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The Secret Lives of Troubleshooters
Character and Place Guide

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Introduction:

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This is a guide to the people and places appearing, mentioned, or alluded to in The Secret Lives of Troubleshooters. It is not an index to first appearances, let alone all appearances, but it does provide a who's who and a what's where to the thread. Characters and places are listed separately.

Since comparatively few characters are known by both given and surname, Arrangement of Characters is by name in natural order. Note too that some Characters appearing in this thread (most of them briefly) are not named at all. These are entered under brief one or two word descriptions if they can be identified as members of a distinctive group, as Unnamed if they can't, or as Extras if they are simple walk-ons of little or no narrative significance. Characters not named or only partially named in this thread whose full names are known from other threads are entered under their full names. Artifacts which act with volition may be treated as if they are characters.

Places are entered by name. Locales appearing in the thread that are also not named are entered under brief descriptions. --Dabbler.

Characters:

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C: Abraham Lincoln. Character. Historical figure quoted by Marcus Russell. Mentioned.

C: Adama (Avatar). Author Avatar. The BE Addventure's ubiquitous Indexer. Serves as Indexer, Secretary of the Backstage Board of Directors, Chief Translator, and Geographical Recorder, among other offices. Promoted to MarkT's position at the end of the thread, he prefers to retain the title of Secretary and wield his newfound power as little as possible.

C: Alida Janiden. Character. Overshadowed by the Author Deja Voodoo and amalgamated with five other Characters to form Deja Voodoo's Author Avatar. At that time she was forty. A tall, muscular black woman, hard, hateful, domineering and evil, talented but worthless, who equated seeming impressive with being important. She had been just about everything; Navy brat, high school dropout, petty thief, drug addict, whore, draftee, Army NCO, mercenary, gunrunner, and security guard. She had not been improved by any of her experiences, though they made her a survivor par excellence and provided her with useful skills. Per DVd, her most survival skills are her prominent characteristic. She was the security chief of the hotel where the 1998 Russell family reunion took place, projecting an air of efficiency behind which she robbed both the guests and her employers. As part of the Deja Voodoo group mind she later had a good, hard look at herself, and didn't like what she saw. Alida was the self D.J. was the most ashamed of, though as the one with the most life-experience was probably, in her estimation, the one she was the most like. Resurrected for Deja Voodoo's effort to give his former selves their own choice as to what to be, her distaste for her old life combined with her ambitions to convince her to continue being DVd, and she was instrumental in so convincing the five other components of DVd's Avatar. Her mind and memories are retained by both Deja Voodoo and D.J. Woohoo, while her soul is entirely resident in the former. Manifests physically as DVd's Jafar aspect. Seen in D.J. Woohoo's dream of her former life as a Character. See also Jafar.

C: Amanda (Avatar). Author Avatar, a transgendered version of Adama and co-parent of their daughter Eva. Adama devotes a considerable amount of mana toward maintaining Amanda in continued independent existence. After he succeeds MarkT as de facto Chairman of the Backstage Board of Directors, he acquires the Authority to make her independence of him permanent.

C: Amy 3. Character. According to the Author Avatar Adama, her orgone signature strongly indicates that he derives from this character, possibly (though not necessarily) a transgendered version. Mentioned.

C: Anna Jaeger (Avatar). Authorless Avatar. Daughter of Zorlond and Kiya Jaeger; sister of Darla Jean Jaeger.

C: Anna Warbucks. Character. Toon woman encountered by Lizzie and Mushu on their wanderings in the Periphery, who first informed them of the existence of the Center. She later successfully reached the Center, where she became the head of the Orphan Episode Asylum in the Service Sector. Mentioned.

C: Archive, The. Character. A room in Deja Voodoo's suite; more properly, the amorphous mass of papers therein, which roil and seethe as if with a hive-mind of their own. The entire knowledge base of the Addventure is duplicated in these papers. Exposure to its compiled knowledge can, among other things, bring out an Avatar's repressed knowledge of his former Character life, as it did with D.J. Woohoo. While Deja Voodoo himself is known to have previously undergone this same treatment, he does not appear to have similarly recovered his Character memories. Nothing human can retain the full knowledge base of the Archive for long without going crazy. The Archive is predatory and by no means confined to its room, making it an effective internal security feature. Nonetheless, it developed a rodent problem in the form of paper-gnawing rats, whose choice of diet made them quite adept at self-defense. D.J. loaned DVd some Transformers to defend it against the rats, which proved effective, both in controlling the rodents and defending themselves against the Archive's carnivorous tendencies (the fact that they are non-organic may also have helped). Mentioned.

C: Author Avatars. Characters. In-Addventure stand-ins for the Authors themselves (called Originals), who are generated by the Authors writing themselves into the Story. Few, actually, are ever newly created; what usually happens is that whenever an Author writes himself in some relatively minor Character somewhere is taken over, overshadowed by the mind and personality of the Author. He thenceforth retains that identity, recalling nothing of his former existence. D.J. Woohoo and Deja Voodoo believed themselves examples of this type of Avatar, until they discovered the reality to be considerably more complicated. Avatars' minds are so bound to their Originals that most tend to think they are their Originals. Believing themselves all-powerful, they are in fact but reflections of their Originals' minds and souls, without independent wills of their own. They are as constrained by the whims of the true Authors as any Character; more, since their Originals tend to be keep tighter rein over their own representatives. Fortunately for their peace of mind, most are at best but vaguely aware of the true situation.

C: Authors. Real people. The individuals who write the BE Addventure, known therein only by their tags, handles or pseudonyms. Often confused with Author Avatars, their in-Addventure stand-ins. See also Originals, Author Avatars.

C: Backstage Board of Directors. Author Avatars and Characters. The ruling council of Author Avatars (and some Characters) that runs the Backstage. MarkT is its chairman, and Adama its secretary.

C: Backstage Troubleshooters. Characters. Elite law enforcement agents who head Backstage Security and defend the local status quo. D.J. Woohoo and Elizabeth Fruitbat are the primary Backstage Troubleshooters; their son Lesley Wu is also a Troubleshooter.

C: Billy Young. Character. Perennial victim in incestual S&M threads. Mentioned.

C: Blurry (Avatar). Author Avatar. One of the six forms taken by Deja Voodoo. First expressed as a sort of message board, later redefined as a blurry human figure. In one iteration transgendered and sharpened up to produce D.J. Woohoo, though DVd continued to use the original version. Nicknamed "Blurry" during DVd's "Behind the Writing" Author interview with Roy Del Frink. Lizzie theorizes that despite the seamless integration of the Character predecessor minds in DVd, this form is a subconscious embodiment and continuation of the soul/essence of Wendell Russell. The theory proven correct, he reverts to Wendell, first in shape and then in mind as well, as part of DVd's process of deciding what henceforth to be.

C: Carol Denise (Russell) Wolcziewsku. Character. Wife of Jan Wolcziewsku, mother of Dale and Matt, and aunt of June Russell. Aged 48 at the time of the 1998 Russell family reunion. Her ultimate fate, whether it was to become an Author Avatar or die at the end of the reference thread, is unknown. Seen in D.J. Woohoo's dream of her former life as a Character.

C: Characters. The inhabitants of the BE Addventure, all of whom are subject to the manipulations of the Authors. Most, in the Addventure at large, are blissfully ignorant that there are any Authors. Those Backstage, more in tune with the true state of affairs, recognize that they are in fact all slaves of the Authors, and that their lives can be taken away in a heartbeat. Thus, as D.J. puts it, every Character's life is a tragedy, it's just that some are made to feel it more than others. Possibly as a mercy, it is a feature of the Original Backstage where most ordinary Characters take their time-outs from the Addventure at large that Characters there believe themselves Actors in dramatic productions rather than pawns of reality-bending psychopaths. Two types of Characters are distinguished Backstage, ordinary Characters and Author Avatars. The latter, popularly regarded as the Authors themselves, have powers commensurate with such status and as a result are feared and even hated by ordinary Characters. In fact, the Avatars are as much Characters as the rest are, and actually kept under tighter control by the true Authors (or "Originals") they portray and represent.

C: Corrie. Character. One of Adama's companions.

C: Cylons. Characters. Adama's two security robots, actually men in skinsuits, loaned to MarkT to protect him during his press conference.

C: D.J. Woohoo. See Delia June Woohoo.

C: Dabbler (Avatar). Author Avatar. Originally the Character David Adler Russell, overshadowed by the Author Dabbler at the time of the Russell family reunion to become his Avatar. His "real" name as an Avatar is also David, apparently due to a subconscious memory of his previous existence. He is surprised to learn that D.J. knows it without him ever having revealed it to her. As an Avatar deriving from MarkT's former Character family, he was placed on the Backstage Board of Directors. He and other Avatars were reverted by MarkT to something akin to their original Character selves in his "woodshed" setting during the "Author Girls" thread, to teach them a lesson. The actual shape, that of a little boy, was determined by MarkT as part of the lesson. While not intended to consciously retain either the lesson or the sobering glimpses of his past it gave him, he does remember them, due to F-Cup Fitzgerald's recording of the incident as an episode. Agrees to influence his Original into writing up the thread for D.J., as insurance against the expected enmity of MarkT. See also David Adler Russell.

C: Dabbler (Original). Author. Writer of the thread. Mentioned.

