Characters

Fifty-three operants, controls, bystanders, and the Whole Sick Crew — Hershel's burned Portofiro network. Each entry covers cryptonym, allegiance, where you meet them, and what they want from CASCADE. The cast list for a 60-hour conversation.

53 entries

Ancient Clothing Vendor

Ancient Clothing Vendor is the descriptive title for Carmuna Pessoa. See the main entry.

Ansaunne

Ansaunne is a wealthy Developed-World country known for its bogs and its poets.

Bazaar GM

The Bazaar GM is the Guardia Municipal carabinero managing the Bootleg Bazaar's western entrance in Quisach. On the launch wiki, this role is held by Little Maurito.

Carmuna Pessoa

Carmuna Pessoa is a vendor in Quisach's Bootleg Bazaar who sells used clothing.

CASCADE

Hershel Wilk , cryptonym CASCADE , is the protagonist of ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies .

Cigar-Smoking Old Man

Cigar-Smoking Old Man is the descriptive title for Slava. See the main entry.

Constanz, the Photo Lady

Constanz, the Photo Lady is the owner of Foto 24 in Portofiro, and an asset of the Operant Bureau.

Duchess

Duchess is the operator of the Miracle Line, a phone-sex hotline permanently connected to a broken older-model payphone in The Backways of Quisach. The target of A Gift for Duchess.

ESTOC

Ezsti Newitz , cryptonym ESTOC , was one of Hershel Wilk's assets in Portofiro.

Ezsti

Ezsti Newitz , cryptonym ESTOC , was one of Hershel Wilk's assets in Portofiro.

Ezsti Newitz

Ezsti Newitz , cryptonym ESTOC , was one of Hershel Wilk's assets in Portofiro.

Fangèd Beast

Fangèd Beast is the descriptive title for the King of Trade. See the main entry.

Gravel-Eyed Pilot

Gravel-Eyed Pilot is the descriptive title for Pigeon. See the main entry.

Hershel Wilk

Hershel Wilk, cryptonym CASCADE, is the burned Superbloc operant you play in Zero Parades — Mircean exile, ex-Whole Sick Crew lead, recalled to Portofiro in '96.

HOLOCENE

HOLOCENE is an operant of the Operant Bureau.

Honey-Voiced Woman

Honey-Voiced Woman is the descriptive title for Duchess. See the main entry.

Karolina

Karolina Hayato , cryptonym KINDRED , was one of Hershel Wilk's assets in Portofiro.

Karolina Hayato

Karolina Hayato , cryptonym KINDRED , was one of Hershel Wilk's assets in Portofiro.

KINDRED

Karolina Hayato , cryptonym KINDRED , was one of Hershel Wilk's assets in Portofiro.

Little Maurito

Little Maurito is the Guardia Municipal 'agente coordenador' carabinero posted at the western entrance to the Bootleg Bazaar in Quisach.

Loud João

Loud João is a retired, expatriate airplane pilot who drinks with Pigeon and Slava in The Backways of Quisach. The third regular at the Backways pilots' table.

Malen

Malen is a vendor in Quisach's Bootleg Bazaar.

Man in Captain's Hat

Man in Captain's Hat is the descriptive title for Loud João. See the main entry.

Man in the Ugly Coat

The Man in the Ugly Coat is a photographer who resides in Quisach.

Man with a Bag on His Head

Subcomandante Bagman is a conspiracy theorist who broadcasts his own television show, Reality Situation, across Portofiro.

Melita

Melita is an operant of the Operant Bureau and the handler of Hershel Wilk.

Mysterious Teenage Girl

Mysterious Teenage Girl is an individual who knows Hershel Wilk works for the Operant Bureau. She and an unseen driver arrive on a tuk tuk outside the Bootleg Bazaar to help Hershel escape the Man in the Ugly Coat.

Party Alley GM

The Party Alley GM is a Guardia Municipal carabinero who answers undirected calls made through the payphone at the western entrance to the Bootleg Bazaar.

