The Potted Plant



The Potted Plant is a recurring character played by Dale. It is his signature character. In its different incarnations it is either a plantlike person or an actual plant with unexplained sentience. It is also a master of disguise, often adopting the persona of Jim Carrey. Its signature weapon is a flaming axe. It can decompose living matter incredibly fast. It refers to this process as "eating people." It is a spontaneous, often violent character, with deceptive prowess in combat under hire by Nicolas Cage. In its retirement from characterdom, it is honored as a high-ranking official in LUGFA

Origin
Prior to the Risus Five, Dale and Garrett were discussing level scaling, an RPG concept where a player can play as any typically nonplayable creature as long as his level is changed accordingly, for example, a level -3 minotaur, or a level 3 monkey. Dale took this to a level 1000 potted plant. The joke was born.

The Jim Carrey element was introduced when his character picked his feats in Brass Monkey and his feat for his Animal Detective skill allowed him to disguise. He used this ability exclusively to disguise as Jim Carrey, in reference to Ace Ventura.

The Axe arose when his character randomly recieved the item "Fire Axe", which Dale took to mean a flaming axe. After being corrected, he convinced Zap to magically combine his axe with a fire constructed by Ernie. The original axe was destroyed when it was ran over by the Nazimobile in the second session. However, another fire axe was sent in an order by Nicolas Cage in the first session of Our Big D̶r̶i̶s̶u̶s̶ Nicolas Cage Adventure.

Risus Five Incarnation
In The Risus Five, The Potted Plant was an actual potted plant. It was allowed to perform any reasonable human action without question as to if a plant could actually perform said task. Its mission is to hunt down and kill Hitler, and although Adorf Hilter is dead, it is unclear as to whether his task is complete because of Hilter's ambiguous identity.

It weilds three signature weapons, all of which are magically on fire: a Fire Axe, a Flail (recently with a vastly extended chain), and a broom. He is incredibly skilled with all fire-based weapons and still very skilled, albeit less so, in steriotypical murder weapons such as kitchen knives.

In the events of Million-Dollar Moon Mission, from an effect of the board game, he was afflicted with lycanthropy. When he becomes a plantwolf, he gains the stat hunter[5].

Shipwreck D☆☆Ds Incarnation
Attempting to replicate his Risus equivalent, Dale made a handaxe-weilding Treant Rogue character, forcing Garrett to find a homebrew race because of his inexperience with the rules. His place in the story was that he got Mac Withak addicted to shrooms and escaped his woods before its destruction. He was disguised as a barmaid in the caravan to Shipwreck when he was overpowered and locked in a closet. This was the beginning of the end for the campaign in retrospect. Garrett retconned the entire introduction and magically made the party get friendly. That was the extent of his notable activity in Shipwreck D☆☆ds.