People

Player Characters (PCs): The Trauma Team

David "Orca-Wolf" Path-on-the-Peaks

A young Makah man, graduate of medicine at the University of Washington, and now a Bear shaman.  Also sometimes accused of being a mass murderer.

Cora Open-Hand Sawyer

A young Makah woman, a medtech by training and now a Raven shaman.  Generally a pain in the ass. 

Jason "Gnomenklature" White

A Dwarven decker and security consultant, who tried double-dipping when he was working for what turned out to be Aztechnology subsidiaries.  Now hiding, recruited by Dunkelzahn, and working on the Trauma Team.

Gideon Goesforbroke

Human male fixer and Face; father American Indian, mother Phillipino/Italian.  In this for the cold hard cash.

Amanda "Misery Chick" Swift

Human female, techie and jack of all trades.  She was hired for the Universal Omnitech run, but stayed on afterwards.

Nikki

Elven female mage, currently helping out the group in Germany.

Non-Player Characters (NPCs)

Trauma Team Auxiliaries

Arco

Male-to-female cross-dressing Orc; former administrative assistant in the Human Resources Department of Redmond Community Hospital.  Suffered a head wound and severe trauma during the Astral Plague outbreak.  Now works for the Trauma Team.

Michael Garrett O'Halloran (Garrett)

Short (5'1") human-looking male Ogre (Ork) with a flat broad face, an upturned nose and a broad chin.  A proficient street samurai who runs with Susan Hands-as-Wings, hired by Dunkelzahn.  He helped spring out David and Cora at the hospital, then escorted Cora when she had to go back in.  Currently working as muscle for the Trauma Team.

Susan Hands-as-Wings

Female Dwarf, dark-haired, dressed in coveralls.  She works with Garrett and was the "wheels" hired by Dunkelzahn as part of the raid to find the cure for the VITAS3/Astral Plague outbreak.  Currently working as wheels for the Trauma Team.

Redmond Community Hospital

Personnel

Sharon Atkins

Director of Human Resources. Female Dwarf, characteristically crabby.  Suffered enough trauma to cause a complete breakdown during the Astral Plague outbreak.

Babette

Nurse.  Human female, lare sweaty woman.  Now working at David's street clinic.

Barbara Barbarossa

Nurse.  Female Troll, very competent.  Now working at David's street clinic.

Kate Bledsoe

Administrative assistant to Nigel Firth.  Smashing blonde; she appears to be the one truly in charge.  Further developments during the Astral Plague outbreak suggest that she may be a demon (succubus?), and that there may be more like her.

Bugsworth

Dr. McCoy's bodyguard.  Human male, very large.

Erica

Nurse.  Human female, good-looking little redhead.

Nigel Firth

Director of Hospital Administration.  Effeminate man with a British accent.  Committed suicide(?) after Dr. McCoy and Kate Bledsoe unleashed the Astral Plague.

Kyle

Human male; a security guard who got injured by a patient (Cynthia)'s angry relative (Cherry).

Dr. Abe Lowitz

Physician.  Human male, competent.

Dr. Andrea McClure

Resident.  Human female, recently posted, very reliable.

Dr. Jonathan McCoy

Director of Emergency Medicine.  Human male who looks like a tri-vid soap star and seems to be wealthy.  (He's the one they call Dr. Feelgood.)  Recent information suggests that he may have been around for over 200 years, and is actually a demon.

Peter

Dwarven male with a serious on-the-job drug habit; janitor, but often seems to man the nurse station, despite his complete inadequacy for the task.  Recently fired by David Path-on-the-Peaks, but he's now back on the mop.  Killed during the VITAS3/Astral Plague outbreak.

Saki "Pika-Pika" Sakai

A street samurai who had just been offered the post of Director of Security at the Redmond Community Hospital.  Recently slain by a Horror-possessed cyberized troll on a rampage.

Gary Smith

A very nondescript human medtech who hates metahumans and isn't real keen on Natives either.  He's Awakened but it's not clear how, or even whether he realizes it.  Now operates his own ambulance service, "Gary's Medical Services".

Wayne Toppers

Medical examiner, at least until recently.  Discovered to be an undead servant of some sort of Elder Horror.  Destroyed by David and Cora.

Vicky Vale

Head nurse.  Female human; looks like a plump version of Nurse Ratched.  Unhelpful and domineering.

Patients and Visitors

Bullsnake

Human male.  Street samurai who bought faulty, second-hand cyberware from a street doc; cured by David.

Cynthia

Little blonde girl.  A patient who was brought in by Gary Smith and treated by Dr. McCoy and Nurse Vale, but seems to have disappeared from the records since.  David and Cora believe she has since been possessed by a Horror.

Cherry

Cynthia's sister, a sixteen-year-old hooker with a heart of gold and a blade of steel.  Well, she did have the blade, anyway.  She was paid by Sharon Atkins to leave, but her partial remains were later identified by David and Cora in the basement morgue.

Eric Cole

Teenage human male, paraplegic and suffering from respiratory difficulties.

Jamie Cole

Eric's rich mother, acerbic and demanding.

Ms. Collins

A wealthy patient of Dr. McCoy's.

Other Places in the Redmond Barrens

Batboy

Decker, hired by David and Cora for a small job based on Sonny D's recommendation.  Gnomenklature's personal nemesis, or at least rival for the title of alpha geek.

