Toby Marsh

Dicey Dangers, The Creepy Creature of Vulture's Vineyard

Game by Joel Hills

Toby Marsh

Toby Marsh is one of the pass's orphan kids, and the loudest of them by a comfortable margin. Small for his age and entirely unbothered by it, Toby has appointed himself in charge of the other children, an arrangement none of them agreed to and all of them go along with. He gives speeches. Long ones, full of big words he clearly picked up somewhere and doesn't fully understand, delivered in a voice pitched for a much larger audience than he ever has.

He is forever collecting useful-looking junk, rope, old buckles, once an entire torn curtain he refused to explain, and he walks everywhere like he's leading a column of soldiers. The adults of Vulture's Vineyard find him equal parts exhausting and impossible to dislike. Ask him what he wants to be when he grows up and he'll tell you, without a flicker of doubt, that he's going to be famous. He won't say for what. He just knows.

Actions

Toby's Orders

Toby plants himself directly in your path, chin up, chest out, and delivers the day's briefing whether you asked for one or not, some invented mission, some looming threat only he seems aware of, some plan he's clearly making up as he goes and believes completely anyway.

Once per day, hear Toby out. Gain Success Bonus +1 on your next Skill Check today. "Official orders," he insists.