Mrs. Cooper to her clients, and Elizabeth for everyone up the ladder at City Hall, Liz to her late husband, and Bettie to her mom, this lady is a highly successful prosecution attorney with an astounding win rate. Quick witted, attentive to detail, charismatic, she carries a commanding presence and a loud voice. She drives a silver BMW and lives in a style of a modern independent career woman. She knows how to run a household, stand up for her ideals, be good and do good, and maintain standards towards others that she applies to herself. But how the hell did this upstanding citizen and office jockey survive the first hours of the outbreak? Might have something to do with regular trips to the range to let off steam and pretend she is shooting the convicts instead of putting them in jail. Might have something to do with her husband's extensive arsenal and good security measures in the house. Or might be sheer luck. One thing for certain. Where ever Liz Cooper ends up, her organizing skills will provide support and leadership to any community.

The unassuming and friendly radio host of the Burton Show who took over for early-dead Bella, bridged the survivors, and was very generous with Ray's fee for installing a wood stove for her, a brilliant communicator, investigator, and attorney at law, Liz apparently was a hidden badass with a favored weapon being apparently a pipe wrench. With an astounding whopping kill count of 1005 zombies, this little prosecutor sure knew how to convict, prosecute, and execute! What ultimately did Elizabeth in is her own leadership style. When sharing a house with the equally strong willed and stubborn Marla Murdoch, the two disagreed on how to handle the infected. Marla advocated for staying indoors and minding their own territory, while Elizabeth wanted to reach out and find more people, clear routes and collect more news.

"A reckless brother gonna get got. Smart one lives." After Screwtop crashed the Suburban with all the money in it and all the passengers started thrashing in convultions, T-Bone and Jelly were the next on command roster. The Chevy Navigator was following in rear, and when T-Bone started driving off road, it was time for quick backseat action. The Navigator had all the guns and heroin. Quell was sitting behind them all, in reach. So he went for it and grabbed the heat. The following sequence of fast thinking and split second decisions, left very confused and scared Quell, a former enforcer, the lone survivor of what remained of the fleeing Lexington based Orlando Tanner's crew. But Quell is a soldier and a soldier gotta stay hard, even in the deep white man's country. Skilled with firearms, adept at stealth, hotwiring cars, breaking and enterting, Quell is a career criminal in violation of parole. He be the man to get that thang done.

A Japanese physician at Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Dr. Shiro Nagai was travelling through Kentucky for an international conference hosted by the team at Cortman Medical. Pausing for fuel and to buy some cigarettes at a Fossoil petrol station, a petrified scream from the rear storage room prompted discovery of the Knoxville virus and it’s newest victim. Shiro fled, clambering over a wooden fence behind the station with the re-animated victim and aggressor in close pursuit, falling into an American suburbia starkly different to televised portrayals in Japan.

Shiro is academic and intelligent, but health sacrifices made during his time as a physician result in an aversion to combat and an unremarkable level of fitness. Driven by a will to unite any survivors of the pandemic, and with little experience of American culture, Shiro may seem an easy target for manipulation – However, his intelligence, language skills gained from private study and attentive nature regarding the world around ensure that any mistakes made will be quickly rectified.

Coasting from job to job while selling the occasional "art piece" with the boys made sense to Tyler, almost as much sense as going to a New Year's rave in rural Kentucky in the middle of winter. When the attendees began to ring in the new year by gnawing on each other, somebody clearly must have been passing around some bad party favors. Left with no transportation and some ill-tempered party animals on the loose, Tyler followed the river to the nearest road and started walking. Even in Kentucky, a road has to eventually lead somewhere...right?

Mitch Kruger 35 Years Old. Born and Raised in Rosewood. Member and Co Founder of the Knox County "Red Eagles Motorcycle Club" Has been in and out of Jail for Armed Robbery, Aggravated Assault, Distribution of Illegal Substances. Date of Parole 26th of December 2021.

First generation czech imigrant and a registered nurse, Anna is practical, to the point, focused, and a little blunt. She makes friends by doing good work rather than throwing good parties. But it looks like friends are getting a little hungry for flesh. Having lost her parents to the outbreak, Anna seeks shelter and protection in hopes of integrating into a group as a medic and surviving this nightmare until a cure is found.

37 years, taxi driver from Louisville. She went on a camping trip down south with some friends. The last stop for gas and smokes felt strange. She knew people in the south of the county don t see people of colour that often, but the guy at the gas station behaved somehow strange. People on the streets seemed to be sick and in a bad mood. After the friends set their tents near some trees, Shana fell in a dreamless sleep. As she woke up, something was different. Her friends were gone and the grass was coloured in red. Maybe a bear attacked the camp? But where s everyone? Shana packed her backpack, took a bottle of water and her machete, to head towards the town and find her friends.

