Playgor Cardquest

Playgor Cardquest is a BotBot from BotBots.

You spoony bard!

Playgor Cardquest is a robot that loves to LARP (Live Action Role Play) and to share his love of fantasy with others. Armed with his trusty lute, he frequently breaks into song... whether you want him to or not. And eventually, you'd really like him to just not.

“	And so the short-sighted burger left the fabled inn / For other adventures doth call to him!	”
—Playgor Cardquest to the Lost Bots, "Live and Let LARP"

Fiction

BotBots cartoon

Voice actor: 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. Live and Let LARP

Playgor joined the other BotBots to watch the Ruckus Rally The Ruckus Rally (episode) and witness the trial of Burgertron when the Lost Bot was accused of murdering Sprinkleberry D'uhnut (he was innocent, of course). 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 far by continuing to play sad music as the Lost Bots started grieving. Scanned Out

Notes

• 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 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 though 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. The "ULTIMATE Guide to EVERY Bot in Transformers: BotBots" video on the Netflix After School YouTube channel later claimed Playgor was a Gamer Geek, though it's stated more as a guess than fact.