Ami Dexter[]
Red's Bait and Tackle. Daughter Kyra Dexter, "uncle" Red. Wabanaki, daughter of the Medicine Man shot by the foreman of the Blue Ridge Mine. Shamanic powers. Voice actor Stephanie Sheh.
Missions: Starts Breakfast of Champignons. NPC ally in Ami Legend. Involved in Another Bug Hunt
Yourself
- "I rebelled against pretty much everything in my teens. I abandoned my roots, got married, moved to town. I don't know what I was trying to prove, but I suppose I just wanted to get out from underneath all the history and tradition that I felt was weighing me down. The only thing I proved was that you can run away from everything around you, but you can't run away from who you are. It's just a matter of time until it catches up with you. I'd gotten married to the wrong man for all the wrong reasons. Bill didn't take it well, and it got pretty bad. I had to take Kyra away from all that."
The Secret World
- "This "you have a destiny" business can be a heavy load to carry. You probably know that as well as anyone. All the expectations. It's not an easy thing to live up to. You end up disappointing everyone, yourself included. It's not like any of us ever asked for it, yet we get defined by how we live with it, what we do with it. Sometimes it seems unfair that you can't just be, I don't know, normal. I tried normal. It didn't really work out for me."
Your family
- "My husband disappeared a few days before the fog hit. He always used to pull stunts like that, go on binges that lasted days, but I'm obviously more worried about him this time. We're not together anymore, but I worry for Kyra. She loves her dad very much, and I know she misses him. Even if she doesn't let on, she's deathly worried. I can only hope that if we come out on the other side of this, he'll be there waiting for her. It might be over between us, but I don't want my daughter to grow up without her father. Whatever Bill's faults - and there are many - he always treated Kyra right."
Annabel Usher[]
Templar. "Scottish and dangerous". Entry "U" in the League of Monster Slayers' scrapbook, the ABC of Monsters (she can fail you. Just Run)
Voiced by Annabel Scholey, who also voices two characters in London; Callie James in Ealdwick Park and Catherine Stuart in the Temple Club.
Yourself
- "I took this position to trade an overcrowded island for a quite one, for a peaceful life. Before life went and said bollocks to that. There was something pure ironic about the move too, you know, my kind weren't popular in these parts three hundred years ago. Witches, not Scots women. It's occult suffrage in action. And yet that tension never really goes away, does it? It's always out there, always ticking down to totally bat-shit nuclear. I'm an idealist. I think we're supposed to be the way we are to protect people. To protect them from all this. So they're right to fear us. We stick our fingers where they don't belong, then wiggle them around a bit anyway. Palm responsibility off on the need to know the unknowable. That's not learning, that's...I don't know. Playing chicken with the infinite."
Innsmouth Academy
- "These parts have gotten pretty lively since everyone died. Not quite a rescue, more of an investigation, eh? You and all the others. Personally, I think the whole team colors thing is pure pish. So I hope we won't have to start fighting like we're in a scene from the bloody Matrix. My family are Templars, proper old Templars. The house of Usher, aye, that's hilarious. They didn't disown me when I said I wanted nothing to do with anyone's army. Posturing and scheming. My cabal is bigger than your cabal. That's worked out right well for us so far, hasn't it? I didn't come here for the Illuminati, I came here for the kids. And that's why I'm staying. For the ones who come back, for the ones who won't. For Carter, who's brushing up to be one of the most powerful mages on the Atlantic seaboard, but just wants to be a girl. One out of two's fraught enough."
Hayden Montag
- "Despite his, eccentricities and...cynical- ach, he'll appreciate the honesty: downright unpleasant personality, Mr Montag, H.J., does more for the safety and development of his students than he lets on. It's not an easy thing, bringing these kids into a world fraught with occult rites and secret handshakes. It takes a real bastard, even on the best of days. The competition for the most talented students, the petty jealousies and the ancient blood feuds between the most prominent institutions... and the more and less covert attempts at industrial espionage, all take their toll. And of course, the deaths. Being responsible for every single life lost in the pursuit of knowledge, would break less than an arrogant man. At least he lets us deal with the parents now. After those first couple of accidental self-immolations, some thought it best we kept him away from grieving relatives."
