Characters

You wake up in a hospital room.

You are wearing a nurse uniform and bloody bandages.

From first appearance: Wake up

• The rather capable and appropriate protagonist of our story, and the one readers primarily see and play through.
• Has a strange ability to manipulate things with blood after she wakes up in the hospital room, with an addled memory.
• The real name of our protagonist is unknown to the readers. She is referred to as 'Jane Doe' in emails found in the hospital computer. She also introduced herself to Mr. Vasquez as 'Jane Doe' to mask her real identity, so readers refer to her as 'Jane'.
• Dr. Finch is the only person who still calls her by her real name. The rest of the party apparently knows it, but prefers to address her as Blondie, a nickname originally perpetuated by Michelle that has spread to the rest of the group.
• Underwent an appearance change in part two, when she 1) changed out of her nurse outfit 2) smoothed out her hair 3) dyed her hair brown and 4) got a bio-printed eye to replace her missing one. Still called 'Blondie' by everyone, though. (Much to the initial befuddlement of Caius.)
• Originally from the Upper Tiers from a wealthy family, but worked in the Middle Tiers as a nurse. It took her two trains to get to work.
• Has enough savings to live comfortably for a while, barring any crazy expenditures.
• Knows how to drive, though the car she has belonged to her parents. (Obviously with her parents gone, the car is pretty much hers now.)
• Morgenstern has stated that not revealing her name wasn't intentional from the start, but it has now become his personal running joke.
• Likes pink, and cats, and small, cute animals in general.
• Is a little bit forgetful sometimes.
• Her greatest fear is losing her friends.
• Has become known in her group for being a 'vent hermit', much to their amusement.
• Carries Vasquez's old police badge with her. It's plastic, but technically still official.

First appearance: Get out of the club

Caius pauses before adding, "but if you try to pull any funny stuff, know this: I will protect her, Jury."

From Give her the USB

• Originally worked at Club Elegance as a security guard, until he was injected with Jane's blood during our escape from said club and subsequently kidnapped and tied to a metal pole in a warehouse by Macland Row.
• We intervened and saved him from being tortured by making him pass out. This ended with Macland leaving him alone.
• He awakened to Red-Eyed Prophet wheezing in his face, this time blindfolded on top of tied up, and we ended up intervening again, speaking as though we were him at first. We were eventually forced to speak as ourselves when Prophet threatened to have Nimrod kill him.
• Was eventually rescued from the warehouse by us after we had a very, very bad time, and decided to stay with the group since he didn't have much else to do, and also thought it would be "nice to see Mackey suck a bullet".
• Is actually less than a year old, being a tubecop.
• Addresses Macland as 'Mackey' as all the guards of Elegance seem to do.
• Is apparently gay, as are most (if not all) tube cops/lab meat.
• Was originally meant to be a cage fighter before the first few out of his line ended up sucking at it. Their contracts were then sold at a discount to Shirai, who used them as bouncers.
• Changed his appearance in chapter 3, when he shaved his head and was finally able to change into different clothes.
• In combat, is the better melee fighter compared to Michelle (but doesn't know anything about guns).
• Despite having been around less than a year, he calls Jane, Fuse, and Michelle "kids" when they first meet, and refers to Jane as "kiddo" at least once.
• Is not used to cussing due to restrictions in his previous workplace, much to his own chagrin.
• Had only driven a vehicle in his life once before meeting us; since then, he has gotten some ample driving experience running errands with Blondie.
• Oddly knowledgeable on government red tape processes. ...and also plumbing, for some reason.
• Very protective of Jane, though often times more subtly than Michelle. He was willing to (try to) beat up Jury for her, if necessary, and prevented her from going first into an abandoned Zone Fifty bunker in case there were defense measures.
• According to Morgenstern, Caius likes metal music.

It looks like... a homeless person, recording with a cell phone or camcorder.

From first 'technical' appearance: Check the thumb drive

...And a large man in a tinfoil hat comes rolling out.

