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Lars Vandenchomp
Lars Vandenchomp is a Doberman Pinscher and former sergeant with a bit of a military background, extremely muscular, in a bright pink tuxedo MM E1·00:26:33. He is Sylvester's companion and "body man", who checks his mail and drives the motor carriage in goggles and gloves MM E1·00:28:29 MM E1·00:40:19. Brennan says Lars has already RSVPed yes to the squire's party, and Lars tells Sylvester they leave in 45 minutes or so MM E1·00:38:21 MM E1·00:38:42. At Loam Hall he does a quick perimeter check on every arrival MM E1·00:56:00.
Lars is a Doberman and former sergeant, Sylvester's companion, who comes to the squire's party with him MM E1·00:26:33 MM E1·00:28:29. After the squire's death Sylvester has him guard the doors, and he drops Buckster, found crouching outside, in front of Sylvester MM E3·00:26:19 MM E3·00:45:54. In MM_05 he rides the elevator up with Buckster and Gangie, tries to knock the masked figure's hat off, and is stabbed in the side by a rapier for 37 points of damage out of his 40 hit points MM E5·01:24:31 MM E5·01:26:19 MM E5·01:26:28. In MM_06 he lifts his two allies and blasts past Colonel Hawkins, who ends up on the ground MM E6·00:57:56.
In MM_08 he heads for the kitchen, punches the policeman there, and sweeps the flour sacks off the cellar door MM E8·01:16:58 MM E8·01:18:13 MM E8·01:19:41. He hugs Sylvester "way too hard" when he emerges MM E8·01:20:03. In MM_10 he knocks out the boathouse guard, then gets Lucretia to open the door by claiming to be a ghost MM E10·00:38:17 MM E10·00:39:55. He tells Constance and Lucretia that Squire Badger is dead and that the body found in the house is his actual body MM E10·00:52:18. When Sylvester is dying, Lars fails a medicine check to stabilize him MM E10·02:17:49. He says "you do not die on the floor of the bathroom" MM E10·02:19:35. In the epilogue he asks Lord McCrae "Have you ever gone shot for shot with a dog?" and McCrae takes a shot MM E10·02:37:10 MM E10·02:37:31.
Character sheet — Mice & Murder
Mice & Murder sheet of Lars Vandenchomp (played by Ally Beardsley). Only what is said in play or shown on the on-screen stat cards; dotted values are derived from spoken rolls. Values shown are the latest up to your chosen episode.
Race
Doberman Pinscher MM E1·00:26:33—
Class
Fighter MM E1·00:56:03—
Subclass
Battle Master MM E1·00:56:03—
Level
AC
HP max
40 MM E5·01:26:19—
Proficiency
+2 MM E10·00:37:11—
STR
DEX
CON
INT
WIS
Skills
- Athletics: +9 MM E5·01:21:45—
- Medicine: +2 MM E10·02:24:55—
- Religion: -1 MM E3·00:23:54—
- Stealth: +2 MM E8·01:10:23—
Features
- Brawny (feat) — Character feat shown on the stat card. MM E1·00:56:03
- Second Wind — Fighter feature: he says he will use Second Wind after being stabbed in the fight at the elevator. MM E5·01:27:51
- Riposte — Battle Master maneuver: when an attacker misses him he can attack back; he hits with a 16 for 17 damage. MM E5·01:23:49 MM E5·01:23:57
- Fists with weapon stats — Brennan: Lars fights with his fists but with full weapon stats. MM E5·01:24:13
- Brawny: counts as large — Lars says that with his brawny feat he is large, and so can pick up both Daisy and Gangie. MM E6·00:51:30
- Evasive Footwork — Battle Master maneuver: he wants to use it to raise his AC while sprinting with two companions through the guests; the superiority die is a d8 and rolls 1. MM E6·00:51:41 MM E6·00:55:02 MM E6·00:55:13
- Action Surge — Fighter feature: he asks whether he can use it while running to take a Dodge action. MM E6·00:56:27
- Hit dice d10 — Brennan: his healing dice are d10s, each spent die heals 14 hit points; he spends two to return to full. MM E6·01:54:44 MM E6·01:54:55
- Action Surge: used — He uses Action Surge for another swing in the fight: "I'm gonna action surge." MM E8·01:17:46
