I introduced the gnome mostly because I figured that VU needed a mechanic.
Jan Jansen is himself practically just a running gag in the game Baldur's Gate II. He continually makes humorous references to his relatives, obsesses over turnips, and cowers in fear at the remote thought of a griffon swooping down and eating him. A guy like CJ couldn't take that much jibba-jabba without going nutty, I figured, so I explained it as CJ simply locking him in the basement as often as possible (also explaining why he hasn't been in the story until now.) It also leaves it open for any future chapters to totally ignore him. Famous Jan battlecry: "Beware! Your knees are MINE! Ha ha hah ha ha!"
The gray dead guy is the Nameless One, the player character from the game Planescape Torment, and he literally does have the curse of the Infinite Continue. I just threw him in the void so Skullo would have someone new to talk to.
Garrett's just Garrett..a cynical, damn artistic thief. I like him.
JP
Posted on Jun 18, 2003, 12:46 AM from IP address 63.202.107.66