Cast and creatures
Characters
A practical cast index for the three-day Vanderboom reunion and its wider Rusty Lake connections. Character artwork is selected from complete package exports or existing screenshot evidence when the source atlas stores a figure as animation parts.
- Profiles
- 11
- Vanderbooms
- 4
- Estate workers
- 3
- Animals & figures
- 4
Estate host and elder Vanderboom sibling
Aldous Vanderboom
A demanding host whose routines, family reunion, hunting trip, alchemical work, and injuries define much of the servant’s schedule.
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Vanderboom brother and guest
William Vanderboom
A powerful but troubled sibling connected to the guest-room puzzles, family timepieces, dinner rules, and fish brooch.
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Alexandra Vanderboom
The bright and ambitious Vanderboom sister whose garden letter, tea, bath, child, and banquet preferences shape the reunion.
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Alexandra’s infant son
Baby James
A three-month-old guest whose care and preparation foreshadow the wider Vanderboom family story.
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Estate worker and Notebook guide
The Maid
The estate maid introduces the Notebook and helps frame the player’s duties across the three-day reunion.
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Player character
The Servant
The playable worker responsible for every task, hidden duty, archive entry, and the unsettling secrets behind the reunion.
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Carriage driver
Coachman
Brings the servant and guests to the estate, accepts payment, and controls the opening and departure transitions.
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Estate cat
Rustie
The estate cat participates in breakfast, tea, Day 3’s search, and several optional achievements.
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Parrot and recurring Rusty Lake figure
Harvey
A recurring bird tied to notes, clues, and the optional use of the elixir.
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Crow figure and omen
Mr. Crow
Crow imagery appears in the morning routine, attic, family story, and Kate’s coded post-ending route.
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Figure behind the underground cave
The Lady of the Lake
An enigmatic presence associated with the cave, ancient recipe, alchemical transformation, and the estate’s deeper mythology.
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All 65 ZoomChars sprites were exported and reviewed. Because that atlas contains mouths, hands, poses, and partial animation layers rather than eleven uniform portraits, each profile uses the clearest complete extracted reference available; the family portrait and screenshots fill gaps transparently.