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Ladies of Hack
An all-female gaming group that meets separately from the male-dominated Muncie gaming community (though nearly all of them have other groups they play with regularly and for tournament purposes). They're also part of a larger organization of the same name that lobbies Hard 8 and the Hack Master Players' Association to change the sexist depictions of women and some of the more chauvinistic rules (such as the Strength penalty for female characters.) The local group is run by Patty Gauzweiler. Although the LoH are only rarely shown actually gaming, their membership includes most of the strip's prominent female gamers, including Sara, Patty, and several others.
Sheila Horowitz
Sheila Horowitz
First mentioned offscreen as the female gamer who beat up B.A. over an in-game dispute, Sheila didn't become an on-screen character for a long time. For a while she was nearly a nemesis of the Knights: then she rather unexpectedly started dating Bob - partly out of admiration for Bob's commitment to the game and partly because he needs mothering. Tends to play Knight Errants.
- Aww Look They Really Do Love Each Other: With Bob. As hard as she is on him, and as much as she talks down on/to him, she really does love him.
- Berserk Button: Brian in general hacks her off, but he really pushes her button when he ropes Bob into his schemes or takes advantage of him. And Brian put a brick on her button when he sent Bob to Hard 8 by mail and the box got lost in transit, and then not even a few weeks later cons Bob into giving him Bob and Sheila's rent money to finance another scheme. It's only a small exaggeration to say Brian's lucky Sheila didn't kill him.
- Deadpan Snarker: She's got a biting comment for every occasion.
- The Dreaded: Where Brian is dreaded by gamemasters all over Muncie, Sheila is dreaded by pretty much everybody. She's got a nasty streak a mile wide, has a fondness for Disproportionate Retributions and doesn't care overly much who gets caught in the crossfire.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Played straight most of the time; Sheila is not a nice person and can in fact be decidedly awful to people around her — but it gets subverted when she starts dating Bob and her gentler side comes forward a little more.
- My God, What Have I Done?: When she finally meets Bob's father and realizes how abusive Bob Sr. is to his son, Sheila finally gets a look at what her treatment of Bob looks like from the outside, and it doesn't make her happy.
- The Real Man: Gender-flipped. Possibly the only thing she and Bob have in common: they're there to kill things.
- Sitcom Arch Enemy: Has been this to B.A. and to Sara, but nowadays she regards her feud with Brian as Serious Business.
- Tsundere Used to game with the Knights until B.A. accused her of cheating and they got in a fist fight. Sheila was the big reason the Knights were leery about letting Sara join the group.
Bridget Keating
Bridget Keating
First introduced when the Knights players one by one get caught up in a Vampire LARP. Bridget was a clan leader and tended to use her *ahem* assets and her willingness to Cosplay along with her clan authority to get the guys to do whatever she wanted. Though she's calmed down she's still almost always seen in some kind of sexy cosplay outfit.
- Art Shift: Most strongly in early appearances. She's still drawn a lot less googly-eyed and scribble-fingered than the rest of the cast.
- I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!: Most of the time, though hilariously subverted when she tried to charm her way past a Knight Templar guarding the door at Gary Con.
- The Vamp: Happily uses her cosplay outfits and sex appeal to control others.
Trish
Trish
An escort introduced to gaming by Tank. Basically nice.
- High-Class Call Girl: Works with a service and in good conditions.
- Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Technically an escort with a heart of gold. She's nice to Tank and even stands up for him to his friends. Later, she buys him some really nice gaming merchandise which, to judge Weird Pete's reaction, offset a good chunk of what Tank paid for her services.
- Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Sort of. There was a lot of head-scratching in Muncie when Trish started showing up in public with Tank and appeared to be dating him.