Marla resides in the richest household in Muldraugh, wife to late county sheriff Stanford Murdoch, now widowed. It's been a while since she'd done any manual labor, but her hands carry memories of working the soil once. Marla is a capable gardener of plants and souls. Compassionate, patient, and recently widowed, she is ready to make plans for becoming the head of Murdoch household, now numbering a total of one. Immune to the airborne infection, she is God's chosen one. In high heels with a .38 revolver, she's ready to take up gardening again and use some fresh brains as fertilizer. But don't forget to relax come night time, with a bottle of Knob Creek or a glass of Glenlivet. The doors will hold if heart does.

Mrs. Murdoch is an avid socialite who now took the Radio Dish Van over for Bella and Elizabeth, and controls a manor on the river bank west of West Point. She does not attempt to bring anyone together on purpose, but her attitude seems to gravitate survivors naturally, with a promise of parties, memories of old times, and a resurgence of normality. Marla uses alcohol and luxury to pretend the world has not changed, and fiercely, jealously guards and maintains that fragile bubble of illusion within the range of her weapons and to the extent of her skills. Albeit a spoiled and indulgent aristocrat, Marla had been proving herself a capable outdoors woman and shrewd survivor through the winter and spring when many experienced others have perished.

Captain Virmer was found dead with a gunshot wound, orders he could not comply with, and a comms device with military frequencies. Virmer was key to unearthing the USMC interest in the Knox County area and the first clue to Patient Zero.

Angela is a registered nurse practitioner (RNP) transferring from Elizabethtown to Louisville, bound for Kindred Hospital. Stopping in her tracks as the highway got jammed, she tried to around the road, but her little compact car got stuck in a ditch quickly swarmed by the infected. No weapon, no food, not even a spare change of clothes! She is completely unprepared with no particular survival skills. No special promise for Angie in the apocalyptic landscape, and nothing guarantees her life. She is in decent health and a good level of fitness, combined with a medical profession experience, let's hope it helps her make it to a nearby house and reach safety! She hopes her boyfriend Brendan is okay! But his cell is not answering!

As a child, Vanessa was more likely to bring home a frog than play with dolls. A job in the Park service seemed only natural given her preference for nature over other more traditional feminine activities. Vanessa has focused exclusively on her career, learning the local flora and fauna, trail paths, and park histories rather than start a family or travel the world. Living now in West Point, Vanessa enjoys fishing, gardening, and foraging when she is not clearing tails, and maintaining the nearby parks. While the recent outbreak was surprising, Vanessa feels uniquely prepared to survive on the land. Already cautious of people when not presenting the steps needed to perform a useful survival skill to young campers she is unlikely to start a conversation but will be happy to quickly and efficiently start a campfire or built a lean-to, perhaps put together a nice poultice to treat the inevitable infections she will encounter.

Big Ray was the reason Orlando Tanner's crew was fleeing Lexington. He's in pursuit of Screwtop, T-Bone, Jelly, Quell, and whoever's left. He doesn't know that they are gone now, but what he does know is that the highway is blocked and there are people struggling for survivors. Ray was always a good businessman, ready to offer a proposition. Those he could not agree with in the past, on occasion ended up cadaverous.

Ruby Reece, 36, detective of the LVPD, homocide department. After the outbreak she managed to get out of Louisville with nothing but her luck and her badge. As she arrived at the outskirts of Riverside, she started to search for her sister Shana. Last time she heard from her before electricity and with that the communication broke down, Shana was on a camping trip in the south with some friends. She won t stop until she finds her sister, everything that s left in this end of the world.

37 years old - After a long night shift at the bar, June took a cab home to avoid more stupid drunk people. Customers have been annoying this night and her boss didn't pay her well enough for these stupid conversations she had to listen to at the counter. Only a few more months and she would have enough cash to go back to university. While hanging in these thoughts she didn't recognize the traffic jam they went into. The cab had to stop and the driver got out for a cigarette. Suddenly people started screaming and running towards their direction. She heard gunshots and the next moment someone jumped on her driver, dragging him down on the floor. Without realizing the scope of the situation, she jumped onto the front seat, set reverse and hit the pedal to the floor. In the rear mirror she saw her driver covered in blood, some guy hanging above him. In the next minutes the whole city seemed to fall apart, people were fighting screaming and eating each other on the streets. June decided to take the highway and leave Louisville city borders behind. As she was searching for something to keep her awake besides the adrenaline, she found a pistol and some bullets in the glove box. Better than nothing June thought heading further south.

