| The Spook Squad |
Hate Groups |
Catherine Maison-Gillette: Anita's friend, lawyer and all
around "normal" person. to keep her safe and so that she doesn't have to lie, Anita keeps Catherine in the dark about
a lot of her life.
Monica Vespucci: Catherine's friend and coworker at her
firm. Anita doesn't like her but deals with her for Catherine sake. She and Robert get married and Monica becomes
pregnant. It should be interesting how Anita deals with being called Auntie Anita.
Phillip: A stripper at Guilty Pleasures. He's also a vampire
junkie or freak. Freaks are humans who get sexual pleasure from vampire bites, they usually have several different
bites. Anita doesn't quite know how to deal with Phillip, she wants to protect him but needs his help. When he's killed
Anita carries that guilt for a long time.
Veronica "Ronnie" Sims: Anita's best friend, work out pal and
shopaholic. Ronnie's always buying or forcing Anita to buy fashionable, sexy clothes so that she will look half way
decent. As a private investigator, Ronnie occasionally works with Anita on cases for Animators, Inc. Even though
Ronnie carries a gun, Anita tries to keep most of the really rough stuff from touching her. Ronnie has definite opinions
about Anita's love life, She wants her to drop Jean-Claude, who she calls "fang face", and stick with Richard. Ronnie's
own love life seems to be doing pretty good, she's dating Louie Fane and yes she knows he's a wererat.
Mrs. Edith Pringle & Custard: Mrs. Pringle, a retired school
teacher, is Anita's neighbor and Custard is her Pomeranian. Anita really likes Mrs. Pringle but can't stand Custard
but would never let anything happen to them. That's why when the bad guys keep showing up at her apartment she
moves.
Edward: A former hitman, humans just got too easy to kill,
Edward now works as a bounty hunter under the name Ted Forrester. He's far scarier than Anita, if she's The executioner
he's known as "Death". Despite this Anita works very well with him and has formed as strange sort of friendship.
Edward always seems to be there whenever she needs him and he's always got lots of new toys. Anita gets all her
best weapons from him.
Winter: Bodyguard at the Circus of the Damned. Killed.
Harold Gayner: Businessman determined to have Anita raise
a 283 year old ancestor, even offers her a million dollars. Anita refuses, to do the job she'd have to perform a human
sacrifice. Gayner working with Dominga Salvador's unleash a man eating ghoul. Anita kills him with a cemetery full
of zombies.
Tommy & Bruno: Gayner's bodyguards. Both die.
Cicely & Wheelchair Whanda: Cicely is Gayner's current
girlfriend. She's killed by Anita. Wanda, a prostitute, is an ex-girlfriend of Gayner's. Gayner plans to use her as a
human sacrifice but Anita foils his plan and saves her life.
Dr. Marian Saville: Chief Medical Examiner. Anita likes
her but can't stand the fact that she smokes.
St. Gerald County Sheriff Dept.:
Sheriff Titus: Not happy about having Spook Squad
brought in on his case. His reason, he with Kasper Gunderson's help kidnap lycanthropes and force them to change
so that he and his clients can hunt them. Killed.
Deputy Aikensen: Hassles Anita when she tries to
look at a crime scene. He's in on the hunting scheme and is killed.
Willoton Police:
Police Chief Garroway: On scene of murder. Sends
Deputy Holmes out and feels guilt when she's killed.
Deputies Holmes & Lind: First on scene of murder.
Made call to Spook Squad upsetting Sheriff Titus and Deputy Aikensen. Later Deputy Holmes responds to a call
from Samuel Williams and gets killed by Deputy Aikensen.
Samuel Williams: Caretaker at the nature center, working
on his doctorate. Found murder victim. Richard knew him through his work with the center. Killed by Deputy Aikensen.
Elvira Drew: Comes to Anita asking for assistance in finding
a wererat to be a part of a book she's writing. Turns out that she's actually a witch, who skinned several lycanthropes
so that she and several other could use them to shapeshift. Caught and will likely be executed.
MacAdams: Scuba diver brought in to help retrieve a skin,
which winds up being a naga, from the water.
George Smitz: Initially coming to Anita stating that his wife
is missing, Anita and Ronnie find out that he killed her. In jail.
Raymond Stirling: Lawyer, Beadle, Beadle, Stirling & Lowenstein,
in charge of the Branson resort project. He's determined that Anita will raise an entire cemetery releasing Bloody
Bones and Rawhead. Killed.
Lionel Bayard: Junior partner at Stirling's firm. Killed.
Ms. Harrison: Stirling's personal assistant. Killed.
Beau: Foreman on Stirling's Branson project.
Missouri St. Highway Patrol:
Sgt. Freemont, Division of Drug & Crime Control
(DD/CC or D2C2): In charge of several murders and doesn't want any outside help including Anita's.
Deputies Wallace & Granger: Called to the Quinlan
crime scene, Granger is killed chasing the vampires.
Sheriff David St. John: In charge of the Quinlan case. His
wife, Beth, tries to comfort the parents. She's killed by the vampires.
Deputy Zack Coltrain: Works for St. John and isn't thrilled
to have Anita working on the Quinlan case. Killed by vampires.
Jeffrey & Sally Quinlan: Parents of Ellie and Jeff.