C: Dale Jared Wolcziewsku. Character. Son of Jan and Carol (Russell) Wolcziewsku, older brother of Matt Wolcziewsku, and cousin of June Russell and her siblings. Aged 25 at the time of the 1998 Russell family reunion. Overshadowed by the Author Deja Voodoo and amalgamated with five other Characters to form Deja Voodoo's Author Avatar. Built, buff, and apparently depilated, he was obviously metrosexual. An unpleasant person, not to the same extent as bad as his brother Matt, whom he despised as a scumbag, but he had done things almost as bad. An exploiter, deceiver, and love 'em and leave 'em type, who viewed dating solely as a way to get laid; his partners were so reluctant and took so much persuading that his actions approached date rape. A low-level business executive, he fancied himself a big shot, self-importantly firing off memos at the least provocation. Basically, in other words, a bossy, compulsive memo writer. For all that, per DVd his most prominent characteristic is his organizational genius. Also on the plus side, he liked animals and volunteered at the Humane Society. Resurrected for Deja Voodoo's effort to give his former selves their own choice as to what to be, he advocated returning to their old lives until convinced by Alida and the example of the others to continue being DVd. His mind and memories are retained by both Deja Voodoo and D.J. Woohoo, while his soul is entirely resident in the former. Manifests physically as DVd's Pad aspect. Seen in D.J. Woohoo's dream of her former life as a Character. See also Pad.

C: Darla Jean Jaeger. Character. Daughter/son of Zorlond and Kiya Jaeger; sister/brother of Anna Jaeger. Female in appearance, she is actually a functional hermaphrodite. Mentioned.

C: David Adler Russell. Character. Son of Marcus and Wendy Russell, brother of Ellen, Francis (Scott), Dennis, Wallace, Wendell, June, and Eunice Russell, and cousin of Dale and Matt Wolcziewsku. Aged 19 at the time of the 1998 Russell family reunion. Overshadowed by the Author Dabbler to form his Author Avatar. Seen in D.J. Woohoo's dream of her former life as a Character. See also Dabbler.

C: Deja Voodoo (Avatar). Author Avatar. Also known as DVd. The Avatar from whom D.J. Woohoo was split off as an independent Character, and with whom she still interacts when she has to. As an Avatar deriving from MarkT's former Character family, he was placed on the Backstage Board of Directors. Supervisor of Sid Russell, to whom D.J. answers, which makes for some interesting dynamics. Verbose and formal in manner, with a talent for dry understatement. Unlike most Avatars, Deja Voodoo manifests in six forms. He generally utilizes just one at any one time, but can also manifest in all six simultaneously, should he so wish. This isn't just by happenstance. Rather than overshadowing one Character to form his Avatar his Original (apparently unconsciously) swept up six, melded them into one, and spun off their soulstuff into new forms that he proceeded to iterate cyclically, like a man changing clothes; an emotion from one, a skill from another. All were shuffled into one mind, his mind, even as their forms became the basis of his. There no longer seems to be any separation of the component selves, just a display of aspects. Each of the six manifestations appears to comprise all of them rather than corresponding to one of the original Characters, at least on the conscious level. Subconsciously, as demonstrated in this thread, each represents a separate Character. Deja Voodoo was apparently unaware of the complexity of his heritage until informed by D.J., though since he too had once gone through the process by which she made the discovery (as related in the "Mystery of the Vamps" thread), one has to wonder why he didn't know. He was conscious of having been a child of MarkT in his Character life, though this status actually applied to only three of his component Characters (a fourth was a cousin of the three, and the remaining two were unrelated). The six component Characters, together with their corresponding Avatar forms, are Dennis Russell (Voiceless), Wendell Russell (Blurry), June Russell (DJ2), Dale Wolcziewsku (Pad), Jason Vodenes (Ordinary), and Alida Janiden (Jafar). See individual entries on each Character and Avatar form for more details. Lizzie has a theory that similarities between the names of the Characters and Deja Voodoo/D.J. Woohoo are no coincidence; D.J. is skeptical. When during the "Author Girls" thread MarkT used his "woodshed" setting to teach Deja Voodoo and other Avatars a lesson by reverting them to something akin to his original Character state, it was as a single, "averaged" Character in which the male form predominated, together with the mutual memories of the related selves. The specific form (that of a little boy) was determined by MarkT as part of the lesson. Not intended to consciously retain either the lesson or the sobering glimpses of his past it gave him, DVd did remember the lesson, due to F-Cup Fitzgerald's mischievous recording of the incident as an episode. D.J. believed that of the Avatars taken to the "woodshed" only Deja Voodoo (and by extension herself) actually held onto the lesson's glimpses of the past. Dennis speculates that DVd's multiple avatars may have sidelined him from writing, making him more a neutral than a player in the Addventure by diverting his attention into exploring other worlds in place of ruining this one. Per Alida, he does better with the restraint his June aspect brings to his character, even though she personally would celebrate its absence. Per June, he would lack full balance without all of his aspects. He himself feels the June aspect has always been the fulcrum of his personality. Also known as DVd.

C: Deja Voodoo (Original). Author. Also known as DVd. Real world individual for whom the Avatar Deja Voodoo and the Character D.J. Woohoo serve as stand-ins in the Addventure. Apparently responsible, if perhaps unconsciously, for his Avatar having been formed out of six Characters. Possibly neither knows nor cares what he did, as like nearly all Author Originals he views the BE Addventure as fiction rather than an alternate reality his which his writings alter. Mentioned.

C: Delia June Woohoo (D.J.). Character/Author Avatar. A Backstage Troubleshooter. Spouse of Elizabeth Fruitbat, mother of Lesley Wu, and grandmother of Kythera and Hubert Wu. Appears to be 21, though she has accumulated more than forty years in life experience. By her account, she began as an ordinary Addventure Character, was taken over and overshadowed by the Original of Deja Voodoo to become the Author Avatar Deja Voodoo, and was afterwards (as a result of the "Author Girls" thread) separated from DVd and "freed" to become a new Character in her own right. The truth is more complicated, since DVd actually incorporated six Characters into his Avatar, and D.J., having been split off from that Avatar, retains the heritage of all six. By custom and preference she uses only her own form (which in DVd corresponds to the "DJ2" form), though, as demonstrated in this thread, she can like DVd assume any of the others. Unlike him, she can only manifest in one form at once. She was unaware of the true complexity of her background until the unusual events entailed in her resurrection during the "Mystery of the Vamps" thread. The six component Characters were Dennis, Wendell and June Russell, Dale Wolcziewsku, Jason Vodenes, and Alida Janiden (see individual entries). Lizzie has a theory that similarities between the names of the Characters and Deja Voodoo/D.J. Woohoo are no coincidence; D.J. is skeptical. Lizzie also theorizes that despite the seamless integration of the Character predecessor minds in DVd and D.J., this form is a subconscious embodiment and continuation of the soul/essence of June Wendy Russell, which turns out to be true. D.J.'s former Character self, fourteen at the time of her Taking as an Avatar, would have been twenty at the time of this thread according to strict real world chronology. Unusually for a person with Avatorial power, D.J. usually limits hers to small things, seldom changing people, and most of what she does do is protective in nature. She almost never exercises her power in truly major ways except on cases.

C: Dennis Wood Russell (Den). Character. Son of Marcus and Wendy Russell, twin brother of Wendell Russell, and brother of Ellen, Francis (Scott), David, Wallace, June and Eunice. Aged 15 at the time of the 1998 Russell family reunion. Referred to by Ellen as one of the Trouble Triplets, in company with Wendell and June. Overshadowed by the Author Deja Voodoo and amalgamated with five other Characters to form Deja Voodoo's Author Avatar. When eleven he and his twin discovered June after she had been raped by their cousin Matt, and in consequence beat Matt up, thus becoming the only boys June ever trusted, after. As she became a perennial tag-along, they viewed her as at best a pest and at worst an embarrassment. At the time Dennis was taken by Deja Voodoo he was fifteen, at the height of high-school insecurity, afflicted with acne, asthma, and a self-chosen addiction to cigarettes because he and his twin thought it would make them 'cool.' Mostly he just tried to be unobtrusive; he was the quiet type, always hovering around the edge of groups. He and his twin had never been kissed, and crashed and burned the one time, on mutual dares, they tried to ask girls out. Both hated school and dreamed of blowing it up someday. Maybe they would have, being possessed of a positive mania for weapons and explosives. Per DVd, his affinity for devices is his most prominent characteristic. Resurrected for Deja Voodoo's effort to give his former selves their own choice as to what to be, he was convinced by Alida to continue being part of DVd. His mind and memories are retained by both Deja Voodoo and D.J. Woohoo, while his soul is entirely resident in the former. Manifests physically as DVd's Voiceless aspect. Seen in D.J. Woohoo's dream of her former life as a Character. See also Voiceless.

C: DJ2. Author Avatar. One of the six forms taken by Deja Voodoo. First expressed as a transgendered and sharpened version of Blurry; this iteration was allowed an independent existence of D.J. Woohoo, though DVd continued to use both the original version of Blurry and the DJ2 version afterwards. Nicknamed "DJ2" in the thread in which DVd substituted for the vacationing D.J. and Lizzie in the Troubleshooters' Office. Temporarily divided into DJ2a and DJ2b after being kidnapped by Meiou Bunny from DVd's "Behind the Writing" Author interview with Roy Del Frink. Lizzie theorizes that despite the seamless integration of the Character predecessor minds in DVd, this form is a subconscious embodiment and continuation of the soul/essence of June Russell; later it is realized that this status applies only to D.J., and that DJ2 is constituted merely of a duplicate of June's mind, given shape by DVd's other Avatar forms. Apparently because of this, when DVd expresses all forms at once, DJ2 reverts in age and size to those of June at the time she became part of the Avatar; however, there is no evidence of this having happened in "Behind the Writing." Reverted to the June form, first in shape and then in identity, as part of Deja Voodoo's effort to give his former selves their own choice as to what to be, she had the choice of continuing to be part of DVd, merging with D.J. (the true June), or becoming a Character in her own right. For the sake of both DVd and D.J. she ultimately chose the first option. See also Delia June Woohoo, June Russell.

