Deb

* Arc 1
* Arc 7

Official image of Deb, drawn by @grace.pptx on Instagram

Official image of Deb, drawn by @grace.pptx on Instagram

Deb is one of the Player Characters from Arc 1 and played by Pax.

*This page contains no spoilers for Arc 7 in the Arc 1 infobox and up until the section "Between Arc 1 and Arc 7". After that, please proceed with caution.*

## Description

Deb is a small, pinkish red skinned tiefling with grey hair, which they have styled in a fashionable "gay mullet" with bangs inbetween their two little round horns.

They are an apprentice at Crumptin's Confections, the bakery of Summerview, and one day want to own their own. It is unusual to be out in Summerview in the morning and not see them walking around with a basket of baked goods, doing their daily deliveries, during which they also enjoy giving out free pastries as a "sample", even though they have the same size as the ones that can be bought. By now, they even have an extra basket simply for giving out free pastries. While people question it, this "marketing strategy" seems to work: they carry 60gp on them, and there is a reason Phoebe, the head baker, has not fired them, yet. With the money they have, they try to be conscientious.

They are sweet, bubbly, and very talkative. Most people in Summerview know them, and know them to hand out goods, and they often exchange pleasantries with the people they meet.

Deb has not visited the library since they were shooed out by SK-73 one time, and also because they are not allowed to bring food there.

Their bardic inspiration comes from them giving away baked good and their cutting words come from them throwing burnt baked goods or flour at enemies.

## Background

Deb spent their whole life living close to Summerview, but only ever moved into the town itself when they became an apprentice at the bakery at the age of 17. Later, their moms have a home next to the bakery, but at the time, Deb was new in town and did not really know anyone.

While working in Summerview, they met Sir Mister Person at the docks, a friendly man who told them that he was a knight, and they took it for the truth, because he was being honest about it. When they found out that Sir Mister was false in this assumption, they did not dare to bring it up, both because it was awkward, and because Sir Mister seemed happy in his belief, and not hurting anyone.

## Character Arc

### Arc 1

Deb gets thrown into an adventure together with a Sir Mister Person, who they are not exceptionally close to, SK-73, who they actively fear, and Hope and Thavius, who are complete strangers to them. Still, on their mission to find Aura, they all quickly become friends, or at least good acquaintances.

During the adventure, Deb is constantly torn between the truth and the comfortable lie when it comes to Sir Mister Person. They are aware that he falsely believes himself to be a knight, but don't really want to break the truth to him either, especially because his delusion is not actually harmful for anyone. When he displays slight xenophobia, though, they are quick to call him out.

Their baked goods not only offer mechanical advantages to their allies in combat, but also emotional support outside of it, and they prove to be a valuable partymember on multiple occasions. Despite their sweet and bubbly appearance, and their friendliness towards their companions, they are ruthless in combat, murdering their enemies with insults.

### Between Arc 1 and Arc 7

Shortly after Arc 1, Deb realises that their chances of becoming more than an assistant at Crumton's Confections, the bakery in Summerview, are very low, since it will most likely go to Phoebe's nephew, so they decide to go out and found their own bakeries in towns that do not have them yet. Most of the time when they come into a new town, though, this town has a problem with some kind of monster or attacker, so they quickly become an adventurer.

At first, they are accompanied by Sir Mister Person. At one point, Sir Mister is injured, and without meaning to say anything hurtful, Deb suggests to take some knight's training, accidentally revealing to him that he is not a real knight. Sir Mister does not take it well and leaves, and the two of them have no further contact.

After the first few months, their adventuring life soon takes over their ambitions for becoming a baker, and they help the townsfolk with their local problem, then set up a bakery, train a few people and give them some recipes, but go on quickly after that. Deb occasionally travels with groups, but never sticks with one.

A few months before Arc 7, Deb falls into the Feywild, being around level 11, and emerges at level 15 with no memories of what happened or how much time passed for them. This puts a halt to their adventuring, and they move back in with their mothers in Summerview.

### Arc 7

In Arc 7, Deb doesn't seem to have visibly aged a lot more than the two years. They now wear their hair a bit longer, it is shaved on the sides and kept back with a top knot and some french braids. The new items they carry are the Snack Attacks and the Blanket of Cozyness, additionally they now carry more instruments than they did before, because many other adventurers expected that from a Bard.

Since they came out of the Feywild in a forest near Tyle, they have not really written to Hope anymore, and definitely not told her, or anyone, about their mental state or time in the Feywild. They don't sleep much, and their mothers are worried about them, but they decide to put on a smile for the party and pretend to be happy for a bit, bringing many different cakes, including a smash cake for Arthur.

Deb does not really want to talk to Sir Mister Person at the party, but doesn't avoid him as much as he avoids them. When they all get on an adventure together, they openly tell their party that they do not believe it would be a good idea for the two of them to go together. Finally, in the dungeon, the two of them talk about their issues. Deb apologises for not telling Sir Mister the truth sooner, and says that they now understand that people deserve the truth even if it makes them unhappy, but also demands to not be blamed for all the years where they did not even know him, or did not know that he wasn't a knight. They are fine with Mister being angry at them as a sort of face of Summerview, but not with him letting his anger affect the rest of the party, and possibly the mission. Sir Mister forgives them.

Generally, Deb is not quite happy on the adventure. Being an adventurer again stresses them out, despite them still believing that they are capable of getting through it, even alone, if necessary. After they win their final fight, though, Deb feels a lot better about adventuring again, and also looks more like themselves again.

Later, when talking with Thavius in the library, they open up about the time they most probably spent in the Feywild, and about their fear that they might have been a bad person there. They tell him that their adventuring party at the time was investigating "some weirdness in the forest", and that they woke up a few Material Plane weeks later, with no memories of what had happened. Before, they did not really want to talk about it, because that would make it real, but they do feel some comfort talking to Thavius, who not only can relate to being uncertain about the passage of time, but also tells them that he is certain that they were a good person no matter what happened.

The next day, when they all sit together in the Rose & Thorn tavern, Deb says that they want to adventure again, as long as it is together with this party.

### Soul Coinclusion

For their first adventure together, the party brings back Thavius's soul coin to its rightful destination. First, Deb has to confront their apprehension to being lost in a dark forest, which they manage to do together with their friends by their side.

Later, in the room of lost things, they try very hard to find Phoebe's rolling pin that they lost pretty early on in their apprenticeship, but cannot find it there. Thavius helps them opening up to the possibility of finding something from their time in the Feywild, and finally, they find a rolled up canvas, that, once unrolled, shows them in their armour, ornated with blue and white flowers, and two more or less Elvish looking people standing next to them. Their way of reclaiming this item is by starting to accept whatever happened.

## Trivia

* In Arc 1, Deb has a maximum of 17 hitpoints.