Callum Crown

"'Is the war over yet? I can't get a signal...'""-Callum Crown"Callum Crown is a very mysterious yet undoubtedly important character in the universe of Dialtown. As he is not an available NPC to speak to, most of the information is pieced together from in game dialogue, Directdoggo, and the ending of chapter 3.

Appearance
He is usually depicted as wearing a dark-colored suit, light colored undershirt and with an American flag tie, has prosthetic legs and a prosthetic right arm as well as a phone head made of copper-colored scrap metal bolted together. He is also sometimes depicted to wear a white shirt, jeans and sometimes suspenders, a tie and a hat. In most images there are a few effects layered on top (mainly high contrast, purple coloring and jitter, however some images have inverted colors or a glow effect too).

Information
Callum Crown's appearance in the full Dialtown game is very rare, however he is mentioned often by other characters, most notably, Gabby from the phone store, Mayor Mingus, and Norm. He is the creator of the first phone head, and previous mayor and president of the US and United Nations in the Dialtown universe.

Personality
As he does not appear in-game, this is hard to properly tell, however he is described to be "infectious" by Gabby.

Backstory
Callum Crown was born in 1923 in Dialtown. He was born without both legs and right arm, which would eventually be replaced with prosthetics. As an adult, he became a door-to-door salesman. For reasons unknown, despite him being a good salesman, most of his messages were ignored. Due to this, he would open a prosthetics business in which he finally found success, after which he would also run and get elected as mayor of Dialtown, and then president of the USA between 1961-1965. During this time, he would carry out his plan and start replacing peoples heads with objects such as rotary phones and typewriters. On December 31st 1966 this would be carried out worldwide in an event known as The Dialup. However, before he could actually realize the full potential of his dream, while giving a speech, he would accidentally erase his own memories, forcing him out of office while the rest of the world to make due with the phones and typewriters.

Before starting The Dialup, he also sent Norm into space to investigate a wormhole, which would allow the sergeant to avoid the event as it sent him into the 2020's.

 

Trivia

 * The first time Callum appeared was in the (now taken down) Dialtown Personality Quiz along with a heavily distorted version of his theme (That you can listen to here).
 * This is also the first time we got the cryptic lore hint "Is the war over yet? I can't get a signal..."
 * On August 13th 2020, on the Dialtown Discord Server, DirectDoggo posted an image of Callum Crown above the lyrics to the iCarly opening theme. Due to the fact that people weren't instantly able to tell it was iCarly and assumed it was an actual teaser, it has now become a meme within the server.
 * On the 24th of July 2021, while a conversation was going on also on the Dialtown Discord, the nicknames of the people talking started changing.
 * This included things like "Story cut short", "Surplus to requirement", "DIALTOWN IS MINE", "Sgt Allen, is that you?" and "can't get a signal...". Due to these quotes, this was likely intended to be Crown himself, or someone connected to him.
 * Track 32 and 33 of the Dialtown Official Soundtrack are titled "Crown, rhzyy qptsfmucse lhp noyp puuizyuda" which, when translated with a Vignere cipher using the key word "Callum" reveals the full title to be "Crown, phone enthusiast and lone visionary."