Characters from the eighth season and fourth sidequest of Dimension 20.
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The Sylvan Sleuths
Lars Vandenchomp
Lars Vandenchomp
Played By: Ally Beardsley
- Race: Doberman PinscherClass: Fighter (Battle Master)
- Big Friendly Dog: Lars embodies the best qualities of Doberman Pinschers, who despite their reputation as police and guard dogs are affectionate, sweet and people-oriented - if trained and socialized properly - who are known for developing intense, loyal bonds with a singular person. Lars is affable, simple-minded (their Intelligence score is 9) yet fiercely protective with Sylvester and they are also of course a large, brawny dog person.
- Expy: Of Dr. John Watson, being a military vet working with an eccentric detective.
- Foil: To Sylvester Cross. While he is a clever, subtle, reserved detective with poor physical abilities and very practical-minded, they are straightforward, not that bright, excitable bodyperson with excellent physical abilities and they do believe in the occult.
- Funny Foreigner: Speaks in a very over-the-top German accent.
- Gentle Giant: Sylvester's hulking, muscular bodyperson who so far has been genial and bubbly to absolutely everyone they meet.
- No Sense of Personal Space: Ally notes when they arrive at Loam Hall Lars gets far too close to everyone to sniff them, and when regaling Sylvester about how they confronted and made fun of Daisy they practically press their nose in Sylvester's ear, although Sylvester doesn't seem to mind.
- Platonic Life-Partners: Lars has been friends and associates with Sylvester for a long time, and they regard each other with the utmost respect and appreciation. Lars themself says to Daisy they see Sylvester as a best friend, father, brother and life partner simultaneously (much to Daisy's bewilderment).
- Visual Pun: They are a dogsbody in multiple senses of the word.
- The Von Trope Family: Their last name uses the Dutch variation, using Van instead of Von.
Buckster $. Boyd
Buckster Cassius "Cash" $$$ Boyd
Played By: Sam Reich
- Race: PeccaryClass: Rogue (Mastermind)
- Affably Evil: He's morally bankrupt, for certain, but he still behaves politely, as expected in the business world.
- The Alcoholic: He certainly enjoys spirits, cracking a joke about his friends in Ireland being liquors.
- "Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: After threatening to go public with the Squire's connections to Buckster's unethical business practices, he suggest that they call it "Creative business practices".
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Remarks to Squire Brockhollow that at the beginning of the year alone, at least 29 to 35 workers have died in his oilfields. More disturbing is that Buckster drops this fact so nonchalantly and doesn't see it as a major cause for alarm.
- Dirty Coward: An evil oil magnate, and so desperate to save his own hide that he nearly flubs his attempt to absolve himself from the murder.
- Eagleland: A Type B variation. Buckster embodies a lot of negative American stereotypes, presenting himself as a greedy, callous capitalist whose gluttony and hedonism are on full display. His ignorance towards the customs of polite society and general lack of manners rub his English hosts the wrong way and get him in a major squabble with Squire Brockhollow.
- Fat, Sweaty Southerner in a White Suit: Fits this trope to a tee, being a rotund, extremely shady Texan oil baron with a penchant for white suits, whose player notes he has to eat "at least three of everything at a table" and has the atrocious table manners to go with it.
- Fish out of Water: Being an American in British high society, he has no idea how to address nobility properly, and regularly commits social faux pas.
- Punny Name: He shortens "Cassius" (pronounced by him "Cash"-ius) to "$".
- Southern Gentleman: Has all the qualities right down to the accent and white suit.
Gangie Green
Gangie Green
Played By: Katie Marovitch
- Race: WeaselClass: Rogue (Thief)
- Because You Were Nice to Me: Everyone treats Gangie with wariness and contempt except for Loam Hall's housekeeper Mrs. Molesly, who sets asides scones for him and fusses over making him a sweater for the dreary weather. Gangie is touched by her kindness and repays it by giving her a dandelion flower.
- Card-Carrying Villain: When asked about his criminal history, he doesn't hesitate to spill the beans about his past and present illegal activities, though he doesn't specify what are the crimes he's committed. It turns out he's a former toadie of Fletcher Cottonbottom.
- Crusty Caretaker: Two-in-one with the uncouth Gangie being both a gravedigger and groundskeeper.
- Grave Robbing: Is paid to partake in this activity by Ambrose Harding. It turns out the bodies that were being stolen are used to make amalgamated cadavers to fake the deaths of the Brockhollow family.
