The California Voodoo Game

Selected Dramatis Personae

Dream Park and Cowles Industries

ALEX GRIFFIN: Chief of Security

MILLICENT SUMMERS: Financial operations officer

THADDEUS HARMONY: Chief of Operations, Dream Park

TONY McWHIRTER: Data operations, IFGS liaison

SHARON CRAYNE: Cowles Industries security executive

MITCH HASEGAWA: Dream Park Security

DOCTOR NORMAN VAIL: Dream Park psychologist

International Fantasy Gaming Society (IFGS):

ELMO WHITMAN: Game Master

DORIS WHITMAN: Game Master

RICHARD LOPEZ: Game Master of international reputation

MITSUKO "CHI–CHI" LOPEZ: Game Master of equal renown

ARLAN MEYERS: IFGS arbiter

Gamers:

The University of California "Manhunters":

ACACIA 'PANTHESILEA' GARCIA: Loremaster, Warrior

CORBY 'CAPTAIN CIPHER' CAULDWELL: Magic User

MATI 'TOP NUN' COHEN: Cleric

STEFFIE 'ACES' WILDE: Engineer/Scout

TERRANCE 'PREZ' COOLIDGE: Warrior

CORRINDA HARDING: Thief

Texas Instruments-Mitsubishi "Cyberjocks":

ALPHONSE NAKAGAWA: Loremaster, Warrior

CRYSTAL COFAX: Engineer/Scout

MARY-MARTHA 'MARY-EM' CORBETT: Warrior

PEGGY 'THE HOOK' HOOKHAM: Engineer

FRIAR DUCK: Cleric/Magic User

OSWALD 'OZZIE THE PIKE' MURPHY: Warrior

Apple Computer "Troglodykes":

TWAN TSING: Loremaster, Magic User

TAMMI ROMATI: Loremaster' Magic User

MOUSER ROMATI: Thief

APPELION: Warrior, Magic User

GORDON REESE: Scout

GEORGE 'INDIANA' HOWARDS: Warrior

Army:

MAJOR TERRY CLAVELL: Loremaster, Magic User

CORPORAL S. J. WATERS: Scout/Thief

LIEUTENANT MADONNA PHILLIPS: Warrior

LAWRENCE BLACK ELK: Cleric, Magic User

GENERAL HARRY EVIL POULE: Warrior/Scout

CHAIM COHEN: Cleric

General Dynamics:

NIGEL BISHOP: Loremaster, Magic User

HOLLY FROST: Warrior, Thief

TREVOR STONE: Magic User

TAMASAN: Cleric

ILSA RADICHEV: Warrior

MIKHAIL RADICHEV: Warrior

Glossary:

THE BARSOOM PROJECT: the ongoing attempt to transform Mars into a habitat suitable for human life. Named after the Martian locale in novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

CHARACTER: a role played by a Gamer, in broad categories such as Magic User, Scout, Engineer, Cleric, and Warrior. Characters are often continued from one Game to the next. During Games, Gamers accumulate points, talismans, and treasures, which strengthen their characters. Gamers can also "split" accumulated points to create a character with abilities in two different areas: for instance, a Scout/Warrior.

COWLES INDUSTRIES: Dream Park's parent corporation. Driving force behind the Barsoom Project.

GAME MASTER: one of those responsible for designing and guiding Dream Park "Gaming" scenarios.

LOREMASTER: one of those who plays within a scenario, recruiting and guiding a team of Gamers.

MIMIC: Meacham Incorporated Mojave Industrial Community.

NPC (NON-PLAYER CHARACTER): an actor who performs within a Dream Park scenario. Often, but not always, in opposition to Gamers.

PALO MAYOMBE: Congolese variant of voodoo. Generally thought to be violent and death-oriented.

SANTARIA: a Latin American variant of voodoo.

SCANNET: MIMIC's security system.

VOODOO: a belief system, or system of magic, incorporating African and European cosmologies.