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Character Name: Roy Greenhilt
Character Series: The Order of the Stick
Age: 29
Background: Roy Greenhilt was born the eldest son of Eugene and Sara Greenhilt. When Roy was around 8, there was a new addition to the family: a younger brother named Eric. 3 years later, however, Eugene managed to cause some sort of unspecified accident, causing Eric's death. Eric could not be raised, and a 2 years later, the third and final Greenhilt child, Julia, was born and subsequently spoiled rotten.
Inspired by the tales of his fighter ancestors and not being on very good terms with his wizard father, Roy decided to attend fighter college rather than become a wizard, and took the family's ancestral sword with him to Bash University. Roy, being much smarter and more dedicated to his studies than the vast majority of his peers, did not have much in the way of a social life there.
3 years into his stay there, Roy was visited by Eugene, much to his surprise. Eugene brought grave news: he was dying of old age and he had some unfinished business that would be passed down to Roy and Julia; namely, that he had sworn a Blood Oath of Vengeance against the lich sorcerer Xykon, who had killed his mentor, Master Fyron. He told Roy about this with the intent that Roy would tell Julia about it when she was old enough, but Roy decided to take down Xykon himself.
Roy graduated from Bash U with a Master's, but decided to get some adventuring experience before rushing off to fight Xykon. He joined an existing party, where he met the dwarven cleric, Durkon Thundershield. Durkon was rude and standoffish, and the rest of the party sent Roy and Durkon against the orcs they were attacking separately, highly encouraging Roy to come back alone. Roy has horrified, and instead, he ended up taking a hit meant for Durkon before realizing that the orcs were there camping out for a band performance. Roy came to an agreement with the orcs that the party he was in would bring them food until the performance as long as the orcs left afterwards. The rest of the party was not pleased about this, save Durkon, who admired Roy for using his head instead of his sword. Roy left the party in disgust and Durkon went with him.
Eventually they learned from the Oracle of the Sunken Valley that Xykon was camped out in the Redmountain Hills, and they decided to form a party to go after him. While most adventurers turned down the offer, the pair did manage to gather a decent party, which would come to be known as the Order of the Stick. This party consisted of Haley Starshine, human rogue; Elan, human bard; Vaarsuvius, elven wizard; Belkar Bitterleaf, halfling ranger; and, of course, Roy and Durkon.
The party ventured into the Dungeon of Dorukan in the Redmountain Hills. There, Roy was visited by Eugene's ghost a couple of times and the party encountered, among other things, the Linear Guild, a team of evil opposites lead by Elan's evil twin brother, Nale. Eventually, though, the party managed to make it down to Xykon's lair (mostly) unscathed. There, Roy attempted to engage Xykon in one-on-one combat.
Xykon cast shatter on Roy's ancestral sword.
This had the unexpected effect of sending Roy into a berserker rage, and he punched Xykon's head clear off his shoulders, before taking the body and skull and throwing them into the warded gate that dominated the room, which completely destroyed Xykon's body. And so the Order defeated Xykon. Roy claimed the small crown that Xykon wore as his prize while the rest of the party set about collecting loot.
And then Elan set off the castle's Self Destruct rune, creating the need for a very hasty retreat.
The party then went to a local small town, where the divvied up the loot and Roy attempted to get either his sword repaired or a temporary replacement weapon until his sword could be repaired. The local blacksmith told Roy that the sword was made of starmetal and in order to get it repaired, Roy would have to get replacement starmetal that had fallen in a nearby forest centuries ago. As for the replacement weapon, the local armory was simply entirely out of stock.
With a couple of elaborate lies, Roy managed to talk the entire party into going with him to the forest to get the starmetal. They were not terribly far into the forest when they were attacked by a local team of bandits, who captured Elan. To Roy's surprise, he was the only member of the party who was not on board with the "we need to rescue Elan from the bandits" plan, and he ended up parting ways with the party. That night, however, Roy thought about it some more and came to the realization that he was being a total doucherocket and thus set off to rescue Elan. Or, rather, rescue the entire rest of the party, as they'd managed to get themselves captured by the bandits as well.
Eventually the bandits were defeated and the party continued to seek the starmetal, fighting a hag, who turned Vaarsuvius into a small lizard, and a black dragon along the way. Inside the dragon's lair, Roy found the starmetal he'd been sent to find. The piece could not have been much larger than a quarter, much to Roy's chagrin.