C: Dolly. Character. Humanized Suite A.I. of Dabbler's Author Suite, and a live-in lover of Dabbler. Mentioned.

C: DVd. See Deja Voodoo.

C: Elizabeth Bennett. Character. Protagonist of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice, and non-Addventure venue. According to MarkT, her soul is that of his Reference Thread wife, Wendy Elizabeth Russell, which was liberated through his deletion of that thread.

C: Elizabeth Drake Fruitbat (Lizzie). Character. A Backstage Troubleshooter. Half-dragon, half-human, with retractable wings and inerrant tracking and teleportation abilities, as well as a keen eye for identifying people. Daughter of the dragon Mushu by Fa Mulan, supposed daughter of Li Shang, spouse of D.J. Woohoo, father (really!) of Lesley Wu, and grandmother of Kythera and Hubert Wu. Her gestation period magically extended by Mushu to conceal her true paternity (and his own guilt), she was born a female human baby with the dragon characteristics of shimmering reddish scales and wings, but immediately was magically altered by Mushu into a seemingly fully human boy. Originally Li Ping, a name given her when thought to be the male offspring of Li Shang; the family name being his and the given name being one Mulan had once used while masquerading as a man (ironically appropriate, though Shang and Mulan did not, of course, realize it). At puberty his dragon nature reasserted itself, and he became a red dragon resembling Mushu, only of human size. Mushu proclaimed the boy was the victim of an evil magic spell, which he must go on a quest to break, and hustled him away from home. During their wandering through the Periphery, he revealed to the boy his true paternity, who in consequence abandoned his birth name as false. Embarrassment over an earlier pun on "Li Ping" by Anna Warbucks also had something to do with it. Thenceforth she went by her childhood nickname of Fruitbat. On arrival Backstage he was tapped to be Sid's temporary replacement as Keeper, and his natural dragon powers kicked up a few notches. He was not a success in any thread. One version, humanized and transgendered into something approaching his natural state, was assigned to work with D.J. as a Troubleshooter. Redemption, restoration, and reunion with her variant selves followed, as did her discovery of what she really was and the true extend of her father's lie. Lizzie's current full name was bestowed on her by D.J. to replace her abandoned birth name; it was unconsciously derived in part from that of Wendy Elizabeth Russell, D.J.'s mother in her former life as a Character. The nickname Lizzie, however, stems as much from her "lizard girl" (actually dragon girl) status as it does from her formal first name.

C: Elizabeth I. Character. Historical figure, queen of England. Lizzie appears to D.J. dressed as her in D.J.'s dream, even as the real Lizzie tries to wake D.J. up.

C: Ellen Elise Russell (Ellie). Character. Daughter of Marcus and Wendy Russell, sister of Francis (Scott), Dennis, Wendell, David, , Wallace, June and Eunice. Aged 22 at the time of the 1998 Russell family reunion. Overshadowed by the Author L.E. to form his Author Avatar. Seen in D.J. Woohoo's dream of her former life as a Character.

C: Eunice Barbara Russell. Character. Daughter of Marcus and Wendy Russell, sister of Ellen, Francis (Scott), David, Wallace, Dennis, Wendell, and June Russell, and cousin of Dale and Matt Wolcziewsku. Aged 12 at the time of the 1998 Russell family reunion. The youngest of the Russell children. Overshadowed by the Author You Wish to form his Author Avatar. Seen in D.J. Woohoo's dream of her former life as a Character. See also You Wish.

C: Eva. Character. Infant daughter of Adama and Amanda.

C: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Character. Real world literary figure, whom Addventure Author F-Cup Fitzgerald modeled his Avatar after. Mentioned by D.J.

C: Fa Mulan. Character. Chinese heroine, deriving from a Toon China of the Disney multiverse. Wife of Li Shang and mother of Elizabeth Fruitbat, whose father was reputedly Li Shang but in fact the dragon Mushu. Familiarly known, without the family designation, as Mulan.

C: F-Cup Fitzgerald (Avatar). Author Avatar. Also known as Scott, Scotty, and Fitz. Models himself in appearance and character after F. Scott Fitzgerald. Originally the Character Francis Scott Russell, overshadowed by the Author F-Cup Fitzgerald at the time of the Russell family reunion to become his Avatar. As an Avatar deriving from MarkT's former Character family, he was placed on the Backstage Board of Directors. Unlike all other Avatars but MarkT and L.E., he remembers his former existence as a Character, and the fates of most other Characters in the reference thread. He also recalls, and is aware during, the recurrent dreams of that thread all Avatars deriving from it suffer, which only those who recall their previous lives can do. Former attempts to share this knowledge with others were thwarted by their own ignorance and the machinations of MarkT. All these factors are at the root of his drinking problem. Under D.J.'s probing, he finally reveals the full story. See also Francis Scott Russell.

C: F-Cup Fitzgerald (Original). Author. For some reason, he failed to completely overshadow the Avatar he took, resulting in that Avatar retaining memories of his previous existence. Under the influence of his Avatar he mischievously recorded MarkT's lesson episode during the "Author Girls" thread, thus preserving (or rather resurrecting) the memories of the Avatars involved of their previous Character existences. Mentioned.

C: Figaro. Character. Small black and white kitten from Disney's "Pinocchio", an alternate form of Morph, Deja Voodoo's familiar. Under this name and shape it accompanies DVd's Ordinary aspect.

C: francis (Avatar). Author Avatar. Mentioned.

C: Francis Michael (or Benjamin) Nash. Character. Developmentally delayed uncle of June and (Francis) Scott Russell, presumably a brother-in-law to either Marcus Russell or his wife Wendy. His middle name is in dispute: it is Michael per F-Cup Fitzgerald, but Benjamin per D.J.'s list of her relatives. Those two never could agree on anything.... Considering Francis a moron, Scott essentially disowned his own first name on learning he had been named for him. Called Uncle Nash by D.J. Aged 39 at the time of the 1998 Russell family reunion. Overshadowed by the Author francis to form his Author Avatar (and presumably his Character cognate Francis McNasty). His mental shortcomings may be reflected in francis' typo-laden writing style. Mentioned.

C: Francis Scott Russell (Scotty). Character. Son of Marcus and Wendy Russell, brother of Ellen, Dennis, Wendell, David, Wallace, June and Eunice. Aged 20 at the time of the 1998 Russell family reunion. Dislikes his first name, and goes by his middle. Dresses nattily and drinks too much. Overshadowed by the Author F-Cup Fitzgerald to form his Author Avatar. Seen in D.J. Woohoo's dream of her former life as a Character; sharing the dream, he is, like D.J., self-aware therein.

C: Fruitbat. See Elizabeth Drake Fruitbat.

C: Gidget Walsh. Character. Formerly the Author Avatar of JigSaw. Surrendered that role to a male duplicate after being transgendered and became a live-in lover of Dabbler. Answers Dabbler's door in the nude when D.J. comes calling.

C: God. Character, a deity. Joe Lugubrious believed he was responsible for the calamitous conclusion of the Reference Thread, but was mistaken. His name is taken in vain by F-Cup Fitzgerald.

C: Great and Powerful T. Snide epithet applied to MarkT by F-Cup Fitzgerald.

C: Groblek (Avatar). Author Avatar. Member of the Backstage Board of Directors. Has the best library in the Concourse as far as spiritual matters are concerned, per Lizzie.

C: High Commander, The (Avatar). Author Avatar. Member of the Backstage Board of Directors.

C: Hotel Maids. Characters. Bit players in the Reference Thread, occasionally seduced by F-Cup Fitzgerald in its dream version. Mentioned.

C: Hubert Wu. Character. Son of Lesley Wu and Sensida Russell, and brother of Kythera Wu. Mentioned.

C: Iago. Character. Irascible red parrot from Disney's "Aladdin", an alternate form of Morph, Deja Voodoo's familiar. Under this name and shape it accompanies DVd's Jafar aspect. Was with DVd when the latter was peremptorily summoned to MarkT's impromptu family reunion, but was not included in the "invitation."

C: Imaginos (Avatar). Appealed to fruitlessly to help the Backstage Board of Directors resolve the MarkT scandal.

C: Imaginos (Original). The real life administrator of the Breast Expansion Archive, and hence the BE Addventure. Mentioned.

C: Ishmael. Character. From Melville's Moby Dick. Alluded to by Scotty.

C: J.I.G. Sawyer (Avatar). See John Ibsen Graham Sawyer.

C: Jafar. Author Avatar. One of the six forms taken by Deja Voodoo. An ebony-skinned clone of the sorcerer Jafar from Disney's Aladdin, used by DVd when he wants to impress people in public. Nicknamed "Jafar" at the time of his earliest written appearance in the "Shaggy's Suite Tours" thread, or his earliest chronological appearance in the "Backstage Service Sector" thread (take your pick). Also called "Black Jafar" during DVd's "Behind the Writing" Author interview with Roy Del Frink. Lizzie theorizes that despite the seamless integration of the Character predecessor minds in DVd, this form is a subconscious embodiment and continuation of the soul/essence of Alida Janiden. The theory proven correct, he reverts to Alida, first in shape and then in mind as well, as part of DVd's process of deciding what henceforth to be.

