Jack Al Rhodes (Jay, JR)

AGE: 22

PERSONALITY: James was a very patient guy, and could get along with almost anyone. He has a soft spot in his heart for the weird, weak, and picked on people and generally feels the urge to help or volunteer anyone when he can. He strongly dislikes people whom are mean and tends to stick up for others but not for himself. He has the heart to be protective. Before this all happened he had a goofy and sarcastic humor, but that humor might have died with the rest of the world.

BACKGROUND: Jack worked as a part time construction worker, but a full time artist. He took the same job his dad and brother took in construction within the city so he could work with them and be near his college. However, he didnt plan on staying a construction worker but liked working with his hands. He was also near the cities largest hospital of which Jack would be visiting more often. One day his mother got sick and had to be taken there. While there his father became sick to. Jack had to visit them from work more than he would have liked before he understood the severity behind their illness. Jack was a senior this year, and was preparing for a senior art show when they began an evacuation. He was working in the sculpture room around 4 a.m. running on soda and snacks to keep him awake when the hospital became infested with the living dead. The college he was close to the hospital, it’s because of this that the outbreak hitting so hard, Jack could only hold out in the college.. He found the only way for him to survive was by securing the sculpture room and hiding out there. At his disposal was a plethora of tools and resources to secure the room with wielded and boarded up doors. He spent the night there, and in the middle of the night, they bombed the city. Many buildings fell, including the hospital. Jack feared he lost what little family he had, but still hopes they somehow made it out alive.

Jack managed to secure a total of four rooms that each connected to the last. First the sculpture room, which had all the tools one could ever need. The Sculpture Studio room, where the Juniors and Seniors of the Sculpture Department were allowed to work and stay in. Those students had put in a small fridge, coffee maker, and microwave that no longer worked due to the lack of electricity, but a mattress that was used by late night working students like Jay, a recliner, a couch, and two cots. He secured a clay room that has potters wheels, a clay chemistry lab, large canvas Tables, and three electric Kilns and one gas Kiln. And lastly the Court yard, that was used for wielding, the gas kiln, cutting metal, and any other hazardous tools. It was a walled in outdoor area with only two doors, one entering the sculpture room, and the other entering the clay room. On one wall is a 20 foot wide 15 foot high metal gate that allowed professors and students to park in the courtyard and drop off heavy materials into the studio. Jack now uses it as a parking place. Jack put up a wire near the top of the gate that stretches from one side of the gate to the other, and has draped a green tarp across it to keep him out of sight of the undead, even though they could not break that gate down.
James is in the Red Zone of the Outbreak, and cannot leave the safety of his fort. His only chance of survival has been this fort and as the days pass by that fort grows stronger and stronger.

ROLE: Worker

APPEARENCE: Badly cut short brown hair and green eyes. Sharp facial features and prominent cheek bones. He currently has an untamed brown stubble. He keeps a fairly well maintained 5' 11 foot body, but is beginning to look malnourished. Only has one set of clothing he managed to keep. Black t-shirt, grey and green plaid button up shirt, dark blue jeans, and a 5 pocketed dark brown leather jacket with a cloth black hood attached to it. He has covered the arms of the jacket and the legs of the jeans with grey duct tape to help shield it from the Bitters. He wears black gloves and tan steal toed boots.