The party relieved the dragon's lair of all its treasure, but were confronted on their way back to the town by the paladin Miko Miyazaki. Miko bested the party in combat, but was greatly confused when her Smite Evil failed to kill Roy. The battle was halted and an explanation was soon had: Miko had been sent from Azure City in the south to bring the Order of the Stick there to be tried for the crime of weakening the fabric of the universe by destroying the Dungeon of Dorukan.
The party reluctantly agreed to go peacefully (though Roy was not among the reluctant, having fallen in lust with Miko) with her to Azure City and face their charges. Along the way, they checked into an inn, where, though some misunderstandings and poor communication, Roy managed to get himself mistaken for the King of Nowhere. This was absolutely great for him, up until a pair of assassins attacked while he was unarmed and he was forced to use a gender-changing belt to escape. The assassins were eventually chased off, but the inn was unfortunately destroyed in the process, along with all the treasure the party had liberated from the dragon's lair, which gave Haley such a shock that she was rendered incapable of speaking in anything besides cryptograms.
Miko chastised the party for the destruction of the inn, and Roy, his manhood restored, essentially told her where she could stick it, saying that if she wanted to take the Order to Azure City, she would have to drag them there in chains.
Unfortunately for the Order, Miko taking them to Azure City was a railroad plot, and Miko did, in fact, drag them to Azure City in chains.
There, they were brought to trial before Lord Shojo. They were defended by the sylph Celia, whom they had rescued in the Dungeon of Dorukan. During the trial, the secret lore of the Sapphire Guard and the history of the Order of the Stick world was explained.
The gods collaborated to create the first world, but there were many arguments about how things should work, and rather than talk things through like reasonable adults, the gods instead pulled on the threads of reality, developing tangles, which eventually formed into a being called the Snarl. It broke through reality and slaughtered the Western pantheon, and then destroyed the entire world. The remaining three pantheons hid in the Outer Plains for centuries before their leaders met and formulated a plan: they would build a new world with the released threads of the old around the Snarl to create a prison for it. And agreements would be reached ahead of time so new tangles wouldn't be created.
Eventually, though, tears were created in the fabric of the universe, and were discovered by a band of adventurers. These adventurers eventually sealed all 5 rifts and created Gates for them. The band fell into disagreement over how the Gates were best protected, however, and went their separate ways, each protecting the Gate nearest their homeland in the way they thought best, and agreeing to never interfere in the matters of the other Gates. The warded gate Roy had thrown Xykon's body into was Dorukan's Gate, destroyed when Elan set off the dungeon's Self Destruct rune.
Now that she knew what the cause behind the charges were, Celia crafted a pretty solid defense for the Order, and, to the great surprise of the Order themselves, they were found Not Guilty.
After the trial, Shojo asked to speak with Roy, revealing that he was only faking his apparent senility to discourage assassination attempts. He explained to Roy that Lirian's Gate had also already fallen and since Soon's oath prevented the paladins of the Sapphire Guard from investigating the other Gates, he needed somebody else to do it, namely Roy and the Order. He also revealed that the Being of Pure Law and Good who had passed down the Not Guilty verdict in the trial was, in actuality, none other than Eugene Greenhilt in disguise. Because Roy clearly hadn't gotten enough metaphorical kicks to the pants, Eugene also revealed that the Greenhilt family sword being broken prevented him from manifesting directly to Roy and that Xykon was not, in fact, dead. Well, he was dead, being a walking skeleton and all, but you get the point.
Roy reluctantly agreed to investigate the other Gates and defeat Xykon; not because Shojo or Eugene wanted him to, but because Xykon was a legitimate threat to reality itself please and thank you. In exchange for his services, Roy demanded a favor from Shojo for each of the Order's members. Of particular note was Belkar's favor: he had killed a guard during his stay in the Azure City prison and was let out on a bail of sort; he was marked with a Mark of Justice, which would cause him to get incredibly ill if any of the following circumstances were met: that he'd harmed a living creature inside the limits of a city, that he'd moved more than a mile from Roy's position, or that he'd pissed Roy off enough for Roy to use the secret word to activate it.