The secret world
- "I give them a lot of gyp, but the Templars were ahead of the curve in pushing for a proper magical education. Oxford, Uttar Pradesh, Cairo, et cetera. Of course, their reasoning was a bag of shite. It's got bugger all to do with entitlement, and everything about sorting out your place in the world. For what its worth, I'm truly sorry you've been dropped in at the deep end. I couldn't tell you what happens next. For the world, and your place in it. Here, they'll mop up the blood, file the Act of God insurance claims, rote-learn their alibis. They'll cover it up, they always do. Flick through the Guinness Book of Disasters, and you'll have a hard time finding something we didn't start. But this goes further than the island. You know how, excuse me, female roommates' periods synchronize? That's how it goes with my talents and the planet. And we've both been waking up like we've had the mankiest post-pissup fish supper ever, every day."
Carter[]
She and Danny Dufresne were the characters in a puzzle event: The Dark Places. The gates of the Academy closed before she could return, and Annabel Usher had to plead Carter's case for readmittance.
Carter, with great power that is very dangerous, is arguably a minor Apocalypse Maiden in the mold of "Hellboy"'s Liz Sherman, or the more familiar "Carrie", who is burning with anger. However, she is typical of the sort that keeps it all bottled up, only for the power to burst forth with greater intensity for having been restrained.
Missions:
- Involved in The Rogue Groundskeeper
Yourself
- "So. Uh. How’s your super-story going so far? Swallowed a bee, wrecked your place, I know how that one starts. They say we’re gifted. I don’t wanna come across like a spoiled brat, but gee, some gift! Scared off my friends, my family. Any chance for a normal life. I even creeped out the other students here at, you know, Hogwarts. I can’t blame them. Sometimes when I dream, it gives my roommates nosebleeds. That doesn’t really make me BFF material. Have you…had the dreams yet? Of the world suspended in a cold, cold darkness. Of voices worse than anything you ever heard on MTV – even in the reality shows. Of elder things. No? You will. Not to get all Emo Allen Poe about it, but you will. It comes with the powers. It’s a portent, Mr. Montag says. Enjoy the ones about swimming, or flying, or absent friends while you can."
Innsmouth Academy
- "I wish I could say this isn’t how I planned my sweet sixteen. But really, I haven’t known any other life. They took me in here when I was twelve, the youngest enrollment since like, ever. My parents didn’t wanna let me go, but what else could they do? Pay off another trashed house and interstate move? They still apologize in every letter from home. Here, the teachers straight-up told me I had a great responsibility. For the way the world would be. Heavy, right? That’s like graduation speech stuff. And I got hit with it before puberty! So, I pretty much became the outcast loner chick with the dark secret. Just like in Danny’s comics. Danny’s sweet, and kind, and more worried if I like his corny 80s movies than whether my powers are gonna fry us both. It’s pretty cool. To not be judged by a normal person. That is, mostly normal. I think there’s something in the water in Kingsmouth."
The Secret World
- "You wanna hear something weird? Sure you do, you’re just getting warmed up. I haven’t even told Miss Usher this yet, but… Around the time things started going wrong, I started… seeing people. Other kids, I think other kids like me, you know, with powers like me. It’s the least crazy reason I can come up with to explain it. There’s a girl, a few years younger than me, who lives with her mom and dad and watches the snow come in from big mountains. Maybe Alaska? My geography is not so great. And a boy, he’s tiny but way smarter than he should be. He solves algebra when he’s nervous. He’s at a school in some suburbs, with kids in yellow raincoats and, like, little sailor suits. I don’t know what it means. Maybe I’m just inventing special friends for when the real ones let me down. But it seemed so real, the colors and the light… and I hope nothing’s happened to them. Nothing like what happened here."
