Robert Angleton: Frustated Aberrant-blatter and Herbal WMD Enthusiast

[Egon the Monkey]

Returning to EFU, I knew I wanted to play a ranger again, because they're fun. Not super stronk unless you optimise, but they have a lot of things to do and Search is always good for finding neat secret bits of the setting. I also wanted to try out Astrologian, as it looked to have some neat spells and mechanics.

Finally, I fancied trying someone for whom the only way was up. Enter Robert Angleton. Ranger of Izdu, failed Wizard, and even more failed Eldritch Pact Warlock. Born into a family of Evokers, but with no aptitude for it, Robert dropped out and became a huntmaster and astronomer for some noble in the arse end of nowhere. Then, at last, decided to reach for the Stars for Power, trying to make a pact with a Horror. As it came through, he realised the folly of what he'd done, and stabbed and stabbed at the Horrible Thing. About then, he fell unconscious and then Awoke. Years, and many many dead Horrors and Eyeballs later in the Rings, he made it to the Well. A man who'd had two gods go silent on him, and knew he was driving himself to die in the pursuit of an unfulfillable revenge. The name was a tribute to Charles Stross's The Laundry Files books.

The jocks thought he was a nerd, the nerds thought he was a jock. What he actually was, was an angry man looking to make up for a selfish past, and bury his shame under a pile of dead Lovecraftian horrors. Which is why I kept looting the Beholder Eyes and sticking them on the Horrible Trophy Bush in the Kula Shrine. Where possible, he tried to be calm, kind, and generous in defiance of his past. To be a healer, to care. When wound up, he was a spiteful little bastard who would fight like a cornered rat with bag loads of poison grenades and literally anything up to a broom.

I'm amazed I got this far as a STR-based ranger who ran around in robes, because the College didn't have a 0 Spellfail Armour option 😂. With Silken Mail and Practiced Caster we are truly in a golden age of Weird Little Guy builds. Strong recommend for Practiced Caster, it takes 1 level of a caster class from 'tokenistic access to wands/scrolls' to 'Yer a Wizard, 'Arry'! The number of times I left the Krak, explained I couldn't do circles no why would you assume that, shall be go back and get a proper mage?

He was designed as a healer, utility build, and bloody-handed destroyer of A: Horrors and B: Djinn. He ended up as a marksman for most of his later career on account of 'I have Point Blank Shot, and +3 Damage Stellar Blade Throwing Axes are quite respectable firepower for deleting Warlocks.' He also somehow became a well known alchemist despite having 0 Alchemy until I hit 10 for a bit. Quite reliably, nobody ever guessed right about his build or classes.

He died in a fairly epic way. Buffing up to try and take a shot at The Unifier with a Book of the Rogue, only to find that the front line had vanished and he'd just been KD crit into the floor. As his old mentor in history and Izdu, trapped in a robotic torture machine, pounded him into the dirt in front of the roughly 200 orcs Robert had just lit up with the Artillery while screaming OM URRAZIR!.
So in the end, Robert Angleton did die in a roaring rampage of revenge. Just... not the one he was expecting.

Screenshots
https://imgur.com/a/OehORgd

IC Books

• https://www.efupw.com/forums/index.php?topic=713024.0
• https://www.efupw.com/forums/index.php?topic=712885.0

[Poolson]

The fucking mad chemist who introduced the silly putty that made the orcs freak the fuck out on the frontline, lmao. Operation: Fireball Palace owed as much of its success to Mirielle's supplies and the Sisters' goodies as it did to Robert Angleston having some Random Bullshit :tm: ready to roll when he needed it on quickdraw.

Godspeed, you crazy diamond.

[-UnholyWon-]

Egon! Welcome back man, and great character to start off your return. I had fun interacting with him! Can't wait to see the next one!

[CrimsonMedicine]

Firstly, thank you so much for getting me into alchemy. Your knowledge in game and out of game is so impressive.

Secondly, I'm sad to see Robert go. He was such an amazing, inventive, and genius of a man. Little obsessed with the Aberrations, but that's fine! He was smart, and you played him amazingly well to convey that. He was a great addition to the Sandstone.

He was always the man with a plan, and if he didn't have a plan, he surely had the item to make one.

Looking forward to see what you make next with that mind of yours!

[Vax]

I literally never knew what Robert was going to bring to the situation from moment to moment. It was a grab bag of fun playing alongside him.

Also him being one of the few characters to use profanity and just showing up to places cursing, had me laughing in my chair several times.

[Walrus Warwagon]

I will miss Robert. He was the good kind of a weirdo.

[Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi]

I read his books with great interest and have referenced them a few times IC! Not always in agreement, but that's the sign of an interesting work.

Well done!