Characters / Sagas Of Sundry

Both Seasons:

The Storyteller

"Make a pull."

Played by Ivan Van Norman

• Character Filibuster: Goes without saying, but Ivan will continue to talk while players are making pulls from the tower. In addition to keeping the tension high, it also gives insights into the situation and the mental states of the characters. Especially impressive, Ivan performs all of his filibusters without stuttering or pausing.
• Killer Game Master: Averted. While any situation that calls for a pull and results in the tower falling will yield a fatal result, Ivan also gives the players occasional challenges that can result in making fewer pulls or even returning blocks to the tower.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: A three piece suit in Madness.
• The Narrator

Mr. Wren

"These are the Sagas of Sundry, I am Mr. Wren..."

Played by Darin De Paul

• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Each episode of Sagas of Sundry begins with Mr. Wren addressing the watcher and setting the mood.
• Cheshire Cat Grin: Just look at that smile.
• Evil Laugh: More a chuckle than a laugh, but it is still unnerving.
• Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant
• Sharp-Dressed Man: A smoking jacket in Dread and a three piece suit in Madness.

Dread Characters:

Sat

Played by: Satine Phoenix

• Addled Addict: During the year since the first camping trip, Sat became a heavy drug user, eventually overdosing and having to be resuscitated. After the events of the second camping trip, Satine felt that she might eventually become a recovered addict with enough time and therapy.
• Bindle Stick: Actually a backpack, but everything that Sat owns is in it. She does not take it well at all when Darby's ritual leads to its destruction.
  Sat: That was all my stuff! That was it, that's all I had left, right there! And its gone 'cause your stupid, stupid thing that you did!... I said I was living alone and in that tent and I'm not allowed to go home and that was all I had left. Thanks a lot. Not cool!
• It's All My Fault: After Tanner is killed, Sat blames herself for his death and vows to continue the quest if it means Tanner can be resurrected.
  Sat: I have to save Tanner, I have to, he's my oldest friend and I just didn't believe in him and I pushed him too far and he sacrificed himself like an idiot. I just have to get him back 'cause if any of this is actually real like, he can totally come back to life. I just need to see him again at least.
• The Leader: Sat describes herself as the ringleader of the group.
• We Used to Be Friends: Sat is upset that none of the group has kept in contact with her for most of the past year and calls them out on it after revealing that she was left homeless.
  Sat: Nobody asked! Nobody called me!

Kayden

Played by: Taliesin Jaffe

• Badass Normal: What other term can describe someone willing to take on an eldritch spirit with nothing more than a broken bottle of whisky?
  Kayden: Fucking cut you motherfucker! Carve my name into your goddamn face! Fucking end you!
• Death Seeker: That pack that Kayden carries everywhere and insists on grabbing from the ruins of a collapsed building? It contains a homemade bomb. Taliesin revealed in an interview that Kayden had no intention of leaving the mountainside alive, either through suicide or by pulling a Taking You with Me on whatever supernatural entity was plaguing the group.
• Delinquent Hair: A large mohawk partially dyed purple to be specific.
• Emotion Suppression: Kayden has been depressed for most of the past year, possibly even longer than that and can't see the genuine emotions that other people can have for each other.
  Taliesin: The trick to a character like Kayden was he was deeply and completely depressed, he was in a deep depression that had been lasting a very very long time and when you're somebody who is in that state one of the things that happens is you start to get this weird dysmorphia when you watch people interact with each other, which is that things like caring and loving interactions look fake or you start to wonder why people are interacting a way, who's getting what out of which relationship and why they're trying to manipulate the other person and so he was beyond the point of feeling any actual love or care for any of these people. He was mostly just trying to prove, find ways of undermining the relationships to prove that they weren't real, finding ways of undermining peoples emotions to prove that they weren't real and if they did prove to be real, finding ways of just taking it out of pure envy, not out of any desire.
• Sir Swears Alot
• Sour Outside, Sad Inside: Kayden pisses off everyone around him and keeps them at arms length. But even he is saddened by Tanner's heroic sacrifice and defaces a goat skull that he finds soon after, stating that doing so at least made him feel better.
• Take This Job and Shove It: Kayden did this to pretty much his whole life before setting off on the camping trip.
  Kayden I don't have a home anymore. I gave up everything. There was not really much to give, to be honest. I had nothing going for me, I didn't have any fucking friends, I worked at a fucking videostore, badly. I've been dead for a while. Fuck it, if I'm gonna go out, let's do this the right way.

