Kevin

## **Kevin - Elder Demon**

### Kevin aka "Shart"

Shart is an elder demon character from the popular series, Noobtown, and is well-known for his interaction with the protagonist, Jim. He earned the name "Shart" after being defeated by Jim in the realm of Ordinal, an encounter that revealed his core personality traits.

Shart is renowned for his intelligence and perceptiveness, characteristics that often give him the upper hand in dealing with other beings. However, his hubris often blinds him, leading him to underestimate humans and overestimate his own abilities, especially under challenging circumstances when he is in his weakened form.

Unlike typical demons, Shart lacks the ability to regenerate mana independently. His survival largely depends on Jim, who fuels Shart's power via their unique mana bond. Despite this seemingly limiting factor, Shart holds significant sway in the world of Noobtown.

As an elder demon, Shart does not have character skills, abilities, traits, or magic spells in the conventional sense. Instead, his power resides in his administrative capabilities and his ability to manipulate magic directly using his mana. He can adapt his magic manipulation into repeatable spells when needed, an ability he displayed when he crafted a puma detection spell — a feat that took several iterations to perfect.

Kevin is highly driven to "save ordinal" as the coming of the The Dark Overlord provicises the destruction of the realm. Leaving him out of a job. With no one better to take up the job, he is "stuck with Jim", he however warms up to his human bound familiar as noted by him ??"you are the only tolerable meat bag I have every met"?? although Jim shows regular open hostility towards the elder demon, both verbally and in action as he suffers many indiginities (also see notable indigities further down).

Shart possesses the unique ability to review and directly influence The System, a key aspect of the Noobtown universe. However, his power is not without limits. Shart is not invulnerable and can be damaged by various forces in Ordinal, including characters, monsters, as well as ambient and cast magic effects. Magic suppression auras cast over an area and mind control magic are some notable examples of these threats. Despite his profound arrogance, these vulnerabilities serve as a constant reminder of his mortality within the game world.

## Notable achievements

### Converting a founder perk in to a war leader skill

At the first encounter of mass combat for Jim, he lacks the ability to lead an army. As such, Shart takes Jims founder perk, he has gained from claiming The Village of Windfall and turns it into the war leader skill.

### Breaking the system

On multiple occasions Shart manages to cheat or otherwise glitch out "the system" to a dangerous degree in order to help Jim. It is then stated by Kevin (extensively) how unstable and dangerous these changes are.

#### Rigging Jims mana network

Jim gains both the sorcerer and mage knight class, creating an incompatible mana network, nearly killing him. Kevin manages to change Jims mana network to a degree that his mana network is split between both classes. Giving Jim the ability to switch between them, but locking out the other classes skills and abilities in the process.

#### Building an administration console in Jims head

Initially to check out definitely why Jim has hit his level 60 limit. Shart spends a considerable amount of time in the ??astral head space of Jim?? to build a physical device capable of enacting administrative tasks within the system of Ordinal.

#### Locking down class levels

Giving Jim the option to preventing leveling and effectively gain experience in classes of his choosing by turning them:

* Off: completely disabling it and making it unavailable
* On: making it available and gain experience + levels as normal
* Suspended: leaving it available, but letting any made experience syphon off to Badgelor

The dial for these settings are put on the "admin console inside Jims head" and can only be rotated clockwise to the next setting.

#### Raise level limit

By draining "fonts" Jim can now raise his maximum level beyond 60.

## Notable suffered indignities

Mainly Jim, mercilessly uses Shart for his own gain among:

* Being used as a shield
* Tossed (like a volleyball)
* Used as a projectile
* Weaponized as a interdimensional storage
* Used as a buoyancy device both as a means of slowfall and float on the water
* Used as a waterski