Roy used his own favor to take his ancestral sword to be repaired. The blacksmith there informed him that the sword was not a starmetal sword at all, but that she would be glad to reforge it as a starmetal sword with the starmetal he had. This turned it into a +5 sword and caused it to occasionally glow with a green glow that was particularly harmful to undead.
Coincidentally, it happened to be the eve of the Chinese Azurite New Year, and the city had a tradition of every restaurant offering its food for free on that night. Celia invited Roy out on a date and they had a very good time, if you catch my drift. The next day, she gave him a special talisman that would summon her when it was broken, before she left to return to law school.
The party then ventured forth to visit the Oracle of the Sunken Valley. There, Roy asked the Oracle which Gate Xykon would be nearest first, but phrased his question so specifically that he eliminated the option of Xykon's true target, the Gate at Azure City. So the Oracle reluctantly told him that Xykon would be closest to Girard's Gate.
While on the way back to Azure City, Roy was contacted via a Sending spell (or, rather, several) by Nale, informing him that he had kidnapped Julia and was holding her ransom in Cliffport. So the party went to Cliffport to rescue Julia from Nale's clutches. Julia was successfully freed, but Nale managed to switch places with Elan and get Elan arrested by the police of Cliffport.
The party with Nale returned to Azure City and Roy was surprised to wake up the next morning with a variety of subplots suddenly (from his perspective) resolved. Elan had returned to the party with a new Dashing Swordsman prestige class, Haley's voice had been restored to normality, Elan and Haley were officially an item, and the Linear Guild had been captured once more.
Elan cashed in his favor with Shojo to have the Linear Guild kept in jail at Azure City. After that was handled, Shojo discussed the matter of the Gates with Roy and Belkar, only for Miko and Shojo's nephew, Hinjo, to overhear them. Both paladins were horrified and disappointed to hear how thoroughly they'd been lied to and Miko flipped the fuck out. Miko revealed that she had encountered Xykon on her way back from her latest diplomatic mission and that Xykon was headed towards Azure City at that very moment. Miko managed to jump to the conclusion that this somehow meant that the Order and Shojo were in league with Xykon and were conspiring to take down Azure City.
She then murdered Shojo, which caused her to lose her paladin powers before Roy delivered a beatdown. Roy offered his assistance to Hinjo, who was next in line for the throne, and Hinjo decided to have Roy act as his bodyguard, as assassins would undoubtedly be moving in on him very quickly. (This proved to be accurate.)
Xykon's forces attacked the city a few days later. The battle opened with some Titanium elementals, which managed to open a breach in the north side of Azure City's walls before being defeated. Xykon's army then split into 3 factions: one group headed towards the breach, one group headed towards the south side of the wall to scale it, and the third group stayed in the rear to protect the archers and the like. Each group appeared to have Xykon with them and Hinjo and Roy desperately tried to figure out which was the real Xykon before Haley pointed out the obvious solution: none of them were.
The real Xykon was, in actuality, right above them, flying on a zombie dragon. Roy borrowed a Ring of Jumping +20 from Belkar and leaped onto the dragon and engaged Xykon in direct combat. This was, quite possibly, the single stupidest thing Roy could've possibly ever done. Xykon, capable of flight under his own power, simply left the dragon and then Meteor Swarmed Roy right in the face.
Roy survived the Meteor Swarm.
He did not survive the 300 foot fall that followed.
This being a Dungeons & Dragons-based universe, however, the story does not end there. Azure City would fall to Xykon's forces over the course of the day and Roy was left in the afterlife to deal with his father. After criticizing the hell out of Roy, Eugene finally shared the fun fact that the Blood Oath of Vengeance that hung over the Greenhilt family was keeping him from getting into the actual Upper Planes, and that it would do the same for Roy.
Regardless, a Deva soon came along to determine which afterlife Roy belonged to. She eventually determined that while Roy was far from perfect at it, he was still entirely qualified for the Lawful Good afterlife. While Roy was pleasantly surprised when she told him to head on up the mountain, Eugene was furious. It turned out that Roy was allowed in because he had died attempting to fulfill the oath, while Eugene abandoned it years before his death and never even tried to give it a final go or anything.