From first 'actual' appearance: Get ready

• A homeless man who lives in the Rockwell arcade, and reverently addresses the protagonist as 'ma'am'.
• Left a thumb drive in the protagonist's locker at the hospital with a video of himself on it, to lead her to him so they could chat.
• Is a raging ball of paranoia, conspiracy theories and is kind of crazy, but is also probably still alive because of that.
• Has knowledge of the Lasker report and therefore deduced that Jane/Blondie also had a different reaction to Queen.
• Currently has a syringe full of our blood, just in case.
• Mighty slippery. Jane and the others were unable to find him since his first appearance for a good while - he apparently is on the move a lot and only heads back to his base in the arcade once in a while. Where he also apparently has cameras to watch out for intruders.
• Single-handledly spied on Patton Thale's secretary, Gesenai Shirai and Knox right under their noses in Macland Row's residence before rescuing the reporter trapped in Macland's torture room and escaping into the sewers.
• Does not like cellphones. (They give you brain cancer and the government uses them to read your minds, apparently.)
• Knows morse code, which is useful when we want to blood-buzz him a one-way message. It's hard to perceive responses as neatly, though.

A large guard enters the room. He takes a quick glance around, then starts to unlock the locker on the far side of the room. Inside are various weapons and implements, like handguns, tasers, and handcuffs. He begins to arm himself.

You smell blood and frustration.

From first appearance: Remove the stick and hide

• Macland Row's scar-faced bodyguard, who is particularly attached to 'Mackey'; he almost always is (well, was) with Macland Row.
• Is the one who crushed our brown rat to death, poor Malteser rest in peace.
• Caius knows him from bouncing at Club Elegance, and also from a rather less friendly time when Knox nearly injected him with chatter under Macland's orders, to interrogate him.
• Deliberately kept the scars on his face because he thought it made him look cool, provoking his fellow bouncers to call him "Scar, or Slash, or Edge, or some other... y'know, "totally rad" name that sounds like it's tryin' too hard". It apparently pissed Knox off, much to Caius' entertainment.
• Is speculated to have Save the Queen in his system.

The man facing him grins wide... incredibly wide. Wider than a human being, perhaps, should be able to. His one green, robotic eye lights up in his glee.

From first 'actual' appearance: Check Macland

• A disgraced doctor who lost his medical licence following the discovery of the fact that he was conducting illegal experiments regarding engineering biological weapons out of bioprinted human tissue, much the same as Howler Ferrings was in the hospital.
• Confirmed that this man is the same man who was on the screens in the hospital.
• Was given jail time, however this was rescinded following the traversing of legal loopholes by a lawyer who, until Carpenter's case, had mainly worked for Macland Row.
• Very knowledgeable and also very unhinged, which are never good qualities to have at the same time in a medical professional.
• There is circumstantial evidence linking him to the Tobu hacks, namely the fact that Howler wouldn't have the medical knowledge needed to create the monsters found at the hospital, and the existence of emails supposedly from a medical professional on Howler's computer.
• Is extremely unpleasant towards Dr. Finch and tried to kill him with weaponised strep in his own apartment, most likely without Shirai's knowledge.
• Capable of creating bio-mech monstrosities.
• Seems to be a huge wildcard, and may not really hold allegiance to anyone other than himself. Very dangerous.

"Did you see my sewing? I do ever so love sewing, but the mean old scientists never let me!"

From Answer Jury's phone

(First appearance: Play with her)

• It is unclear what Edison actually is. She appears to be a young girl with brown hair wearing a red dress, but she doesn't seem to actually have a physical body. Despite this, she can easily interact with normal people and physical objects.
• Her abilities are very like those of a ghost, more specifically a poltergeist. She has been shown to be able to overload and manipulate electronics and electricity in general, can move objects (such as doors), and pass through solid objects (albeit with some effort required). She also caused Jane's blood connections to the rest of the party to experience static interference.
• Her touch causes a person to become paralyzed, and feels similar to being electrocuted. However, this doesn't appear to cause any lasting damage, as she had Jane paralyzed for a length of time and she emerged no worse for wear.
• Tin foil hats, amusingly enough, seem to negate some, if not all, of her psychic interference.
• Was given the name Edison by Zone Fifty scientists, who presumably experimented on or with her.
• Derives a very sick joy from maiming and murdering people. Her preferred weapons are large sewing needles.
• Is deterred by fire, and seems to "glitch" when exposed to water.
• The only thing she has been shown to be unable to phase through is her Zone Fifty containment canister. It is unclear why, as inspecting the canister further would mean opening it and releasing her.
• Her canister was apparently in the possession of Patton Thale, who gave her to Shirai to help in an attempt to get rid of Jane and her group, and possibly also Jury.
• She is currently trapped in her canister, which is being housed in Bunker D.

