Manhattan Survivor Group

The group of human survivors who banded together following the apocalyptic disaster at the end of the Killer Arc in the Chronicles of Earth. All of them lived or were stationed in Manhattan island when the second outbreak occurred. Most of the group formed around a school pickup event where they all glommed together, and immediately after when trying to get in touch with others they know. Others join shortly in bursts after like police and military and random people.

Core members and Leadership
Serra Sylvannas- Half-human, she would be present on and off solving other issues, like the Gandalf of the group.

Richard Green- African American inventor and tech mogul, basically Elon Musk, trying to make robots and hover craft

Priyya Bedi- A young brilliant Indian girl, interning for Richard who helps to build robotic limbs and neural interfaces.

Connor McHale- Serra's detective partner, possesses a dry and almost serious sense of humor.

Blackheart- Rapper and affiliate of Tuk, she is not involved in gang activity but certainly benefits from it.

Colonel Tuk- Rapper and drug lord, working with the FBI to take down other gangsters.

Old Man Rick Jones- African American ex-detective, quit during a similarly trying killer case many years ago. Dons his police uniform for the apocalypse. Grandfather of Ralph Jones.

Ria Gonzales- A gearhead from the air force, worked with Richard occasionally on propulsion.

Urban Muller- Used to work as a propagandist high up in news media. He begins as a pussy but adapts to the apocalypse after he learns to gamify it.

Otis MacDonald- Homeless irish man who begs to join and later becomes an elder due to survival experience.

Robert Gruger- A history teacher and conspiracy theorist, he lived in the woods on his own and knew how to hunt, and knew random useful information as well. Turned out he also hunted supernatural creatures in revenge for his wife.

Miscellaneous School Staff
Beau Mangianelli- Annoying PE teacher that becomes one of the medics and sentires of the group.

Sita Singh- Counselor from the school, had an acid scar on her face though she was considered beautiful.

Amy Cortez- A Spanish teacher who is having an affair with one of her former students, Ralph Jones.

Father Cohen- one of the abusive staff members

Adults and Parents
Dr. Karen Walker- Mother whose child, Natalie, is missing to the Killer. She is a doctor at Manhattan General.

Don Walker- The father of the Walker kids, married to Karen, loses his job and mind when daughter goes missing.

Geoff Resnik- Friend of Don Walker, helps him get back on his feet when the apocalypse comes.

Linda Resnik- Wife of Geoff, they adopt Tara.

Helen Moore- Zeke's mom, single mom, ends up interested in Richard.

Marty Brown- childless and depressed

Debbie Jones- lost her husband, his fate is unknown, children are Ralph Jones and Cora Jones

Muslim parents-

Aya Sanchez- Fake psychic

Fleeing troops

Fleeing mercs

Delivery boy

Dopey dad

Funny Chinese lady- Ella Chang's mom

Hillbillies- Group of 5 hillbilly friends, racists in town for white supremacy rally

Random survivor group- about 15 people who join later on, untrusted.

Janitor- Rises in power in the group

Biker gang-

Younger Kids
Emma Long- joins the Bro-team, a sporty blonde girl, good at her studies

Mia Moretti- a short pretty brunette girl, nice to everyone

Ella Chang- goofy friend of Emma and Mia

Essie Williams- curvy funny girl with attitude, cool with bro team

Addie Archer- nerdy cute shy girl, interest of Joey

Sophie Brundle- unibrow girl always trying to escape reality into fiction books

Kimmy Smith- Blind girl, was abused frequently at the school. Receives visions and can hear very well.

Zaya Jones- Melty skin girl, is pretty but discolored after surgery, ghastly before.

Elias Warski- Muscular dystrophy boy, they try to take care of him as he gets worse.

Tina Wells- shrunken face cancer girl, a jokester, comic relief

Tara Al-Dimashqi-

Bro-Team

Ben Malone- the leader, paralyzed but in an impressive electric wheelchair which can charge via solar.

Leo Resnik- blonde blue eyed short jew, jokester of the group, future Exarch Kohr.

Joey Jackson- brown haired nice guy, awkward and romantical, in love with Mia, but shy about it.

Zeke Moore- Tall class president, huge partyer, has also been abused by school staff.