C: James Robert Russell (Jim). Character. Stated to have a number of brothers, including Scott. Third cousin once removed of June and her siblings. Attended the 1998 Russell family reunion at which they and a number of his other relatives and others were swept up to become Author Avatars. Aged 38 at the time, and a problem drinker. A bit Character in the precursor Addventure, he conspired successfully to displace the primary one, and is the main Character in the current Addventure. Seen in D.J. Woohoo's dream of her former life as a Character; sharing the dream, he is, like D.J., self-aware therein.

C: Janos Czerny Wolcziewsku (Jan). Character. Husband of Carol Russell Wolcziewsku, father of Dale and Matt, and uncle by marriage of June Russell. Aged 53 at the time of the 1998 Russell family reunion. A chain-smoker of cigars, and a creep (in June's opinion); ugly and old (in F-Cup Fitzgerald's). Sexually assaulted Wendy Russell in the pornographic ending of the Reference Thread, though given the wave of lust that struck all the surviving Characters he may not have been responsible for his actions. His ultimate fate, whether it was to become an Author Avatar or to die at the end of the reference thread, is unknown. Seen in D.J. Woohoo's dream of her former life as a Character.

C: Jason Begay Vodenes. Character. College student working many jobs to keep up with his college expenses; as such, a server at the 1998 Russell family reunion. Aged 22 and in good physical condition at that time; in June's estimation, gorgeous, with a great complexion. A by-blow of a Salvadoran immigrant and a Navajo Indian, knocked about in life but always coming back for more, he tended to believe the best of people, and look for the bright side of things. Distinctly average, both in intellect and personality, he never thought of himself as anything special, but unusually for the Addventure was morally centered and fundamentally decent -- the really good person everyone deludes themselves that they are and almost no one is. Overshadowed by the Author Deja Voodoo and amalgamated with five other Characters to form Deja Voodoo's Author Avatar. D.J. thought Jason was the self she had always unconsciously tried to model her present self on. Certainly, he appears to be the source of her Amerindian coloration. Per DVd, Jason's most prominent characteristic is his moral centering. Per Alida, his very virtue is a fatal flaw, given the nature of the Addventure. Resurrected for Deja Voodoo's effort to give his former selves their own choice as to what to be, he was convinced by Alida to continue being part of DVd. His mind and memories are retained by both Deja Voodoo and D.J. Woohoo, while his soul is entirely resident in the former. Manifests physically as DVd's Ordinary aspect. Seen in D.J. Woohoo's dream of her former life as a Character. See also Ordinary.

C: Jeannie. Character. You Wish's Suite A.I.

C: Jesus. Character. Religious figure whose name is taken in vain by Jason. Mentioned.

C: JH (Avatar). Author Avatar. Member of the Backstage Board of Directors.

C: JigSaw (Avatar). Author Avatar. Originally the Character Wallace John Russell, overshadowed by the Author JigSaw at the time of the Russell family reunion to become his Avatar. As an Avatar deriving from MarkT's former Character family, he was placed on the Backstage Board of Directors, a decision MarkT later came to regard as a mistake. Reverted by MarkT along with other Avatars to something akin to their original Character selves during the "Author Girls" thread, to teach them a lesson. The actual shape, that of a little boy, was determined by MarkT as part of the lesson. Not intended to consciously retain either the lesson or the sobering glimpses of his past it gave him, he did remember the lesson due to F-Cup Fitzgerald's mischievous recording of it as an episode. Seen, unnamed, in D.J.'s dream, in a flashback to the "Lizzie's Missing" thread. Later he was peremptorily summoned to MarkT's impromptu family reunion from an intimate encounter. See also Wallace John Russell.

C: Jim Russell. See James Robert Russell.

C: Joe Lugubrious. Character. Tends bar Backstage at Joe's Bay in the Common Room of Hilbert's Backstage Hotel. He has not been shown to have any non-Backstage role, but according to F-Cup Fitzgerald and MarkT he was also the bartender in the Las Vegas hotel where the events of the Reference Thread played out in the precursor Addventure. Having died like all other remaining Characters remaining at the end of the Reference Thread, he apparently remembers nothing of that previous existence.

C: John Ibsen Graham Sawyer (J.I.G. Sawyer) (Avatar). Author Avatar. Seen, unnamed, in D.J.'s dream, in a flashback to the "Lizzie's Missing" thread. Later mentioned by D.J.

C: Jordan Landis Yager. Character. Also known by his stage name, Landis the Great. Hired magician who appeared on the stage at the 1998 Russell family reunion. His stage attire was a sequined red suit. Overshadowed by an Author, whom Scotty speculated might be Zorlond, to form his Author Avatar. This was confirmed later in the "Shadowlands/Jaeger Meltdown" thread, which is also the source of his real name (only his stage name is given in this thread). Seen in D.J. Woohoo's dream of her former life as a Character.

C: June Wendy Russell. Character. Daughter of Marcus and Wendy Russell, sister of Ellen, Francis (Scott), David, Wallace, Dennis, Wendell and Eunice Russell. Aged 14 at the time of the 1998 Russell family reunion. Referred to by Ellen as one of the Trouble Triplets, in company with Dennis and Wendell. A decent student, responsible, attentive to dress, and considered pretty -- the good kid, people said. Her scarred arms hinted at her darker side as a depressed, self-destructive teenager, torn by emotional turmoil she could only purge by cutting myself in private. Her self-destructiveness was rooted in her rape by her cousin Matt when she was ten. Only her brothers Dennis and Wendell knew about the rape, having happened on her, hurt and crying, when it was all over. They beat Matt up for what he had done, thus becoming the only boys June ever trusted, after. Idolizing them, she became a perennial tag-along, which is how she happened to be with them when Deja Voodoo made his sweep. Overshadowed by the Author Deja Voodoo and amalgamated with five other Characters to form Deja Voodoo's Author Avatar, she was later split off to become D.J. Woohoo. Her soul became the basis of DVd's DJ2 form, which was first brought to the fore in the "Author Girls" thread when one of the Old Wizard's potions transgendered the Blurry form he then wore. At the end of that thread Deja Voodoo allowed this form an independent existence as D.J. Woohoo, thus unconsciously surrendering the June soul, though her mental makeup continued to be part of his, just as those of his other component Characters continued to be part of D.J.'s. Deja Voodoo went on using the DJ2 form afterwards, and ultimately re-embodied June's mind as part of his effort to give his former selves their own choice as to what to be. D.J., also determined to allow her former self that choice, reverted to her June state as well. Thus reborn, June ultimately decided to surrender the non-native portions of her mind to DVd while trying to retain her life as D.J. Her re-embodied DVd version, concerned for both her and DVd's well-being, successfully counterproposed that these be returned to her, and that she herself be returned to being part of Deja Voodoo. Thurs her mind and memories are retained by both Deja Voodoo and D.J. Woohoo, while her soul is entirely resident in the latter. In DVd she manifests physically as his DJ2 aspect, essentially identical to D.J. in form. Seen in D.J.'s dream of her former life in her original thread, and also when D.J. resumes her form as a ploy to persuade F-Cup Fitzgerald to open up about their mutual past. See also Delia June Woohoo, DJ2.

C: Kiya Jaeger. Character. Seen in D.J.'s dream, in a flashback to the "Lizzie's Missing" thread. Was in the midst of an intimate encounter with Zorlond when the latter was peremptorily summoned to MarkT's impromptu Board Meeting. Mentioned.

C: Kythera Wu. Character. Daughter of Lesley Wu and Sensida Russell, grand-daughter of D.J. Woohoo and Elizabeth Fruitbat, and sister of Hubert Wu. She feels aimless, with no ultimate goal or purpose in life. Emotionally remote in personality, she feels alien to the passions that animate others, and sometimes wonders if she can truly feel anything. D.J. believes the fact that she can wonder this means she does, and indeed she evinces signs of sadness, wistfulness, curiosity and empathy in the course of the thread. She seeks some ideal she can defend and put her heart in. Kythera's perceived defects are in fact symptoms of both her purity and her possession of but half a soul. Despite her situation, Kythera has an acute mind, being, as Lizzie puts it, more perceptive than she has any right to be, and offering shrewd advice. Contrary to previous assumptions, she is aware of her condition, though not the full story behind it.

C: L.E. (Avatar). Author Avatar. As an Avatar deriving from MarkT's former Character family, he was placed on the Backstage Board of Directors. Co-conspirator of MarkT in concealing the secret of Avatar origins.

C: Landis the Great. See Jordan Landis Yager.

C: Lesley Wu. Character. A Backstage Troubleshooter. Son/daughter of D.J. Woohoo and Elizabeth Fruitbat, who usually appears in male form. As such, the former husband of Sensida Russell and father of Hubert and Kythera Wu. Has always had a tendency to drive himself too hard. Visiting Adama to update himself on Backstage affairs in the wake of the Wild Oats thread, he is temporarily stranded there when the mob of Avatars and Characters besieges neighboring Suite 2001.

C: Li Ping. See Elizabeth Drake Fruitbat.

C: Li Shang. Character. Chinese general, deriving from a Toon China of the Disney multiverse. Husband of Fa Mulan and supposed father of Elizabeth Fruitbat (actually fathered by the dragon Mushu). Lizzie remembers him as a good man, but is uncertain if he would have accepted her had he known of her true paternity. Familiarly known, without the family designation, as Shang.

C: Lizzie Fruitbat. See Elizabeth Drake Fruitbat.

C: Marcus Theodore Russell. Character. Husband of Wendy Russell, father of Ellen, Francis (Scott), David, Wallace, Dennis, Wendell, June and Eunice. Aged 45 at the time of the 1998 Russell family reunion. The main Character in the precursor Addventure. Overshadowed by the Author MarkT to form his Author Avatar. Seen in D.J. Woohoo's dream of her former life as a Character. See also MarkT, T.

