Tallahassee Turner

Played by: Seth Morrison

First appeared in: Mister Corbitt

An adventurer/author who gained Diamond Skin in New Jerusalem and a horrifying dog-spider monster named "Necronomidog" in Radio Man.

Clearly the main character of the story. Often goes dashing face-first into danger (even when it isn't necessary) with awesome results.

In Mister Corbitt he is a famous explorer and author living on the same Arkham street as Bernard Corbitt, and the host of the neighbors' gatherings. He is the one who spots the first sign that something is wrong with Corbitt, and the investigators' most reckless member.

Season 1: Mister Corbitt

101: It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Tallahassee hosts the Sunday evening gathering at his house. When Corbitt drops one of his packages, Tallahassee and Dr. Simeon both see what looks like a human hand, which starts the investigation. When Corbitt discovers his clothes on the lawn, Tallahassee blames ghosts that steal clothing.

102: Neighborhood Watch

Earlier in the evening he questions the elderly neighbor Mr. Barber about Corbitt and explains the thrown clothes away as "research" for a novel and kleptomania picked up during his travels. During the night surveillance he trips over patio furniture, notices freshly turned soil in the garden and digs up a hard object. He pulls it free as Corbitt's light comes on and throws it over the fence into Simeon's yard, later finding that it is a large, possibly human bone, which costs him a little Sanity.

103: Usual Suspects

Tallahassee intercepts the police, spinning up fast talk as a famous author and neighborhood watchman. At the station he blurts out that he found a strange bone, and that Major Bakersfield broke his camera. The group jokes throughout that he has soiled himself from stress.

104: Attic Window

He develops the photograph taken when Bakersfield dropped his camera from Simeon's roof. The blurry image shows a woman's face in the attic window of Corbitt's house, and it triggers Dom's memories.

105: Radical Medicine

Tallahassee arms himself with a pistol, cavalry saber, rope and hatchet and crosses the street with the photograph to confront Corbitt alone. After exchanging rude gestures with Mr. Barber he accuses Corbitt of hiding a woman in the attic, draws his gun and forces his way in, and Corbitt takes control of him with his chanting. Simeon and Bakersfield later find him wandering down the street naked and cracking his whip. Simeon distracts him with a dance, Bakersfield nets him and he is doused with water until he recovers. All he remembers is a shirtless man in suspenders.

106: The Miskatonic Mangler

While the others go after Randolph Tomaszewski, Tallahassee stays behind watching Corbitt's house, and is then brought up to date and shown the occult book and the purple vial when the others return to Simeon's house.

107: Fates and Retribution

He is one of the three investigators at Simeon's side after Simeon drinks the vial and sees the invisible wounds. He jokes about waking Simeon by urinating on his face, and flirts with Simeon's wife, Mary Beth. The next day he joins the discussion of how to deal with Corbitt.

108: Head of the Beast

Inside Corbitt's house he searches the kitchen and finds a package that is labeled "Human Head" but turns out to be a joke; the long burlap-wrapped package beside it is only a tree branch. When the head-creature attacks Dom, Tallahassee rips it off Dom's chest and tosses it away. He goes through Corbitt's study, finding botany notes, occult books, a snakeskin-bound tome in an unreadable language and a long run of journals from 1911 to 1925. He reads the journals and finds Corbitt's confessions. At the basement door he pushes Dom aside and draws his .38 to shoot the lock, but Dom picks it first.

109: For Whom the Dice Rolls

In the basement Tallahassee fires both a .45 and a .38 at the creature, hitting it with some shots and nearly hitting Bakersfield with another. When the creature dies he stabs Corbitt as Corbitt throws himself onto its body. He stays at the scene to get his story straight with Billy before the police arrive. In the epilogue he goes home to write the wildest, most unbelievable, and truest of his adventure books.

Notable quotes

• "Alright guys Billy's gone, now's our chance to be bad!"

In 203: A Night With No Moon he uses a framed picture as a mirror to spy the dead light searching the hallway of Dr. Webb's cottage, then flees with Billy through a bedroom window. Rather than run from the light under the window, he tries to shoot and photograph it, and the flash blinds him; he slips in the mud, which carries him clear of its strike. He then argues that the silver coffer is the way to stop it, runs back into the house to grab it, passes it to the Major, and stops to read more of the black journal.

In 204: Night of the Living Dead Light he spends the fight with the dead light reading Dr. Webb's journal inside the cottage, then runs for the front of the house. Back at the diner he reads aloud a second entry dated March 22nd, 1888, describing the ritual for opening the silver coffer, and concludes that someone must have opened it without the ritual. He later searches the kitchen for Mary and, finding no ice cream, settles for potato chips.

In 205: Lights Out he searches Jake's truck and takes a 12-gauge shotgun, which he names Horace, and threatens Mary with it during the standoff in the gas station office. Mary shoots him in the side for four damage, the first real damage he has taken. With his blood used for the ritual symbol, he reads the chant from the black journal as the dead light squeezes under the door.

In 301: No Rest for the Wicked he dreams of charging San Juan Hill with Teddy Roosevelt, only to find his friends and Mary among the defenders he has cut down. He wakes in a sweat in Brent Jameson's cabin and claims it is because he is manly. Shaken by Corbitt's warning and by Mary's death, he says he wants to go home and write another book, but after the others talk to him he agrees to go on. He is now indefinitely insane, and the amnesia from his last bout has left him with only a hazy memory of Mary's death. At the ruined campsite he tracks the drag marks and claw prints, fails his Sanity roll, and works out the dead photographer's camera settings so he can develop the film.

Appearances

• 101: It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
• 102: Neighborhood Watch
• 103: Usual Suspects
• 104: Attic Window
• 105: Radical Medicine
• 106: The Miskatonic Mangler
• 107: Fates and Retribution
• 108: Head of the Beast
• 109: For Whom the Dice Rolls
• 201: Wrong Place at the Wrong Time
• 202: The Good Doctor
• 203: A Night With No Moon
• 204: Night of the Living Dead Light
• 205: Lights Out
• 301: No Rest for the Wicked