King Ringo

The self-styled king of the frog-folk of Ponterford, who live in a riverside fishing hut by the lumber mill. His grateful, ceremonial little court (frogs Fred and "Little Taddy," who play horn and maraca fanfare) made him the witch-priestess's first good-deed test for the party: a man-eating crocolion had taken over the river beside his home. He placed a 100-gold bounty on the beast through the town sheriff, Jeremiah Falconer.

(Heard as "King Ringo," "King Ringo," "King Ringo"; "Ringo" is the current guess.)

Session 34

• Lent the party two harpoons for the crocolion hunt; his river-watcher frog "River" helped spot the hidden beast.
• After the kill, crowned the party "heroes of the frogs of Ponterford," laying a sticky webbed hand on Thalia's shoulders to bless her, and gifted them the King Ringo Crested Shield (his frog face emblazoned; +1 AC while in or underwater) — "one for each day of the week."
• His 100-gold bounty is held in trust by the sheriff (so the frogs don't keep gold in their hut) and paid out at the speakeasy.

Session 37

• Commissioned the frog-folk fence. First decree: if the party builds the fence around the frogs' land, he will pay for its change-of-use deed (a ~40-gold debt his dirt-poor people will work off slowly) — "King Ringo is a lawful man." Mapped the fence line along the old river bend (his hut enclosed, the public dock excluded).
• "Knighted" Fenric. Tapping the staff to each shoulder, he bestowed the one honour a frog-king may legally give and pronounced "the cat man" "legally distinct from knighted."
• His outstanding 3-copper legal debt to the lawyer Edgar Wy (over the tree-cutting complaint) was quietly cleared by Fenric.