Member
Name: Emmi Reynolds
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Former Occupation: Student and Herbal Medicine Shop Worker
Bio:
When the world went to hell, you’d think parents would pull kids from school. But no, they still had a misguided sense that education would lead to some sort of future. Well, that future might not be worth living anymore. Emmi continued to go to school as her parents pushed her though, and got a side job at an herbal medicine shop. Drugs were a growing business as people got more injured by fighting, or wanted an escape because life just sucked, or pharmacy grade products were out of their price range. But the price of more herbal remedies didn’t skyrocket nearly as much. Emmi, thanks to a family friend, got a job at the shop and absorbed the knowledge of what did what like a sponge. She was meant to be in this profession. But then a new batch of pills came. The old bottles were set in the back, and for the taking. Slowly, Emmi began taking things from the shop. After all, these were still incredibly valuable. And soon, they would become even more so.
The new shipments of herbal medicines began having odd effects of their customers. They were demanding the previous drugs, but Emmi and other workers had pretty much cleaned them out. The new drugs, had been tainted by VS-4-55. Pretty soon, almost all their customers disappeared. Emmi eventually stopped showing up for work as the world went more and more to hell.
She packed up what she had and wrote on the bottles what they did, and packed a few of her toiletries and clothes in two duffel bags. She also pulled out her parents’ camping gear and took out some survival gear and her dad’s fishing bow they used when they would camp each year. This year however, they would not be camping. The local zoo animals began to mutate and broke out, and Emmi was just forward thinking enough to have everything she needed packed and ready to escape. After all, she was never a fighter. In fact, she was much more of a hippie, tree hugger type. But when she begged her parents to go, they refused, saying they were staying in their home and so was she. She left at night, and hasn’t gone back. She knows she needs to survive.
Her belief is that all this is humans’ punishment for their gross mistreatment of the earth and each other. She thinks it will eventually blow over when humans are appropriately served their bout of karma, but until then, it will be nature taking its vengeance.
Stuff: A veritable pharmacy in her bag (hope this is ok since she would basically die in a fight if she couldn't escape)
Toiletries (1 practically full tube of toothpaste, a couple bars of soap, scent free deodorant, 2 extra sets of clothes, 6 packets of detergent)
Food & food related items (solar powered burner, water bottle that filters water, 3 cans of broth, can opener, 2 sardine cans, 6 packets of dried fruits and vegetables, 1 large bag of trailmix, 1 pot)
Other: gas mask with 5 filters, 2 different sized knives (one butter knife for cutting pills in half & eating/cooking, one large machete to cut through brush), fishing bow (no extra arrows), army blanket, 1 gallon sized ziplock bag, 1 crank flashlight
