Carrington – Friend of Joseph’s from College and friend of Lula’s. Especially in the dark …"ĭonald – (see "Act III: Hall of the Mountain King") Permanently strange."Įmily, Ben, and Bob – The Bedquilt Ramblers the basement people and Museum visitors main (player) characters in "Limits and Demonstrations." They have been seen playing a game underground in the start of the first act, and seen singing songs throughout-according to the developers, they are "like a chorus in Greek or Elizabethan theatre" or "kind of like the choir in a play – they kind of suggest to the audience how to feel, sometimes." Named after the computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum ('Weizenbaum' is German for 'wheat tree') who created ELIZA (named after the play Pygmalion's Eliza Doolittle), a computer program that took on the persona of a psychotherapist (like the "Psychotherapist" game found on Joseph's computer) this program had a large influence on the development of text-adventures. Created the game "If I Had My Way, I’d Tear the Building Down" shown in the (text) museum near the Márquez farmhouse. According to the Rust Archives, he owns a 1974 VAM Station Wagon (Mexico City) and created a kinetic sculptural art piece (Elizabethtown) in 1968. He created the XANADU software with Lula and Donald, and has also adapted two of Lem’s plays for The Entertainment. Joseph has gray hair and wears glasses, and is blind, or so Lula says. Joseph Wheattree – The owner of Equus Oils. "Which star is your favorite?" "That little one in the corner." How many people can boast as much?" (Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett) "We are not saints, but we've kept our appointment. We hid away in an underground cave and listened to it over and over, and we knew we weren't miners …" "Johnny found some gear-an old tape player. "I came off the assembly line about a half-foot shorter, and all gray. To Johnny, Junebug is "ma'am" to Junebug, Johnny is "cricket." Junebug is heavily based on Loretta Lynn (down to the extravagant blue gown she dons in her performance-see here ), a country singer-songwriter known for the song "Coal Miner's Daughter." Loretta Lynn's husband is named Oliver "Doolittle" Lynn, sharing a name with Lem Doolittle of The Entertainment. ( "She sang about someone she wanted once to have loved.") Used to own a pet frog or toad. Johnny and Junebug performed Lysette's song "Too Late to Love You" together in the Lower Depths tavern. Junebug used to be completely gray colored, altering her appearance by dying her hair blue to reject the uniformity and appear unique… to appear 'specific.' In Act IV, her hair is orange. Androids-robots-who used to work as miners until their escape. Johnny and Junebug – Musicians, motorcyclists, and potential lovers-or perhaps just two who share a common origin. "I don't like music, but I do like sounds." "You want to see the beginning after the ending?" "Maybe it's better that way." When I'm old like you, I'll still be wild." "I bet you were wild when you were younger. "You have to follow the Green river way out east, and then hop over Lake Cumberland! The roads don’t go there." Possibly named after Ezra Pound, an Imagist poet – previous work by the developers, such as A House in California, was in part inspired by Imagist poetry. The Forest's parallax scrolling is, according to the developers, a "bit of an homage" to René Magritte's " Le Blanc-Seing [(A quote from the developers on the concept of parallax can be found in the Kentucky Fried Zero: Act II article, linked in the Recommended Reading section at the end.) Often plays in the woods behind his house, alone. "This is weird, but … do you think we're inside or outside right now?" "Both."Įzra – A boy living in the Museum of Dwellings with his brother Julian, who flies to the Forest with Julian and the people living in the museum houses every night. Collected feathers as a child, but in the way "a clump of dust collects more dust by static electricity." She is named after the mathematician Claude Elwood Shannon, "the father of information theory," and author Gabriel García Márquez. She owns a workshop in the back of a bait and tackle shop up north by Lake Nolin, where Wax and Peonia Road meet. Shannon Márquez – A TV repair woman and Weaver's cousin, helping Conway with his delivery. "Do you think she blames you?" "No, but … It's awful to say, but: sometimes, I kind of wish she would. "Do you have any debts?" "I owe some people some apologies." Conway is likely named after John Conway, a famous mathematician known for Conway's Game of Life. Has a brother, but says he doesn't even know how to get ahold of him these days. Purportedly grew up in the cabin in the Museum of Dwellings. Conway – An older man who works as an antique deliveryman for Lysette’s Antiques, previously as a roofer for Ira.
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