Spruce
Name: Kenneth Warren Spruce
Actor: Austin Basis
Location: Wherever danger lies
Occupation: Ghostfacer
Episodes: 3.13 Ghostfacers, Ghostfacers Web Series
HISTORY
Kenny Spruce (full name: Kenneth Warren Spruce) is a cameraman with the Ghostfacers team. His expertise with cameras goes to the lengths of reading the instruction booklets that came with the equipment. He is a licensed shamanologist, having taken some courses at the local community college.
In an extended interview segment on the Ghostfacers website, entitled "Kenny Spruce: Shamanologist," Spruce describes himself, his background, and how he came to be in the Ghostfacers.
He is 15/16th Jew and 1/16th Cherokee, of the Ah-ni-tsi-s-qua Clan, or Bird Clan. His great-great grandfather was a degenerate gambler and had a peyote addiction, but married a Cherokee woman whose father was the owner of the casino where he lost all his money. "Great-great grandmammy Spruce" gave Spruce his necklace, which consists of her tooth on a cord.
Kenneth was a dungeon master in the town next to the town in which Harry Spangler was a dungeon master. They crossed paths at a couple of Magic: The Gathering conventions, but it wasn't until they destroyed each other in an instance on World of Warcraft that they really became friends. They also went to the Coven premiere, and together formed the first Coven fan club. Harry was president, and Spruce was secretary.
CHARACTERISTICS
Information on Spruce from the Official Ghostfacer's website: (the website is now defunct, but can still be accessed through the Wayback Machine)
LIKES: Medieval weaponry, watching the rise of the full moon, eating a perfectly cooked corn dog, the scent of freshly cut grass, getting an alt to level seventy, peanut butter and jelly on garlic bread with cheddar cheese and bacon.
DISLIKES: Sea monkeys, raisins, cold asphalt, negative stereotypes about Native Americans.
MOVIES: The Lost Boys, Dances with Wolves, Coven, The Shining, The Watcher in the Woods, The Little Mermaid, Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, Howard the Duck, The Amityville Horror, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
TELEVISION: LOST, The Twilight Zone, Twin Peaks, Jem (truly outrageous), Seinfeld, America's Next Top Model, Wallace & Gromit.
BOOKS: Lord of the Flies by William Golding, The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff, Women by Charles Bukowski, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein, MAUS by Art Spiegelman.
MUSIC: Bob Marley, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Type O Negative, Metallica, Joy Division, theme from 'Golden Girls'.
HEROES: Gandhi, Mel Brooks, Great-Great-Grandmother Chik-a-whe-whe Spruce.
SPRUCE IN FANDOM
- @Shamanologist Kenneth Warren Spruce Twitter roleplay account
EXTERNAL LINKS
- Interview with Austin Bass by Winchester Journals
- Interview by Danielle Turchiano