NPCs · first: SO E12
Plinth
In the twelfth episode Plinth appears only in the next-time preview, where a voice says "Looks like the Triangle Mint plinth out there is having some kind of psychic conversation with Margaret Encino" SOE12·02:48:47.
In the thirteenth episode Zeke introduces the Triangle Mint Plinth as representing Triangle Mint Cookies, the pride of the Galactic Girl Guides, recovered from the heart of a planetary weapons array lodged in a dying star, and the crowd chants "Plinth!" SOE13·00:39:12 SOE13·00:39:34. Brennan describes it as a glittering, obsidian obelisk that appears to be a telekinetic slab of alien stone SOE13·00:39:38. It hovers on the fight dais, and Brennan says the crew feels waves of psychic radiation SOE13·00:40:11.
Brutus's venom breath does nothing to it, and only some hits crack it, Skip's shot first SOE13·00:53:56 SOE13·00:56:53. On its turn it gravitates to the middle of the dais SOE13·01:02:24. It says "Return me to the dying heart" SOE13·01:04:29. When Margaret speaks to it, it says "I want the all fight" SOE13·01:05:55. Later it goes into her mind and says "Plinth is all" SOE13·01:09:44 SOE13·01:10:08.
The crew attacks it until it says "Go." and "The prophecy...", and Brennan says Plinth is destroyed SOE13·01:28:28 SOE13·01:28:32 SOE13·01:28:47. As it explodes in psychic energy, the blast hits Aurora Nebbins, Barry, Riva's new body and Brutus SOE13·01:28:58 SOE13·01:29:56.
By episode
SO E12: Go Big or Go Home
- Plinth — in the next-time clip: "Looks like the Triangle Mint plinth out there is having some kind of psychic conversation with Margaret Encino." — 02:48:47
SO E13: Battle of the Brands
- Triangle Mint Plinth / Plinth (Triangle Mint Cookies, Galactic Girl Guides) — "a glittering, obsidian obelisk, that appears to be a telekinetic slab of alien stone" — 00:39:38; "Return me to the dying heart." — 01:04:29; "I want the all fight." — 01:05:55; "Do you want to understand?" — 01:09:51; "Plinth is all." — 01:10:08; "Go." and "The prophecy..." — 01:28:28, 01:28:32
- Plinth — alien stone slab: "a pure, alien, psychic hatred of krystalline consciousness" — 00:42:51; immune to poison — 00:53:56; has a damage threshold: Brutus's 10 does not pass it, his 16 and Skip's 29 and 33 do — 00:56:42, 01:02:24, 00:43:39, 01:13:03; floating, it gravitates to the dais centre and uses a 30-foot sphere, a Wisdom save for speed 0 and the frightened condition, an Intelligence save for psychic damage; "a fifth level psychic power" on its turn — 01:02:24, 01:03:19, 01:27:25; a sneak attack on it "found the weak point" and cracked it — 00:56:53; on death it releases a 20-foot psychic blast: Riva's zero-hit-point body auto-fails a death save, Aurora takes half and goes down to zero again, Brutus takes 10, Smaggy the full 20 — 01:28:58, 01:29:56, 01:30:05