- Rally — Battle Master maneuver: a superiority die gives someone temporary hit points; he asks whether that would bring a fallen companion back. MM E10·02:19:02
- Action Surge: used again — After a nine-damage hit he uses Action Surge to attack again. MM E10·00:37:48
Items
- Pink tuxedo — A bright pink tuxedo worn over his muscular black-furred body. MM E1·00:26:33
- Motorist goggles and gloves — Worn with the pink tuxedo for the motor-carriage ride to Tufting Meadows. MM E1·00:40:19
- Knives — Lars carries knives: "I take out so many knives"; Sylvester: "Lars, I know that you have some knives." Lars: "Ja." MM E4·01:05:54 MM E4·01:05:58 MM E4·01:06:07
By episode
MM E1: It Was a Dark and Stormy Night
- A Doberman Pinscher, former sergeant, "a bit of a military background"; extremely muscular with a thin coat of jet black fur and a bright pink tuxedo — 00:26:33
- Sylvester's companion and "body man"; checks his mail, drives the motor carriage in motorist goggles and gloves — 00:28:29, 00:40:19
- Does pull-ups on the windowsill, which creaks — 00:29:50, 00:30:00
- Insight with advantage 10: misses Sylvester's melancholy — 00:35:40, 00:35:47
- Has already RSVPed yes to the party; tail "so deeply between my legs" — 00:38:21, 00:38:40
- Takes a really hot shower and rolls over Sylvester's suits to steam them; the car carries four cases of wardrobe — 00:39:39, 00:39:54
- Does a quick perimeter check on every arrival; perception 23 — 00:56:00, 00:56:16
- Gives Basil a "German franc"; Brennan corrects it to a mark; Basil: "highly illegal counterfeit currency" — 00:59:04, 00:59:45
- Insight 23 reads Lucretia as a Leo; Lars is a Cancer (Ally's choice) — 01:04:14, 01:04:36, 01:05:02
- Has never attended a seance but "always wanted to" — 01:05:53
- Carries Sylvester's refund to the squire; intimidate 11; trips — 01:38:22, 01:38:42, 01:38:49
- Lars Vandenchomp — "Sergeant Lars Vandenchomp" in the newspaper — 00:30:28
"They're wearing a bright pink tuxedo." — 00:26:33
"would now be a good time to tell you that, um, we leave in 45 minutes or so?" — 00:38:42
MM E2: A Scandal in Britannia
- Told by Lucretia of a post-dinner seance, he follows her and Daisy to the seance room; accepts her ghost talk: "That is categorically impossible and I love it." — 00:30:37, 01:23:40
- Perception 13 in the seance room misses what Daisy notices — 01:30:49
- In the hall he asks Daisy "What kind of mess are you here to make, you messy, messy girl?", tears open a trash bag with his teeth and licks a tuna can — 01:34:02, 01:34:41, 01:35:05
- Describes Sylvester to Daisy as "my brother, he's my father, he's my best friend, my roommate" — 01:35:33
- Tells Sylvester the whole exchange in a "way too loud of a whisper" and calls him his best friend — 01:36:52, 01:37:20
- Retells it again at dinner — 01:47:48
- Goes outside with Sylvester after dinner, rolls initiative (ties Sylvester's 4 [?]) and asks Sylvester "What should we do?" — 02:03:24, 02:13:18, 02:19:09
"I am just here to clear my best friend and the best man that has ever lived's name." — 01:35:21
MM E3: A Time For Clues
- Religion check 6 (modifier -1) to see one of the ghosts and ask it something — 00:23:42, 00:23:54
- Brennan: Lars is certain of ghosts, having seen the ghost of Fletcher Cottonbottom by the river — 00:24:10
- Secures the doors at Sylvester's request; Sylvester: "My good man, the doors." — 00:26:19; Lars: "On it." — 00:26:24
- Gives Sylvester the Help action on his investigation — 00:29:28
- Finds Buckster crouching outside the door, lifts him by the back of the neck with his teeth and drops him in front of Sylvester — 00:27:42, 00:45:28, 00:45:54
- Says of Ian that he does not know him well either — 01:35:51
- Perception 17 as he goes to the kitchen staff; insight 11 on Gangie (nothing learned) — 01:57:20, 01:59:50