Roy crossed over into the afterlife, of which he recalls nothing beyond a happy, fulfilling blur. However, he left the afterlife and returned to the common plane when he realized that he'd been dead for a few months rather than the one day he was expecting it to be. With Eugene's help, he scryed on his party and watched many of their adventures, occasionally attempting to manifest as a ghost and failing. He generally followed Haley and Belkar, since they were in possession of his corpse.
Haley accidentally managed to break the talisman to summon Celia, who promptly arranged for them to leave Azure City. They went to the Oracle of the Sunken Valley, where Belkar promptly killed said Oracle. Unfortunately for him, the Oracle had founded a town around his tower shortly beforehand, and Belkar's Mark of Justice activated. Haley was furious and refused to take Belkar with them to Cliffport. However, this was all immediately forgotten by her once they exited the memory-charmed valley.
Celia took Roy's body down to Greysky City against Haley's advice, where she managed to get him turned into a bone golem instead of raised. The group then hid out at the house of Blind Pete, a friend of Haley's father. Unfortunately, Blind Pete sold them out to the Thieves' Guild, which Haley had left years previously. In the resulting battle, Haley's signature ponytail was cut off, Belkar was freed of the Mark of Justice, and Celia managed to resolve the conflict peacefully by retroactively renewing Haley's guild membership, much to Haley's ire. However, this guild membership gave them the guild's back-up as they retrieved Roy's body. They were finally reunited with the rest of the team and Durkon finally raised Roy.
Personality: Roy is a Lawful Good Fighter. As a Fighter, he is skilled in combat, specializing in greatswords, and qualifies for Badass Normal status. What he isn't is an example of the Dumb Muscle trope. Roy's actually a Genius Bruiser, possessing above average INT, WIS, and CHA scores for his class, and likely above average INT, WIS, and CHA scores full stop, considering how a Mind Flayer chose to attack Roy over the party wizard, Vaarsuvius, viewing Roy's mind as a roast turkey to V's hamburger. Likely in part thanks to these well-rounded mental scores, Roy all-too-frequently ends up as the Only Sane Man of his party and even sometimes his world in general. And thanks to that, Roy tends to be a Deadpan Snarker, to the point where the Deva evaluating him to see if he belongs in the Lawful Good afterlife notes that "sometimes you enjoy verbally lambasting your friends and foes a little too much for our tastes" and advises that he refrain from doing so when raised. Roy responds with "Yeah, but think how many fewer punchlines I would get if I did."
This is a good example of how OotS has No Fourth Wall, because of course ME needs more 4th-wall-breakers. As a result, Roy possesses Medium Awareness and is incredibly Genre Savvy, frequently referencing being in a comic, common literary devices, stereotypes, and (naturally) tropes. Frequent Lampshade Hanging is inevitable.
Roy is Good-aligned. He generally helps others in need and fights evil when he can, even saying that wanting to help people was among his primary reasons for becoming a fighter. His resolve to fight Xykon is not because of his father's Blood Oath or because Shojo wants him to, but because Xykon is a legitimate and Seriously Evil threat to the universe itself. However, Good is Not Nice, cf. earlier reference to Roy's Deadpan Snarking and also to his general scathing sarcasm. Roy will rarely let an opportunity for a good jab go unjabbed against friend and foe alike. His patience is far from limitless, and there are times where he seems to be putting a considerable amount of effort into not giving into the undeniably tempting urge to strangle one or more of his party members. He qualifies as a Knight in Sour Armor, constantly frustrated by the manipulativeness, the stupidity, the maliciousness, and all the other many, many vices most-if-not-all of his friends, allies, and/or enemies possess. But he steadfastly fights for good and justice and making sure Xykon doesn't take over the entire damn world anyway.
Roy is Lawful. Mostly. He tries to stick to the rules and do things the right way, but it all too frequently doesn't work out for him, given that there's only one other Lawful member in the party. He's incredibly responsible, seeing it as his own personal duty to stop Xykon, to say nothing of taking responsibility for his party, particularly Belkar. However, he has a habit of using Chaotic means to reach his Lawful ends, such as lying to his party about royal ogres to get them to accompany him in the starmetal fetch quest. But, as the Deva who evaluates him in the afterlife states, he's trying, and that's what matters.