Party Shop Vendor

Party Shop Vendor is the descriptive title for Malen. See the main entry.

Petre, the Format Fetishist

Petre, the Format Fetishist is a vendor in Quisach's Bootleg Bazaar who sells audio discs.

Phone Sex Addict

The Phone Sex Addict is an expensively-dressed man found using the Miracle Line in The Backways of Quisach.

Photo Lady

Constanz, the Photo Lady is the owner of Foto 24 in Portofiro, and an asset of the Operant Bureau.

Pigeon

Pigeon is a retired, expatriate airplane pilot who drinks with Loud João and Slava in The Backways of Quisach. He escaped St. Ulwen on a stolen Luzian cargo plane just before the berrion bombing, and he hands out the Critical Wolf Cup.

PSEUDOPOD

PSEUDOPOD is Hershel Wilk's double in Zero Parades — the Operant Bureau agent left catatonic at Foto 24 by a red audio disc. The inciting incident of the whole game.

RADIAN

Ramses Molloy , cryptonym RADIAN , was one of Hershel Wilk's assets in Portofiro.

Ramses

Ramses Molloy , cryptonym RADIAN , was one of Hershel Wilk's assets in Portofiro.

Ramses Molloy

Ramses Molloy , cryptonym RADIAN , was one of Hershel Wilk's assets in Portofiro.

Rare Media Vendor

Rare Media Vendor is the descriptive title for Petre, the Format Fetishist. See the main entry.

Slava

Slava is a retired, expatriate airplane pilot who drinks with Pigeon and Loud João in The Backways of Quisach. Carries an old Tenantry passport and jokes about using it to 'return home.'

Stranded Passenger

The Stranded Passenger is a Tsunese man waiting in Quisach Roundabout for aero-tram Line 9 to be completed so he can leave Portofiro. Line 9 isn't being completed.

Sturdy Pony

Sturdy Pony is a Portofiran cigarette brand. Consumable item — Delirium -5, Fatigue +2.

Subcomandante Bagman

Subcomandante Bagman is the paper-bag-headed conspiracy-theorist host of Reality Situation, a television show that broadcasts across Portofiro.

Sword-Wielding Child

The Sword-Wielding Child is a young boy who watches television with the Transfixed Child in the Bootleg Bazaar of Quisach. He can recite 59 of the 66 wolves from Sixty-Six Wolves by name.

TAXMAN

Tempo del Sur , cryptonym TAXMAN , was one of Hershel Wilk's assets in Portofiro.

Tempo

Tempo del Sur , cryptonym TAXMAN , was one of Hershel Wilk's assets in Portofiro.

Tempo del Sur

Tempo del Sur, cryptonym TAXMAN, is the Whole Sick Crew bootlegger you find murdered above the Bootleg Bazaar in Zero Parades — the body that opens Hershel's case in Quisach.

The Boatman

The Boatman is a Rustamian man who lounges aboard his boat at the Old Docks in Quisach.

The Boatman

The Boatman is a Rustamian man who lounges aboard his boat at the Old Docks in Quisach. See the main entry.

The Phantom Line Engineer

The Phantom Line Engineer is a Carriles de Portofiro aero-tram engineer who idles atop the unfinished Line 9 pylon at the Old Docks, watching the Bootleg Bazaar.

Transfixed Child

The Transfixed Child is a young girl who watches television in the Bootleg Bazaar of Quisach with the Sword-Wielding Child. She's the one who knows the show is still running.

Vespar

Vespar Sondo , cryptonym VIRTUE , was one of Hershel Wilk's assets in Portofiro.

Vespar Sondo

Vespar Sondo , cryptonym VIRTUE , was one of Hershel Wilk's assets in Portofiro.

VIRTUE

Vespar Sondo , cryptonym VIRTUE , was one of Hershel Wilk's assets in Portofiro.