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Capt. Creel: A Real Sailor and a live-aboard sailboater, the feared Captain of an Internet discussion group, works as a postman and net troller. A messianic advocate of independence, the social and sexual supremacy of Real Sailors, and heroic sanitary arrangements.P.C.: A Virtual Sailor. Expert, sensitive, a seeker after harmony, only occasionally displaying homicidal fits of rage. Intolerant of Capt Creel, and in love with Katysails' cooking. English.Katysails: A virtual sea-cook, unique as the only Internet subscriber with a conscience. Appreciates PC's sterling qualities and detests Capt Creel."Gilligan": A master manipulator, working as an industrial-grade sycophant to Capt. Creel, as a gunsmith, and as a virtual breeder of flying monkeys.Tadpole: Gilligan's assistant puppetmaster, owner of a sailing packing case, a down-under smart-ass.Seahag: A lost soul, the surviving archive of the newsgroup. Several feet in each camp.Bobsprit: A pottymouth buffoon, skipper of sailboat "Ghost" and proud owner of numerous CDs.Lady Sailor: Katysails' virtual offsider, permanently on the side of civilisation after an initial slip.Ghost Girls: Bobsprit's possibly female virtual crew of his sailboat "Ghost", providing what passes for a female chorus.E.C. Men Bureaucratic virtual enforcers from the European Community (now the European Union).Motorboaters: Mercurial powers of darknessTHE CHORUS: Wholly male; a mordant rabble of middle-aged suburban wannabe virtual sailors forming the bulk of the newsgroup. Three speakers within the Chorus, the Irishman, the Turnip and the King. |