Item Lost: The Greenhilt family sword
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2% on Fighter College. (Superpowers Event)
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Character Name: Roy Greenhilt
Character Series: The Order of the Stick
Age: 29
Background: Roy Greenhilt was born the eldest son of Eugene and Sara Greenhilt. When Roy was around 8, there was a new addition to the family: a younger brother named Eric. 3 years later, however, Eugene managed to cause some sort of unspecified accident, causing Eric's death. Eric could not be raised, and a 2 years later, the third and final Greenhilt child, Julia, was born and subsequently spoiled rotten.
Inspired by the tales of his fighter ancestors and not being on very good terms with his wizard father, Roy decided to attend fighter college rather than become a wizard, and took the family's ancestral sword with him to Bash University. Roy, being much smarter and more dedicated to his studies than the vast majority of his peers, did not have much in the way of a social life there.
3 years into his stay there, Roy was visited by Eugene, much to his surprise. Eugene brought grave news: he was dying of old age and he had some unfinished business that would be passed down to Roy and Julia; namely, that he had sworn a Blood Oath of Vengeance against the lich sorcerer Xykon, who had killed his mentor, Master Fyron. He told Roy about this with the intent that Roy would tell Julia about it when she was old enough, but Roy decided to take down Xykon himself.
Roy graduated from Bash U with a Master's, but decided to get some adventuring experience before rushing off to fight Xykon. He joined an existing party, where he met the dwarven cleric, Durkon Thundershield. Durkon was rude and standoffish, and the rest of the party sent Roy and Durkon against the orcs they were attacking separately, highly encouraging Roy to come back alone. Roy has horrified, and instead, he ended up taking a hit meant for Durkon before realizing that the orcs were there camping out for a band performance. Roy came to an agreement with the orcs that the party he was in would bring them food until the performance as long as the orcs left afterwards. The rest of the party was not pleased about this, save Durkon, who admired Roy for using his head instead of his sword. Roy left the party in disgust and Durkon went with him.
Eventually they learned from the Oracle of the Sunken Valley that Xykon was camped out in the Redmountain Hills, and they decided to form a party to go after him. While most adventurers turned down the offer, the pair did manage to gather a decent party, which would come to be known as the Order of the Stick. This party consisted of Haley Starshine, human rogue; Elan, human bard; Vaarsuvius, elven wizard; Belkar Bitterleaf, halfling ranger; and, of course, Roy and Durkon.
The party ventured into the Dungeon of Dorukan in the Redmountain Hills. There, Roy was visited by Eugene's ghost a couple of times and the party encountered, among other things, the Linear Guild, a team of evil opposites lead by Elan's evil twin brother, Nale. Eventually, though, the party managed to make it down to Xykon's lair (mostly) unscathed. There, Roy attempted to engage Xykon in one-on-one combat.
Xykon cast shatter on Roy's ancestral sword.
This had the unexpected effect of sending Roy into a berserker rage, and he punched Xykon's head clear off his shoulders, before taking the body and skull and throwing them into the warded gate that dominated the room, which completely destroyed Xykon's body. And so the Order defeated Xykon. Roy claimed the small crown that Xykon wore as his prize while the rest of the party set about collecting loot.
And then Elan set off the castle's Self Destruct rune, creating the need for a very hasty retreat.
The party then went to a local small town, where the divvied up the loot and Roy attempted to get either his sword repaired or a temporary replacement weapon until his sword could be repaired. The local blacksmith told Roy that the sword was made of starmetal and in order to get it repaired, Roy would have to get replacement starmetal that had fallen in a nearby forest centuries ago. As for the replacement weapon, the local armory was simply entirely out of stock.
With a couple of elaborate lies, Roy managed to talk the entire party into going with him to the forest to get the starmetal. They were not terribly far into the forest when they were attacked by a local team of bandits, who captured Elan. To Roy's surprise, he was the only member of the party who was not on board with the "we need to rescue Elan from the bandits" plan, and he ended up parting ways with the party. That night, however, Roy thought about it some more and came to the realization that he was being a total doucherocket and thus set off to rescue Elan. Or, rather, rescue the entire rest of the party, as they'd managed to get themselves captured by the bandits as well.
Eventually the bandits were defeated and the party continued to seek the starmetal, fighting a hag, who turned Vaarsuvius into a small lizard, and a black dragon along the way. Inside the dragon's lair, Roy found the starmetal he'd been sent to find. The piece could not have been much larger than a quarter, much to Roy's chagrin.