Sonny D

Male Ork, proprietor of Crusher 495 and underworld boss, well disposed towards David for his efforts to save Ork lives in the wake of the recent riot.  Was affected by the Astral Plague, but cured by David.

General Joshua Dembers

Commanding officer of Ironclad Security, recently placed in charge of security at Redmond Community Hospital.

Keesoo

Human male Philippino, a relative of Gideon Goesforbroke on his mother's side.  A ruthless and relatively efficient black marketeer with Seoulpa Rings connections, currently involved in the turf war against the Irish Mafia.

Wolfgang Kies

Large Awakened human male who works for Dr. Raven.

Dr. Raven

Elven male, looks like a young Elven Gandalf (or like the love-child of Gandalf and Galadriel).  He's apparently going to be helping Cora and David train as shamans.

Captain Morgan Stewart

Human male, captain of the Lone Star 316th SWAT unit.  He publicly stated that Lone Star owed Dr. David Path-on-the-Peaks a favour for saving a few of their men's lives.

Hans von Riktor

Human male; Humanis Policlub member, charged with inciting the August 7 riot in Touristville.

Joseph Yasavan

Human male; Humanis Policlub member, charged with inciting the August 7 riot in Touristville.

Greater Seattle Area

Banshee

Elven female, slicked back dark hair, 'runner, expensive-looking, heavily wired; worked with Misery Chick on a run or two a couple of years ago.  She double-crossed the Trauma Team when setting up the Universal Omnitech run in Portland.  Killed by Garett when she pulled a gun on Cora.

Brahma

Male human, smuggler, one of Gideon's contacts.  Stiffed the Trauma Team out of 48,000 ¥ when driving them to Tir Tairngire, then set Elven smugglers against them.

Jinny Choi

Human female, trid reporter.

Nadja Daviar

Dunkelzahn's assistant.  Beautiful Elven female, dark-skinned and looking Eastern European.

Dunkelzahn

Draconic male.  Dude, it's Dunkelzahn – what else do you need to know?

Ryan Mercury

Dunkelzahn's agent.

Nicholas O'Halloran

Male human, young, redhead, and good-looking; a buttonman in the Irish mafia for his cousin Rowena.

Rowena O'Halloran

Female human; the new mafia don in Seattle, a representative of the Irish faction and a relative of Garrett.

Quicksilver

Tall (over 6 ft) human male, redhead, dresses in expensive street casuals.  A Physical Adept, he was hired by Dunkelzahn to escort Cora when she had to go back to the Redmond Community Hospital during the VITAS3 outbreak.

Scoop Stevens

Human female, reporter for the Seattle Times-Post-Intelligencer.  She's sniffing around the Astral events of August 8 and believes David is dirty.

Talon

Amerindian human male dressed in fringed leather and nice street casuals.  Shaman hired by Dunkelzahn to assist David in the astral quest to find the cure for the Astral Plague.

Valerie Valkyrie

Gorgeous female Elf decker hired by Dunkelzahn, who participated in the raid against SinTech and Dr. McCoy's VITAS3 plan by raiding the hospital's files.

Neah Bay

George Lodgepole

Male human, age 48, Makah Tribe.  George Lodgepole is David's mother's older brother.  As such it was his responsibility to teach David about tribal history, lore, responsibilities, etc.  The two were fairly close when David was growing up, but since he has gone off to college and George has taken on the mantle of tribal chief, they have not been in particularly close contact with one another.  David still goes to him for advice on occasion, however, and George is the man who got David his scholarship.

Emma Markishtum

Female human in her late sixties, Makah Tribe.  Shaman and Cora's teacher; tribal Elder.  Markishtum teaches the old ways in Neah Bay.  She has given some training to Cora in meditation, religion, and folklore, but did not initiate her to the higher shamanic rituals. 

Glenda Seagull

David's mother, a police officer.

Portland

Sean Laverty

Male Elven Prince, very high up in the Tir Tairngire, and involved in the Universal Omnitech R&D project as a board member.

Zack

Male Cascade Ork, smuggler, based in Portland.  The Trauma Team's contact there.

Sandy, Cliff, and Archer Carter

Male Cascade Orcs, brothers; until recently, owners of Carter Contracting Co.

Eddie Bruschetti

Germany

Brother Michael

Human male; tall, blonde, and muscular.  Sounds Irish.  Church-sanctioned practitioner of magic and Templar; wields Amacadius, a large Relic Sword incorporating a nail of the True Cross.

Astral Planes

Mr. Dark

The malevolent entity (man?) who fought David to prevent him from finding a cure for the Astral Plague released by SinTech and Dr. McCoy.

Many Tongues

Despite his appearance as a human male child, he is probably something quite different.  He guided David and Cora through their shamanic Initiation.

Numara

The woman standing at the entrance to the Bridge of Bones, whose singing has been keeping the darkness at bay since the end of the Fourth Age.

Oobick

Legendary shaman and ancestor of David and Cora's tribe.

Sara Dooley

Yound Englishwoman who stepped through a Gate at a party in 1847 and found herself in Sigil.  She had been unable to find her way back since.

Boren Greyshadow

Male Dwarf, companion of Lando St.Vier.  Speaks in a thick Scottish accent reminescent of Cunniculus the IX.

Lando St. Vier

Human male; possibly a sort of knight errant, he helped David and the Team through Rappan Athuk.