Dr. Toshi Ryoko is a zoologist who is featured in [[The Forest]] alongside his bodyguard [[Beasley]] and his direct colleague [[Howard Campbell]]. Him and Beasley are briefly mentioned in the story [[--30--]]. Ryoko is also mentioned as being part of the scientific community in [[The Croning]], placing him and the stories he appears in firmly in the [[Old Leech]] universe. Toshi is also mentioned by his bodyguard Beasly in [[Screaming Elk, MT]]. Beasly mentions that his bosses, being Toshi Ryoko and Howard Campbell, are in a dispute over a research project concerning a war machine they are developing. The war machine is a robot dog with a positronic brain named [[Rex]], which is probably the same cyborg dog named Rex who lives in the far-future version of Earth described in [[Ears Prick Up]]. Toshi and his partner Campbell are mentioned in [[Tomahawk Park Survivors Raffle]]. Toshi, his partner and his bodyguard all play a role in the third novel of the [[Isaiah Coleridge Series]]: [[Worse Angels]]. Ryoko, Campbell and Beasley also appear in [[Swift To Chase (Story)]], where they task [[Jessica Mace]] with the retrieval of a scientific formula. Ryoko and Campbell are said to be working for [[Mrs. Shrike]] in the story [[Don't Make Me Assume My Ultimate Form]]. Ryoko and Campbell have something to do with the [[Black Kaleidoscope]]. Campbell and Ryoko are involved in a number of unusual research projects such as the creation of cyborg dog Rex and some communication effort probably related to Old Leech or an [[Ur]] species of beetles. #Character #Occultation #Coleridge #Croning #Swift