The Illuminati
- "Miss Usher has done here best to prepare me for the future. She warned me that there’ll be people who will try to exploit my gifts. Like having the strangers with candy talk, you know, but with magic. I know this academy is “owned” by the Illuminati, and they don’t give anything out for free. They’ll want “something” in return for my education, right? Giving back to secret society. And I’ve already been offered a full scholarship at Oxford. The magical Oxford. That’s the Templars, I knew by the look on Miss Usher’s face. And I got a weird note with some Chinese signs on it. At least it looked Chinese to me. See, i don’t want to “use” my gifts for anything. All I want is to learn how to control them, so I won’t have to use them. If that makes any sense."
Daniel Bach[]
Hayden Montag[]
Yourself
- "Do you read? It's a fading art. In this modern world, offer an occultist an irreplaceable manuscript, and they will claim they are waiting for the movie. All the scholarly aspect has gone out of forbidden knowledge. The studiousness, the drive. And yet in the end, even the written word could not sustain my mind. I had plumbed the depths of ancient texts, scaled the heights of correspondence with the great minds of our age, and understanding had reached an awful stalemate within me. The epiphany struck. Epiphany, and acquittal on all counts of manslaughter. Children. I put to you that children are the...perfect transmitters of knowledge. The perfect receivers. Vessels of malleable power and bottomless potential. In hindsight, my initial attempts at teaching were crude. There were restraining orders, other pesky legalities regarding abduction of minors. That is why the Illuminati brought me here. To those awaiting valuable lessons towards their future enlightened success."
The students
- "You should be aware of the urgency with which we nurture our young talents. The eldest oral traditions describe recorded history as the Fourth Great Age of Mankind. An age that is closing. I could not hazard a guess if another age will follow. As a pentaphobic, I would like no part of it. But the children of today will guide the transference of tomorrow. Across the world, prodigies are manifesting powers earlier and stronger than ever before. Carter was psychokinetic at birth. Her parents quickly learned to avoid metal nursery furniture. Exposure to the island and its...checkered magical history has only amplified her abilities. From the age of twelve, she could shift laboratory animals into other dimensions. I intended to work with her on protecting them from explosive decompression at the point of return. But those lessons have been on hiatus since a regrettable zoo outing last year."
Innsmouth Academy
- "Perhaps I appear blase to the human tragedy that surrounds us. I am, largely. I believe one should focus on their strong subjects...empathy was never truly one of mine. Thusly, I must protect the Academy and its occupants the only way I can appreciate: analytically. Analytically, I predicted an event like this sooner. This was never a simple fishing community. Well-suited to the Illuminated Order's love of ciphers and symbology, the island...is a triangle. A meeting of three lines of power. The ambition of mortal magic, the hunger of the Hell Dimensions...and something beyond the scope of understanding. An old and deep power, older than aeons. Most sources choose not to name it, lest in the naming it gains strength. You are aware that members of some cultures fear a photograph can steal their soul? They are, of course, correct. Well. To record this power is to take the first faltering step towards succumbing to it. Utterly. In my life, I have always striven to maintain a clear delineation between obsession and madness."
The secret world
- "Our hidden world is a sequence of disastrous events. All connected. Echoing back to creation, and forward until the death rattle of the universe. It is unfortunate, for academic purposes, that those with the time and means to draw these connections are invariably rendered insane. Having once...explored the troubled minds of patients at McLean, Danvers, Arkham, I advise you against questioning the living for explanation. Look to the dead. Their knowledge is no longer compromised by horror or shame. They are a library, a morbid encyclopedia of the acts that brought us here. To our modern world, and to humanity's place in it. A half-way house on the evolutionary scale, between Neanderthals and something quite different, quite terrible. Something changed. Not like you are changing, probably not. But try a little background reading with the dead. They will not lie to you, unless they see an escape from torment or enslavement in it, I suppose.
