Sally Face

by Steve Gabry (Portable Moose)

A boy with a prosthetic face moves into a crumbling apartment building in small-town Nockfell and starts pulling at threads: a murder upstairs, ghosts in the basement, bologna made of people, and a centuries-old cult worshipping a demon that's been feeding on the building's residents. Five episodes escalate from eerie mystery to cosmic horror.

48 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Ashley Campbell — An artist and fierce protector who joined the friend group and never looked back — the one who stands up to bullies, falls down trash chutes into cult
• Bob Rosenberg — An Addison Apartments resident — one of the building's quiet tenants whose ordinary life sits atop extraordinary darkness.
• Charley Mansfield — The tenant in Room 403 who committed the murder that started everything — the first thread Sal pulled, not knowing it would unravel into a conspiracy
• Chug — A friendly, heavyset resident of Addison Apartments — one of the building's more normal tenants, living with Maple and their cat Soda in Room 303.
• Citlali Grey — The ancient seer whose prophecy founded the Devourers of God — a member of the Grey Tribe who foresaw the Child of the Abomination and set in motion a
• Clare Nettles — A journalist who covered Sal's trial — the only member of the media who listened to his full story and agreed to air it unedited, becoming the last pe
• David Finch — A student at Nockfell High — part of the wider social circle around Sal's friend group, caught up in the school's strange dynamics.
• Diane Fisher — Sal's mother — killed by a cultist's shotgun blast while shielding her son with her own body, becoming the ghost that haunts his dreams and the absenc
• Dr. Enon — Sal's court-appointed psychiatrist on death row — the voice asking reasonable questions about unreasonable events, framing the player's journey throug
• Gizmo — Sal's cat — a small, affectionate presence in an apartment full of nightmares, and one of the few creatures in the building that the darkness can't co
• Henry Fisher — A grieving father trying to start over — moved his scarred son to a new town and a new apartment, not knowing he'd chosen the one building in America
• Jim Johnson — Larry's father — a cult defector who abandoned his family not out of cowardice but to sabotage a plot to murder 255 children, and was killed for his b
• Kenneth Phelps — The Archbishop of the Devourers of God — a preacher who wields scripture and a shotgun with equal conviction, who scarred a child's face to prevent a
• Larry Johnson — A metalhead conspiracy theorist who lives in the basement apartment — Sal's best friend, stepbrother, and the first person in Nockfell who looked past
• Lisa Johnson-Fisher — The janitor of Addison Apartments and Larry's fierce, loving mother — a woman who kept the building running, raised a son alone after her husband vani
• Luke Holmes — Megan's father and a member of the cult's inner council — possessed by a shadow entity that drove him to murder his wife and daughter, becoming the ap
• Maple — Chug's girlfriend and a fellow Addison Apartments resident — one of the building's ordinary souls who became a victim of the cult's spreading corrupti
• Megan Holmes — A seven-year-old ghost haunting Addison Apartments — murdered by her possessed father, now flickering between dimensions, reaching out to the boy with
• Mr. Packerton — Mrs. Packerton's husband — a man possessed by an unknown entity, kept in their apartment like a shameful secret, until Sal and Larry discovered him an
• Mrs. Gibson — The elderly tenant in Room 101 — a grumpy, cat-loving recluse whose pet rabbit's accidental death set off a chain of events that drove Jim Johnson to
• Mrs. Packerton — Nockfell High's math teacher and the woman behind the cafeteria's suspiciously terrible bologna — a Devourers of God cultist who kidnapped students an
• Neil — Todd's boyfriend and quiet anchor — a steady, grounding presence who helped build a home where outcasts could be safe, until even that wasn't enough.
• Sal Fisher — A boy behind a prosthetic face — scarred by a shotgun blast that killed his mother, now pulling at threads of murder and madness in an apartment build
• Stacy Holmes — Megan's mother — murdered alongside her daughter by her possessed husband, one of the earliest victims of the Red-Eyed Demon's influence within Addiso
• Terrence Addison — The owner of Addison Apartments who never leaves his room — possessed by a parasitic entity called the Endless One since childhood, serving as the bui
• The Devourers of God — A centuries-old cult born from a Native American prophecy — worshippers of the Red-Eyed Demon who embedded themselves in a small town's institutions a
• The Red-Eyed Demon — A cosmic entity of unknown origin that feeds on human hosts — possessing residents through parasitic growths, consuming them from the inside, and usin
• Todd Morrison — A genius inventor hiding behind thick glasses and a gentle demeanor — the one who turned a toy into a ghost detector and a bedroom into a command cent
• Travis Phelps — The school bully with bruises he won't explain — a closeted boy raised by a cult leader father, who spent years hurting others because he was taught t

Locations

• Addison Apartments — A crumbling apartment building sitting on top of a demon's temple — home to ghosts, cultists, and ordinary people who don't know the walls are alive.
• Larry's Apartment (Basement) — The basement apartment where Larry and Lisa live — metal posters, scattered art supplies, and a police scanner antenna that picks up more than police
• Larry's Treehouse — A wooden treehouse overlooking Wendigo Lake — Larry's private refuge, the place he chose to die, and the place where Ash photographed his ghost.
• Nockfell — A small American town built around a lake with an ominous name — quiet on the surface, rotting underneath, founded on land where a Native American see
• Nockfell High School — The local high school where Sal's friend group formed, Travis bullied, Mrs. Packerton taught math, and the cafeteria served bologna that nobody should
• Nockfell Prison — The facility where Sal sits on death row — waiting for execution, telling his story to a psychiatrist and a journalist, knowing no one will believe th
• Phelps Ministry — Kenneth Phelps' church — a house of worship built in 1703 directly over the temple entrance, where Sunday sermons sit atop demon-summoning rituals.
• Sal's Apartment (Room 402) — Fourth floor, Room 402 — where Sal Fisher lives with his dad, his cat, and his nightmares, the Gear Boy flickering on the dresser.
• The Basement — The building's basement level — a labyrinth of storage rooms, maintenance corridors, and hidden passages that lead to places the architect never inten
• The Temple — The Devourers of God's ancient ritual space — buried beneath Addison Apartments, connected to the Phelps Ministry, and serving as the Red-Eyed Demon's
• Todd & Neil's House — The house down the road from Addison Apartments where Todd, Neil, and adult Sal lived together — a brief pocket of domestic stability before the final
• Todd's Apartment (Room 202) — Second floor command center — Todd's bedroom-turned-lab where a genius teenager built ghost-detecting electronics surrounded by blinking monitors and
• Wendigo Lake — The lake at the heart of Nockfell — named for something hungry, surrounded by the Grey Tribe's old territory, where the town began and where some of i

Items

• Megan's Cross Necklace — A small cross necklace that belonged to a murdered seven-year-old — now a spiritual tether binding her ghost to the physical world and the key to comm
• Sal's Guitar — An electric guitar that Sal plays with surprising skill — a creative outlet for a kid whose face can't show expression, letting the music say what the
• Sal's Prosthetic Face — A smooth white mask covering devastation — the prosthetic that hides a shotgun-blasted face and a childhood ended by a cultist in a dog mask.
• Super Gear Boy — A handheld gaming device upgraded into a ghost detector — the product of a tech genius, a police scanner antenna, and the refusal to accept that the s
• The Bologna — The cafeteria mystery meat that tasted wrong — because it was made from kidnapped students, processed by a math teacher who was also a demon-worshippi
• Walkie Talkie — Sal and Larry's communication lifeline — the device that connected two kids across five floors of a haunted apartment building before it was cannibali

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