- No Kill like Overkill: He brutally kills one of the fake constables by gouging out their eyes, an act which Katie describes in disturbing detail.
- Older Than They Look: It's hard to tell because of the fact that they're a weasel, but Gangie is apparently fifty-five years old.
- Shovel Strike: Uses a shovel as his weapon.
- Wicked Weasel: Gangie is a weasel with an extensive criminal history.
Vicar Ian Prescott
Ian Prescott
Played By: Raphael Chestang
- Race: OwlClass: Bard (College of Eloquence)
- Crisis of Faith: Inverted. Ian comes to fully believe in the existence of God after he sees the ghost of Connor McCabbage. This is later Played Straight, briefly, when he learns that the ghost was just a projection, and declares that he doesn't know what he believes anymore.
- Good Shepherd: A kindly holy man.
- The Owl-Knowing One: As a priest and an owl, he's obviously expected to be wise. Whether he lives up to that is up to Raph.
- Reassigned to Antarctica: The Squire bribed the Anglican church to have Prescott reassigned to a parish in Siberia in retaliation for articles the Vicar wrote dispairaging the working conditions at the mill. At the end of the series, it's up in the air whether this will come to pass.
- Square Race, Round Class: Played with. He's a priest, but surprisingly plays as a bard and not a cleric. This might be due to the fact that bards in 5e are spontaneous casters, and as the majority of the session takes place over the course of a few hours in-universe, a Cleric wouldn't be able to re-prepare spells if they needed one they didn't have access to.
- Token Wizard: As a bard among a party of non-casting rogues and a fighter, he is the only caster in the group. Even then, his spells are flavored as being non-magical and just extensions of Ian's charisma.
Daisy D'umpstaire
Daisy D'umpstaire
Played By: Rekha Shankar
- Race: RaccoonClass: Rogue (Assassin)
- The Alleged Expert: Rekha's poor rolling at the start of the season makes Daisy look borderline incompetent. This is played off as her being thrown off by the presence of Slyvester, and as the season progresses, her rolls do get better.
- Big Beautiful Woman: Rekha describes her character being "an absolutely stunning raccoon, round as a ball."
- Expy: Of Irene Adler, specifically the BBC and Guy Ritchie incarnations, as she is a renowned American thief who has strong feelings for a world-famous detective that she has outsmarted on numerous occasions.
- Femme Fatale: Her modus operandi seems to be targeting rich marks and using her powers of seduction.
- Lovable Rogue: A devilishly clever thief and the abilities of an assassin, but she's very charismatic and affable.
- My Instincts Are Showing: Being a raccoon, she loves to eat trash. She's practically drooling at the mouth when Lars tries to bait her by ripping open a garbage bag and spilling the contents everywhere.
- Rascally Raccoon: Her official artwork shows her swinging around a collection of lockpicks.
- Snark-to-Snark Combat: She engages in these often with Sylvester.
- Southern Belle: Her accent comes off as this at times.
Detective Sylvester Cross
Sylvester Cross
Played By: Grant O'Brien
- Race: FoxClass: Rogue (Inquisitive)
- Badass Boast: A very understated "I'm the world's best detective" after Grant rolls a natural 20, +9, in investigation.
- Cunning Like a Fox: Both a fox and a detective.
- The Dandy: He is very foppish, often being concerned about his appearance and being in the spotlight.
- Expy: Very clearly one of Sherlock Holmes.
- Fingertip Drug Analysis: Has a habit of analyzing clues in this manner, much to the disgust of those around unfortunate enough to watch it happen.
- Gentleman Snarker: Fires off a number of sharp, yet understated one-liners, but never stops being superficially polite.
- Great Detective: The image he gives off, complete with smoking pipe. It's displayed in full force during his quick scan of the room where Squire Brockhollow was killed, and following deductions.
- Handicapped Badass: Due to an old war wound, he walks with a cane by the time the story takes place.
- Hyper-Awareness: Like the character he's based on, he's incredibly aware of his surroundings and of his interlocutor's emotions.
- Hyperspace Holmes Hat: He was given a deerstalker by Daisy as a parting gift when after being left by her at the altar. He pulls it out when he's trapped in the ouiblette, and finds that Daisy left a lockpick in it, which aids in his escape.
