ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies - Characters
The cast of ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies is built around Hershel Wilk and the Whole Sick Crew, the Portofiro network she ran from 1988 to 1991 and lost to the Weeping Eye. Everyone who survives 1991 comes back in 1996 either as an asset, a handler, a target or a ghost, and the game keeps referring t...
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| Name | Description | Role | Faction | Abilities | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hershel Wilk (CASCADE) | A fourteen-year career spy and a Mircean exile, Hershel ran the Whole Sick Crew in Portofiro from 1988 to 1991 and was the only member of the network to escape the city before the Weeping Eye closed in. | Protagonist / Burned Operant | Operant Bureau (Superbloc) | Fifteen operant skills split across Action, Relation and Intellect Exertion-fuelled pushes beyond her normal skill limits Tradecraft: tailing, infiltration, cover identities and asset handling Conditioning and Thoughts that reshape her skill potentials Cryptonym CASCADE, the identity the Bureau owns | Player character |
| HOLOCENE | Hershel's double and second-in-command during the Portofiro years of the network, and the member of the crew with the closest operational relationship to her. | Former Double / Second-in-Command | Whole Sick Crew | Doubling for Hershel in the field Network second-in-command and cut-out Deep knowledge of what the Weeping Eye took in 1991 | Whole Sick Crew survivor, Portofiro |
| Tomas Stiglitz (PSEUDOPOD) | An Operant Bureau agent found catatonic in a bed at Foto 24 after listening to a red audio disc, and the inciting incident that puts Hershel back to work. | Catatonic Operant / Recruitable Ally | Operant Bureau (Superbloc) | Bureau field training Survives as a recruitable squad member for the endgame | Foto 24, Portofiro; recruited through the PSEUDOPOD side quest |
| Karolina (KINDRED) | One of the six operatives of the Whole Sick Crew, the Portofiro network Hershel ran from 1988 to 1991 before the Weeping Eye rolled it up. | Whole Sick Crew Operative | Whole Sick Crew | Network tradecraft from the 1988 to 1991 Portofiro operation | Former Whole Sick Crew member, Portofiro |
| Ramses (RADIAN) | A member of the Whole Sick Crew who worked Portofiro under Hershel until the network was burned in 1991. | Whole Sick Crew Operative | Whole Sick Crew | Network tradecraft from the 1988 to 1991 Portofiro operation | Former Whole Sick Crew member, Portofiro |
| Tempo (TAXMAN) | The crew's fixer and money man, and the member who has done best out of the five years since the network fell. | Whole Sick Crew Operative / City Fixer | Whole Sick Crew | Portofiro contacts, finance and favours Local influence built since 1991 | Former Whole Sick Crew member, Portofiro |
| Ezsti (ESTOC) | One of the six members of Hershel's Portofiro network, filed under the cryptonym ESTOC. | Whole Sick Crew Operative | Whole Sick Crew | Network tradecraft from the 1988 to 1991 Portofiro operation | Former Whole Sick Crew member, Portofiro |
| Vespar Sondo (VIRTUE) | The cop on the Whole Sick Crew. Vespar Sondo served as a carabinero in Portofiro's Guardia before working for Hershel under the cryptonym VIRTUE, which gives him the police contacts and procedural knowledge the rest of the network lacks, and makes him the crew member most exposed if the local authorities start looking at the old case again. | Whole Sick Crew Operative / Former Cop | Whole Sick Crew | Portofiro Guardia police contacts and procedure Carabinero training | Former carabinero in Portofiro's Guardia; Whole Sick Crew |
| Kaleidoscope | An operative Hershel can recruit into her endgame squad during the Portofiro campaign. | Recruitable Ally | Independent | Squad support in the finale | Recruitable during the campaign |
| The Bagman | A Portofiro underworld operator whose hideout has to be infiltrated during the campaign. | Portofiro Underworld Figure | Portofiro criminal underworld | Criminal network and a fortified hideout Custody of a red disc | Bagman's hideout, Portofiro |
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