Principal Characters
Bell
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Bell (formally known as Belladonna) rented a room from Nils until she won the lottery, at which point she bought half the house. She has just taken over running The White Rose, a nearby pub. She tries not to let her gothic tendencies get in the way of her life. |
Elizabeth
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Elizabeth is a friend of Bell's who works at the University of London Library. She reads a lot. She's renting a room from Bell and Nils. Caution: attempting to understand Elizabeth's mutterings may be hazardous to your sanity. |
Nils
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Nils is a sysadmin at MegaGloboBank who owns half a house in Limehouse. Nils is originally from Durban, and did a stint in the South African Army before coming to live in England. |
Other denizens of the flat
Beatrice
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Younger Camembert Description: Sentient[?] Name: Beatrice Status: Query,Lodger/Query,Lunch |
Camille
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Elder Camembert Description: Sentient[?] Name: Camille Status: Query,Lodger/Query,Lunch |
Cat
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Description: unofficial, English, flatfaced. Name: Blackmalkin Name: Oiyougerroutovere Name: [unavailable] Status: Definitely non-resident. No, really. |
Putative mouse, or mice
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It is unlikely that the presence or absence of this character or characters can be readily established. Though occasionally noisy, mice tend to happen too fast for accurate observation. |
MegaGloboBank
Derek
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Derek was Nils' boss at MegaGloboBank. He still considered himself "one of the lads", though he never really was. |
Ginny
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Ginny is one of Nils' cow-orkers at MegaGloboBank. She cooks to extremes, and is no mean dietician, but has little patience for culinary frills. |
Jaakko
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Jaakko is one of Nils' cow-orkers at MegaGloboBank. He comes originally from Kuusamo, in Northern Ostrobothnia. He rides a bicycle and is an anime fan, generally not indulging both hobbies at the same time. |
Yves
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Yves is a sysadmin, Nils' counterpart at the Paris office of MegaGloboBank. He's somewhat stressed. |
The White Rose
Alan
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A regular at The White Rose. Extremely good at darts, which is somewhat irrelevant as the pub has no dartboard. |
Caz
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A carpenter by trade; friend of Elizabeth and, by association with the White Rose, of Bell. |
Citz
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New bar staff at the White Rose, which is probably the nicest place she's worked at. |
Jaz
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Caz's boyfriend, an electrician. |
Mandi
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Mandi doesn't talk very much and almost never wisecracks, unlike almost everyone else. Steve liked her because she doesn't talk very much and almost never wisecracks. |
Robin
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Robin was Bell's squeeze, whom she met at a mediaeval banquet she was helping Ginny to serve. |
Steve
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Steve was the landlord at The White Rose. After leaving the forces, he achieved every sergeant's dream by taking over a London pub. He found the ordinary customer less organised than the average squaddie, but only just. He has now handed over the White Rose to Bell. |