Characters

Jeff Parker

Age: 25
Occupation: Hazmat response
Hobbies: Surfing, running

Jeff is rather rudely introduced to the world of the unexplained when he finds a cursed fortune-telling doll washed up on the beach. That ends up being one of the least fucked-up phenomena he sees once he starts running around with Kenny.

Kenny Tachibana

Age: 29
Occupation: Author
Hobbies: Making fun of horror movies, collecting silly T-shirts

Born and raised in Japan, came to the U.S. for college and ended up staying. He likes the food.
Kenny has a few fairly successful nonfiction books about myths and ghost stories under his belt. What those books don’t mention: he’s seen a whole lot of this stuff up close and personal.

Ray Travis

Age: 24
Occupation: Hurricane debris picker-upper (this week)
Hobbies: Surfing, collecting bongs

Jeff’s best friend and fellow surf bum.

Ray’s heart is in the right place. The same cannot, unfortunately, be said for his brain, his common sense, or his downstairs brain.

Bacon

Age: 21
Occupation: College student and burger flipper
Hobbies: Surfing

Another member of Jeff and Ray’s circle of surf buddies. Social stoner. Generally fairly decent guy.

No, “Bacon” is not his real name. Yes, that’s “Bacon” as in “pork.” No, nobody seems to know how he came by that nickname. No, nobody seems to know what his name actually is.

Mario Gonzalez

Age: 23
Occupation: Store manager of an unspecified Gamestop location
Hobbies: Surfing, playing his beloved DS (phat) and Wii

If you look up “fanboy” in the dictionary, you will see Mario’s picture there… red baseball cap with “M” on it and all. He lives and breathes Mario–yes, the Nintendo plumber guy, that Mario. He answers his cell phone with “It’s-a me, Mario!” If you mistreat his Wii, he will beat your ass.

Jeff suspects that Mario might have actually been christened with a different name and changed it to “Mario” later in life. Ray once threatened to kill him by painting a turtle red and throwing it at him.

Gary Fillmore

Age: 27
Occupation: Bartender
Hobbies: Surfing

Total dick. Currently boinking Ray. Jeff tries not to think about this too much.

Keiko Murakami

Age: 28
Occupation: Historian
Hobbies: Showering hell of presents on Jeff, apparently

A friend of Kenny’s from Japan. Apparently they’re pretty close, since she seems to know what kind of weird crap Kenny actually gets into.

George Redbird

Age: Somewhere between 50 and 70, nobody’s really sure and George won’t say
Occupation: Manager, Woodlake Apartments (and mentor to a bunch of psychics and magicians and such)
Hobbies: Fishing, reading

Owns an apartment complex in Broken Bow, Oklahoma and shares one building with an assortment of psychics and witches and mystics. George himself is a pretty big badass with the magic/psychic stuff. Nobody (possibly not even George himself) knows exactly what all he can do. He has way too much fun messing with Jeff and Kenny’s heads via telepathy, he’s mentioned accidentally setting things on fire a couple of times, and he appears to have done something along the lines of bending time and/or space to turn a three-hour drive into a one-hour drive.

He’s also frigging huge and a little intimidating until one actually talks to him.

Dina Harris

Age: 27
Occupation: Assistant manager, Woodlake Apartments (and necromancer/weird shit investigator)
Hobbies: Spoiling her cats rotten, spoiling other peoples’ cats rotten and then sending them home

Dina is so tired of the “I see dead people” joke, really. It was funny about the first fifty times. Now it’s not and she might hit you for it.

She has two cats: Abraxas, who is alive, and Solomon, who is not. Being dead has not slowed Solomon down at all. In fact, now that he has no body to keep him from walking right through closed doors and sitting on people while they sleep, he does so as often as possible.

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