Darby Trellis

Played by: Amy Vorphal

• Blue-Collar Warlock: Darby's investigations lead her to the knowledge of at least two ritual spells which she performs in Episodes one and four.
• Sanity Slippage: Darby says that after leaving the mountain, she had what others would consider a "freak out" and buried herself in paranormal investigation, trying to find any information and lore that she could about The Goatman.
• The Cassandra: Darby insists that The Goatman is on the side of good and is trying to help the group. Incredibly, she is completely correct.

Raina Fuller

Played by: Amy Dallen

• Anger Born of Worry: When Darby talks about performing a ritual to protect the group, Raina is immediately resistant to the idea.
• I Can Change My Beloved: Raina believes that Darby is losing her mind thanks to the camping trip the previous year and thinks getting through the new trip will help her recover her sanity.
  Raina: This is gonna prove that it's just a camping trip, we're gonna make it through, everything's gonna be fine and I'm gonna help bring her back to earth.
• Team Mom: Raina takes over this position from Tanner after his death.
  Raina: I am not letting my friends put themselves in danger, if I can help it.
• Tragic Keepsake: Tanner's camera after his death. It breaks Raina's heart when the group destroy the film roll containing the last photos Tanner took during the final ritual and it does nothing.

Tanner Sills

Played by: Matthew Mercer

• Camera Fiend: Tanner always has his camera with him. He gives it to Raina right before his last stand against the zombie horde.
• Devoured by the Horde: His demise at the hands of the zombie horde.
• Dying Declaration of Love: "I love you Sat."
• Headbutting Heroes: Tanner detests Kayden, believing that he drugged the group the previous year and that he is responsible for everything that has gone wrong in Sat's life.
• Jumped at the Call: Tanner hasn't been able to move on from or connect to anyone since the first camping trip, but never would have acted on his own to resolve it. When Sat called however...
  Ivan: He couldn't get away from it and it became an obsession that he wouldn't act on, but when the first opportunity came up to get them back together he just leapt up in a heartbeat.
• Spooky Photographs: Since the previous camping trip, Tanner has developed a minor obsession with taking pictures of the dark space around what he should be photographing.
  Tanner: For every photograph of darkness that I take and develop and there's nothing there helps soothe me and know that whatever it is we encountered isn't following me still.
• Unrequited Love Lasts Forever: Matt revealed that Tanner had an unhealthy devotion to Sat, holding an idealized image of her in his head from when they were growing up together and doesn't want her to grow as a person beyond the time period that he remembered most fondly.

Madness Characters:

Emmett Markham

Played by: Liam O'Brien

Emmett is an introverted playwright from New York, who chose to live the life of a starving artist, leaving those he cared about behind.

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• Crowbar Combatant: Emmett eventually settles on using the crowbar as his primary weapon.
• Stress Vomit: When Emmett is visited by the apparition of Sam in his apartment bathroom, he empties his stomach down the toilet.

Fenly Emerson

Played by: Xander Jeanneret

Fenly is a people-loving person who is inclined to like — and trust — everyone he meets. Though that gregarious nature has led him astray in the past...

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• Alone Among the Couples: Downplayed, while Abigail and Jude have hooked up previously, it isn't until after Fenly's death that Emmett and Selina start to show romantic feelings for each other.
• Heroic Sacrifice: When the residents open up the black door and are almost ejected into the vacuum of space, Fenly allows everyone else to use his body as a human ladder to climb to safety, but is left exhausted and is sucked out into the void.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Fenly's abusive ex-boyfriend kept him from making any friendships, forcing Fenly to rely on him for emotional support.
• Starving Artist: Apart from wanting to make a few friends, Fenly hoped that he could use his rooftop party as an opportunity to sell some of his paintings.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: If Fenly hadn't removed the fuse from the wall, the machine wouldn't have switched off.

