Ray

During Under the Bus, Ray played Bo Duke.

• Given Bo's incredible survivability as a Vow of Poverty monk, the party used him in many bizarre ways. At one point they cast Air Walk on him, tied 151 feet of rope to him, and had him run through the air ahead of the Sunchaser to detect the boundaries of dead magic zones: if Bo crossed into one, the spell would fail, he would fall, and the rope would catch him. On another occasion, Bo used his radiant aura to turn himself into a glowing beacon so the airship could find the party at night. This worked, but also attracted a pack of Greater Shadows.

The Dodge Feat

Early in Under the Bus, Ray went on a memorable tirade about how stupid he thought the Dodge feat was. His complaint was that it provided only +1 AC against one opponent while requiring the player to actively designate that opponent, creating one more thing to remember during an already complicated combat. Ray had also played previous characters with Dodge and frequently forgotten to use it.

Unfortunately for Ray, when The Chosen began training with Marcus, they discovered that Dodge was one of Marcus's specialties—and Marcus loved teaching it.

As best remembered, Ray refused the offered bonus feat. Other party members learned it instead. The joke got even better when the party would leave Marcus aboard the airship with members of the crew. Upon returning, they would discover that more crew members had learned Dodge.

Ray's hatred of the feat had effectively created a campaign running gag: the more Ray complained about Dodge, the more people around him learned it.

Campaign Anecdotes

Voting Against Himself

Early in the campaign, Effron gave the newly recruited party a choice: immediately investigate the threat they had discovered or remain at the Tower of Plinth for additional training. The party voted to remain for training.

Ray was unhappy with the decision—even though he had voted for it.

Ray had actually wanted to investigate, but he assumed the rest of the party would vote against him because, in his view, they usually did. He therefore voted for the option he didn't want, only to discover that the rest of the party agreed with his vote.

The Mounted-Cover Argument

During a battle involving mounted combat, Ray, Noel, Nate, TJ, and Rob became embroiled in an extended rules argument over how using the Ride skill to take cover while mounted worked. The argument went on long enough to drive Jones nuts.

Ray eventually succeeded in convincing Rob that Ray's interpretation of the rule was correct.

Having won the rules argument, Ray promptly announced that the rule was broken and he didn't want it to work that way.

The contemporary campaign recap described the exchange simply as “high comedy.”

Ray's Douche Detector

When the party encountered Lunara, an angel who had sworn to protect an ancient temple of Demmazon, they discovered that Korvaks were already inside defiling the temple. Lunara had been unable to remove them—but because of her oath, she also refused to allow the party inside to help her.

At this point, Ray decided that Lunara was “an incredible douchebag.”

This prompted a series of jokes around the table concerning Ray's apparent ability to “sniff out a douche.”

His Body Was a Temple

During the kuo-toa Ceremony of Preparation, the party was attended by aquatic elf slaves who eventually offered them sex.

Bo politely declined, explaining that his body was a temple—or words to that effect.

The contemporary recap immediately added that “you could tell his heart wasn't really in it.”

Dew Gooder and Tashiro then both volunteered to take Bo's slave girl if he wasn't going to avail himself of the offer.

The 10,000-Foot Bull Rush

During the werewolf assault on the Tower of Plinth, the attackers eventually began to retreat. Ray made sure at least one of them wasn't getting away.

Bo bull rushed a fleeing werewolf off the edge of the cliff and into The Gap, leaving it to face a roughly 10,000-foot plunge.

Don't Let the Villain Finish Playing the Flute

While dealing with the mysterious man who was eventually revealed to be Cain, the party watched him walk outside, produce a flute, and begin playing a haunting melody.

Ray decided that whatever the man was doing could only be bad.

Rather than waiting around to discover what the ominous flute music accomplished, Bo rushed him, snatched the flute out of his hands, and threw it away—apparently taking Cain himself by surprise.