"I will never be far away from you." — 01:58:04
MM E4: The Stabber of the Evening
- Distrusts the people calling the party "the main suspects" and wants to follow the others quietly — 00:14:30
- Goes to the Kitchen Wing as a lookout: "I'm just kind of off to keep tabs on a whole area of the house." — 00:32:58
- Investigation 16 on the freight elevator: it has been shut off (a breaker fuse thrown behind a locked cabinet) — 00:34:40, 00:34:41
- Perception 15: chooses the middle "nothing door" and hears Edwina and Carolyn — 00:35:58, 00:37:02, 00:37:13
- Stealth with advantage 11 after a luck roll of 11 in the Box of Doom; Gilfoyle walks out of the kitchen — 00:39:49, 00:40:07
- Tells Gilfoyle he wants a beer: "if I could just have a Hefeweizen or something, it doesn't even have to be that nice." — 00:40:44
- Deception natural 20: Gilfoyle underestimates him, and Carolyn and Edwina think he heard nothing — 00:41:39, 00:42:00, 00:42:28
- Perception with advantage 20: sees a glint of silverware in a pillowcase in the maids' room — 00:43:04, 00:43:06
- Follows Buckster and the Vicar upstairs — 00:59:39, 00:59:50
- Perception 18: finds no spy in the Seance Room — 01:04:14
- Scent-investigation with advantage, 11: ink and parchment behind the portrait's eyes — 01:20:38, 01:20:43
- Athletics 26: rips the painting off the wall — 01:35:44, 01:35:50
- Group deception: his roll is not stated — 01:38:51
"Lars does have a soldier's insight and a sense of danger." — 00:37:13
"There are 75 ghosts in this room right now." — 01:41:05
MM E5: The Eye of the Storm
- Initiative natural 20 — 00:01:41; stealth 11 — 00:03:48
- Investigation with advantage on the elevator (13 and 5) because he has been in it before — 00:06:26, 00:06:38
- Votes "Pro"; perception 13 — 00:12:53, 00:13:59; group stealth 21 — 00:14:48
- Wants to look out at the hillside for Cottonbottom, whom he saw earlier — 00:15:48
- Initiative 8 — 01:20:31; opposed athletics with disadvantage (27 and 25) over the gate — 01:21:49
- Riposte 16 hits for 17 damage, a punch at the head ("I try to knock this hat off of them so I can see those rabbit ears") — 01:23:57, 01:24:08, 01:24:31
- Takes 37 damage of a total of 40 hit points, stabbed in the side by a rapier — 01:25:59, 01:26:19, 01:26:28
- Hits with 19, a natural 20; damage 13 and 10 total 23; takes Second Wind — 01:26:53, 01:27:35, 01:27:51
- Insight with advantage on the attacker's hands: 11, then re-rolled 18 — a crunch, nothing about the face — 01:32:47, 01:34:20, 01:34:24
- His pink suit is "a red with blood that has run all the way down your leg" — 01:37:30
"since I saw Cottonbottom earlier, can I peek out?" — 00:15:48
"Is it that all you got, rabbit?" — 01:26:45
MM E6: Busted
- Cries "Sylvester!" and carries Buckster and Gangie through the staff — 00:51:41, 00:58:10
- Insight 15 before: knows that physically handling Hawkins's people would look terrible — 00:52:02, 00:52:11
- Offers to use action surge to avoid the attacks; Brennan says that means disengage, and Lars does it — 00:56:27, 00:56:39, 00:56:41
- Wins an athletics contest against Hawkins (+9, 16 and 13 with Buckster's help against 11) and blasts past him — 00:57:26, 00:57:39, 00:57:56
- Brennan lists why the Brockhollows distrust the trio: Lars is a foreign national, "a German soldier during the Schnauzer War" — 01:01:26
- Plan B: reach "the doctor, and Sylvester, and all the people who aren't in on this" — 00:52:03
- Insight 21 on Ambrose Harding during Daisy's reveal; text: "Harding is guilty." — 01:23:06, 01:31:12
- Healed to full by spending two hit dice — 01:54:55
- Cannot understand thieves' cant — 02:07:29
"I would love for all of us to reconvene, and be able to share info with each other" — 00:54:38
MM E7: I've Been Here the Whole Time
