Gnomi Malone

Fan Sketch of Gnomi by artist Unknown

**Gnomi Malone,** also refereed to as "The Librarian", is an alias used by an historian on the lore of the Age of Queens. He becomes an ally of Booty and the Hofish on their quest to track down artifacts of the Great Drag Houses.

## Herstory

### Pre-Show

At some point before the show began, Gnomi left his home on a mission to learn about the Great Queens of legend, feeling he couldn't return home until he did. Gnomi became a resident of Wunderbread Manor, hoping to study in their library. It is unknown how long he worked there, but at some point in time he researched and became interested in the Old Gods.

### Researching the Queens

The party encounters Gnomi in the library of Wunderbread Manor while they are being put through trials by the mistress of the house. He explains that Lady Edith Wunderbred is known to hold grudges, but he rarely sees her these days. Believing he sees similarity between the queens and the Great Queens of old, Gnomi offers them rewards in exchange for demonstrating the art of 'reading'. Through this challenge, he gives Butylene a scroll covered in mushrooms, and Harlotte the gem on his staff before summoning a portal that deposits the queens back on the stage of the manor.

As the manor collapses, he is seen fleeing the destruction carrying a sketchbook of erotic orc art.

He took a new job working at an information kiosk employee at LaBouche Gardens amusement park, hoping to continue his research. When the same party of queens arrives there, he sees the opportunity to use their skills to further his investigation. He provides lore on the park to help them locate the treasure of Lady LaBouche. As the queens prepare to leave the park, with their Trixie LaBouche merchandise they found, Gnomi proposes a team up with the party.

Gnomi suggests they work together to find more treasures of the Great Queens. He first takes the queens to the Nexus of Sidhe'Bae to hock the merchandise they acquired. There, an informant tells Gnomi about the Search for the Tops competition at the Crystal Palace as the prize is said to lead to another treasure.

After Booty and the Hofish win the competition, Gnomi translates the symbols on the Ice Scepter they won, revealing that it will unlock the vault of Dame Celia Molestrangler on Fire Island.

Gnomi accompanies the party on the Salty Starfish to Fire Island. En route, someone steals the scepter. Before the queens can retrieve it, a Kracken attacks and the ship sinks.

#### Fire Island

After the Kracken attack sinks the boat he was traveling on, Gnomi ends up a prisoner of the Kracken Priest in his underwater grotto. There, Gnomi is modified into a partial seaspawn, equipped with a crab claw for an arm. He is chained to a table near the Kracken Priest's Altar and is made to do research for the Kracken Priest. It is there that Booty and the Hofish find him.

After his rescue and the defeat of the Kracken Priest, Gnomi joins the party as they return to the Golden Palace and begins working with Patrick to research the Kracken, Kracken Priest, and the Kracken Priest's Heart the party brought back with them from their battle. Gnomi showed an unusual interest in the heart whenever he was in its presence. Over the next few days, the queens noticed he continued to transform slowly. This forced the queens to lock the heart away in a vault to prevent further transformation, and they took Gnomi with them on a mission to recruit local merfolk to better keep an eye on him. The mission required the group to go inside Alighieri the dragon turtle spiritual leader of the merfolk, who had grown ill.

During this mission, Gnomi often succumbed to the enchantments and illusions found inside Alighieri. He confessed at one point that he would be interested in seeing a return of the Old Gods, believing that to have been a simpler time. The group discovered Dampthroat, a servant of the Kracken, was the cause of the illness. Dampthroat had taken possession of Mystie, the merfolk mystic, and said she and Gnomi were both candidates for the new Kracken Priest. Despite his friends attempts to persuade him against this, citing the group's recent encounters with Lolth, Gnomi was swayed by Dampthroat to try and join their gestalt. Gnomi seemed to snap back to normal once Dampthroat was defeated.

Back at the Golden Palace, the group learned the heart was affected Patrick and Gnomi both, even while sealed away, until it began to be used in a new ritual by Jo Ramshackle. Gnomi and Patrick remained under watch of Patricks' wife Karin, until sharks invaded the penthouse office. After fighting them off, Gnomi raced down to the vault with the others to try and stop the ritual, only to find themselves shrouded in silver mist.

## Behind the Queens

Gnomi is named after Nomi Malone, lead character of the film Showgirls.

Gnomi's fate after the shipwreck, was determined by backers in a poll on the podcast's Discord. His other possible fates were working in an ancient library or lost in the wilderness.