The party relieved the dragon's lair of all its treasure, but were confronted on their way back to the town by the paladin Miko Miyazaki. Miko bested the party in combat, but was greatly confused when her Smite Evil failed to kill Roy. The battle was halted and an explanation was soon had: Miko had been sent from Azure City in the south to bring the Order of the Stick there to be tried for the crime of weakening the fabric of the universe by destroying the Dungeon of Dorukan.
The party reluctantly agreed to go peacefully (though Roy was not among the reluctant, having fallen in lust with Miko) with her to Azure City and face their charges. Along the way, they checked into an inn, where, though some misunderstandings and poor communication, Roy managed to get himself mistaken for the King of Nowhere. This was absolutely great for him, up until a pair of assassins attacked while he was unarmed and he was forced to use a gender-changing belt to escape. The assassins were eventually chased off, but the inn was unfortunately destroyed in the process, along with all the treasure the party had liberated from the dragon's lair, which gave Haley such a shock that she was rendered incapable of speaking in anything besides cryptograms.
Miko chastised the party for the destruction of the inn, and Roy, his manhood restored, essentially told her where she could stick it, saying that if she wanted to take the Order to Azure City, she would have to drag them there in chains.
Unfortunately for the Order, Miko taking them to Azure City was a railroad plot, and Miko did, in fact, drag them to Azure City in chains.
There, they were brought to trial before Lord Shojo. They were defended by the sylph Celia, whom they had rescued in the Dungeon of Dorukan. During the trial, the secret lore of the Sapphire Guard and the history of the Order of the Stick world was explained.
The gods collaborated to create the first world, but there were many arguments about how things should work, and rather than talk things through like reasonable adults, the gods instead pulled on the threads of reality, developing tangles, which eventually formed into a being called the Snarl. It broke through reality and slaughtered the Western pantheon, and then destroyed the entire world. The remaining three pantheons hid in the Outer Plains for centuries before their leaders met and formulated a plan: they would build a new world with the released threads of the old around the Snarl to create a prison for it. And agreements would be reached ahead of time so new tangles wouldn't be created.
Eventually, though, tears were created in the fabric of the universe, and were discovered by a band of adventurers. These adventurers eventually sealed all 5 rifts and created Gates for them. The band fell into disagreement over how the Gates were best protected, however, and went their separate ways, each protecting the Gate nearest their homeland in the way they thought best, and agreeing to never interfere in the matters of the other Gates. The warded gate Roy had thrown Xykon's body into was Dorukan's Gate, destroyed when Elan set off the dungeon's Self Destruct rune.
Now that she knew what the cause behind the charges were, Celia crafted a pretty solid defense for the Order, and, to the great surprise of the Order themselves, they were found Not Guilty.
After the trial, Shojo asked to speak with Roy, revealing that he was only faking his apparent senility to discourage assassination attempts. He explained to Roy that Lirian's Gate had also already fallen and since Soon's oath prevented the paladins of the Sapphire Guard from investigating the other Gates, he needed somebody else to do it, namely Roy and the Order. He also revealed that the Being of Pure Law and Good who had passed down the Not Guilty verdict in the trial was, in actuality, none other than Eugene Greenhilt in disguise. Because Roy clearly hadn't gotten enough metaphorical kicks to the pants, Eugene also revealed that the Greenhilt family sword being broken prevented him from manifesting directly to Roy and that Xykon was not, in fact, dead. Well, he was dead, being a walking skeleton and all, but you get the point.
Roy reluctantly agreed to investigate the other Gates and defeat Xykon; not because Shojo or Eugene wanted him to, but because Xykon was a legitimate threat to reality itself please and thank you. In exchange for his services, Roy demanded a favor from Shojo for each of the Order's members. Of particular note was Belkar's favor: he had killed a guard during his stay in the Azure City prison and was let out on a bail of sort; he was marked with a Mark of Justice, which would cause him to get incredibly ill if any of the following circumstances were met: that he'd harmed a living creature inside the limits of a city, that he'd moved more than a mile from Roy's position, or that he'd pissed Roy off enough for Roy to use the secret word to activate it.
