Playgor Cardquest

2022-08-17T00:11:47Z

Woolydemon: /* Notes */ Changed "though" to "thought"

:''Playgor Cardquest is a BotBot from [[Transformers: BotBots (franchise)|BotBots]].
[[File:BotBots ep4a LARP - PlaygorCardquest.jpg|thumb|right|250px|You spoony bard!]]

A BotBot with an overwhelming flair for the melodramatic, '''Playgor Cardquest''' lives to share his love of fantasy with others, and will quickly befriend anyone who takes an interest in his favorite pastime: role-playing games! Armed with his trusty lute, he frequently breaks into song to enhance the mood of any scene... whether it's a role-playing scene or not, and whether you ''want'' him to or not. And eventually, you'd really like him to just ''not''.

{{bigquote|♬Bard and lore-keeper, Playgor Cardquest! / Happy to greet a wandering gueeeeeeeest!♬|Playgor Cardquest introduces himself|"[[Live and Let LARP]]"}}

==Fiction==
===''BotBots'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Brandon Hackett]] (English)|[[Milan van Weelden]] (Dutch), [[Serge Faliu]] (French), [[Michael Pink]] (German), [[Gábor Varga]] (Hungarian), [[Aaditya Raj Sharma]] (Indian), [[Hardianto]] (Indonesian), [[Ahmad Azizi Abdul Karim]] (Malay), [[Wilken Mazzei]] (Brazilian Portuguese), [[Simon Frankel]] (European Portuguese), [[Mikhail Filippov]] (Russian), [[Dan Osorio]] (Latin-American Spanish), [[Valentino Tiron]] (Romanian), [[Felix von Bahder]] (Swedish), [[Ali Erdinç]] (Turkish)}}

Playgor welcomed the [[Lost Bots]] (sans [[Burgertron]]) to his store, introducing them to the joys of LARPing via ''[[Obscure Darkness 3: Rise of the Spells of the Necro Realm]], 4.5 Edition.'' (4th Edition rules were too unbalanced.) When Burgertron came looking for his fellow Lost Bots in order to check out some mysterious goings-on in the mall, Playgor regaled him with song and tried to get him to join in. It ''almost'' worked on the skeptical patty-bot, appealing to his ego and need to be a hero, but the size of the rulebook instantaneously dissuaded Burgertron, who decided to go hunting the mysterious mystery alone. Shortly after, he joined the still-LARPing Lost Bots as they rushed to the food court to fight the thing Burgertron had found, a crow that had gotten inside the mall. As the Lost Bots used their role-playing skills to bafflingly good effect, Playgor offered rhyme after rhyme as a play-by-play. After the bird was released and it was revealed that Burgertron's stargazing through an open window was what let the beast inside in the first place, Playgor continued to offer the Lost Bots rhyming couplets until Burgertron made it ''quite'' clear he'd heard more than enough and Cardquest should stop now. {{storylink|Live and Let LARP}}

[[File:BotBots ep8a Scanned - Playgor.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|left|And yet he's still not as bad as that douche playing "Wonderwall" in the campus square.]]
Playgor joined the other BotBots to watch the [[Ruckus Rally (event)|Ruckus Rally]], cheering the competitors on. {{storylink|The Ruckus Rally (episode)}} When the Lost Bots were "solving" ""problems"" throughout the mall as the "Crime Solvers", Burgertron and [[Kikmee]] unwittingly used a deck-mode Playgor to prop up a chair with a busted leg. Playgor did not appreciate it. He then sat in witness during the trial of Burgertron when the Lost Bot was accused of murdering [[Sprinkleberry D'uhnut]] (he was innocent, of course). {{storylink|Crime and Bun-ishment}}

When [[Clogstopper]] got scanned out (bought by a [[human]] during the daytime and taken from the mall), Playgor sang a sad song in his memory at the mall's main fountain, and it fell on him to break the news to the rest of the Lost Bots. Then he kinda went a bit too far by continuing to play sad music as the Lost Bots started grieving. {{storylink|Scanned Out}}

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==Notes==
[[File:BotBots ep4a LARP - PlaygorCard.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|You activated my trap card! A COSTLY MISTAKE!]]
* Playgor's lute appears to be made from one of those small ice cream sample spoons... making him ''literally'' a "spoony bard". "You spoony bard!" is a line from the Super Nintendo JRPG ''{{w|Final Fantasy IV|Final Fantasy II}}'' (''IV'' in Japan) that has become a ''decades''-long running joke among fans due to the questionable translation choices that led to its use in the English version.
* It was initially thought that Playgor was a member of the [[Gamer Geeks]] due to a currently unnamed gaming card member of the Gamer Geeks being shown in the series 6 of the toyline that was assumed to be him. It was later clarified by [[Chris Wyatt]] that he belonged to an unnamed tabletop gaming store squad.<ref>{{Twitter|In terms of the show, our intention is that he's part of a different, as yet unnamed, Tabletop-based squad.|https://twitter.com/otherland71/status/1517960751759077376|Chris Wyatt|2022|04|23}}</ref> The "[[ULTIMATE Guide to EVERY Bot in Transformers: BotBots]]" video on the [[Netflix|Netflix After School]] YouTube channel later claimed Playgor was a Gamer Geek, though it's stated more as a guess than fact.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dosPYqm92uY&t=220 "Not usually seen with the Gamer Geeks, but card games are totally included in gaming."]</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:BotBots characters]]

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