History Characters / TheGreylockTapes

[[folder:Alex Marsh]]

[[folder:Arnold Rivers]]

[[folder:Dr. Albrecht]]

[[folder:Tiffany Crisaldi]]

[[folder:Charlotte Melgren]]

* BodyHorror: While waiting for the dispatched police officer to arrive, she bluntly states that she feels like her skin is moving, right before she starts screaming. Later, after the North Adams Police Department sends someone to her house, the officer enters the basement and discovers what remains of her, horrifically fused together with several of her dogs as they devour her intestines. And the kicker? ''She's still alive,'' using her last vestiges of life to beg the police officer for help.

* EvilDetectingDog: Subverted, none of the dogs in the kennel seem to react to its presence. In fact, when the thoughtform appears all the dogs stopped barking and ended up in a trance-like state.

* EvilDetectingDog: Subverted, none of the dogs in the kennel seem to react to its presence.

* DemBones: Appears as a giant, skeletal figure.

[[folder: Skeletal Thoughtform]]

* BodyHorror: While waiting for the dispatched police officer to arrive, she bluntly states that she feels like her skin is moving, right before she starts screaming. Later, after the North Adams Police Department sends someone to her house, the officer enters the basement and discovers what remains of her, horrifically fused together with several of her dogs as they devour her intestines. And the kicker? *She's still alive,* using her last vestiges of life to beg the police officer for help.

* BodyHorror: While waiting for the dispatched police officer to arrive, she bluntly states that she feels like her skin is moving before screaming.

* FauxAffablyEvil: He hires Morelli to do excavation on Mt. Greylock, and tries to convince Arnold to return to the tunnels, all while seemingly well-aware of the negative effect the mountain has on the people around it.

* OutOfTheLoop: Despite being part of Unit 13, he seems unaware of what has happened to Tiffany.

* HerrDoktor: Speaks with a very pronounced German accent and is, a medical examiner.

The supervisor of the excavation project on Mt Greylock.

* FauxAffablyEvil: He hires Morelli to do excavation on Mt Greylock, and tries to convince Arnold to return to the tunnels, all while seemingly well-aware of the negative effect the mountain has on the people around it.

![=SimioDyn=]
A giant tech company that is a household name in the America of The Greylock Tapes. Partnered with the US government to conduct research into thoughtforms, to disastrous results.

!Morelli Construction and Mining Company
A [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin construction and mining company]] hired to mine the area around Mt. Greylock to prepare it for some kind of construction project [=SimioDyn=] has planned.

[[folder:Paul Morelli]]
Head of Morelli Construction, whose text messages form the narrative of the ''sleeping dogs'' video.

* BreakTheCutie: While he's not exactly cute, when he's first shown, his picture has him smiling and happy. He sounds cheerful and even a bit excited during his first phone call to Frank. As the video goes on and his experiences get worse and worse, it becomes a distressed frown.
* FatherToHisMen: Most of his messages to Frank are about the concern he has for his employees. Unfortunately, he fails to save any of them.
* TraumaCongaLine: The events at Mount Greylock are this for him, as he goes from finding a strange place beneath the mountain, through his men falling sick and something stalking them through the woods, to losing his mind to whatever dwells beneath the mountain.
* UncertainDoom: It's unclear what happened to him; while he's never confirmed to have died on Mount Greylock, neither is he listed as one of the survivors in ''old odd ends''.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: He dismisses the tunnel beneath Mount Greylock seemingly clearing itself out overnight, believing that Frank has another crew come in and do the job, despite there being no proof that anything like that happened.

[[folder:Arnold Rivers]]
An anthropologist working for Morelli, and the only person to descend into Mount Greylock and escape with his mind and sanity intact (for a while, at least).

* CuriosityKilledTheCast: Subverted. While he admits that the discoveries beneath Mount Greylock could shake humanity's understanding of its own history, and he feels the mountain's pull, he ultimately recognizes how dangerous returning would be, and refuses to come back to the mountain.
* {{Foil}}: To Paul Morelli. Both work for the same company, but while Paul is rugged and a physical worker, Arnold is a nerdy-looking scholar; Paul chooses to stay on the mountain while Arnold leaves the moment he gets the chance; Paul trusts Frank Porter and keeps calling him for help, while Arnold immediately refuses any offers from Frank; finally, Paul suffers UncertainDoom, while Arnold's death is caught on camera.
* IdiotBall: Ultimately, his cause of death; while hiding from the monster in the closet, he panics and starts begging whoever is outside to spare him, which leads the white-masked thoughtform right to him.
* ProperlyParanoid: He does not trust [=SimioDyn=], and records everything he knows believing that someone will come to kill him; he is proven right pretty much immediately.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: All but flees Mount Greylock after seeing what's beneath it, and refuses to return no matter what [=SimioDyn=]/Unit 13 is offering him.
* SoundOnlyDeath: We never get to see him die, but what we hear is unambiguous.

