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43. Dewormer

The Convoy was the longest-running storyline of the campaign that weve actually completed at this point, and its only natural that a bunch of Convoy-original characters are going to make this list (or landed in the honorable mention tier). On this list however, were still in comic relief territory, and I cannot get enough of the bizarre choice Scarlet made when crafting Dewormer as a character. I dont even completely remember why hes called Dewormer, given that Im fairly certain he doesnt really do any deworming at the point where we meet him, but thats just emblematic of how weird and inexplicable this character is in the best way.

About halfway through the geographic path of the Convoy, we made a brief pit stop in Santa Prisca (a DC-specific central American country). It was KIND OF on our way, but we had a secondary purpose of trying to recruit Bane for the Secret Six (to take the place of either Cheshire or Fiddler, both of whom had vacated the group for one reason or another, leaving just a Secret Four). Recruiting Bane wasnt a high priority for the convoy itself, so we sent a small expedition to break off and try and make contact. We succeeded, but it turns out that Santa Prisca was about to be under attack, and they needed help fortifying their defenses until the population could make their escape (and join up with the convoy). Naturally, were helpful people, and we offered up our services.

One of the defenses that robotics expert Trogg wanted help with was locating truffles, in order to capture boars for use against the incoming Equated army. Youd think locating truffles would be easy, but not so much. It turns out, we had to explore a mine field (also used to defend against the Equated) in order to find those truffles, and therefore we needed a special machine. Enter Dewormer. Originally designed, I guess, to dig up worms, Dewormer had been reprogrammed to find truffles. Fine, whatever. Thats not a top forty character. Or at least, thats not what it seemed like at first.

Dewormer had to maneuver through the minefield, and that meant one of our party needed to remote control him, dodging mines along the way. This task fell to Brennus who issomehow NOT the least technically-savvy member of our team. He might not even be bottom three, now that I think about it. But still, for the purposes of this task, hes not exactly someone you want handling sensitive electronic equipment. However, Brennus is still a very empathetic person, so when Dewormer started asking questions during their task, Brennus was naturally willing to respond. Dewormer finds a truffle, Dewormer asks Brennus a question. Dewormer finds a second truffle, Dewormer asks a second question. And slowly, we begin to realize Dewormer is special.

The questions Dewormer asks Brennus become more and more existential, and more and more depressed, and it just becomes crazier and funnier with every interaction. By the time the fifth and final truffle is located, Dewormer is openly asking if life is worth living, and contemplates self-destructing until Brennus depowers him and just carries the lifeless robot back to Trogg. This would be funny in its own right, but the gimmick continued. Trogg rebooted Dewormer and Brennus, bless his heart, starts talking to Dewormer like theyre best buddies. Rebooted Dewormer, however, has never met Brennus, and proceeds to have an existential crisis about the nature of its reality. Trogg reboots it again, and Brennus fucks things up again. Over and over and over. Its hilarious, because Dewormer winds up getting rebooted so many times because Brennus cant not say things that trigger his weird introspection.

Dewormer was the star of that particular session, but he made further appearances. In the final leg of the Convoy, Dewormer finally got his wish, serving as a suicide bomber to protect our fortress against invasion. And then in Zonn Zorr, after being rebuilt as a fucking armada of droids, Kobra had a hacker take over an army of Dewormers, who then led an assault on our base. And like he always wanted, Dewormer (and Dewormer and Dewormer and Dewormer) was destroyed in an EMP blast. He can still be rebuilt, and he can still bring his suicidal personality to the campaign in the future, but for now, hes just an extremely memorable and hilarious comic relief character.

Hint for #42: Pepper has yet to speak to this character in any way.