FBI Special Agents Bradford & Elwood: Agents brought
in concerning the Quinlan case. Bradford continues to be a contact for Anita.
Annabelle Smith: Assassin who attempted to kill Anita.
Fake name. Anita killed her.
Harley: Edward's associate brought in to help protect
Anita and Richard during the battle with Marcus.
Capt. Pete McKinnon: Arson investigator and old college
friend of Dolph's who asks Anita's help in solving several fires in several different cities including St. Louis.
Vicki Pierce: After supposedly being accosted by a vampire
in the restaurant Burnt Offerings, she threw alcohol on him and set him on fire. Turns out she and others hand planned
this as part of a rehash of the Day of Cleansing. Jailed.
Capt. Fulton: Incident Commander. Fireman in charge of the
the Church of Eternal Life halfway house fire.
Corporal Tucker & Wren: Cpl. Tucker, a female firefighter,
and Wren, a male firefighter, help Anita try and retrieve the bodies of several trapped vampires. Tucker is killed.
Caroline: A human liaison, blood donor for the young vampires,
at the Church of Eternal Life.
Ernie: Human hanger-on at the Circus of the Damned. He
wants to be made a vampire. Padma and Traveler want to kill him for blood but Jean-Claude stops them. Not sure
what happens to him afterwards.
Carl Belisarius: Lawyer, recommended by Catherine,
who gets Richard out of jail. He also keeps Anita and gang from getting arrested.
Betty Schaffer: Richard dated her for a short time. She
paid to falsely accuses him of rape so that Niley can get the land the trolls are living on. She's killed by the demon
called by Linus Beck.
Frank Niley: A Miami, FL art dealer specializing in mystical
items, suspected of several murders and wanted in several states. He's searching for the lance that pierced Christ's
side. Howard Grant makes him believe that the lance is on the land the trolls are living on and Niley does any and
everything to try and get the land, including having Richard's mother and brother tortured. Killed.
Officer Maiden: An undercover FBI agent working for Sheriff
Wilkes. He does everything he can to protect Anita and gang while still not breaking his cover.
Myerton Sheriff Dept.:
Sheriff Billy Wilkes: Corrupt cop working for Niley. Killed.
Thompson: One of Wilkes deputy's, a very sadistic guy. Killed.
Mel Cooper, Chuck Cooper and Terry Hatcher: Thugs
who try to beat up and kill Anita and gang on several different occasions.
Millie: Shang-Da was using her front porch as a watch out
station. Not sure if Millie is a werewolf or just a human sympathizer.
Dr. Carrie Onslow: Scientist Richard's been working with
studying the trolls. He also dated her for a short time.
State Police, Capt. Henderson and Sgt. Michaels: They
are at the crime scene of Betty Schaffer's murder.
Milo Hart, Howard Grant & Linus Beck: Milo Hart is
Niley's bodyguard. Howard Grant is a psychic (clairvoyant) working a scam on Niley. Linus Beck, a sorcerer, using
a demon to find an ancient relic. All three are killed.
Marianne: Verne's pack vargamor, wise woman. She becomes
Anita's teacher, guiding her in the aspects of the pack, how to control the munin and her necromancy.
The St. Louis Regional Preternatural Investigation Team
Originally formed to placate the liberals, RPIT pronounced
Rip-it or better known as the Spook Squad handles all supernatural crime in the area and have solved more crimes
then any other police agency. The squad was initially made up of the police force's troublemakers but with their
success their reputations grow.
(Anyone convicted of a magic-induced crime is automatically
sentenced to death, no appeals, usually put to death in less then six weeks. The last reported witch burned alive by
a mob was Agnes Simpson in 1953, pictures taken won the Pulitzer Prize.)
Sgt. Rudolf "Dolph" Storr: Head of the task force. He contacted
Anita, after reading about her in the paper, about consulting with the squad. Now that they've been working together
for several years, Dolph begins to wonder if it was such a great idea. He doesn't approve of her relationship with
Jean-Claude or some of her questionable activities. But he also knows that Anita is very good at what she does and
that without her help he and the squad would not solve very many cases. His wife's name is Lucille.
Det. Zerbrowski: He and Anita are always cracking jokes
on each other during police investigations. Anita values her friendship with Zerbrowski and does her best to keep
him and the other squad members from ever getting hurt. His wife's name is Katie.
Det. Clive Perry: He's a great cop and always means business
and is extremely polite and soft spoken. He has a wife and child.
Det. Tammy Reynolds: New to the squad. Tammy's a Christian
witch, a member of the Followers of the Way. A sect that was nearly wiped out by the Inquisition but somehow survived.
She's also the first police detective ever with preternatural abilities beyond psychic talents. Anita doesn't really like her
very much, nor does she like the fact that she's dating Larry. But Anita is willing to hold her final opinion until Tammy
gains some experience.
Hate Groups
Humans Against Vampires (HAV): Using the legal system
this organization works to get the law that makes vampires legal revoked.
League of Human Voters: Don't know much about this group.
I don't believe they are as fanatical as Humans First, I think they are trying to do things like HAV.
Humans First: Started by former HAV member Jeremy
Ruebens. Unlike HAV, they're goal is to kill all vampires. They also target vampire sympathizers and other people
with supernatural abilities. They even attack Anita.
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