The Illuminati
- "You may wonder why the Illuminati invested in an open institution like the Academy. It is a mirror to their brotherhood, exclusive but not elitist. I was self-taught when they first came to me, as a young offender, and ushered me firmly behind the curtain of secrecy. They are...patrons of enlightenment. They appreciate that "forbidden knowledge" is a contradiction in terms. What is recorded is meant to be known. Those who call them uncultured are clearly unaware that in lost Alexandria, Illuminati ordered their servants to transcribe even while they burned alive. The Illuminati are businesspeople who saw an opportunity and moved to fill it. For too long we have clambered, wheezing, up the spiral staircase to an era where nothing is true and everything is permitted. They have installed escalators, so all might carpe diem, carpe annum, carpe aeon. Carpe out of the hands of stuffy curators without ambition."
John Wolf[]
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Kyra Dexter[]
Wabanaki daughter of anima witch Ami Dexter, and William Dexter of the League of Monster Slayers Voice actor: Georgina Cordova.
Yourself
- "Apparently, my mom's some kind of Wabanaki superwoman. Who knew? Okay, so she was always obsessed with rituals and traditions. Dad couldn't take it. Made him so mad, my mom and him kept fighting over it. I thought it was just superstition. I guess there's a lot more to it, and she's started teaching me about all that stuff. It's pretty cool. I suppose I just have to trust she knows what she's doing. Red says I'm next, that I'll inherit her gift. I really don't know what that's supposed to mean. I'm not sure I want to inherit mom's gifts. I hope at least I get to learn a hex or two. There are some boys in school I'd like to place a hex on. Uh. Wait. That sounded really bad, right?"
Solomon Island
- "A few more weeks of this, and I'll even be ready for that fishing trip upstate my uncle's been threatening to take me on. All I have to watch is what I brought with me when we came here to stay with Uncle Red - and anything with zombies or werewolves is off-limits. I just can't get into a story that has a pretty girl falling for a hot vampire anymore. It feels very wrong. And there's nothing to read around here. It's either Russian authors and poetry, or horror stories about small towns in Maine, and I've had more than enough of both. I didn't mean the thing about the fishing trip. I think it'll be nice, once this is all over. Uncle Red and me, we get along. He's teaching me to play chess right now... Oh God, I want to get out of here so bad."
Your family
- "I wish there were more of us here, not just Mom and me and Uncle Red, but others from the tribe. Or even better, that we could just move to the trailer park. But no, that's impossible. Because, you know, there's this big disagreement in the tribe, and nobody talks to anybody anymore. I know someone did something bad to someone else, like, forty years ago - I think it had to do with my grandfather - but that was, like, forty years ago. You'd think they'd be over it by now. What's wrong with people? Why can't they just work it out? Mom tried, many times, but she always came home crying her eyes out. She gave up years ago. And Uncle Red never talks to any of them. Just goes all quiet and serious whenever someone mentions their names. I mean, I like Uncle Frank and Uncle Joe. They're a bit gross, but kinda funny. And Old Joseph is pretty cool, too. He's good at telling stories, even though he gets pretty long-winded at times. I just don't get it. We're family; we should be able to at least talk to each other."
Nicholas Winter[]
Yourself
- "What, are you expecting me to open up? To tell you all about my troubled childhood, about my abusive father and how that led me to overcompensate and succeed? About why I'm here and how it all tears me up on the inside? Go dig yourself a hole and jump in it, you fucking parasite."
The Atlantic Island Park
- "The Atlantic Island Park. Hmf. Never thought I'd be back here. And now it feels like I'll never leave. They couldn't have chosen a better spot for the apocalypse, don't you agree?"
Voice actor André Sogliuzzo
Red[]
Red Dexter; proprietor of Red's Bait and Tackle. Wabanaki; "Uncle Red" to Kyra Dexter. Ami Dexter does not name their family relationship, so from only this, it would be a little unclear whether he is Ami's brother or Kyra's great-uncle. Luckily his dialogue seems to point to the latter, although there is a possibility left still:
- "But when Ami's parents died...Left it for me to bring her up right. Her brothers too, Frank and Joe. One out of three..."