!101 WRAV
[[folder:Alan Rosenbaum]]
The TV station executive of the station Don Wright's news broadcast airs. Evidently being told to [[GovernmentConspiracy inform his viewers that the home invasions were done by an anti-American group that has been dealt with]], he furiously demands the show's producers find Don.

[[folder:Don Wright]]
The host of his own news broadcast, ''Don Wright Tonight'', which covers the events of the home invasions and proclaiming everything to be "[[BlatantLies back]] [[TheConspiracy to]] [[OminousVisualGlitch normal]]."

[[folder:Liam Hollander]]
One of the producers of Don's show, and the one who finds his body.

!Others
[[folder:Alex Marsh]]
Tiffany Crisaldi's boyfriend, the father of her unborn child, and a member of Unit 13, the government-backed unit conducting the thoughtform experiments.

[[folder:Dr. Albrecht]]
The doctor conducting Tiffany's autopsy. His unusual findings suggest Tiffany may not have committed suicide after losing her baby, as was previously implied.

[[folder:Frank Porter]]

[[folder:President John F. Kennedy]]
Yes, that JFK. The 35th US President from 1961 until his infamous assassination in 1963.
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[[folder:President Lyndon B. Johnson]]
Yes, ''that'' Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th US President from 1963 to 1969.
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[[folder:Tiffany's Psychologist]]
Tiffany Crisaldi's psychologist when she was six years old, implied to have been working for Unit 13 for their thoughtform experiments on children.
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* ImaginaryFriend: Played with. The thoughtform claims to be one, but Katie is confused by its existence, claming she's never had one.

The main antagonistic force of the series, thoughtforms are Greylock’s take on tulpas: beings manifested from human consciousness and desires that take on a life of their own.
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[[folder: White Masked Thoughtform]]

[[folder: Katie’s “Imaginary Friend”]]

* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: It’s brief appearance makes it appear to have glowing white eyes in a skull.

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[[folder: Percival C. Rothwell]]
The president of [=SimioDyn=] ([[AnachronicOrder at least he was in the sixties]]) who ardently supports the government’s National Access Initiative.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Not only is he the president of a massive tech company planning to [[spoiler: use the NAI program to spy on every American household for nefarious purposes]] but he’s also the apparent one who ordered the assassination of JFK because the president refused to go along with it.

[[folder: Paul Morelli]]

* FatherToHisMen: Most of his messages to Frank are about concern he has for his men. Unfortunately, he fails to save any of them.

[[folder: Arnold Rivers]]

[[folder: Alan Rosenbaum]]
The TV station executive of the station Don Wright’s news broadcast airs. Evidently being told to [[GovernmentConspiracy inform his viewers that the home invasions were done by an anti-American group that has been dealt with]], he furiously demands the show’s producers find Don.

[[folder: Don Wright]]
The host of his own news broadcast, ''Don Wright Tonight'', which covers the events of the home invasions and proclaiming everything to be “[[BlatantLies back]] [[TheConspiracy to]] [[OminousVisualGlitch normal]].”

[[folder: Liam Hollander]]
One of the producers of Don’s show, and the one who finds his body.

[[folder: Alex Marsh]]
Tiffany Crisaldi’s boyfriend, the father of her unborn child, and a member of Unit 13, the government-backed unit conducting the thoughtform experiments.

[[folder: Dr. Albrecht]]
The doctor conducting Tiffany’s autopsy. His unusual findings suggest Tiffany may not have committed suicide after losing her baby, as was previously implied.

[[folder: Frank Porter]]

[[folder: Jim Melgren]]

[[folder: Katie]]
A young girl who gets murdered by a thoughtform posing as her “imaginary friend”, in 1994.

* WeHardlyKnewYe: She dies in the same scene she’s introduced in.

[[folder: President John F. Kennedy]]

[[folder: President Lyndon B. Johnson]]

[[folder: Tiffany Crisaldi]]

[[folder: Tiffany’s Psychologist]]
Tiffany Crisaldi’s psychologist when she was six years old, implied to have been working for Unit 13 for their thoughtform experiments on children.
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[[folder: In general]]
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[[folder: Arnold Rivers]]
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!Morello Construction Company

[[folder: Paul Morello]]

The president of SimioDyn ([[AnachronicOrder at least he was in the sixties]]) who ardently supports the government’s National Access Initiative.

Yes, 'that' Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th US President from 1963 to 1969.

!SimioDyn