C: Marjorie Mandelberg. Character. Mentioned.

C: MarkT (Avatar). Author Avatar. Chairman of the Backstage Board of Directors and de facto ruler of the Addventure, under Owner and Imaginos. Described by D.J. as "a king among kings ... the foremost power on this plane, and the Avatar of the Author who first meddled in our world." According to Lizzie, D.J. and Deja Voodoo have a "problem" with him, stemming from their claim to be related to him, a claim that he denies -- they in fact claim he was their father. Lizzie learns in this thread that the relationship goes back to MarkT's and Deja Voodoo's original Character lives, before they became Avatars. Those lives were essentially wiped out when they were drafted to be incarnations of Authors. DVd (and by extension D.J.) is actually a composite of six Characters of whom three were children of the Character who became MarkT; other Author Avatars who in their pre-Avatorial existence as Characters were among his children include L.E., JigSaw, Dabbler, and You Wish. MarkT conspired to conceal the existence of the precursor Addventure and its Reference Thread from current Addventure denizens, and deleted the Reference Thread in which he and the other Avatars derived from his original Character family derived. See also T, Marcus Theodore Russell.

C: MarkT (Original). Author Avatar. Mentioned by F-Cup Fitzgerald.

C: Matthew Erwin Wolcziewsku (Matt). Character. Son of Jan and Carol (Russell) Wolcziewsku, younger brother of Dale Wolcziewsku and cousin of June Russell and her siblings. A scumbag who raped his cousin June when she was ten, and was beaten up by Dennis and Wendell in consequence. He would have been about 19 at that time. Despised by his brother Dale, who was well aware of his character, though ignorant of the rape. Aged 23 at the time of the 1998 Russell family reunion. Died at the end of the reference thread, and when MarkT deleted the thread he consigned Matt's soul to Author Hell. Seen in D.J. Woohoo's dream of her former life as a Character.

C: Men in Gray. Characters. Mentioned.

C: MIG. See Men in Gray.

C: Morph. Character. Deja Voodoo's familiar, a shape-shifting alien life form from another reality (Disney's "Treasure Planet"). Its natural shape is that of a pink globule with eyes. Has a standard name and form it adopts to go with each of DVd's own alternate versions, and changes shape, identity and personality in accordance with the aspect its master manifests. Some of its forms can speak and others not. When accompanying DVd's Blurry aspect, Morph uses its true name and natural shape, except when Blurry is in billboard form; then it takes the shape of a bumper sticker. With Voiceless, it is Sconce, an invisible presence similar to its master, only smaller; with DJ2 it is Tinkerbell; with Pad it is PostIt, a small pad of PostIt notes; with Jafar it is Iago the parrot; and with Ordinary it is Figaro, a small kitten. See individual entries.

C: Morpheus. Character. The Lord of Dream (and the Dreaming Sector). Connected with the mysterious adventure Kythera and Lesley had while D.J. and Lizzie were sequestered in the Neutral Room with Deja Voodoo. He apparently made some sort of promise to Lesley, as yet unfulfilled; however, his honor is a byword. Mentioned but not named in this thread, his identity is known from others.

C: Mulan. See Fa Mulan.

C: Mushu. Character. Red Chinese dragon, deriving from a Toon China of the Disney multiverse. A diminutive guardian spirit, roughly the size of a squirrel, charged with protecting the Fa family. Assisted Fa Mulan in saving China, and fathered Elizabeth Fruitbat on her, which was a no-no; guardian spirits are not supposed to have intercourse with those they protect. A little rat, in his daughter's judgment. Her companion on her quest through the Periphery. Mentioned.

C: NME. Character. Mentioned.

C: Old Wizard, The. Character. Seen in D.J.'s dream, in a flashback to the "Mystery of the Vamps" thread. Later mentioned by Lizzie and D.J.

C: Operator, The (Avatar). Author Avatar. Member of the Backstage Board of Directors.

C: Ordinary. Author Avatar. One of the six forms taken by Deja Voodoo. A normal, unremarkable sort of guy, middle-aged and slovenly, functioning as DVd's private, lounge-around-the-suite guise. Nicknamed "Ordinary" during DVd's "Behind the Writing" Author interview with Roy Del Frink. Lizzie theorizes that despite the seamless integration of the Character predecessor minds in DVd, this form is a subconscious embodiment and continuation of the soul/essence of Jason Vodenes. The theory proven correct, he reverts to Jason, first in shape and then in mind as well, as part of DVd's process of deciding what henceforth to be.

C: Originals. Real People. The real world individuals who write the Addventure, so called by their in-Addventure stand-ins, the Author Avatars they generate by writing themselves into the Story. See Authors.

C: Owner (Avatar). Appealed to fruitlessly to help the Backstage Board of Directors resolve the MarkT scandal.

C: Owner (Original). The real life power behind the Breast Expansion Archive, and hence the BE Addventure. Mentioned.

C: Pad. Author Avatar. One of the six forms taken by Deja Voodoo. First expressed as a mysteriously appearing pad of yellow legal paper on a clipboard, later sometimes just as the pad itself, or a sheet from it. Most often utilized by DVd to send D.J. directives, but also used in other circumstances, usually for communicating with other Author Avatars. Nicknamed "Pad" during DVd's "Behind the Writing" Author interview with Roy Del Frink. Lizzie theorizes that despite the seamless integration of the Character predecessor minds in DVd, this form is a subconscious embodiment and continuation of the soul/essence of Dale Wolcziewsku. The theory proven correct, he reverts to Dale, first in shape and then in mind as well, as part of DVd's process of deciding what henceforth to be.

C: Pastors. Characters. Rotating priests who serve at the Backstage Chapel. Mentioned but none named.

C: Peripherals. Characters. Inhabitants of the Addventure's unwritten Periphery, known Backstage as the main source of the Character migrants forming the labor pool.

C: Ping. Male name used by Mulan when serving in the Chinese army, disguised as a man; later, the name given her first born child, when that child was thought to be male. See also Fa Mulan, Elizabeth Drake Fruitbat.

C: PostIt. Character. Bundle of little gummed yellow stickies, an alternate form of Morph, Deja Voodoo's familiar. Under this name and shape it accompanies DVd's Pad aspect.

C: RaoulDuke (Avatar). Author Avatar. Member of the Backstage Board of Directors.

C: Rats. Characters. Rodents which somehow managed to infest Deja Voodoo's Archive, eventually brought under control by Transformer robots from the Backstage Troubleshooters' Office. Mentioned.

C: Rebecca. Character. Adama's "minder," who also occasionally serves both him and MarkT in their official capacity as members of the Backstage Board of Directors. Rescues F-Cup Fitzgerald from the mob of Avatars and Characters seeking to confront MarkT.

C: Reporters. Characters. Prominent in the mob besieging MarkT.

C: Robin Foster. Character. Mentioned.

C: Roy Del Frink (Avatar). Author Avatar. Host of the "Behind the Writing" program, in the various threads of which he interviews other Author Avatars and, through them, the Originals behind them. Mentioned.

C: Russell Cabal, The. Characters. MarkT and the Avatars derived from members of his former Character family, particularly those on the Backstage Board of Directors. So called by the Enquirer in its reporting on the MarkT nepotism scandal.

C: Russell family. Characters. Named members seen include Marcus and Wendy Russell and their children Ellen, Scott, David, Wallace, Dennis, Wendell, June and Eunice, Janos and Carol Wolcziewsku and their children Dale and Matt, and Ulysses Russell and his son Jim. Others are seen but not named, named but not seen, or merely mentioned. All those listed attended the 1998 Russell family reunion in Las Vegas, during which all but Wendy, Matt, Ulysses and Jim were taken by Authors to become Author Avatars. Jim's uncle Sid is stated to have not been present. Seen in D.J.'s dream.

C: Samantha Russell. Character. Original organizer of the 1998 Russell family reunion, her duties were taken on by Marcus Russell when she became ill. Mentioned.

C: Sandy. Character. Adama's assistant.

C: Sawyer (Avatar). See John Ibsen Graham Sawyer.

C: Sconce. Character. A small, seemingly invisible presence, which can actually be seen as a dim, flickering light in conditions of low ambient illumination or darkness. Possibly a will-o'-the-wisp. An alternate form of Morph, Deja Voodoo's familiar. Under this name and shape it accompanies DVd's Voiceless aspect.

C: Scott Francis Russell. Character. Son of Marcus and Wendy Russell, brother of David, Wallace, Dennis, Wendell, June, and Eunice Russell, and cousin of Dale and Matt Wolcziewsku. Became the Author Avatar of F-Cup Fitzgerald; aged twenty at the time. See also F-Cup Fitzgerald. Mentioned.

C: Scott Russell (1). Character. Brother of Jim. Mentioned.

C: Scott Russell (2). Character. See Francis Scott Russell.

C: Scotty. See Francis Scott Russell and F-Cup Fitzgerald.

C: Sensida Russell (Sensie). Character. Daughter of Sid Russell, former wife of Lesley Wu, and mother of Kythera and Hubert Wu. No longer remembers her husband and children due to traumatic events suffered at the end of the Wild Oats thread.

C: Shaggy Sullivan. Character. Adama's photographer, loaned to MarkT to film his press conference.

C: Shang. See Li Shang.

C: Sharon. Character. Jim's usual girlfriend in the current Addventure. Mentioned.

