Asphalt

> Gamers are the most oppressed race!
>
> Asphalt to the party , after releasing an Owlbear on innocent civilians

* One shot
* Kalaidus
* Death

A PC during the Bartletons 80's one shot, and the main NPC quest giver during The Torture of Kalaidus.

## History

###### Early life

Asphalt was homeschooled (poorly) by his parents. They gave him a computer and a few activities a day to do, and this is where asphalt got his love of computers. He never left the house and so didn't make friends. This affected his speech as the only language input he got was text from the computer, and the limited conversations with his parents. They eventually couldn't afford to keep him at home all the time and sent him to high school.

###### Teens and young adult

All the kids mocked him for being a fat, computer loving lisp boy for years and this spurred him to get speech therapy, which he got a part time job at Bartletons to pay for. After a year of no results, he asked why and they laughed him out of the building saying it was pointless from the start. He'd been speaking that way too long and it couldn't be fixed with therapy. The only reason they let him join was to boost their income. Later that day, he drank and spent his last pennies on a hooker, who he got pregnant. 9 months later Brick is born, giving Asphalt's life meaning for the first time.

###### The Owlbear incident

During a job for Bartletons at a nightclub, Asphalt betrayed his comrades by unleashing the last Owlbear in existence upon the nightclub causing many innocent deaths. It is unknown why he did this but it is reported that he shouted 'gamers are the most oppressed race' during the slaughter.

###### Adulthood

On a routine retrieval job from an upstart company called 'Illnetic' one day, Asphalt was hacking a pc to look for valuable information to sell.  He stumbled upon their plan and discovered the truth. In a panic, Asphalt ran home leaving his partner behind to go into hiding. However the mindflayers were already onto him and over the coming weeks he found himself being tailed by dog people when he left the house, being attacked on the street and even dealing with multiple break-ins. Eventually the dog people started launching full on drivebys at his house, prompting Asphalt to finally make his hardest decision and leave Brick to flee. If he had taken with him Brick then not only could he not support him but it would put Brick in danger if the mindflayers continued to chase.  Asphalt spent the last of his money on an AI helper for Brick (which he implanted his personality into) and fled to Khemet.

###### Life on the run

He had hoped to return sooner thinking the mindflayers would forget about him, but they tracked and chased him across the whole planet. During his time on the run he needed to make some money. Asphalt made a channel and uploaded his grand truth onto it, gathering more info on the mindflayers as he fled. He lived off of donations and cheap dollar store food, and his top doner was an account called "Thin Blue Two Tails". After the mindflayers plan was successful they stopped chasing him believing him to be dead, prompting him to hatch his plan and return to Azrus.

###### The Torture of Kalaidus

Asphalt pasted notes around the planet calling for people to travel to Zaerhel. Here Asphalt gave his master plan to whoever responded:

Get to the terminal that controls the dyson spheres collision detection at the center of the mindflayer hive in Azrus, let him hack it and destroy the sphere.

Asphalt and the party made it to the terminal in the mindflayer hive, however the mindflayers put it there as a decoy to alert them if anyone were to make it that far. Asphalt attempted to flee to his second hideout at Gertys bakery, but was intercepted and killed by his long lost son Brick who was turned into a thrall by the mindflayers after the events of Business at Bartletons.