- Ironic Name: His last name is Cross, yet he cracks a joke about being sent by the Devil, much to Vicar Prescott's dismay.
- My Greatest Failure: His inability to find enough evidence to prove the death of Connor McCabbage, a mill worker in Tufting Meadows, was murder marks it as his first ever unsolved case. As a result, his popularity and job offers have waned, as many speculate he's past his prime.
- Sherlock Homage: His entire character is a deliberate reference to Holmes.
Loam Hall
Brockhollow Family
Squire William Thornwall Brockhollow
William Thornwall Brockhollow
Played By: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: Badger
- Ambiguous Situation: For the majority of the series, the Sylvan Sleuths are questioning whether or not he's actually dead. As it turns out, he is. The original plan was a Faking the Dead gambit, but after he got cold feet, Fletcher actually had him killed.
- Bad Ol' Badger: A ruthless, elderly badger.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: He's ruthless and callous when it comes to business, he doesn't care one bit about his employees, and is a prideful jerk to boot.
- From Camouflage to Criminal: During his military service, he conducted multiple illegal operations to smuggle priceless art out of Bavaria during the Schnauzer Wars.
- Impoverished Patrician: It turns out that he was in a monumental amount of debt, and was barely able to keep his head above water. This is why he was working with Fletcher Cottonbottom, who promised to help him clear his enormous debts.
- Never Suicide: Mrs. Molesly says he dies by stabbing himself in the chest. Which was partially true. He was stabbing himself in the chest, but that wasn't what killed him. He died from internal bleeding when a piece of shrapnel was pushed into his heart by an electromagnet, and the stabbing was him trying to dig it out.
- Stronger Than They Look: While normally looking like a frail old man, when properly aggitated, he can flip entire tables with a single hand.
Lucretia Brockhollow
Lucretia "Lucy" Brockhollow
Played By: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: Badger
- Cloudcuckoolander: Believes in curses, astrology and the occult.
- No Indoor Voice: Constantly shouting.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When Lars reveals to her that William Brockhollow's death was never faked and he actually did get murdered, her reaction is to say, for the first time in her life, "I don't believe you."
- Phony Psychic: Her predictions are hilariously generic, basically applying to everyone and covering every possible scenario while being very vague.
Constance Brockhollow
Constance Brockhollow
Played By: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: Badger
- Beware the Nice Ones: The most down-to-earth and reasonable of the Brockhollow family. Doesn't stop her from delivering an absolutely brutal Curb-Stomp Battle against the criminals impersonating police officers who have taken over Loam Hall.
- Go-Getter Girl: She is a spirited, modern, progressive young woman.
Jeremy Brockhollow
Jeremy "Jez" Brockhollow
Played By: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: Badger
- The Alcoholic: Takes an instant like to Buckster over their shared love of alcohol.
- Straight Gay: He'd seem like a womanizing playboy if it weren't for the fact he has a husband.
- Upper-Class Twit: Enjoys a luxurious lifestyle and living off his daddy's money.
Dr. Corbin Magpie
Corbin Magpie
Played By: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: Magpie
- Penny Among Diamonds: It is painfully obvious that despite marrying a rich wife that Dr. Magpie is from a poor background. His whole body is described as being in a permanently apologetic position, as if he feels guilty to even be among such rich and affluent people.
Osmond Sheffield
Osmond Sheffield
Played By: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: Ram
- Straight Gay: Like his husband, there is nothing campy about him.
Servants
Thomas Gilfoyle
Thomas Gilfoyle
Played By: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: Rat
- The Butler Did It: Averted thus far.
Matilda Molesly
Matilda Molesly
Played By: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: Mole
- Easy Amnesia: Has a form of epilepsy that causes short-term memory loss when exposed to sudden bright lights. As it turns out, only bright artificial lights, which reveals that her memory lapse at the time of the Squire's death was not caused by lightning, but by a Blinding Camera Flash courtesy of Fletcher.
- Kindly Housekeeper: She's sweet and kind to everyone, even Gangie.
- Old Retainer: She's been with the Brockhollow family her entire life and used to be William's nanny.
Ambrose Harding
Ambrose Harding
Played By: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: Turtle
- Boom, Headshot!: How he gets killed by Eugenia Bristlebrush.
- Co-Dragons: Alongside Hawkins, he's one of the people closest to Cottonbottom in the plot to fake the deaths of the Brockhollows.