C: Sid Russell. Character. The Keeper of the Backstage. Husband of Credensa and Sendula, father of Alvin, Cressida and Sensida, and uncle of Jim. He having been banished for some reason or other about the time of Lizzie's arrival Backstage, a capricious Author tapped her as his replacement, with unfortunate consequences rife in story possibilities. Fortunately, it was only temporary. During the course of this thread, D.J. calls him to discuss Kythera's soul. It is revealed that in the deleted reunion thread he was not present at the Russell family reunion at which a number of his relatives and others were swept up to become Author Avatars, having dropped out of sight years before -- though not, apparently, to go Backstage and become the manager thereof, as this would have been well before the version of him tapped for that duty was so recruited.

C: T. Character. To all intents and purposes, the deity by which Backstage residents swear, although he is the maintainer rather than the creator of the Addventure. In fact identical with the Author Avatar MarkT, who exercises his authority as chairman of the Backstage Board of Directors. As most who take T's name in vain have a jaundiced opinion of him in his more human guise, possibly the appellation refers to MarkT's Original rather than to the Avatar. The Original being a more referee than writer, his role in curbing the excesses of the other writers might be considered a quality worthy of worship. See also MarkT.

C: Thomas Russell. Character. Adama's translator; works in the Translators' Suite. Mentioned.

C: Tinkerbell. Character. Winged pixie or fairy from Disney's "Peter Pan." An alternate form of Morph, Deja Voodoo's familiar. Under this name and shape it accompanies DVd's DJ2 aspect.

C: Tip. Character. Protagonist of L. Frank Baum's novel The Land of Oz, a non-Addventure venue, revealed at the end to be the transgendered Princess Ozma. You Wish, likening his own situation to Tip's, quips bitterly that he might have to change his name to that.

C: Transformer robots. Characters. Added to the Backstage Troubleshooter arsenal by Anna Jaeger in the wake of the "Anna's Addventure" thread, but little seen since, they inhabit the Troubleshooters' Office as ostensibly harmless artifacts, while in fact they are extraordinarily effective security devices. They have also been utilized on occasional Troubleshooter missions. D.J. loaned some to Deja Voodoo to take care of the rodent problem in his suite's Archive. Once this was under control, most decided protecting him was their duty, and made their base camp in his bedroom. He found it hard to sleep with all those little electronic eyes on him until D.J. informed him they are programmed to go on standby mode in the absence of any actual threats, and were not watching him. The bulk of the Transformers remain with the Troubleshooters. Mentioned.

C: Ulysses Russell. Character. Father, as known from other threads, of James and Scott. A distant cousin of June. Seen in D.J. Woohoo's dream of her former life as a Character.

C: Unnamed. Author. Speculated by F-Cup Fitzgerald to have rediscovered the Reference Thread in the current Addventure and continued it pornographically.

C: Unnamed. Author Avatars. Neighbors of F-Cup Fitzgerald, whom D.J. took precautions not to disturb.

C: Unnamed. Author Avatars and Characters. Members of the Backstage Board of Directors, other than those named in the thread. Summoned to the Board meeting by MarkT along with the others.

C: Unnamed. Author Avatars and Characters. Mob, dominated by the media, portions of which besieges both D.J. and MarkT at the end of the thread. MarkT confronts it in a press conference.

C: Unnamed. Character. JigSaw was having an intimate encounter with her when summoned to MarkT's impromptu family reunion. Alluded to by JigSaw.

C: Unnamed. Character. Person at the bar who flares out next to Scotty and June as he is Taken to be an Author Avatar.

C: Unnamed. Characters. Girls at the bar, Cousins of Dennis and Wendell Russell. Mentioned.

C: Vamp, The. Character. Vamp version of Polexia Brewster (Lexie), a deceased former girlfriend of F-Cup Fitzgerald. Not named in this thread, she was a major threat to the Backstage in the "Mystery of the Vamps" thread. Mentioned by D.J. See also Vamps.

C: Vamps. Characters. Vampiric succubae, the main menace in the "Mystery of the Vamps" thread, also referred to as the "Vamp case." Mentioned. See also Vamp, The.

C: Voiceless. Author Avatar. One of the six forms taken by Deja Voodoo. An indefinable, voiceless presence. His mode of communication is described as telepathic in this thread. Nicknamed "Voiceless" during DVd's "Behind the Writing" Author interview with Roy Del Frink. Lizzie theorizes that despite the seamless integration of the Character predecessor minds in DVd, this form is a subconscious embodiment and continuation of the soul/essence of Dennis Russell. The theory proven correct, he reverts to Dennis, first in shape and then in mind as well, as part of DVd's process of deciding what henceforth to be.

C: Wallace John Russell. Character. Son of Marcus and Wendy Russell, brother of Ellen, Francis (Scott), David, Dennis, Wendell, June and Eunice Russell, and cousin of Dale and Matt Wolcziewsku. Aged 17 at the time of the 1998 Russell family reunion. Overshadowed by the Author JigSaw to form his Author Avatar. Seen in D.J. Woohoo's dream of her former life as a Character. See also JigSaw.

C: Wendell Dane Russell (Wen). Character. Son of Marcus and Wendy Russell, twin brother of Dennis, and brother of Ellen, Francis (Scott), David, Wallace, June and Eunice. When eleven he and his twin discovered June after she had been raped by their cousin Matt, and in consequence beat Matt up, thus becoming the only boys June ever trusted, after. As she became a perennial tag-along, they viewed her as at best a pest and at worst an embarrassment. Aged 15 at the time of the 1998 Russell family reunion. Referred to by Ellen as one of the Trouble Triplets, in company with Dennis and June. He was at the height of high-school insecurity, afflicted with acne, asthma, and a self-chosen addiction to cigarettes because he and his twin thought it would make them 'cool.' Mostly he just tried to be unobtrusive; he wanted nothing more than to melt back into the background, his only real means of expression being big, bold graffiti art on the sides of buildings. He and his twin had never been kissed, and crashed and burned the one time, on mutual dares, they tried to ask girls out. Both hated school and dreamed of blowing it up someday. Maybe they would have, being possessed of a positive mania for weapons and explosives. Per DVd, his affinity for devices is his most prominent characteristic. Overshadowed by the Author Deja Voodoo and amalgamated with five other Characters to form Deja Voodoo's Author Avatar. Resurrected for Deja Voodoo's effort to give his former selves their own choice as to what to be, he was convinced by Alida to continue being part of DVd. His mind and memories are retained by both Deja Voodoo and D.J. Woohoo, while his soul is entirely resident in the former. Manifests physically as DVd's Blurry aspect. Seen in D.J. Woohoo's dream of her former life as a Character. See also Blurry.

C: Wendy Elizabeth (Wood) Russell. Character. Wife of Marcus Russell, mother of Ellen, Francis (Scott), David, Wallace, Dennis, Wendell, June and Eunice. Her maiden name is per D.J.'s listing of her family. Aged 43 at the time of the 1998 Russell family reunion, at which Alida Janiden had her eyes on her jewelry. Seen in D.J. Woohoo's dream of her former life as a Character. Her necklace caught the avaricious eye of Alida. Sexually assaulted by her brother-in-law Janos Wolcziewsku in the pornographic conclusion of the Reference Thread; saved by her son Scott, she came on to him due to the hyper-lustful atmosphere before he was mercifully overshadowed. Died at the end of the reference thread; when MarkT deleted that thread; her soul was released to form that of Elizabeth Bennett in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

C: Wolcziewsku family. Characters. Janos, Carol, Matt and Dale. Relatives of the Russell family, they ate at the next table over from June Russell's family at the 1998 Russell family reunion. See individual entries.

C: You Wish (Avatar). Author Avatar. Originally the Character Eunice Russell, overshadowed and transgendered by the Author You Wish at the time of the Russell family reunion to become his Avatar. Noted for his bad attitude, he is one of the few Avatars deriving from MarkT's former Character family who is not on the Backstage Board of Directors. Reverted by MarkT along with other Avatars to something akin to their original Character selves during the "Author Girls" thread, to teach them a lesson. The actual shape, that of a little boy, was determined by MarkT as part of the lesson. Not intended to consciously retain either the lesson or the sobering glimpses of his past it gave him, he did remember the lesson, due to F-Cup Fitzgerald's mischievous recording of the incident as an episode. See also Eunice Russell.

C: Zorlond Jaeger (Avatar). Author Avatar. A member of the Backstage Board of Directors. Peremptorily summoned to MarkT's impromptu Board meeting from an intimate encounter with Kiya.

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P: Annuminas. Legendary first capital of Gondor in The Lord of the Rings. Mentioned.

P: Antipodes, The. The quarter of the Backstage opposite that in which the Concourse is located. Per D.J., a land that leaches mana from people as a sponge soaks up water, until one's very form is a thing ephemeral and prey to change. Lesley was conceived there on an occasion when D.J. and Lizzie were stranded there, the former bereft of her powers and the latter temporarily reverted to male state.

P: Archive, The. See Archive, The under Characters.

P: Author Girls Thread. An Addventure setting mentioned by JigSaw and Dabbler.

P: Author Hell. Place of damnation in the Afterlife Sector, a Backstage Ring sector west of the Concourse. Thought to have been named for its inmates, it is actually named for its masters; while most of the damned are indeed Author Avatars, Authors can condemn anyone to Author Hell, including more mundane Characters. MarkT damned the soul of Matt Wolcziewsku to Author Hell upon deleting the Reference Thread.

P: Author Suite 2000. Author Avatar Suite of MarkT on Upper Level 10 of the Backstage Concourse. Mentioned.

P: Author Suite 2001. A working suite shared by MarkT and Adama, on Upper Level 10 of the Backstage Concourse. Both have offices there. Its conference room is also utilized for meetings of the Backstage Board of Directors. Scene of MarkT's press conference at the end of the thread, and the Board meeting that follows.