(...) you approach the car... and see someone else through the windows, smoking a cigarette on the other side.

"Hey, you there!," he shouts. "You know where the break room is? I been lookin' all over this crazy place. My klutz of a friend got 'erself locked in, somehow, an' I can't even find her."

From first appearance: Loot bodies, check car

• Michelle's former boss, before she quit by turning him into chunks with her very large gun.
• Was apparently hired by someone and offered "more money than [he'd] ever seen" to fetch Jane out of the hospital in the first chapter, dead or alive.
• Was much stronger than a man of his size should be, due to having cybernetic implants.
• Appeared in Chapter 3 as a nightmarish creation referred to as "Spider Vasquez" inside Michelle's mind when we attempted to practice forced syncing with her.
• For some reason, Jane still carries his police badge with her pretty much everywhere.

"There are two other people in the room with him, neither of whom you recognize. They are staying quiet for the moment."

From first appearance: Make sure your guard is okay

• A frail, presumably mutated man from the lowest tiers of the city, and a self-proclaimed "prophet" of Enyo.
• His body was adversely affected by the cleaner air from the higher tiers, necessitating the use of a respirator.
• Was zealously devoted to Enyo and their cause. Would not be swayed in the slightest when we attempted to make him see that he was just a puppet.
• Was largely responsible for encouraging Howler Ferrings to orchestrate the Tobu CyberBrains attacks that kicked off the first chapter, as well as recruiting Howler into the Cult of Enyo and seeing he was supplied with the money and computer gear he needed.
• Had the ability to make people hallucinate their worst fear.
• Deserved all he got.

"The hulking mutant maintains a vacant expression, staring blankly off into space. His eyes--one in his face, one larger eye in the tumor on his back--wander, gazing off into different directions, but never really focusing on the events of the room for very long. "

From You could hear him wheezing.

(First appearance: Make sure your guard is okay)

• Big, very big. A mutant from the lowest tiers of the city.
• Was presumably strong enough to crush a man's skull like a grape.
• Didn't speak. It's unknown if he couldn't, or just didn't care to.
• Took orders from Prophet.
• Was killed in the hospital when Michelle pitted him against Arvin Carpenter's horrible, bio-mechanical flesh beast.

"The vent appears to be looking out into an office of some kind, where a man in a clown mask is standing guard."

From first appearance: Talk to Prophet

• A slightly out of shape and sickly-looking man from the lower tiers who was loyal to TH/Enyo.
• We injected him, however his radioactive blood allowed him to resist our control long enough to make a phone call and set into motion the events of chapter three, trapping us in the warehouse.
• We found out his name in Start checking the hall.
• We were using him to scout ahead in the warehouse outside the office we started in, however he was killed when he attempted to open an electrified door.
• Given what we know, and looking at the reactions of the other Enyo cultists to being potentially controlled by Jane, it is possible that Waldo's death was a suicide.

• Colloquially referred to as "Axeman", "Tiger Woman", and "Helmet (or Heart) Man", they were three Enyo cultists left in the back parts of the warehouse and tasked with hindering and eliminating Jane and Fuse. Their true identities were unknown.
• Tiger Woman apparently possessed mutant super speed.
• Axeman either did not feel pain, or was being directly controlled when he confronted Jane and Fuse.
• Helmet man was presumably very good at holding his breath, as he spent a great deal of time hidden under the remains of the Elegance bartender.
• All three met untimely ends.
  • Axeman was lit on fire and shot four times.
  • Tiger Woman was injected with Jane's blood and shot herself in the head rather than let herself be controlled by Jane.
  • Helmet Man was shoved into an electrified door after struggling with Fuse.
• All wore masks, for an as-yet unknown reason.
• This group also included Waldo.

You check his pockets. You find a wallet, with no money but an ID. He was Lawrence Shaw.

He was a federal agent.

From Look at the body

(First appearance: Push onward)

• A federal agent, Shaw was killed when Gesenai Shirai released Edison in the school.
• Judging by Shirai's comments in Negotiate the terms, it was likely he was under the influence of Save the Queen.
• Possibly responsible for leading Jury to the school, where she, too, was attacked by Edison.