Milo Snout
Milo Snout
Played By: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: Pug
Basil Baskins
Basil Baskins
Played By: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: Lizard
Ollie Banks
Ollie Banks
Played By: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: Otter
- The Bartender: His whole job, complete with being willing to lend an ear to his patrons' woes.
Maggie Banks
Maggie Banks
Played By: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: Otter
- Large and in Charge: In the kitchen, she towers over the rest of the staff who are all mice.
Alfred Honeyhatch
Alfred Honeyhatch
Played By: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: Mouse
Mollie Milton and Millie Molton
Mollie Milton and Millie Molton
Played By: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: Mice
- Alliterative Name: Both of them.
Tessa Teapot
Tessa Teapot
Played By: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: Mouse
Carolyn Dickory
Carolyn Dickory
Played By: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: Mouse
- Curtain Camouflage: She and Edwina attempt to hide behind a curtain so Buckster won't catch them playing hooky.
Edwina Thimble
Edwina Thimble
Played By: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: Mouse
- Curtain Camouflage: She and Carolyn attempt to hide behind a curtain so Buckster won't catch them playing hooky.
Rosalind Crumb
Rosalind Crumb
Played By: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: Mouse
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: She offers to show Daisy "her whole butt", which Brennan elaborates is not a normal thing for animals, and is just a quirk of Rosalind's
- Interplay of Sex and Violence: It's a running gag that no one can tell if she's offering to fuck somebody or kill them.
John Sprout
John Sprout
Played By: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: Mouse
- Meaningful Name: The gardener's last name is Sprout.
Templeton Padhop
Templeton Padhop
Played By: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: Frog
- Expy: As an amphibian who likes driving he seems to have been inspired by Mr. Toad from The Wind in the Willows. Although, Templeton is a low-class servant in comparison to Mr. Toad, who was an Upper-Class Twit.
- Frog Men: Essentially what he is given the anthropomorphic nature of the characters.
Party Guests
Armond Armadillo
Armond Armadillo
Played By: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: Armadillo
- Beleaguered Assistant: He is treated like dirt by Buckster and Daisy who encourage complete strangers to get in on the abuse too, all while his sound financial advice falls on deaf ears.
Lady Eugenia Bristlebrush
Eugenia Bristlebrush
Played By: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: Squirrel
- Grumpy Old Woman: She complains about everything and considers everyone at the party - including herself - to be selfish, arrogant people who deserve to get murdered. She's also old.
- Misanthrope Supreme: Hates everyone and everything and wishes they'd all drop dead.
Lord Eustace Bramble
Eustace Bramble
Played By: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: Cow
- Interspecies Romance: A cow married to a hedgehog.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Shows shades of this during his first interraction with vicar Prescott, albeit with piety instead of rules; When his wife insists that they should to penance, he simply asks the vicar how much money he should donate, then stuffs that amount into the vicar's pocket.
Lady Winnifred Bramble
Winnifred Bramble
Played By: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: Hedgehog
- Comically Missing the Point: She asks Vicar Ian Prescott what pious women should do about the wickedness spreading among the people. Ian tells her that they must take the lead and take action rather than standing by and hoping somebody else will save them. Lady Winnifred agrees... and resolves to pray for someone else to take action.
Lady Calliope Fawnbrook
Calliope Fawnbrook
Played By: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: Deer
- Expy: While descriping her appearance and personality, Brennan draws reference to Isadora Duncan.
- Lipstick Lesbian: Married to Lady Tabitha Fawnbrook.
- Opposites Attract: Calliope is a graceful woman and is married to the flamboyant Tabitha.
- Proper Lady: Uses her Establishing Character Moment to help the housekeeper Molesly to her feet after she fell over when startled by Lawrence's camera flash.
Lady Tabitha Fawnbrook
Tabitha Fawnbrook
Played By: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race:
- Lipstick Lesbian: Married to Lady Calliope Fawnbrook.
- Opposites Attract: A talktative, extravagant cat married to a regal, conservative deer.
Lord Eoighan McCrae
Eoighan McCrae
Played By: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: Sheep
- Brave Scot: Averted. He's the only one to scream at the sight of Constance Brockhollow and Dr. Corbin Magpie's bodies.
Lawrence Longfoot
Lawrence Longfoot
Played By: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: Hare
- Camera Fiend: Always seems to have his camera close at hand, however, it might just be because he knew that famed celebrity detective Sylvester Cross would be at the party and he wants photographs.