- Intelligence natural 20: remembers a head count of the guests and staff at the ballroom — 00:46:54, 00:46:57
- Insight with advantage 21 (first roll): Edwina and Carolyn whispering with something wrapped in a napkin, and Armond looking injured; the intelligence check supplied Shellcrest and Harding — 00:48:26, 00:50:13, 00:50:48, 00:51:01
- Opposed athletics against Buckster: 16 against 13 — 00:56:17
- Initiative 16; persuasion 15 with the footmen; constitution save 8 — 01:35:15, 01:38:38, 01:49:58
- Wisdom save 18 against Detect Thoughts, but chooses to fail; Ian sees Lars's thoughts (Ally in character) — 02:01:57, 02:02:19, 02:02:26
- Perception natural 1; tickles Armond (medicine 13); insight 22 makes Armond seem convincing, yet Lars says he knows Armond is lying — 02:03:40, 02:05:09, 02:05:36, 02:05:45
- Goes to Gangie in the Seance Room at the end — 02:21:15
"Whatever attacked me could be attacking others." — 01:38:59
"who would draw a photo of themselves on a scary note." — 02:02:26
"I know you're lying, you fuck." — 02:05:52
MM E8: Outfoxed
- Sure Sylvester knows what he is doing: "I'm sure he knows what he's doing." — 00:11:51
- Insight 6 against Gangie (the roll "was on 20 for a really long time") — 00:16:54, 00:16:56
- History 15 — 00:24:55
- Brennan tells him "there are four police in the room right now. Only five came in through the door" and asks how many are at Sylvester's door; Lars answers — 01:05:32, 01:05:59
- Initiative 11; heads for the kitchen; stealth with advantage against DC 10, rolls 10 (Ally has +2) — 01:06:39, 01:09:56, 01:10:23, 01:10:33
- Greets the policeman in the kitchen ("I actually have always thought about maybe joining the force.") and punches him: attack 10, action surge attack 17, damage 13; then sweeps the flour sacks off the cellar door — 01:16:58, 01:17:37, 01:17:46, 01:18:05, 01:18:13, 01:19:41
- Hugs Sylvester "way too hard" when he emerges — 01:20:03
"One." — 01:05:59
MM E9: The Belly of the Beast
- Prepares for the outside door with Gangie — 00:05:59
- Gives the help action to Sylvester (investigation 28) — 00:32:55
- Insight 27 (with Bless): looks for the war wound on the squire's body; Brennan's text says the squire does have a war wound — 00:48:17, 00:55:14
- Brennan: Lars recognises the staring eyes of the body; on investigation Lars sees that this body "does have that little scar" like a shrapnel scar — 00:54:01, 01:00:54
- Gives the help action to Buckster during the reading — 01:13:50
- Jokes "I also have a business degree" and "And I'm 18" — 01:25:55, 01:26:07
- Perception 22 on the perimeter of the ritual chamber; hears the police at the top of the shaft — 01:42:43, 01:42:53, 01:43:48
- Volunteers to knock out the boathouse guard; says to Sylvester:
"Good luck, I'll see you in the tower." — 02:07:44
MM E10: Unfinished Business
- Runs to the boathouse; Stealth 13, initiative natural 20; knocks out the lone guard with a 20 and 26 (action surge) — 00:35:17, 00:36:12, 00:37:29, 00:38:07
- Talks his way in as a ghost; Acrobatics 18 for the "ghost" dance; tells Constance and Lucretia that the body found is the real squire — 00:39:55, 00:41:35, 00:52:18
- Bursts into the drawing room with Constance and Lucretia, then dashes to the squire's bedroom for the switches; later tries to save Sylvester (Medicine 4, natural 1, 7) and asks about Rally — 01:54:14, 02:01:05, 02:17:49, 02:19:02
- Epilogue: gets drunk with Lord McCrae; punches him jokingly in the face — 02:37:10, 02:37:23
"Hey can I ask you something? I was thinking about joining the force." — 00:38:48
"Yeah, it's, it's me, I'm a ghost. Please let me in, I have so many answers for you." — 00:39:55
"Let everyone have a voice. The living and the dead!" — 00:41:58
"Have you ever gone shot for shot with a dog?" — 02:37:10