Mephisteg (Greg)

## Biography

Greg is Champ's father and a favorite NPC of Smashmouth.

On the journey to the Lazy Susan, Smashmouth come across a wanted (dead or alive) poster for Mephisteg who is wanted for many petty crimes:

> *WANTED: Mefisteg, wanted for [basically just all the crimes, not anything bad just a bunch of petty crimes that have added up], reward is 10k gold pieces, please report any findings to the Terlith in Emon.*
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Eventually they make camp and meet three VERY HOT campers who are pretty sketchy and probably know Mephisteg. Champ is turned into a falcon to follow them but the only information he overhears is the name Greg.

Greg has a possible lover in Zadash, she's a schoolteacher. Gen followed him and discovered his dirty little secret.

While in Hupperdook, Champ gets a message from Greg; he's trapped in a room. Bea casts sending to Greg with no response. We remember where Greg said he was going (Jorns & Jackson) and Dircc sends Roverrandom (who is a wolf) there to find Greg. Greg had called in a favor with Jorns & Jackson and they were about to hand him papers before two cloaked figures walked in and started burning the place down. Gork is with Greg locked in the back room, and the vision ends.

Once at Jorns & Jackson, Dircc throws his body through a window and enters the burning building. He sees a burning body (not Greg) and essentially sees the quest track with his Witcher sense. Gen sees conjuration magic all over the place and follows it down an alley to a the remnants of a Dimension Door. Bea casts featherfall on a sky high Dircc which allows him to slow down enough to see a teleportation circle outside of city walls - the culprits.

Everyone jumped into the circle and emerged on a plateau in Xhorhas to find a bound Greg and Gork in a magic bubble at the center of a chanting cult. The artist formerly known as Lord Desmond is in the center of the circle. Champ yells "give me my dad back and I'll leave," Desmond says no. Champ says some other heartbreaking things including, but not limited to, "Dad can you just stay with me this time?" Samantha rolls a narrative 20 and it works. 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. Suspicious. "We don't have to be alone anymore, dad." Gen runs over and rescues Gork.

After returning to Hupperdook, Smashmouth gets teleported to the new TACOSE headquarters where Journey officially offers Greg a position as a spy. She asks him to use his network to help support the organization and he accepts. Bea asks him to FMK the group and he winks at her. He also moonlighted as a chef at headquarters and was all too eager to see Bea coming to talk to him alone. Will they? Or won't they?

## Relationships

Champ is his son.

Bea and him have a will they/won't they thing going on.

Dircc and him are colleagues.

Gen and him are colleagues.

Cecilia is his late wife and mother of Champ.

Count Porteau Loden is his father-in-law. Their relationship is tense but professional.

Lord Desmond was a jilted incel who wanted Celia for himself and framed Greg for crimes. Lord Desmond is dead. He was dropped from a very very high height, but also was a meat puppet for Dol Rhevtield probably.

Jimmy Jorns - old associate who was in the wrong place at the wrong time trying to help him.

Landrew Jackson - old associate who is extra crispy because Greg wanted info from him. Tragic.

Unnamed possible lover in Zadash, schoolteacher.