P: Author Suite 2002. Author Avatar Suite of Adama on Upper Level 10 of the Backstage Concourse, the home and workplace of the BE Addventure's ubiquitous Indexer. Also known as the Indexer's Suite. The work or indexing room contains a fax machine which, in common with many of his other devices, is only there when actually in use, plus an in box and a sadly neglected Character Index file. The staff room is also seen, and the sleeping quarters mentioned.

P: Author Suite 2320. Author Avatar Suite of You Wish, on Upper Level 13 of the Backstage Concourse.

P: Author Suite 2323. Author Avatar Suite of Groblek, on Upper Level 13 of the Backstage Concourse. Place to which Lizzie took Kythera, famed for its magical library. Mentioned.

P: Author Suite 2385. Author Avatar Suite of Deja Voodoo on Upper Level 13 of the Backstage Concourse. Seen in this thread only through D.J.'s palantir. Its Archive and bedroom are mentioned. DVd also has "a few extradimensional portals to spare," one of which he programs to open into a newly-created neutral area -- a spare room, so to speak, not properly part of either his office or D.J.'s, in which he and his counterpart can meet. D.J. also opens her own gateway into this neutral room.

P: Author Suite 2404. Author Avatar Suite and office of F-Cup Fitzgerald, on Upper Level 14 of the Backstage Concourse. Scene of D.J.'s confrontation of Fitzgerald, and MarkT's subsequent impromptu family reunion. Boasts an ample wine cellar.

P: Author Suite 2662. Author Avatar Suite of Dabbler, on Upper Level 16 of the Backstage Concourse. D.J. visits Dabbler there to enlist him in publicizing the secret of Avatar origins.

P: Author Suite 2665. Author Avatar Suite of L.E. on Upper Level 16 of the Backstage Concourse, from which he is ported by MarkT for the Backstage Board of Directors meeting.

P: Backstage Central. Focal area of the Backstage Concourse, where the Wus had supper with the Russells and Jaegers, and from which they are just departing at the beginning of the thread. During the course of the thread D.J. calls back to Central to discuss the issue of Kythera's soul with Sid. A former male version of Lizzie, shrunk down to Mushu's size, was made a watchdog there in one thread.

P: Backstage Chapel, The. Prime (and perhaps only true) outpost of the Almighty in the Addventure. Sequestered in an inaccessible location Backstage, not for its own protection, but as a hazard to the denizens of the Addventure. In truth it needs little defending, as the darker forces of the Addventure are positively allergic to it. Nonetheless, its purity recommends it to Lizzie as a place Kythera might find her missing sense of purpose in defending.

P: Backstage Concourse, The. Backstage Ring sector, home to most Author Avatars.

P: Backstage Troubleshooters' Office. Scene of much of the thread, the Troubleshooters' working and living address, located in Hilbert's Backstage Hotel. Consists of the work office or office proper, called the outer office, and the living quarters behind it. There is a telephone with a message machine in the outer office, as well as a secure hiding place for D.J.'s palantir, her connection to the Inter-Authorial Network. The living quarters as shown in this thread consist of two bedrooms, one shared by D.J. and Lizzie, the other for guests. They are connected to the outer office by separate doors, and also interconnect. Lesley was initially accommodated in the guest bedroom; afterwards D.J. remade it into two bedrooms to accommodate both him and Kythera; the second (his) was apparently henceforth accessible only by a door from the first (Kythera's). Even the dressers were stocked to their tastes; D.J. is thorough. Kythera's room also has a bureau, and D.J. and Lizzie's room a clock. The office also contains a kitchen with facilities for washing up and preparing meals, as well as a table on which to eat. Presumably there are restroom facilities as well. A temporary door created by D.J. to the left of the office's main door (as viewed from the interior) connects to the extradimensional neutral room created by Deja Voodoo to meet the Troubleshooters in. At the end of the thread it is besieged by Avatars and Characters seeking information about the secret of Avatar origins D.J. had revealed, until D.J. closes the office and redirects the mob to MarkT in Upper Level Suite 2001. She subsequently sensitizes the corridor outside so that it will exist only for her, Lizzie, Lesley and Kythera, as well as her brothers from her former Character family, on the chance they need a bolt-hole. She also soundproofs the walls.

P: Backstage. The area at the center of the Addventure, to which the various threads of episodes (written and unwritten) form a vast borderland known as the Periphery. Forms a base apart from the larger Addventure to store and sort Characters. The Backstage is also home to the numerous Author Avatars generated by Authors writing themselves into the Story. These, while not really the Authors they appear to be, have in consequence immense power over lesser Characters.

P: BE Addventure The. 1. The multiverse in BE Addventure scenarios are set. A world of obsession and change, mutable from Outside by the Authors who exist there, who by their writing become as its recasters or recreators. While they believe themselves its actually creators, the Addventure as a world is one they tap into rather than make, and would, unknown to most of them, continue without their ever stirring pen. Nonetheless, it remains subject to their constant revision. Thanks to their influence it has become a dumping ground of beings, concepts and settings from a broad array of other realities, whose indiscriminate mixing necessitates a base apart from the larger Addventure to store and sort them: the Backstage. The BE Addventure being a literary universe, there are no such things as true coincidences there, according to Lizzie.
     2. Also, the region of the BE Addventure closest to the Center from which the constantly branching Story strings of the Written Threads fan out. In this region the Story is essentially fixed or defined, since the Written Threads predominate over the mutable mass of unwritten storystuff; thus it forms essentially the whole of the BE Addventure from the Outside perspective. The surrounding area of unwritten Story forms the Periphery.

P: Burgundy. Region in France where Burgundy wine was first produced. F-Cup Fitzgerald mourns when You Wish responds to his offer of drinks by taking the Burgundy.

P: Center, The. The Backstage, as it is known in the Addventure's Periphery. The region of the BE Addventure from which the writing or revision of the remainder appears to be generated, from the perspective of the more self-aware Characters in the remainder. The Center is comprised of the Backstage Ring and the Centerlands within. Unlike what most Peripheral immigrants expect, it is not more stable than the Periphery but less; not safer, but more dangerous. For in the land of the Authors, everything can be rewritten, and generally is. The Addventure's center is Written indeed, but only its past is relatively fixed, the present and future remaining as mutable as elsewhere. While safe havens exist there for Characters, most newcomers know nothing of these, and generally seek out work in the Author-controlled sectors of the Ring.

P: Chapel. More properly, the Backstage Chapel. Place of worship on the Hidden Level in the Upper Levels of the Concourse. Mentioned.

P: China. An Addventure setting modeled after the medieval China of the real world, as reimagined by Disney. Home setting of Fa Mulan, Li Shang, Mushu and Elizabeth Fruitbat. At the time of Lizzie's birth, it lay mainly or entirely in the Addventure's unwritten Periphery; since then, portions at least have been incorporated via writing into the Addventure proper. As a literary creation, and an American one at that, its denizens speak English, using actual Chinese only for names. See also Disney multiverse.

P: Disney multiverse. A fictional reality or series of realities separate from the BE Addventure, but a fertile source of Addventure Characters, locales, and scenarios. A Toon China dumped into the Addventure from this multiverse was the home thread of Elizabeth Fruitbat and her forebears, Fa Mulan, Mushu, and Li Shang. See also China.

P: Dragon worlds. Lesley has promised to show Kythera these in order to help her gain a better sense of who she is.

P: Groundhog Day. A movie setting endlessly replaying the same events, likened by F-Cup Fitzgerald to the recurring dream version of the Reference Thread.

P: Gym, The. Presumably a location in Hilbert's. Lesley planned to visit it at the end of the thread. Mentioned.

P: Hell. An infernal setting for the afterlife. Mentioned. See also Author Hell.

P: Hotel. Unnamed Las Vegas hotel that was the scene of the 1998 Russell family reunion in the precursor Addventure. See Las Vegas.

P: Jaeger Sphere. An experimental Dyson Sphere world created in an alternate universe by Zorlond and Kiya Jaeger as a habitation for their descendants. Main setting of the "Wild Oats" thread. The world in which Kythera Wu was conceived, and to which she and her parents returned when she reached maturity, as a prelude to their return to the Backstage.

P: Las Vegas. Setting of the hotel that was the scene of the 1998 Russell family reunion raided by various Authors for Character raw material to overshadow as their Avatars in the precursor Addventure, the remnant "reference thread" of which long survived, isolated, in the current Addventure until deleted by MarkT. Used as the basis of MarkT's "woodshed" setting in which he disciplined Author Avatars who had previously existed as Characters in the reference thread. Also seen in D.J.'s dream of her former life as a Character; it has been revealed that all Avatars derived from this thread have a recurrent nightly dream of their lives therein. See also Precursor Addventure, Reference Thread, Reference Thread: Dream Version, and Woodshed, The.

P: Lord of the Rings, The. A non-Addventure setting. Mentioned.

P: Marcus's study. A setting in the Reference Thread, reproduced by MarkT in his "woodshed." Mentioned.

P: Mount Areola. Mountain at the center of the Backstage, on which Owner and Imaginos reside.

P: Neutral Room. An extradimensional room accessible from both Deja Voodoo's suite and the Backstage Troubleshooters' Office, newly created by DVd as a place in which he and D.J. can meet to sort out the moral dilemma posed by their rediscovery of their predecessor Characters. As secure as you can get in the BE Addventure, it is even unlinkable. Physically it has luminous golden walls, two of which, opposite each other, contain doors to DVd's suite and D.J.'s office. The doors pulse slightly in waiting mode when not in use. There is a circle of chairs in the center of the room.