Eliza, 37 y.o. As the daughter of an veteran, Eliza knows how to use a rifle. During her childhood she went hunting and camping in the southern forests with her father. She is able to orient herself and survive on her own in the forests. While the outbreak struck Louisville and the situation got out of control, Eliza took her rifle and backpack, headed towards the woods and turned her back on former civilization without looking back. She roams the woods quietly, avoiding groups of infected to stay in the shadows and trying not to drag too much attention on herself. …One of the soldier’s bullets hit her badly in return. While Eliza sneaked through the trees to flank him, the soldier jumped into her corvette, heavily bleeding and raced down the narrow road. Eliza was sure that the soldier would somewhere around, only waiting for a good shot. So she decided to drag his attention away from Westpoint and the other survivors and hurried, still heavily wounded, to the Louisville highway. At the first junction she abandoned her car and strayed into the forest. Complete exhausted and her clothes soaked with blood she ran into a horde of infected that lounged between the trees. She killed some of them with her hunting knife but she knew that in this bad condition, she wouldn’t have a chance. In an act of despair, Eliza threw a bottle with burning gasoline into the horde to distract them. What seemed to be a chance to escape this situation, turned into a death trap when Eliza fell while running through the remaining infected in her way. One of them grabbed her and pulled her to the ground. Attracted by the fighting, the burning horde rolled towards Eliza and embraced her in their flaming circle, setting the forest on fire.

Mervin Jayden Ladigan also known as Codename Alpha 1-9 is a mysterious and yet scarcely encountered figure. He was piloting the helicopter Chris Burt shot down using the Louisville explosive supplies. Alpha 1-9 is showing himself to be a ruthless combatant on a mission to locate Lisa Gray.

Repairman and part-time electrician in his past life. Now? Barry is an alcoholic. First his wife left him, then his wife became a zombie.

Barry roamed around different camps, undetected by all, consuming a seemingly endless amount of alcohol, before waking up with memory loss inside a portable toilet. It just so happened that Chris Burt was parked right outside. After helping Barry find his missing pants, he invited him to come stay at the UN camp.

"Welcome back to 207 T&T Radio, simul-broadcasting from east to midwest. This is your host, Jim Lumbar, here with the news."

As the rumors between caravans out west spread that the exclusion zone was actually livable, the news attracted the attention of a certain thrill seeker...

A pilgrim on a mission by his sect to mainly recover the holy visage of the lord from the depths of Louisville following new information on its location, but also to retrieve any holy artifacts that he can.

A friendly man, he seeks no conflict with any fellow travelers that he meets, nor wishes to disturb locals if he does not need to.

Though his name may be Rodolfo, he often prefers to shorten it down to Rod, due to common mispronunciations of it.

Why are we still here? Just to suffer? Every night, I can feel my leg... And my arm... even my fingers... The body I've lost... the comrades I've lost... won't stop hurting... It's like they're all still there. You feel it, too, don't you? I'm gonna make them give back our past!

Ms. Burton is a journalist with Kentucky Tribune, doing an analysis colulmn as a first correspondent on the Muldraugh outbreak. Working out of the privacy of the small home, she takes precautions against the infection, but realizing she may be immune, is starting to take cautious trips out to the store to sustain herself. A few hours in, she realizes that life as she knows it is over, and she may be very well all alone. How can she find other people, tell her story, and who will even care? Is it all over now?

Not having managed to supply herself properly for the hard winter of cursed pandemic ahead, Bella ran out of food and clean water and had to go foraging with her limited experience about edible things in the forest and wild surroundings. The tainted water, combined with a weak stomach, panic, a lack of an axe to cut wood with, and simply getting lost, was what ultimately did her in. Desperate, not having found anything to eat in the woods, Bella ventured to the city in blind hunger, abandoning caution. She did not prevail against a group of infected, once that swinging arm got tired and the feet could barely walk.

The journalist got to tell a story after all. A cautionary one, about being prepared. In her last minutes of life she spotted a radio van, which she was able to start and drive for as long as her body let her, attempting to reach other survivors on a broadband frequency. It is through Bella's tragic death and sacrifice, that the radio van Elizabeth used - got out of the hands of the infected who'd overrun Muldraugh.

Bella's legacy bridged the other survivors together and her mission was continued by those after her.

Denise Heywood is an army field medic bound for Fort Knox. Stuck on the highway, she does her best to assist the stranded survivors. Chipper, cheerful, talkative, and easily distracted, Denise works hard to keep focused on task, but has exceptional talent for medicine and supply gathering.

Denise met an unknown end at the hands of the infected, leaving us little but a note and a supply van free for the taking, which was subsequently looted by Big Ray, who in turn died as well as the van got stolen from him. The supplies in question are out there somewhere.

Denise, your noble sacrifice was too pure for this world. Let's hope someone honors your memory.

Rob Langdon is known also as Ranger Rob. Working as a park ranger out of state, soon after the infection started spreading Rob got out of dodge city in hopes the country would be less dangerous. Having to hike after his vehicle broke down, and knowing nothing about cars, he found himself arriving in Knox Country about two weeks after the infection started, life as we know it had already changed and Rob had to do what he could with the scraps leftover from societies collapse. He shortly finds himself well-equipped, both in tools and skills, and setting up something he can call "home". Spending his days doing heavy lifting work, and his nights tuning his radio, his only reason to keep going is his hope to build a community.