From mike@thekeep.org Sun Aug 27 00:51:31 2000 Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 00:50:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Loader To: Mike Loader Subject: Cast as of August 25 (fwd) *The Royal Family of Avalon, In Order of Birth Prince Ludwig - Missing, presumed insane. The Ashen Prince (Finndo) - Leading an army to invade Avalon. Princess Tess - Killed the morning after the ball by Darako. Prince Angus - In command of the defence of Avalon. Seems to be running the show. Princess Joan - Not Happy with Horatio. Occupied with the defence of Avalon. Prince Meredith - Not having a good month. Recovered from gunshot wound, currently trying to hold onto sanity despite Horatio's best efforts. Prince Finn - Er, wasn't he a bartender a few sessions ago? Who DOES he work for, anyway? Princess Juri - Occupied with getting the Evil Black Tar out of her... oh, wait, it's gone now. Princess Darako - Appears to have gone completely mad; intent on destroying all of reality. Doing a pretty good job of it, too. Prince Cupio - A lost Prince of Avalon, son of Ryoko. Second strongest of Finndo's Ten Swords. Prince Venir - A traitor... whoops, no, Angus has pardoned him... no, Juri's stabbed him through the lung... no, wait, he's a traitor again... Prince Dante - Finally Questing-Beast-free? Who knows. Prince Gideon - Murdered the day after the ball, presumably by Darako. Object of a massive bounty in Chaos, who he was supposedly conspiring with. Confused yet? Prince Walker - His brother's keeper. Occupied with the defence of Avalon. Prince Horatio - Disintegrated by a Pattern/Logrus explosion, but feeling much better now, thank you. Prince Trucido - Making tea, having finally escaped from Nanami's clutches. Whew. About to discover the dangers of falling in with bad companions. *Servants, Retainers, and Subjects of the Royal Family Jay - A guard. Silent Bob - Another guard. Senile Old Jari Catspanker - Senior Trainyards engineer. Big Jim Goff - Foundry Head, Trainyards. Jean - Assistant Director, Trainyards. Burne d'Ambar - Uncertain. Worked for Tess. The Dread Pirate Ruxpin - New Admiral of the Royal Navy Professor Animus - A teacher at Juri's Academy. Hideka - A student at Juri's Academy, bearer of a Black Rose Signet. Died trying to assassinate Darako. *Chaosians (by social rank) King Swayvill - Last monarch of Chaos, killed by Angus before the gates of Avalon in the first Avalon-Chaos War. Nanami - Assistant Keeper of the Logrus. Originally from the Ohtori Shadow. Adoptive sister to Tomas. Mikel (Miki) - Lord of House Hendrake, Marshal of Chaos. Attended Ohtori. Tomas (Touga) - A lord of House Pyre, key figure in the Anti- War faction. Attended Ohtori. Kozuen (Kozue) - A lady of House Hendrake, Mikel's sister. Attended Ohtori. Carbon de Castel-Jaloux - Captain of the Cadets of Gascoyne. Brandon - A Cadet of Gascoyne. Wren's partner. Currently employed by Angus. Wren - A bounty hunter. Brandon's partner. Reportedly murdered by Darako. Simon Icepick - An assassin. Rollo - Bartender in Rabid Cow. A parrot. Growltiger - A pirate captain Griddlebone - His wench *Finndo and/or Darako's Faction Cupio - A lost Prince of Avalon, son of Ryoko. Second strongest of the Ten Swords. Kim - Gideon's apprentice. Either a captive of Finndo's, an agent of Finndo's, both, or neither. Morgan - A sorceress. Hrumgrim - One big strong dude. *Supernatural and/or Extra-Dimensional Beings The Old Man - A short, eldery, stooped dwarf claiming to be the creator of the universe, with some evidence to back up this claim. Rex - The Old Man's grandson. Not left handed. Sand - A custodian of the Spikards, and keeper of ancient powers. The Questing Beast - A questing beast. Yipyipyip, hurhur. The Green Knight - Enigmatic force of nature somehow tied to the quest for the Spikards. The Red Queen - Mysterious being thought to be the mastermind behind the Finndo/Chaos campaign against Avalon. The Yellow King - Entity of unknown powers and intentions. *Assorted Troublemakers, Free Agents, and Beings Rimmer Borodin - A natural disaster for hire. Gherman the Black - His partner in crime. Westfalen - An agent of the Yellow King. Mikage - A computer, possibly involved in manipulating Venir. May have a connection to the Evil Black Tar. Mamiya - A construct built by Venir and Mikage. Thought to be destroyed after serving as the conduit for a Pattern/Logrus explosion. Julian - Horatio's perfectly sane protege. Ghostwheel - A drinking buddy of Mikage and Julian.