P: Old Wizard's Bar and Grill, The. Watering hole located in the Backstage Concourse. Fruitbat was turned into a dragon-girl serving wench and enlisted to run the operation in one thread. Incongruously mentioned by the self-aware Scotty in D.J. Woohoo's dream of her former life as a Character.

P: Orphan Episode Asylum. Institution handling Orphan Episodes, located in the Upper Levels of the Service Sector. Mentioned.

P: Outside. A general term for any place non encompassed in the universe of the Addventure. Mentioned.

P: Periphery, The. The unwritten and hence mutable region of the Addventure surrounding the written Addventure proper. The region of the BE Addventure furthest from the Center, where the fixed and tangled Story strings of the Written threads peter out. A mutable mass of unformed storystuff -- unwritten, as the Authors would put it -- whose inhabitants live lives that are free but in constant jeopardy of Revision as the Authors' threads encroach on and alter their world. In these borderlands passage from one thread or setting to another is so easy as to be commonplace, and so commonplace as to go largely unrecognized. Most inhabitants are unaware of the danger threatening them, but closer in towards the Center, in threads that have known the Authors' touch, rare persons have an inkling of the changes they have wrought, and rumors circulate of beings able to alter reality, and of the land at the heart of the tangle of threads in which they dwell. Still further in, the way to the Center becomes known, marked by golden strands that widen as they meet others, until they become broad as highways. Along these pass a migration of Peripherals toward the Center -- people anxious to escape the winds of change, to find the stable heart of their universe. These roads lead inward into regions so Written their reality is essentially fixed; the BE Addventure proper. Too bad the Center is not as the Peripherals dream....

P: Precursor Addventure. A previous incarnation of the current Addventure that crashed, essentially wiping it out with the exception of its Reference Thread. When rebooted, its events had been replaced by those recorded as occurring in the current Addventure. Notable variations of the precursor Addventure from the current one: Marcus, not Jim, was the Main Character; Ellen, not Robin, was his principle female antagonist; Wendy, not Sharon, was his most frequent girlfriend. A number of Characters in the current Addventure are known to have had earlier incarnations in the precursor Addventure, most notably Jim. See also Reference Thread, Reference Thread: Dream Version, and Woodshed, The.

P: Protected threads. Threads in which the possibility of Authorial interference is minimal, generally ones in which time races by comparison to the Backstage. Wise self-aware Characters tend to resort to them for childbearing and rearing, as both can be done there within the course of a single episode. D.J. and Lizzie chose a protected thread to raise Lesley, and Lesley and Sensie did likewise to bear and raise Kythera and Hubert. According to D.J., they even chose threads set in the same era. In each instance, the respective parents spent about twenty years in the protected thread chosen raising their children. For various reasons, these years are not reflected in their current apparent ages. Also called Secure threads. Mentioned.

P: Random Sample Thread. And Addventure setting in which F-Cup Fitzgerald broke into MarkT's Author Suite. Mentioned.

P: Reality. The real world, from which the Addventure is created (or, in the opinion of its inhabitants, altered) by being Written.

P: Recovery Sector, The. A Backstage Ring sector east of the Concourse, used for medical purposes. Where F-Cup Fitzgerald awoke in the wake of MarkT's revelation that he had deleted the Reference Thread. Mentioned.

P: Reference Thread. A setting and storyline in the precursor Addventure containing the 1998 Russell family reunion in Las Vegas, which F-Cup Fitzgerald felt was the Addventure's original thread, the benchmark providing the back story for all the others. It was, however, of little apparent interest to active Authors, and so poorly developed, rather like Deja Voodoo's "MarkT Device" storyline, which serves a similar reference function in the current Addventure. Many or most of its Characters were unique to it, and little used elsewhere; exceptions included Marcus Russell, the precursor Addventure's Main Character, and Ellen Russell, one of his major foils. Others known to have had bit roles in other threads were Marcus' wife Wendy, who was usually his girlfriend elsewhere, Jim Russell, a distant relative, and Joe Lugubrious, no relation. This all changed when Jim, in a scheme to elevate himself to Main Character at Marcus' expense, somehow made the Reference Thread a primary recruiting station for Authors in need of Avatars. The taking of Marcus as an Avatar precipitated a rush to overshadow other Characters and precipitated a chain reaction that crashed the whole Addventure and ended the thread. When the Addventure was rebooted, it was a very different place, with Jim having been retrospectively written in as the Main Character by MarkT, the Author who had taken Marcus as an Avatar. The old Reference Thread long survived, however, isolated in the current Addventure until ultimately deleted by MarkT. Two important echoes of it continued to remain even after that; MarkT's "woodshed" setting and a dream version replaying the events of the Reference Thread in the dreams of all current Addventure Avatars and Characters derived from it. The original events of the Reference Thread are summarized for D.J. by F-Cup Fitzgerald, and the manner of its end by MarkT; an altered variation of its events is played out in D.J.'s dream. See also Woodshed, The, and Reference Thread: Dream Version.

P: Reference Thread: Dream Version. An echo of the Reference Thread of the precursor Addventure surviving in the minds of those current Addventure Avatars and Characters deriving from it. All such Avatars and Characters experience a recurrent nightly dream replaying their former lives as Characters in the Reference Thread. By default, this dream version of the thread runs exactly as the original did; however, the course of its events can be altered by any self-aware dreamer; that is, one who consciously remembers his or her prior existence in the Reference Thread. Only such self-aware dreamers are able to recall these dreams on awakening. To date, only five self-aware dreamers have been identified. Four of them, MarkT, L.E., F-Cup Fitzgerald and the primary version of Jim (wherever he might be found), have apparently all been self-aware dreamers from the beginning. In the present thread D.J. Woohoo also becomes a self-aware dreamer; Deja Voodoo, while regaining the memories necessary to become one, is not known to have done so. Possibly he simply didn't go to sleep after the encounter with D.J. that brought out his buried memories, or possibly, given their near identity, the dream as she experienced it was also the dream as he experienced it. If two or more self-aware dreamers are dreaming the dream at once, they are able to interact with each other, as D.J., F-Cup Fitzgerald and Jim do in the present instance; the dream-selves of any not dreaming the dream will behave according to the patterns pre-set by the dream itself. D.J.'s dream shows us a version of the thread altered by the incipient self-awareness of her constituent personas, and their consequent actions, as well as their interactions with F-Cup Fitzgerald and Jim, not to mention the effects these actions have on other dream-selves. There is no evidence that this iteration of the dream was shared by either MarkT or L.E.; presumably they were either awake or not dreaming at the time. According to MarkT, self-aware dreamers can with the proper knowledge limit their dreaming of the Reference Thread to occur only when they desire it, rather than every night. See also Reference Thread and Woodshed, The.

P: Secure thread. See Protected threads.

P: Service Sector. Backstage Ring sector immediately east of the Concourse. Site of the Orphan Episode Asylum. Mentioned.

P: Thread. A string of Episodes representing a train of events, or Story, at least potentially separate or separable from all other Threads. Thus each Thread can be regarded as representing its own setting or even world as well as its own Story, and, in popular discourse, is so regarded. To Lizzie, her "home thread" represents the whole of the setting she was born in, a Toon China dropped into the Addventure from the Disney multiverse. To Authors and Readers Outside the Addventure the only "real" threads are written ones; the view is different on the inside, where both written and unwritten threads are perceived to exist. Insiders regard unwritten threads as relative havens of freedom, unmanipulated by Authors, though constantly in flux and subject to change. In written threads, which they regard as revised, reality is fixed, but fixed according to the dictates of the Authors, which is generally to the detriment of the inhabitants. Written Threads form constantly branching Story strings fanning out from the Backstage, the Addventure's "Center," forming hard veins through the mutable mass of unwritten storystuff. It is the region where these veins predominate, generally closer to the Center, that is considered the BE Addventure from the Outside perspective. The surrounding area of unwritten Story forms the Periphery.

P: Translators' Suite. A working suite or office in the Concourse's Upper Levels where Addventure episodes posted in other languages are translated and/or summarized. According to Kythera, there was a "disaster" up there connected with the mysterious adventure she and Lesley had while D.J. and Lizzie were sequestered in the Neutral Room with Deja Voodoo. Mentioned.

P: Upper Level 10. One of the Backstage Concourse's Upper Levels. MarkT and Adama's suites are there, as is their shared suite 2001. Fitzgerald found is corridors choked with Avatars and Characters in the wake of D.J. and Dabbler's publication of the previously suppressed secret of Avatar origins; all of them mere trying to get into Suite 2001 to confront MarkT on the issue.

P: Upper Level 14. One of the Backstage Concourse's Upper Levels. F-Cup Fitzgerald's Author Suite is located on it. He found its main corridor peculiarly empty in the wake of the impromptu family reunion MarkT held in Fitzgerald's suite, though its elevators were tied up. He took the stairs instead.

P: Woodshed, The. A current Addventure setting created by MarkT, based on the Reference Thread of the precursor Addventure for the purpose of disciplining Author Avatars who had previously existed as Characters in the reference thread. He "found it resonated with them, emotionally. A dressing down there proved of the utmost efficacy in correcting them here, even though they never retained any knowledge of that dressing down." While Avatars taken to the Woodshed retain their current Addventure names and forms, they apparently revert in all other ways to their identities in the precursor Addventure. Some factors, such as their ages, appear mutable by MarkT. Though only those Avatars who could actually remember the Reference Thread are able to recall their visits to the Woodshed, F-Cup Fitzgerald once influenced his original to write up one such visit, with the result that Dabbler, Deja Voodoo, JigSaw and You Wish did recall that one instance. See also Reference Thread, and Reference Thread: Dream Version.