{"id":5441,"date":"2018-02-23T22:49:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T03:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=5441"},"modified":"2018-02-24T11:45:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T16:45:41","slug":"a-cast-of-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/a-cast-of-thousands\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cast of Thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"It’s been quite a while since we updated the Dramatis Personae<\/a> for our ongoing chain story. Let’s remedy that, shall we?<\/p>\n

Due to the sprawling nature of the chain story, this update turned out to be quite the project. We had to read the whole thing, and take notes in between bouts of laughter. In order to get something<\/em> up today, we’re going to start with the new information about our unnamed protagonist and his family. Next week we’ll have the entries for all of his new friends and enemies, as well as an introduction to the various nefarious organizations that inhabit his weird and overcomplicated world.<\/p>\n

New facts about our protagonist<\/b>:<\/p>\n

His name is five syllables long, but we still don\u2019t know what it is. As per family tradition, he was born at the North Pole. He learned everything he knows about stealth during his time as a stowaway on a tramp steamer in the South China Sea. Unlike his twin, he can sleep anywhere. He has blue-gray eyes and a super hairy chest. There is a tattoo hidden under his chest hair, given to him by Tessa. It contains, of course, a hidden message. While at the Academy he learned how to control the minds of others through an odd vocal technique he calls \u201chypnotoading,\u201d and also how to break through most hypnotic trances. He is not English. He refers to his intuition as \u201cThe Ladies.\u201d<\/p>\n

His family<\/b>:<\/p>\n

Our hero\u2019s family owns an inflatable woman factory, and it is rumored that all the men in the family have a certain exotic compound in their semen.<\/p>\n