Plikpluk

"Do you want to come with Alga, little guy? Alga’s going on an adventure!"

~Plikpluk, in Alga's voice

Plikpluk was a young Kenku bard traveling with his mentor, Alga Nightingale. Tutored in Alga's signature College of Tutelage, Plikpluk espoused the ability to summon his teacher and mentor's spirit as an ancestral guardian after her murder. His signature instrument was a koto.

Appearance
Plikpluk was a smol bird of ebon feathers and a simple, dark purple robe.

Personality
Plikpluk was a good, sweet bird boy, often matching his combat cowardice with flights of bravery in the face of impending doom. Polite and good-natured, Plikpluk never complained, even when poisoned by a giant frog.

Early Life
Little is known of Plikpluk's life before meeting the adventurers. His identification of Alga during the adventurers' investigation of the scene revealed he was equally picked on by other children in Nightingale and doted on by his mentor and adoptive grandmother. At some point, Alga purchased Plikpluk's koto and taught him how to play, revealing an innate arcane ability. Plikpluk accompanied Alga on their journeys across Tethyrus, up until they were attacked on the Tibor Trail while accompanying Sydrin Havenwood. According to Plikpluk's telling of the story, Alga told him to save himself, her last wish.

Events Before Mirrorpoint
The adventurers encounter Plikpluk huddled over the body of his mentor. Though the group was immediately suspicious of the Kenku, Tal approached him, prompting a second attack by the kobolds in hiding. After defeating the bandits, the players learned Plikpluk's identity through Alga's journal and Plikpluk's mimicry. He seemed concerned about an instrument stolen by the kobolds and joined the adventurers on their road to Mirrorpoint.

Later, Plikpluk would delve into the dungeons beneath Dragonsbeard, a ruined town in the Mossyards, connected to the blocked Rockway via underground tunnels, where the group met Veks, an imprisoned servant to the resident dragon. While the adventurers rested beneath Taqtrekis' lair, Plikpluk followed the trail of his koto, which was dragged up to the green dragon's hoard. The adventurers found Plikpluk attempting to sneak over to his mentor's memento, and subsequently failed to sneak themselves. After a devastating attack against Tal, who had comforted him in the wake of Alga's death, Plikpluk mustered up the courage and focus to play his koto, summoning Alga's spirit and providing the party with a second wind.

His instrument's recovery left Plikpluk with a resolve to return to Nightingale. The last the adventurers saw of him, Plikpluk and Veks were traveling west toward Orham.