Abigail Persimmon

Played by: Marisha Ray

Abigail is an aspiring actress in Los Angeles who struggles with her own seething inner rage. Don’t ask her about it, though, or you might end up just like her father...

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• Beneath the Mask: Abigail will put on a mask of being quite bubbly and friendly, but will drop the mask and show a much harder and confrontational side if called out on it.
• Can't Take Criticism: Abigail does NOT react kindly to being insulted or judged and immediately goes on the verbal offensive when Selina calls her a bad actress.
• Hobo: During the first episode, Abigail's solo section is more a prologue that shows how she became a resident of the building and after being aggressively pushed by the Landlord, revealed her living situation...
  Abigail: Look, I'm broke, I don't know anybody and I've been living under a goddamn overpass since I got here... I don't have anything to screw up right now man, I am just... this place was affordable, I don't have any credit, I've got what I have in my pocket right now and I promise you won't hear a damn word from me.
• In Love with Your Carnage: Abigail's response when Jude hits a cultist in the head with a crowbar and then stabs him in the throat to finish him off?
  Abigail: Now y'all see why I wanted to tap that.
• Meaningful Rename: Her birth name was Cathy, but she hates it.
  Abigail: No one likes who their born as. Me changing my name has nothing to do with, other than I hate the name Cathy... It's just a memory that you don't wanna remember anymore. I'm just trying to get away from bad memories. That's all Abigail means.
• Revolvers Are Just Better: Abigail proves to be fairly proficient with a revolver, hitting with all four of the shots that she took and PistolWhipping one cultist unconscious.
• Self-Made Orphan: Possibly; Abigail isn't sure if she finished the job, but she is sure that during a vicious argument with her father, she did shoot him.
• Small Town Boredom: Abigail hated the small town that she grew up in and left it behind, wanting to become an actress.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Started this way with Selina, but by the end of Madness has evolved into Fire-Forged Friends.
  Abigail: (To Selina) Hey. You're the person out of us that can actually be worth a damn. You have a future... We're in your DNA remember?

Jude Marley

Played by: Jeremy Walker

Jude is a true bon-vivant, living on the edge and trying to make the most of his life. Past his bigger-than-life exterior, he hides personal tragedies, including the suffering and loss of loved ones...

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• Blood Knight: It really doesn't take long for Jude to become a knife nut with a tooth taken from a giant sand worm.
• Cigarette of Anxiety: Jude requires very little reason to smoke, but he's particularly likely to reach for his smokes when he is stressed.
• My Greatest Failure: Jude's best friend Jordan died in front of him when they were teenagers and Jude never told another soul.
• Sympathetic Adulterer: It never came up in the series, but Jeremy revealed in the One Night Only: Madness special that Jude had a girlfriend that he hated being in a relationship with while he was occasionally sleeping with Abigail.

Selina Tsukiyama

Played by: Erika Ishii

Selina is a brilliant but bored young woman who copes with mental illness by immersing herself in a new technology: the Internet.

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• Ambiguously Bi: Selina is introduced private messaging with her boyfriend (who may or may not be real), and becomes romantically interested in Emmett. However one of the questions that Ivan asked Erika when they first started developing Selina as a character was if she was interested in anyone else in the building and Erika's answer?
  Erika: The cute girl in the mail room (Abigail).
• Carry a Big Stick: Selina's weapon of choice by the end of the game is a sledgehammer that looks almost as big as her.
• The Cracker: Selina is introduced planning a hacking job on a former tenant of the apartment building who has been stealing from the unethical company he works for.
• Reluctant Psycho: Selina clearly has some issues with both visual and audible hallucinations which she is able to keep in check (somewhat) with her survival mantra. As the tears between the worlds become more and more intrusive, it becomes even more difficult for Selina to differentiate between her hallucinations and reality.
• Sole Survivor: By the end of Madness, Selina is left alone in the hotel after the tear closes behind her with Emmett, Jude and Abigail still in the other world.
• Survival Mantra: "The walls are real, I'm real". Towards the climax, she adds "My friends are real".
• Take Up My Sword: As the only survivor still in a position to do something, Selina has taken over the Landlord's vigil, making sure that the machine that keeps the worlds separated stays on, all while looking for another door that will lead her back to her friends...