Spurt

Spurt
Fan art of Spurt, by my2k.
Type	Guest Player Character
Actor	Chris Perkins
Character Information
Name	Spurt
Also known as	My boy! (postmortem, by Nott) Splat (postmortem, by the fandom)
Creature type	Humanoid
Race	Kobold
Class	Inventor
Age	11 Days
Languages	Common; Draconic
Place	Beneath the Ashkeeper Peaks (Home)
Status
Status	Deceased
Cause of death	Killed by a fire giant
Death episode(s)	"The Endless Burrows" (2x50)
Stats
HP	13
AC	12
DC	9
Str	7
Dex	15
Con	12
Int	8
Wis	7
Cha	8
Appearances
First seen	"The Endless Burrows" (2x50)
Stream	Campaign Two (1 episode)

Spurt was a kobold inventor. He was played by Chris Perkins.

Fan art of Spurt, Zybal, and Bex, by Kileigh Gallagher.

Description

Appearance

Spurt carried a hefty array of makeshift oddities and accessories bound and lashed against his person, such as flasks, boxes, pouches, and baskets, which contain various captured creatures. Most notable is a cage which holds a live skunk. Spurt wielded a staff with a live scorpion secured to the tip, stinger end pointed out, and a bag of hornets tied to the end.

Fan art of Spurt, by Clara.

Personality

Spurt was a very young kobold, hardly more than a newborn. As an inventor he was resourceful, having fashioned a diverse array of weapons largely using captured creatures. Spurt was naïve to most dangers, blindly following the Nein for little more than the promise of food.

Biography

Background

Sometime prior to meeting the Mighty Nein, Spurt's brother was eaten by a green slime (the same green slime that he kept in a pot, in fact). Spurt claims it to be the worst thing he had ever seen.

"The Endless Burrows" (2x50)

Spurt was dispatched to spy on the Mighty Nein and put rot grubs in their mouths as they slept. Spurt joined the party as a scout at the first promise of food. Spurt then led them partway through the tunnel, until they came upon the fire giant citadel. Once there, Spurt rushed out and threw his wasp nest in a bag at one of the Giants, who took negligible damage and then smashed Spurt with his hammer. Spurt was killed instantly because of the high damage.

Character information

Notable items

• Basket of centipedes
• The "centi-pult"
• Green Slime pot
• Scorpion on a stick (named Stingy)
• Skunk in a cage (named Pepe)
• Swarm of rot grubs
• Wasp nest in a bag

Appearances and mentions

• Campaign Two
  • "The Endless Burrows" (2x50) (first appearance)
• Specials
  • "Guest Battle Royale" (Sx64), mentioned only

Quotations

• Jester: "Hey Spurt. How long have you lived down here?"
  Spurt: "Eleven days!"
  Nott: "How long do kobolds live?"
  Spurt: "ELEVEN DAYS!"
• Spurt: "You're dead! You're dead!" (after throwing a wasp's nest at a fire giant)
• Spurt: "I win!" (last words before being killed by the same fire giant)

Trivia

Depiction of a kobold inventor from Volo's Guide to Monsters, p. 166.

• Chris Perkins was the first guest to appear in both campaigns.
• Spurt is the third guest player character to die and the first of them to die on-screen. Coincidentally, two of these characters were played by Chris Perkins.
• He was, for over four years, the guest player character with the shortest time on the show, appearing for less than 25 minutes before his death. He was surpassed by Rab Agg, played by Daniel Sloss, who appeared for about 20 minutes in "The Mighty Nein Reunion: Echoes of the Solstice" (Sx79) before being Disintegrated.
• Chris Perkins was the first guest to play a character they did not create. Spurt was originally an NPC Matt had designed. He asked Chris only a few hours before the game if he would like to play Spurt and kept it a secret from the players until the moment Chris joined the table.
  • As such, Spurt does not have a character sheet or class, rather he used the "Kobold Inventor" stat block from Volo's Guide to Monsters. Moreover, his physical description is the same as the art portraying the Kobold Inventor in said book.
• Spurt is the youngest player character to appear on Critical Role, while Perkins' previous character Shale was one of the oldest.
  • It is likely, however, that Spurt was not literally eleven days old, and kobolds don't live for only eleven days. Rather, Spurt probably had no idea for how long kobolds live, and had a tenuous grasp of time.
• Spurt appears as a character in Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms, despite his sole brief appearance being on Critical Role.

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