High Schoolers
Chad Michelson- basic jock, in love with Cora

Ralph Jones- sarcastic and cynical, friend of Chad, in love with Amy Cortez.

Cora Jones- Ralph's older sister, hot cheerleader and friend of Ally, has an affair with Urban Muller.

Ally Walker- sister of kidnapped Natalie Walker, stuck up and perfect until lost limbs to killer.

Susie Walker- fat girl, eventually gets her shit together.

Jonathan Chambers- snagglehand boy, in love with Cora

Mandy Armstrong- wheelchair girl, strong arms

Zander Holm- Autistic boy, knows about everything and is useful for info, but is very rapey.

Lilly Ville- skeleton looking girl who becomes an actual leader and motivator in the group.

Patty Dunn- girl with downs syndrome, though not severe, she represents purity and innocence.

Others
Jester- Chester Brown, former undercover police officer who went insane. He became a gang lord.

Robot Girl- the personal project of Richard Green, his magnum opus, they eventually fall for each other, but then Richard decides he should be more of a father figure and contemplates erasing her memories of him building her sexual parts and having sex with her, ultimately tells her she needs to find love out in the world, he can't be her one, and she is basically just a child, even though that's what she was made for, he loves her, and doesn't want her existence to be selfish service to him. She delusionally believes he is still in love with her and scours the world when they get separated. When they do get back together, it is awkward but she eventually decides she needs to grow and learn.

Artie- An experimental, high intelligence prototype in a line of personal assistant bots in development by Richard and Priyya as a side project. It is used in the Killer investigation, and kept as a sentry device during the apocalypse, but is mostly turned off to save power.

Rocco the Chimp- a medical experiment discovered by Richard Green, then by Jester. He eventually made his way

Events
Panic phase, everyone is just grouping together, the cops and soldiers are leaders by default, looking for a secure location.

Settling phase, getting ready to make plans and create a permanent home, coming to terms with the new world. Survivalists become the leaders now, conflicts with drug gangs and bandits. Home base is trashed, they go on the road.

Biker Phase- They get taken over by a biker gang who work them and rob them, although they are not too crazy, just dicks about it. They go on the road and make a nomadic living. Eventually, they bond a little and convince the bikers that they deserve rights, conflicts with native American tribes.

Schism Phase- A small rebel group of hotheaded men kill most of the bikers and want a new leader, manipulated by Dan and their resentment of the bikers who emasculated the strongest males of the survivors. Dan supports Urban as a leader so that he can be his lieutenant, while others rally behind Richard. The group is essentially 2 separate parties sticking roughly together now, separating their assets, the moderates and the good ole boys, and it seems that the group is again being ruled by a group of strongmen. Urban actually becomes more or less a good guy who looks out for his people, a benevolent dictator, Richard agrees to become one of his lieutenants, but eventually supplies begin to wear thin. No one can agree on whether to settle down or continue moving. They decide not to cross the irradiated zone even though it was technically safe, they didn't think anything was there, maybe aliens.

Fascism Phase- Life is tough as hell and run-ins with savage bandits and number of zombies continuing to rise, turning to eating their own dead, another rebellion occurs where Urban is dispensed of. One of the lieutenants had risen up and Dan supported this guy again, the former janitor of the school rose as a brutal dictator. He forced the autistic kid to give information day and night upon pain of torture to complete the farms. The people were put to work and brainwashed to think this is the only way to survive. It begins to take on communist rhetoric and all the surplus is taken by the leadership, and more slaves are brought in all the time, sometimes survivors are forced to go out and look for more slaves.

Starvation Phase- Richard becomes the true leader of the people, and he begins and underground rebellion. The governors are overthrown but they destroy the base so no one can survive, and they go on the run, have to flee through the irradiated zone since a zombie horde is attracted by the burning buildings, they are brought close to total destruction, but they pick up radio signals on the west coast, and they are eventually separated and hunted down by the California forest dwellers.

Castle Phase- they live in a secure kingdom where they grow bored behind the walls and go ranging, now hardened survivors. Serra is trying to find the fortress cities around the world and build arks, and collect workers for these arks. The economy is laissez faire though, with ark jobs paying handsomely, but other important jobs like salvage and farming are left to market prices, although taxed if business occurs within the walls. Wall security is ultra ultra ultra strict, letting no bitten or infected in.