Roy used his own favor to take his ancestral sword to be repaired. The blacksmith there informed him that the sword was not a starmetal sword at all, but that she would be glad to reforge it as a starmetal sword with the starmetal he had. This turned it into a +5 sword and caused it to occasionally glow with a green glow that was particularly harmful to undead.
Coincidentally, it happened to be the eve of the Chinese Azurite New Year, and the city had a tradition of every restaurant offering its food for free on that night. Celia invited Roy out on a date and they had a very good time, if you catch my drift. The next day, she gave him a special talisman that would summon her when it was broken, before she left to return to law school.
The party then ventured forth to visit the Oracle of the Sunken Valley. There, Roy asked the Oracle which Gate Xykon would be nearest first, but phrased his question so specifically that he eliminated the option of Xykon's true target, the Gate at Azure City. So the Oracle reluctantly told him that Xykon would be closest to Girard's Gate.
While on the way back to Azure City, Roy was contacted via a Sending spell (or, rather, several) by Nale, informing him that he had kidnapped Julia and was holding her ransom in Cliffport. So the party went to Cliffport to rescue Julia from Nale's clutches. Julia was successfully freed, but Nale managed to switch places with Elan and get Elan arrested by the police of Cliffport.
The party with Nale returned to Azure City and Roy was surprised to wake up the next morning with a variety of subplots suddenly (from his perspective) resolved. Elan had returned to the party with a new Dashing Swordsman prestige class, Haley's voice had been restored to normality, Elan and Haley were officially an item, and the Linear Guild had been captured once more.
Elan cashed in his favor with Shojo to have the Linear Guild kept in jail at Azure City. After that was handled, Shojo discussed the matter of the Gates with Roy and Belkar, only for Miko and Shojo's nephew, Hinjo, to overhear them. Both paladins were horrified and disappointed to hear how thoroughly they'd been lied to and Miko flipped the fuck out. Miko revealed that she had encountered Xykon on her way back from her latest diplomatic mission and that Xykon was headed towards Azure City at that very moment. Miko managed to jump to the conclusion that this somehow meant that the Order and Shojo were in league with Xykon and were conspiring to take down Azure City.
She then murdered Shojo, which caused her to lose her paladin powers before Roy delivered a beatdown. Roy offered his assistance to Hinjo, who was next in line for the throne, and Hinjo decided to have Roy act as his bodyguard, as assassins would undoubtedly be moving in on him very quickly. (This proved to be accurate.)
Xykon's forces attacked the city a few days later. The battle opened with some Titanium elementals, which managed to open a breach in the north side of Azure City's walls before being defeated. Xykon's army then split into 3 factions: one group headed towards the breach, one group headed towards the south side of the wall to scale it, and the third group stayed in the rear to protect the archers and the like. Each group appeared to have Xykon with them and Hinjo and Roy desperately tried to figure out which was the real Xykon before Haley pointed out the obvious solution: none of them were.
The real Xykon was, in actuality, right above them, flying on a zombie dragon. Roy borrowed a Ring of Jumping +20 from Belkar and leaped onto the dragon and engaged Xykon in direct combat. This was, quite possibly, the single stupidest thing Roy could've possibly ever done. Xykon, capable of flight under his own power, simply left the dragon and then Meteor Swarmed Roy right in the face.
Roy survived the Meteor Swarm.
He did not survive the 300 foot fall that followed.
This being a Dungeons & Dragons-based universe, however, the story does not end there. Azure City would fall to Xykon's forces over the course of the day and Roy was left in the afterlife to deal with his father. After criticizing the hell out of Roy, Eugene finally shared the fun fact that the Blood Oath of Vengeance that hung over the Greenhilt family was keeping him from getting into the actual Upper Planes, and that it would do the same for Roy.
Regardless, a Deva soon came along to determine which afterlife Roy belonged to. She eventually determined that while Roy was far from perfect at it, he was still entirely qualified for the Lawful Good afterlife. While Roy was pleasantly surprised when she told him to head on up the mountain, Eugene was furious. It turned out that Roy was allowed in because he had died attempting to fulfill the oath, while Eugene abandoned it years before his death and never even tried to give it a final go or anything.
Roy crossed over into the afterlife, of which he recalls nothing beyond a happy, fulfilling blur. However, he left the afterlife and returned to the common plane when he realized that he'd been dead for a few months rather than the one day he was expecting it to be. With Eugene's help, he scryed on his party and watched many of their adventures, occasionally attempting to manifest as a ghost and failing. He generally followed Haley and Belkar, since they were in possession of his corpse.
