This is a list of recurring or otherwise notable RIS non-player characters.
Michael "Mick" Belka
Chief Belka is is charge of the RIS. The RIS is a private enterprise, and it hasn't been revealed whether or not he also owns it, though he apparently has some kind of professional legal responsibility for it.
Mick is a rat, with a neatly dressed but bookish appearance. He is about fifty years old, wears glasses, and is unmarried. He plays chess on a professional level (having at one point at least held the title of all-Peninsular Chess Champion) and enjoys true-crime literature. He sometimes tinkers with electronics, particularly radios. During the war, he ostensibly worked on the home front as a quality control inspector at a radio factory, and seems to have many business connections and personal friends from that time of his life. Some of them have moved on to important government positions. It is implied that he was actually involved with some sort of signals intelligence work during the war, possibly cryptography. He may also have acquired his knowledge of investigative technique and procedure in relation to his wartime work, as it's unclear how else he might have done so - he was not a detective prior to the war.
His corner office in the (old) Camberline building in the Fruitmarket District of Simha City is full of books and filing cabinets with his notes and case files. He lives downtown in an apartment near embassy row, taking the subway for his morning commute.
Ignatia "Iggie" Camberline
Ms. Camberline is an aircraft designer for her family's business. She is a 28-year-old mongoose, the granddaughter of recently-deceased aviation tycoon Jules Camberline. She was a child prodigy and is apparently pioneering the use of turbocharging in aviation engines. Although its fortune has increased tremendously thanks to the airplane business, the family is old money in peninsular society, descending from seneschals of the Red Lion Clan.
Ignatia's scandalous - some say "wicked" - personal life is a frequent subject of society gossip, usually focusing on her libertine behavior and romantic entanglements, but some also say she is seriously involved in the occult.
She has an older sister named Gwen, who takes the lead in the family business now that Jules has died, as their father Karl Magnus is often adventuring overseas and their mother Amita is bedridden and does not involve herself extensively in it.
Shimon, the Motor Pool Cat
The long-suffering mechanic of the RIS's motor pool is a male cat, whose surname is not yet known. Not much has been revealed about him, though he has been repeatedly frustrated by the damage suffered by the vehicles the party borrows, which have been variously been bled on by shooting victims, set on fire, and splashed with red paint as a result of labor unrest.
Ms. K
Chief Belka's secretary. She is a hamster, and ethnically Dramidi. She has an uncle surnamed Hahmsterzun (likely the brother of Ms. K's mother) who lives on the border of Simha Heights and the Fruitmarket District and who is a retired HVAC technician interested in labor organizing. It has not been revealed what the "K" stands for, but as she is called that in-universe, it's probably a long surname that many people find hard to pronounce.
Wilbur Porter
An otter who works for Jack Wolfowitz Productions movie studio. Before that, he was a journalist who wrote on the corruption in San Benito under its ruling president, and was banned from entering the country. He continued to cover news stories related to its dictatorship and national tobacco company. This led to him covering the heist of a truck of San Benito cigarettes, and Coco's arrest and trial as a juvenile delinquent. His information helped the RIS in tracking her down when she was abducted by her former partner-in-crime.
He later invited the RIS to the set of Jack Wolfowitz Productions where the team witnessed the shooting of an actress, causing them to investigate. After the detectives discovered the founder and director was guilty and he was shot dead attacking the actor who he'd intended to frame, Wilbur took over as head of the company.
Daisy-Mae Lechamp
A possum girl who runs a farm out in East County, who faced a lot of prejudice because of her species and her alleged involvement in an arson attack that killed a rival family. Her father was a notorious moonshiner who refused to work for a Prohibition crime boss Arthur Schutz, which got Daisy's male relatives killed by the Duke family, who had a standing fued with the Lechamps and jumped at the chance to work with bootleggers. Years later, with Prohibition coming to an end along with the Duke family's association with Schutz, their family farm burned down one night with all members killed in the inferno, which was determined to have been deliberately set. Some years later, the Baron Beer Brewery saw its operations sabotaged around East County. When RIS investigated the matter, they found that Daisy-Mae was indeed responsible, as she was aware the company was a legitimate front for her arch enemy, Schutz. The RIS team was able to save her from a vengeful Arthur Schutz, and she ended her lifelong quest for revenge by shooting the bootleg baron.
Daisy own a hot-rod truck, and is known to partake in unofficial races.
Patty Farrel
A mouse girl who worked as a waitress at the diner in East County. She is quirky and forgetful, something her employer Winniefred was able to put up with.
When the diner burned down, the RIS investigators, after some interrogation, learned that she had been pressured by her parents to campaign for the town's reverend and mayoral candidate Horton Duvall. She burned down the diner she worked at on his orders to implicate Daisy-Mae Lechamp and stirs up anti-possum and anti-bootlegger sentiments to boost his election chances. She wanted to leave town, feeling guilty for what she had done to betray Winniefred's trust. She admitted publically to the arson, and how it was meant to benefit Duvall's campaign. She was relieved to be forgiven by Winniefred, who put the blame where it belonged. She left for Simha City with the team regardless to get away from her parents, and the reverend.