Category: Horror

#15 – Ted Bacon

The final member of Clair’s team, Mr. Bacon is the only real professional anything in the group; a professional photographer. A naturally sarcastic and taciturn skeptic, his contribution to the team usually comes in the form of terse explanations of photographic artifacts. His lack of interest in the paranormal is offset by the rather large amount of money Clair is paying him, but nothing in the world could offset his sheer lack of people skills.

#14 – Alex Lorentz

Every group of paranormal investigators needs someone techy to run the EMF meters and play back their static to find EVPs. For Clair’s group, that someone is Alex Lorentz. A very enthusiastic young man with a homegrown expertise in electronics, Alex has a practical understanding of how the scientific instrumentation he carries around actually works, but a very limited ability to interpret those findings. Of course, that makes him a perfect fit for a paranormal group, where every blip on the infrared camera is a ghost until proven otherwise.

#13 – Claire LaGanne

Eldest daughter of one of the richest and most eccentric families in the city, Claire is a self-appointed Paranormal Researcher, determined to find scientific proof of the undead. She has no training in any kind of science, doesn’t really know what would constitute “scientific proof,” and tends to leap to conclusions at a moment’s notice, but what she does have is the massive inheritance she received after the flood.

#12 – Hunt

The most important factor when it comes to determining the sheer strength of a spirit is a sense of purpose. Those undead with the greatest sense of unfulfilled duty stick around longer, have greater strength, and have more dangerous abilities than those shades who simply stick around because they lack awareness with regards to their own death.

Though no one quite knows what the Hunt was in life, its sense of purpose is undeniable. Stalking the allies and crowded dark places of the city, the Hunt will track its prey night after night, staying just out of sight, feeding on the terror of whatever unfortunate minor it discovers. Though no one knows what specific end awaits the children who are subjected to the Hunt’s attention, the initial attraction is said to be very strong emotion.

#11 – Amy

A developing interest in the paranormal has always been a good excuse for teenagers to re-invent themselves, and when a freak flood wipes out half of your city, it shouldn’t be a shock that interest in the dead increases.

For Amy, though, things are a little different. The disaster left her so incomprehensibly angry that a simple reinvention wasn’t nearly enough. With the infinite bloody-mindedness of a teenager, Amy searches for a way to trap the dead. Though many people came to the city hoping to find ghostly evidence, none of them have her determination and simple stubbornness. The only question is what happens when she succeeds.

#10 – Detritus

When water is caught in a small, boxy space, it tends to form whirlpools. After the flood, an unusually high number of bodies were recovered from spiral clumps of mud that collected where bus stops once stood.