I’ve had this idea for a mid 70-mid 80s era amusement park horror verse kind of congealing into something over the last few months and around New Years the general plot came together. It’s basically about a series of suspicious but covered up workplace fires over a ~10 year period at a park loosely based on the early days of Great Adventure (bright colors, questionable safety standards, violent crowds).

Featuring

Gaylord Sechs, overly ambitious and romantic but careless mastermind, tegu

Polly, marketing parrot with an astounding knack for anagrams that has saved the park’s ass a surprising number of times

Rosemary, gullible but kind restaurant cook fox

Margaret, seasoned actress and dual-purpose clown/witch, very sweet despite her scary face, human

Sherman, grouchy fox squirrel mechanic, good at climbing in weird spots

Daniel Berenstain (Berenstein? Burnstain? It’s a mystery), haunted house actor with spectacularly awful spelling and endless edgy jokes, probably human but also likely a vampire or werewolf with those giant teeth and all that hair

Rainbow Randall, cameo of the fursuit character, glue and other chemical-sniffing painter who wildly turns between a cheshire cat and a ginger guy, the bane of Daniel’s existence

Mo Dolgoch, painfully lawful fire investigator cow


There are also more I don’t have names for, my favorite casting choice being a (maybe frilled) shark forensic dentist (very important with all those fires). Dunno about any kind of timeline but I’ll draw the characters eventually and the story has a general outline.