Quick facts
Race: Gnome · Role: Dr. Wheelo’s assistant · Home: the research station beneath Coghaven’s forge · Status: Sealed in the pod that had held Cabba (C2 Session 79)
Dr. Kochin was Dr. Wheelo’s assistant, a cowering gnome scientist in a lab coat who guarded the vats beneath Coghaven’s forge and tried to bluff his way out twice.
History
Behind a line of skittering droids, The FAM found Kochin guarding two vats. He claimed to hold a dead man’s switch that would kill thousands of gnomes if he let go, and demanded clemency and the right to keep his research. The switch was mounted on a stick, so Kip cast sticks to snakes and turned it into a snake he named Reginald. The threat was a bluff. When the party freed Masha from one of the vats, Kochin insisted she had been legally delivered by one of their trade partners (Session 78).
After Wheelo died, Kochin fled toward his office until Masha cornered him. He bluffed that he had planted a bomb in her head, then begged for mercy as a man of science. He explained that the Velvet Truffle Company was a trade partner that had supplied power sources while Coghaven developed ways to harvest living beings to run its machines. The party sealed him in the pod that had held Cabba (Session 79).
Relationships
- Dr. Wheelo: his employer.
- Velvet Truffle Company: the trade partner he said supplied the lab’s power sources.