Locket

First appearance: S2 Ep1, Fate of the Arbiter (Fate of the Arbiter Part 1) · watch it on YouTube

Locket was a Tabaxi ranger with Russian-blue fur, a pair of goggles and a quiver of flaming arrows. She liked high ground and hated the Arbiter with her whole heart. She stood with Toddleheim and Flynry through the long struggle to expose him, then won her Battle for the Crown fight on the Grandmaster’s team. Her story ended in the shifting sands on the other side of the mirror, where an arrow through the throat turned her to sand. Unlike most champions, she is dead for good.

Story

Fate of the Arbiter, Part 1

Locket arrived in S2 Ep1, Fate of the Arbiter (Fate of the Arbiter Part 1) as a trap expert who designed her own snares. She had killed beasts and aberrations but never a man, and she made it clear her ears were not for sale. When the Box of Chaos offered her a gift, she wished for a new bow. Instead it gave her a potion of storm giant strength, and she drank it mid-fight. She also found two healing potions and handed one to Toddleheim.

The party appeared to kill the Arbiter that day, but the victory was a deception. The Arbiter framed them and threw them into the arena.

Sands of the Arena

In S2E6 — FoTA - Sands of the Arena (Fate of the Arbiter, Part 2), the giant’s strength had worn off, and Locket fought as a feline hunter. She ran on all fours, climbed and lit her arrows with flame. When she cast fear, her face turned feral. The champions refused to fight one another, survived the Arbiter’s monsters and escaped together with Lyrus.

Curiosity got the better of her more than once along the way. She picked up the doll Dolly and bonded with it briefly. A portal duplicated her, and the duplicate burned. The box gave her a heart-shaped locket, a medallion that let her read thoughts, along with a faint halo glow. She used it to peer into the Arbiter’s mind. She killed a Deathlock with an arrow straight through the skull. The Seer gave her a jeweled choker, a Helm of Brilliance in disguise. Along the way she let slip that she had a twin sister.

The Hall of Fates

In S2E17 — Fate of the Arbiter - The Hall of Fates — Toddleheim, Locket and Flynry reach the Grandmaster, Locket fought with a short sword, an offhand blade and her flaming bow. The party beat a sludge elemental, reached the Grandmaster and exposed the Arbiter. The Grandmaster and the Arbiter agreed to settle the title with a tournament one week later.

By then Locket was plainly smitten with Baptiste. She had kept his pure silver dagger, and when she glanced into the mirrors, Baptiste was what she saw. She spent five gold on an elven chain necklace with a deer pendant, because she wanted something “to impress somebody.” She was also thoroughly tired of living with “all of you” and wanted a beach.

Battle for the Crown

In S2 Ep19, Battle for the Crown Round 2 - Team Grandmaster (Cosmonius & Locket) v Team Arbiter (Silky Slim & …, Locket fought for Team Grandmaster beside Cosmonius. Their opponents were Silky Slim and Baron Voltágè. She had no patience for the Arbiter, whom she called a phony and a fake. The Arbiter needled her about “your friend Lyrus” as someone who had died. She said that she and her friends had had “so much bad luck against the Arbiter.” She also told everyone she was “taken.”

One of the fight’s best moments came with a natural 20, when Locket set Slim’s lube alight. She went on to kill Silky Slim, apologizing to him as she did it and blaming the Arbiter for putting them both there. Slim’s ghost has haunted her ever since. Locket and Cosmonius survived and won. She came out of it hanging on by a thread.

Into the Mirror

When Flynry died, the Grandmaster wrote to the friends about a way to save him, and Locket followed him into the mirror. In Into the Mirror, Session 1, it emerged that she wrote letters to her twin sister every night. In the mirror, the sister appeared as someone estranged, someone Locket was searching for. Locket insisted she and Baptiste were “just friends,” though his dagger strikes marked her headboard. The session ended with sand scorpions closing in.

In Into the Mirror 7–9 - Claws of Sand, Shifting Sands, Hourglass (session 2), Locket resisted the pull of the room of mirrors. The party then destroyed the sand scorpions and a giant scorpion. Then figures appeared on a dune and loosed an arrow. It took Locket through the throat.

In Into the Mirror 10 Shatter + Into the Mirror 11 Mortaurios, it emerged that the fatal arrow had been a stray from Cerys. Locket crumbled to sand in Flynry’s arms. Elianna kept the sand in a bag, but no soul shard was found. She had died in the Sands of Eternity, an afterlife where a soul that dies is gone forever. At the table, the player behind Locket went on to play Cerys.

Locket’s friends did not forget her. In Into the Mirror Session 4, Flynry spoke of her as one of those who had helped save him. By Into the Mirror 17, The Way Out, the party had learned that she was made of a soul gem, similar to but not the same as the crystal in the cavern. They hope that gem might one day bring her back, but whether that is possible remains unknown.

Personality and Abilities

Locket was a cat in every sense. She had blue-grey fur, goggles and claws. She ran on all fours, climbed anything and sought out the high ground. She wasn’t fond of being near people and happily claimed rocks as her own. She was curious enough to pick up a haunted doll, and soft enough to apologize to the man she was killing. She saved her real venom for the Arbiter.

She described herself as a ranger who “specializes in bows.” Her signature move was the flame arrow, lit with a touch to her quiver, and she backed it up with short swords. Her gear included the heart-shaped thought-reading medallion, the Seer’s jeweled choker, Baptiste’s silver dagger, a deer-pendant elven chain necklace, and a helm she called a gift she had barely used. With that helm, she whispered words that rattled her enemies.

Relationships

• Toddleheim: a friend and fellow fugitive from the Arbiter’s frame-up; she shared her healing potion with him.
• Flynry: a close friend she followed into the mirror; she died in his arms.
• Baptiste: the beautiful silver-haired elf she was smitten with, officially “just friends.”
• The Arbiter: her sworn enemy, a “phony” with whom she had “a lot of history.”
• Cosmonius: her teammate and fellow victor in the Battle for the Crown.
• Silky Slim: the opponent whose lube she set ablaze and whom she killed; his ghost haunts her.
• Lyrus: a companion she escaped the arena with, later cited by the Arbiter as a fallen friend.
• Cerys: the archer whose stray arrow killed her.
• Elianna: keeps Locket’s sand in a bag.

Memorable Quotes

• “You have no idea what I’ve been through.” (Battle for the Crown Round 2)
• “Maybe we can practice our stabbing later.” (Battle for the Crown Round 2)
• “So much bad luck against the Arbiter.” (Battle for the Crown Round 2)
• “To impress somebody.” (The Hall of Fates)

Appearances

• S2 Ep19, Battle for the Crown Round 2 - Team Grandmaster (Cosmonius & Locket) v Team Arbiter (Silky Slim & …
• S2 Ep1, Fate of the Arbiter (Fate of the Arbiter Part 1)
• S2E6 — FoTA - Sands of the Arena (Fate of the Arbiter, Part 2)
• S2E17 — Fate of the Arbiter - The Hall of Fates — Toddleheim, Locket and Flynry reach the Grandmaster
• Into the Mirror, Session 1 (YouTube Parts 1–6 - Flynry Dies, Flynry Wakes, Flynry Walks, Survivors, Reflect…
• Into the Mirror 7–9 - Claws of Sand, Shifting Sands, Hourglass (session 2)
• Into the Mirror 10 Shatter + Into the Mirror 11 Mortaurios (ITM session 3)
• Into the Mirror Session 4 (YouTube parts 12–13) - Royal Audience and Otherside
• Into the Mirror 14 — The Scholar
• Into the Mirror 15–16, Old Friends - Sky
• Into the Mirror 17, The Way Out