butt of a blunderbuss by the Left Lieutenant for the crime of tax evasion.

## Media

Headshot of Dr B'Leph from the poster for Anarchy in the Astral Sea.Miniature of Dr B'Leph by HeroForge for Anarchy in the Astral Sea.