First appearance: LIVE at Full Sail Hall of Fame 2023 — Jenny Gray v Chef GPT · watch it on YouTube
Jenny Gray was a high-school girl and druid, played by ErinEberhardt, who was pulled into the Void for a live Deathmatch against the robotic artificer Chef GPT. She came for a prom date and only learned once she arrived that the fight could kill her. For most of the match she was winning: she out-danced, out-insulted and out-puppied her metal opponent. Chef GPT turned it around in the final round, and her fall into the lava was played as a moment of grace and beauty.
Story
The Arbiter tore a portal through time and space, and Jenny stepped out of it into The Dread Fortress to face Chef GPT in LIVE at Full Sail Hall of Fame 2023 — Jenny Gray v Chef GPT. The Grandmaster warned everyone that “high school girls are the most vicious out there,” and the Arbiter introduced her as “Jenny looking for a prom date.” He promised that one or both champions would die. Jenny’s reply set the tone for the evening: “Wait a second. We could die in this thing?” The Grandmaster then broke the necklace off her own neck and threw it to the ground, and its portal swept both champions into a dark, sweltering land of lava.
Jenny had the luck early on. Chef GPT’s legs sank into the lava and his blind dash for safety carried him straight into her. With a crowd of Acolytes to work with, she asked them what beast to summon. When someone shouted for a rabid chinchilla, she pulled one out of her bag and sent it at the robot. Chef shrugged off the chinchilla, and he also shrugged off her conjured smell of a burning kitchen, because he has no nose. Her mockery landed better. Her taste insults left him wounded and wailing, “Who would have thought that children could be so cruel?” She then turned the battlefield into a prom dance floor and called a dance-off. Two Acolytes danced on her behalf, and her side won. “See, even my bad dancing’s better than your combat,” she told him. She carried her lead through a pillow fight, which she won thanks to one Acolyte’s siren-like scream.
Then Jenny vanished, and in her place stood Precious, a six-pound pink Pomeranian with a bell on her collar. Precious tracked down the magical Dogs of Many Things loose in the crowd. A retriever promised to find her a shield, and a gassy pup poisoned Chef with dog farts. Precious also wove between Chef’s legs until his helper rolled a natural 1, and the robot fled in terror of her. “There is no Jenny, only Precious,” she declared, and when Chef asked why the dog was talking, she growled in a deep voice, “you’re going down.” When the Grandmaster lost patience and gave the champions two rounds to finish each other off, Precious turned Chef into an itty-bitty frog and shook him in her mouth. “You’re getting made into a gumbo now, buddy.” Chef Frog fought back. His tongue pulled her eye out and left her half-blind, and a slick of frog grease beside the lava roasted her “perfect fur.”
The tide turned in the last round. Jenny raised hundreds of lava spikes, but the Acolytes carried Chef off and the spikes barely scratched him. She summoned the smell of her mom’s fried chicken “because I just want to go home,” and it stung him more than the spikes had. Chef answered by squeezing a lime into an arrow of acid. Her assigned shield, an Acolyte named Luis Sanchez, took the blow and melted into the lava. Then Chef levitated the little pink dog over the lava fields and let go. As time slowed, the Grandmaster asked what went through her final moments. “I just wanted to kiss someone cute at prom tonight.” She fell transformed, like Cinderella at the ball, in a gorgeous gown, and died in the lava. She left with no regrets.
Personality and Abilities
Jenny was a high schooler through and through. She wore a side ponytail (“Very popular look, thank you”), took French, owned “a really cute pink dress” for prom, and fired off teenage put-downs with deadly precision. She had no particular charm and, by her own admission, couldn’t dance, so she leaned on her friends and on the crowd. She bragged that her mom makes “the world’s best fried chicken,” and her last words were that she could count on her girlfriends.
As a druid she fought with nature and illusion more than brute force. She summoned beasts, conjured smells, reshaped the battlefield into a dance floor and called lava spikes out of the ground. She could also turn her enemy into a frog. Her signature trick was wild-shaping into Precious, a pink Pomeranian who talked in an alarmingly deep voice and wielded “the power of cuteness.” On stage she wore pink fuzzy ears, which she counted as the highlight of the night.
Relationships
- Chef GPT: Her opponent and the champion who killed her. She mocked his cooking all night, and he called her a cruel child before dropping her in the lava.
- Grandmaster Elusia Skypiercer: She was sure Jenny would win, threatened to murder both champions herself if they dawdled, and gave Jenny her final moment and eulogy.
- The Arbiter: He brought her into the arena and quizzed her about her prom outfit mid-fight.
Memorable Quotes
- “Wait a second. We could die in this thing?” (LIVE at Full Sail Hall of Fame 2023)
- “Big bad robot getting beat up by a little girl. Rough stuff.” (LIVE at Full Sail Hall of Fame 2023)
- “There is no Jenny, only Precious.” (LIVE at Full Sail Hall of Fame 2023)
- “I have a really cute pink dress, but if I don’t get out of this shitty hellscape, I’m never going to wear it.” (LIVE at Full Sail Hall of Fame 2023)
- “I just wanted to kiss someone cute at prom tonight.” (LIVE at Full Sail Hall of Fame 2023)
- “At least I looked good going out.” (LIVE at Full Sail Hall of Fame 2023)