On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode One/Characters

Aside from the player's avatar, there are a number of characters in New Arcadia who will play recurring roles within the story.

You
The player character's appearance is customized before starting the game. Your home on Desperation St. was destroyed by a giant robot, and you decided to hunt it down, for revenge and for insurance purposes.


 * Special attacks: Press or Space as the arrow passes over each target; hitting all four will cause your enemy to "bleed" for a short time. More powerful attacks require you to hit moving targets increase damage cause by both the initial strike and the bleed effect.

John "Gabe" Gabriel
"Believing that "all famous people start out as orphans," Johnathan Gabriel left home at an early age. Learning to fight on the mean streets of New Arcadia, this path would ultimately take him to the top of the prize-fighting circuit. Everything was going great - that is, until he fought the devil. It's kind of a long story, ask me later. His parents are still quite worried."

- Official bio


 * Special attacks: Rapidly press or Space to fill the attack meter before the timer runs out, then press it again when the marker passes over the target area. More powerful attacks have a shorter timer, but can stun single or multiple enemies.

Tycho Brahe
"Upon graduating from New Arcadia's Old Academy with a Doctorate in Apocalyptics, Tycho Brahe founded the Startling Developments Detective Agency. With its charter to "Tread, without fear, in the whispering dark," he and partner Johnathan Gabriel take on those cases too startling for their contemporaries."

- Official bio


 * Special attacks: Shoot the targets in the order as they appear using the directional keys or, , and . More powerful attacks require you to hit more targets, but can inflict damage on multiple opponents.

T. Kemper
This cat is lazy, even by cat standards. He joins your party during the tutorial. Has a 1 in 2,104,294 chance of coughing up a devastating furball, causing 999 damage to all opponents, but usually only inflicts a single point of damage on each enemy.
 * Special Move: Grooming (or Dooming)

Anne-Claire Forthwith
Tycho Brahe's niece is a mechanical genius. She is ordinarily forbidden to see him, so it's lucky that her parents are often on vacation. She joins the party after retrieving the Steaming Bolt during The Game Is Afoot. Showers enemies with pure butane fury, dealing 100 points of damage to each opponent. Double damage vs. Fruit Fuckers.
 * Special Move: Flamethrower

Fuchsia
Anne-Claire's modified robot is mostly reformed. Fuchsia joins the party after Anne-Claire adjusts the inactive robot found during The Game Is Afoot to Anne-Claire. A stronger and stronger blast with each use, starting at 25 and increasing to 300 points of damage.
 * Special Move: Rainbow

James Filth
A sanitation worker in Hobo Alley. There is a poet here, somewhere beneath the rancid butter and the other disgusting shit.

Gerhard Kettle
A social worker in the east of Hobo Alley. This man is as sensitive and genuine as you are likely to meet, outside of the greeting card industry.

Dr. Ernald P. Wimple
A hobo scientist in the north of Hobo Alley. This old man, whose suit must have been very snappy thirty years ago, positively reeks of urine.

Kurtis Swindell
A reputable vendor, who runs the souvenir stand at the entrance to Pelican Bay boardwalk. It seems like he could use medication of some kind. Perhaps many kinds.

Dr. Coriander Stripe
An ex-mime scientist on the Pelican Bay boardwalk who has lost the tools of his trade. You wonder what strange events conspired to create a mime who is also a scientist.