Haley accidentally managed to break the talisman to summon Celia, who promptly arranged for them to leave Azure City. They went to the Oracle of the Sunken Valley, where Belkar promptly killed said Oracle. Unfortunately for him, the Oracle had founded a town around his tower shortly beforehand, and Belkar's Mark of Justice activated. Haley was furious and refused to take Belkar with them to Cliffport. However, this was all immediately forgotten by her once they exited the memory-charmed valley.
Celia took Roy's body down to Greysky City against Haley's advice, where she managed to get him turned into a bone golem instead of raised. The group then hid out at the house of Blind Pete, a friend of Haley's father. Unfortunately, Blind Pete sold them out to the Thieves' Guild, which Haley had left years previously. In the resulting battle, Haley's signature ponytail was cut off, Belkar was freed of the Mark of Justice, and Celia managed to resolve the conflict peacefully by retroactively renewing Haley's guild membership, much to Haley's ire. However, this guild membership gave them the guild's back-up as they retrieved Roy's body. They were finally reunited with the rest of the team and Durkon finally raised Roy.
Personality: Roy is a Lawful Good Fighter. As a Fighter, he is skilled in combat, specializing in greatswords, and qualifies for Badass Normal status. What he isn't is an example of the Dumb Muscle trope. Roy's actually a Genius Bruiser, possessing above average INT, WIS, and CHA scores for his class, and likely above average INT, WIS, and CHA scores full stop, considering how a Mind Flayer chose to attack Roy over the party wizard, Vaarsuvius, viewing Roy's mind as a roast turkey to V's hamburger. Likely in part thanks to these well-rounded mental scores, Roy all-too-frequently ends up as the Only Sane Man of his party and even sometimes his world in general. And thanks to that, Roy tends to be a Deadpan Snarker, to the point where the Deva evaluating him to see if he belongs in the Lawful Good afterlife notes that "sometimes you enjoy verbally lambasting your friends and foes a little too much for our tastes" and advises that he refrain from doing so when raised. Roy responds with "Yeah, but think how many fewer punchlines I would get if I did."
This is a good example of how OotS has No Fourth Wall, because of course ME needs more 4th-wall-breakers. As a result, Roy possesses Medium Awareness and is incredibly Genre Savvy, frequently referencing being in a comic, common literary devices, stereotypes, and (naturally) tropes. Frequent Lampshade Hanging is inevitable.
Roy is Good-aligned. He generally helps others in need and fights evil when he can, even saying that wanting to help people was among his primary reasons for becoming a fighter. His resolve to fight Xykon is not because of his father's Blood Oath or because Shojo wants him to, but because Xykon is a legitimate and Seriously Evil threat to the universe itself. However, Good is Not Nice, cf. earlier reference to Roy's Deadpan Snarking and also to his general scathing sarcasm. Roy will rarely let an opportunity for a good jab go unjabbed against friend and foe alike. His patience is far from limitless, and there are times where he seems to be putting a considerable amount of effort into not giving into the undeniably tempting urge to strangle one or more of his party members. He qualifies as a Knight in Sour Armor, constantly frustrated by the manipulativeness, the stupidity, the maliciousness, and all the other many, many vices most-if-not-all of his friends, allies, and/or enemies possess. But he steadfastly fights for good and justice and making sure Xykon doesn't take over the entire damn world anyway.
Roy is Lawful. Mostly. He tries to stick to the rules and do things the right way, but it all too frequently doesn't work out for him, given that there's only one other Lawful member in the party. He's incredibly responsible, seeing it as his own personal duty to stop Xykon, to say nothing of taking responsibility for his party, particularly Belkar. However, he has a habit of using Chaotic means to reach his Lawful ends, such as lying to his party about royal ogres to get them to accompany him in the starmetal fetch quest. But, as the Deva who evaluates him in the afterlife states, he's trying, and that's what matters.
Item Lost: The Greenhilt family sword
Memories:
2% on Fighter College. (Superpowers Event)
2% spent, 0% unspent
Possessions:
-Armor
Job: Referee
Rooming Assignment: Ari Apartments, Room 607 (w/ Asch)