Dead Highway

Offstage radio voice for the Emergency Broadcast Service. Can be played by one of the dead.

The athlete and the protector of the group. Very tempermental. You want Curt in your apocalypse group even with his temper.

The play’s “everygirl.” She is smart and pragmatic. She can be funny. She can also be fierce.

The human embodiment of the slang word “chill.” It’s his car. It’s his half-eaten bag of Doritos. It’s his Pink Floyd cassette tape. Tries to enjoy life as much as he can. Even in the Apocalypse. Gets bear-sprayed in the face.

Smart and sarcastic even to the point of being considered mean. Loves to point out the mistakes of the group. Friends with Jennifer.

The book-smart one of the group. Sees herself as an outsider. Seems okay with it. Fascinated by the current apocalypse situation and is learning from it. Not a fan of Caitlyn.

The girl with money, great hair, and high end clothing. Named her cellphone. Not quite the level of mean and sarcastic as Caitlyn but very close.

Offstage disc jockey. Nice guy. Loves his family. In a situation that he can’t get out of and eventually runs out of time.

We first meet Brynn as a girl who is quite bloodied on her face and torso. Brynn meets the group outside of town when the group has stopped there to gas up at her family’s gas station. She is mentally and spiritually broken after witnessing a fatal attack on her little sister by the zombies. The blood on Brynn came from embracing her little sister after the attack. She’s not mentally breaking down. That happened a while ago. She’s broken mentally. Right now. The old Brynn is gone and this is what’s left. Her personalities range from childlike to serious to dangerous. She carries bear spray to protect herself from the “monsters.”

I based these on the slow and very driven zombies from the George Romero’s Night Of The Living Dead movies and The Walking Dead TV series. These zombies are no joke. Given an opportunity, they will kill.