Bobby Socks

Official art of Bobby, by Annalise Jensen.

**Bobby Socks** is a teenaged halfling druid and a member of the Glorious Ones, a small group of adventurers. He was played by Taliesin Jaffe in "Choose Their Adventure...Again!" (Sx81).

## **Description**

### **Appearance**

Bobby is something of a late bloomer, even for a halfling, appearing younger than his actual age. He has messy brown hair and was wearing brown boots and gloves with green short pants and a shirt covered by a small leather tunic. He wore a little backpack and carried a belt pack of cards.

### **Personality**

Bobby was bubbly and excited by everything happening around him, and the polar opposite of "cool". Despite his father Kent Plucker being obviously disinterested and slightly disparaging of him, he persisted in seeing their relationship in the best way possible and imagining it to be closer than it apparently was.

## **Biography**

### **Background**

Bobby is the child of Kent Plucker, a bard and member of Dr. Dranzel's Spectacular Traveling Troupe. He apparently spends most of his time with his mother, visiting his disinterested father on rare occasions.

### **"Choose Their Adventure...Again!" (Sx81)**

At some point before 795 PD Bobby was hired, along with other mercenaries, to protect the people of Drobaganos during the Musetide Festival. They became an adventuring group that the other halfling, Sarge, dubbed "the Glorious Ones". While trying to help a local woman called Ligeia, Bobby noticed that an egg he had found on the beach was cracking in his backpack, and the warlock Ranthiel Volthor used *Eldritch Blast* on it, sending it very far into the jungle. Shortly after retrieving it (unchanged by the attack or the impact), they found the Grove of Enlightenment, where they took a sentient apple. Later some [[[kobold]]s attacked the Glorious Ones, and when the fight was over Bobby healed Ran.

When the group finally arrived to the shore, Ligeia was received by two other women, but the three of them revealed to be sirens and after magically charming **Bobby Socks** they took him with them to sacrifice him in a cave. He started filling a chalice with his own blood as part of a ritual to control a crab entity called the Dreamer, but it was disturbed when the mercenaries disturbed the process, allowing Bobby to recover control over his own body and mind. Angered, he joined his friends in battle, transforming into an alpaca and later casting *Conjure Animals* to summon a walrus; he also healed Scanlan after he was knocked unconscious, and summoned his bear totem spirit to strengthen his allies. The Glorious Ones managed to kill the sirens and (with some help he got by consuming the sentient apple) Sarge also killed the Dreamer. It was after returning to Drobaganos with crab meat that they discovered that the Dreamer was in fact a protective spirit for the villagers. To avoid problems in case they discovered the great crab was dead, the Glorious Ones decided to sail to Tal'Dorei with Dr. Dranzel's Spectacular Traveling Troupe, and Bobby went with them, since it was legally required he stayed with his father for two more weeks anyway.

## **Character information**

### **Notable Items**

* A small belt case holding cards with information on them
* Bauble belt with different elements
	+ Nautical knots
	+ An image of a bear
* Cracked egg found in Athova-Rae
* Nature guidebook
* Bandages and an antiseptic

### **Abilities**

As a Circle of the Shepherd druid, Bobby had the following abilities at level 5:

* Speech of the Woods - Can converse with and understand beasts and many fey, and knows Sylvan.
* Spirit Totem - Can call forth nature spirits as a bonus action which create an aura in a 30-foot radius around that point. Bobby summoned a bear spirit which granted 10 temporary hit points and advantage on Strength checks and saving throws.

## **Appearances and mentions**

* Specials
	+ "Choose Their Adventure...Again!" (Sx81) (first appearance)

## **Trivia**

* Matt suggested that Bobby is the origin story for The Owlbear from "The Adventures of the Darrington Brigade" (Sx49). However, even if the two characters are somehow connected they couldn't be the same figure (unless the halfling druid was *Reincarnated* at some point to become a human).

## **References**

1. ↑ See "Choose Their Adventure...Again!" (Sx81) at 1:35:44.
2. ↑ See "Choose Their Adventure...Again!" (Sx81) at 0:09:42.
3. ↑ See "Choose Their Adventure...Again!" (Sx81) at 0:09:42.
4. ↑ See "Choose Their Adventure...Again!" (Sx81) at 0:09:47.
5. ↑ See "Choose Their Adventure...Again!" (Sx81) at 0:10:10.
6. ↑ See "Choose Their Adventure...Again!" (Sx81) at 0:33:05.  Bobby called a recent solo walk on the beach a walk with his father, although clarifying his father had actually been too busy to go.
7. ↑ "Choose Their Adventure...Again!" (Sx81) takes place in a time in Scanlan's life when he's still inexpert and lacks confidence, and by the end of it he's trying to behave more like the charismatic Ranthiel Volthor. Since between 795 and 796 PD Scanlan had a messy affair with a member of the Darrington Estate staff that forced the bard and his troupe to leave, presumably the gnome's time with the Glorious Ones preceded this incident in Deastok. For more information see "Curious Tides" (1x89) at 1:13:37 and "*Talks Machina* #17: 'Voice of the Tempest'" (TMx17) at 56:37
8. ↑ See "Choose Their Adventure...Again!" (Sx81) at 0:23:18.
9. ↑ See "Choose Their Adventure...Again!" (Sx81) at 2:11:12.
10. ↑ See "Choose Their Adventure...Again!" (Sx81) at 0:31:09.
11. ↑ See "Choose Their Adventure...Again!" (Sx81) at 0:46:34.
12. ↑ See "Choose Their Adventure...Again!" (Sx81) at 1:14:02.
13. ↑ See "Choose Their Adventure...Again!" (Sx81) at 2:11:26.
14. ↑ See "To Hurt Is to Heal" (3x79) at 0:06:03.  Matt asked Taliesin if Bobby was the prequel to The Owlbear, and Taliesin was excited at the possibility and parallels.

**Art:**

1. ↑ Official art of Bobby, by Annalise Jensen (source). Used with permission.
2. ↑ Official art of Bobby, by Annalise Jensen (source). Used with permission.
3. ↑ Fan art of Bobby, by Secret (source). Used with permission.