ER:Khoo

From The Heretic Knowledge Vault

Khoo Tan-Lian, normally just called Khoo, is a character in the Errant Road free-form on-line role-playing game, played by Graybeard. Like all Errant Road player characters, he doesn't exist in the Poe-verse. His basic concept can be found in this entry on the Forum. The entry there, however, doesn't do justice to what has happened to him since he first appeared, so:

History

Under construction

When first encountered, Khoo is a graduate student at Sashi Mu, working on the side in a restaurant in the Tower of Artifex while he finishes his D.Thm. thesis in thaumatic engineering. He's busy enjoying life and has no intention of becoming a swashbuckling adventurer, expecting instead to get his degree in Thaumatic Engineering with a thesis project of building a lifeboat-like glider for use on airships. This stands to make him a large pile of tsuis if it works and is patented, but he honestly doesn't care about that; he's not materialistic by nature and wouldn't know what to do with a large pile of tsuis if he had one.

This cheerful, somewhat Bohemian existence is interrupted when someone crashes an airship into the Tower of Artifex, doing terminal damage to same and triggering a whole series of chaotic events in Errant Road. (Meji mentions this incident in Errant Story itself, without elaboration, showing that life imitates art, or something.) As it happens, PCs Drusia, Tamina and Udo are being served -- by Khoo -- at the Artifex Sashimi Palace just as the airship arrives, and in the ensuing chaos, the adventurers, now including Khoo, find themselves transported to Tsuirakushita aboard the glider that is Khoo's thesis project.