Colonel James Hawkins
James Hawkins
Played By: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: Hawk
- Co-Dragons: Alongside Ambrose, he ends up being the second-in-command to Fletcher in the plot to fake the deaths of the majority of the Brockhollow family. He bears a lot of guilt for having to murder one of his most trusted friends.
- Fire-Forged Friends: With Squire William. They're old war buddies.
Professor Simon Shellcrest
Simon Shellcrest
Played By: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: Snail
- The Professor: Pretty much all we know about them.
Catherine McCabbage
Catherine McCabbage
Played By: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: Mouse
Red Herring
Red Herring
Played By: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: Herring
- Last Episode, New Character: Only gets mentioned in the final episode as the scapegoat for Buckster's distraction.
- Oh, No... Not Again!: His reaction to the accusation.Red Herring: Not again. I am an innocent fish, this keeps happening. I should never have come to this dinner party.
- Red Herring: Subverted. Whilst he may literally be a red herring, he doesn't serve the purpose the trope usually does. Rather than being interweaved throughout the story, he is instead bluntly introduced at the last moment. And he's used so the protagonists can distract the villains rather than being a genuine suspect in the murder.
- Visual Pun: A literal red herring that is wrongfully accused.
Other Characters
Fletcher Cottonbottom
Fletcher Cottonbottom
Played By: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: Rabbit
A wily criminal mastermind and Sylvester Cross's late archnemesis, who has been deceased for quite some time before the season's start but whose presence casts a long shadow over Sylvester's current life.
- Big Bad: Fletcher is revealed to be both Squire Badger's murderer and orchestrated the entire dastardly conspiracy behind Connor McCabbage's supposed murder.
- Expy: The Moriarty to Sylvester's Sherlock Holmes.
- The Ghost: Fletcher does not appear in the story proper, due to having been dead for a number of years. Except for briefly in the shadows between lightning strikes, that is.
- Hair-Raising Hare: A devious international criminal who gave Sylvester a run for his money back in the day.
- Hoist by Their Own Petard: Fletcher ends up getting electrocuted by the very lightning rod that he used to murder Squire Badger.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: So far, we don't know if he really died or no, and if he did, was it truly his ghost that we saw, or some other trick?
- Posthumous Character: Was noted to have been killed during what Sylvester calls "The Cottonbottom Caper," which happened almost a decade before the start of the side-quest. Though Sylvester seeing a distant silhouette of Fletcher at Loam Hall right before Squire Brockhollow's murder calls into question how dead he really is.
- Murder-Suicide: When Sylvester had him cornered, Fletcher handcuffed them together and tossed himself of a waterfall, intending to take his archnemesis with him. Sylvester survives by picking the lock, but Fletcher seemingly dies from the fall.
- Right Under Their Noses: Successfully infiltrates Squire Badger's party and avoids detection until the final episode by disguising himself as the hare Lawrence Longfoot, with several of the players berating themselves after the fact for thinking it too obvious an answer.
- White Bunny: His appearance. His red eyes serve to give him a sinister vibe. His fur color also makes it easy for him to disguise himself as Lawrence Longfoot.
Connor McCabbage
Connor McCabbage
Played By: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: Mouse
An employee of Squire William Thornwall Brockhollow at a textile mill that died in a suspicious industrial accident. Detective Slyvester Cross was hired to investigate but was unable to solve the mystery.
- Posthumous Character: Died in what appears to have been an industrial accident due to negligence before the beginning of the game. Subverted in the final episode when it is revealed Connor has actually been alive the whole time.
Eel Musk
Eel Musk
- Race:Eel
A technology entrepreneur and owner of a major telephone company called "5G".
- Ascended Meme: Essentially what the entire character is. The players made a joke about "Eel Musk" and kept rolling with it until Brennan decided to just let it be a real NPC in the world at large. They even got the season artist - Tucker Donovan - to do official artwork for him.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Implied. The Sylvan Sleuths believe he is using his telephones to spy on people, and Daisy theorizes that his company, "5G", was responsible for a recent debilitating illness.
- Expy: Clearly named after Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and Space X, though, in real life Musk doesn't own a telephone company (which might be due to combining him and Thomas Edison).
- The Ghost: Never makes a physical appearance in the story but is referred to as a joke consistently.