She is the only sibling left, of three. Red brought her up; they might not even be related, but he isn't her brother, because he already mentioned them. The slight possibility? That when he says one out of three, he means He is the only rother left.
Voice actor Dave B. Mitchell.
Gives missions:
- The Player, Not the Piece
- Ami Legend
- Strangers from a Strange Land
- Red's Tackle is an item mission
Yourself
- "Gotta say, you made a hell of an entrance. Where do you keep that horse you rode in on? Ah, I'm just yanking your chain. It's no coincidence what's happening here, and happening now, with us and with you lot. All our legends and traditions speak of watching over this land. Of suffering the hardships. Not a lot of bridges in these parts for water to go under. There's a whole lot of slights and hurt that never got sounded out, never really left this place. My brother got himself killed for it, and could be that was some kind of mercy. Bearing a purpose is a big heavy weight. The purpose passed onto his daughter, Ami, and the tribe turned her out for her troubles. That was half a lifetime ago. Part of me thought what's happening now was gonna happen then. The storm clouds had gathered, and all. Moral of the story is, evil's one tricky son-of-a-gun."
Ami
- ""A mad dog won't raise any pups." That's what my pop used to say. Yeah, I never saw myself as the fathering kind despite sitting in as Santa for as many Kingsmouth Christmases as I can count. That's more gut than paternal instinct, in every way. But when Ami's parents died... Her mother went too early but natural, her father was murdered by bad men. Left it for me to bring her up right. Her brothers too, Frank and Joe. One out of three... Coulda been worse, I guess. Don't mean to say I favored her, but she was special. Had my brother's gift, to channel the voice of our ancestors. She just needed...encouraging. What was left of the tribe, of her family, they wanted no more to do with tradition. We're no longer on speaking terms, us and them, and mostly that suits me just fine. I'm spoiled for company. But it was never easy for Ami. Responsibility sure is a sack of rocks, even in better times. Hah. Better times, relatively speaking. Weighed her down half her life. Sure am proud of her. I guess this old dog's not all mad after all."
Survivors
- "We got a few live ones out here besides us and the schoolhouse, damn lucky - or unlucky, depending on your point of view. Take Eleanor Franklin. Keeping to herself in that empty Adams Family mansion for years, stewing on bad blood. Sure as hell doesn't like the sight of me and my kin. Or anyone else, for that matter, unless it's a cat. Damn shame, I hear she was a ray of sunshine in her day. But most everyone involved with that mine never comes away quite right. Then you got Sam Krieg, the author. Man doesn't write romances for a reason, the miserable bastard. We got bets on him coming out of this one with a story about saving the day, maybe with an empowered Native American squeeze, too. You won't find him setting foot outside the old lighthouse. I'd just slide his food and booze order under the door, until he got his hands on a rifle. Now I leave it out of range and he can bill me if it goes bad. How all of them escaped the fog, I don't know. I'd like to think there's rhyme and reason to it all, but I suspect it's just pure, awful luck."
Sam Krieg[]
Deceased[]
- Archibald Henderson
- Carrie Killian - The Black House
- Jackson Miller - League of Monster Slayers
- Nathaniel Winter
- William Dexter - League
- Christine Armitage - Academy Librarian
Deceased Innsmouth Academy Professors
- Albert Morgan - Applied Necromancy
- Allen Dyer - Trepanation and Geology
- Charlene Malone - Ancient Languages
- Donna Lake - Abnormal Biology
- Ferdinand Atwood - Psychic Education
- Francis Ashley - Occult History
- Mary Wilmarth - Latin
- Nadine Upham - Mathematics
- Warren Peaslee - Parapsychology
- William Ellery - Chemistry and Alchemy