Listed below are details of the four characters who no longer play any active part in proceedings.

'Hacker' Wilk

'Hacker' (real name unknown) hails from the windswept Falkland Islands. It was here that she developed her affinity for music, in particular wind instruments and her aversion for sheep. I don't think that, as a child, she had any sort of unnatural experience, it's just that there are so many on such a tiny island, that you either love them or hate them.

She gained her music degree in the clarinet from the United Kingdom whereupon she promptly got involved in jazz. Eventually, she fell under the spell of one Harry Hornet. After his untimely downfall as a result of the famous Tree Episode Hacker tended to latch onto any available man for guidance. Most notably, she was used as the bait for one Lenny Stroeker while the rest of the party turned over his room. After having drinks bought for her all night, in the hope of getting her drunk enough to fall for Lenny's charms, she promptly dumped him at the drop of a hat (and an 'all clear' signal from the rest of the party.)

Her usefulness within the party is based on the fact that with her high sanity, she is usually the member who can keep her head in a crisis.

After being shot in the arm during an encounter, Hacker has vowed to check just what that mysterious noise was before calmly walking down the stairs.

Update July 2002

Dead.

Hacker has been moved to the gone but not forgotten page since she is no more. The person playing the unfortunate musician was willing to give the character up to me and I needed a good plot line to get the investigators involved. Thus she was desiccated by a horrible monster...

Still at least it was quick and she no longer has to live in fear of everything.

Harry Hornet

Harry was a Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. He was the mentor, for some strange reason, of Hacker Wilk. I suppose that she saw him as being a sort of father figure. Hey, let's get things straight here, Harry was just a dirty old man who hung around the university campus because it was a good place to see young women. His contribution to the party was virtually nil and his leaving means that the rest of the party members don't have to worry about retrieving him from seedy strip joints.

Harry fell prey to the infamous tree plan and is currently incarcerated in a rubber room in Arkham Sanitarium.

Carlos The Ferret

Not surprisingly, Carlos The Ferret was an assumed name (wouldn't you change your name if you were called Jed) and was, of course, based on that famous revolutionary Carlos the Jackal. Just like his namesake, Jed worked to subvert the US government at every possibility. This involved driving his beat up old pickup, shooting things. Always a bit paranoid, he thought that the telephone guy described below was watching him.

Jed also was a victim of the tree incident and is in the room next to Harry Hornet

That telephone guy

To be honest, I can't remember this guy's name and I appear to have lost his character sheet so can't tell you a lot about his past save the bright highlights. He joined the party as an FBI agent, which didn't help Jed's paranoia, and proceeded to do all those things that the FBI are known for. Sure, his intimate knowledge of telephone systems and his AT&T overalls ought to have given the game away, but the party suspected nothing. In a cruel twist of irony, instead of an FBI agent posing as a telephone engineer, he was a telephone engineer posing as an FBI agent.

Case closed.

Quince Quincey

Quince Quincy turned up, did an autopsy and then departed.

He's probably sat on a boat somewhere with a wide collared shirt, a glass of champagne and a woman with a 1970s style hairdo who's young enough to be his daughter.

Well, it's a bit of a short list at the moment, but I'm sure that over time it is going to grow. From those active at the moment, George is probably the number one contender to join his buddies in Arkham Sanitarium. Of course, Jackie could meet a slow and painful death at any time.