Post by Richard Bryant on Jun 11, 2016 18:26:38 GMT -5
Full Name: Richard Bryant
Aliases: Parch
Avatar Photo:
Age: 38
Gender: Male
Appearance: About 6ft or thereabouts with a hard, squarish face; muscular frame with an equal hardness to it; short-cut black hair with brown eyes
Occupation (studies and job before the outbreak): Corrections Lieutenant, Mississippi State Penitentary (a/k/a Parchman Farm - Parchman, Ms.)
Hometown (city, state, country): (Originally from) Philadelphia, Ms.
; lived in officers' quarters w/his family at Parchman Farm
Relationships (relatives, friends,...):
-Parents (presumed deceased)
-Abagail (wife, presumed deceased)
Weapons (currently in possession):
-M14 rifle (7.62mm)
-Side handle baton
Items (clothing, backpacks, first-aid kits, etc...):
-MS Dept. of Corrections uniform (white shirt w/a silver lieutenant's bar on each shoulder, black cargo pants)
-White shirts, jeans, black steel-toed Dockers'
-First aid kit
Mode of transportation:
-MDOC Transport vehicles
-Horseback (while on the grounds of Parchman Farm)
List 3 or more good personality traits:
-Laconic
-Dependable
-Methodical
List 3 or more bad personality traits:
-Morose
-Cynical
-Prejudiced
List 3 strengths:
-Smart
-Sharp minded
-Hard working
List 3 flaws:
-Melancholy
-Pharisaic
-High handed
Describe your character's life before the Apocalypse: Richard's life before the apocalypse was your typical hard-scrabble Mississippi life; he grew up in the northern Delta, the son of tenant farmers. Although he was smart and graduated from school with decent grades, he opted to go and start working for the state Department of Corrections, first as a transport officer and then as a prison first at Northern Mississippi State Prison in Sunflower. After a couple of years, he transferred as a corrections sergeant (and then later on, as a lieutenant) to the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Meadville, long known by its' old South moniker of Parchman Farm, where he would remain through and up to Outbreak Day...
What happened to your character on Outbreak Day?: Like other prisons and jails across the Magnolia State, Bryant and the other guards, already short-staffed as it was, was quite literally at the breaking point (Background: Mississippi was one of the first states affected by the Pandemic). Reporting in on Outbreak Day early due to what his officers called a "riot", it didn't take him long to realize it was a lot more than a riot, as frightened reports came in from one of the Farm's outlying dormitories (dormitory is what MDOC calls the prison's cellblocks; the convicts however call it by the old Southern moniker of chain gang) of prisoners eating others inside, not only inmates but guards caught inside and prison staff. Unable to get hold of prison higher-ups (unknown to him that day, they'd already taken off for points elsewhere), Bryant made the decision to seal off the dormitory; when additional reports of "riots" began to filter on in, he then ordered what guards were still there to begin releasing every convict in the entire prison, telling them they had two and only two choices: they could either leave and take their chances, or they could stay; if they stayed, they had to work alongside the guards or else they would be shot for "attempting to incite violence". Most left...however, a sizable number of convicts stayed, mainly those who were either already serving long sentences or who had no homes or family to go back to...
Describe your character's life after the Apocalypse: For almost three months, Bryant and those who remained - about 15 corrections officers, around 70 convicts and stragglers who'd come across the Farm over the months and years - eventually regained control of the entire facility. Barricading every place they could, they slowly began rebuilding some semblance of civilization, though over time Parchman Farm began to re-assume its' Old, pre-reform era Southern form and attitudes...but rebuild they did. Three years in, Parchman Farm looks for all the world as it did back in its' early: a place where guards run the prison with an iron fist, a place where the chain gang has returned with a vengeance and where the rules - and prejudices - of the Old South have returned once again to American shores...
Aliases: Parch
Avatar Photo:
Age: 38
Gender: Male
Appearance: About 6ft or thereabouts with a hard, squarish face; muscular frame with an equal hardness to it; short-cut black hair with brown eyes
Occupation (studies and job before the outbreak): Corrections Lieutenant, Mississippi State Penitentary (a/k/a Parchman Farm - Parchman, Ms.)
Hometown (city, state, country): (Originally from) Philadelphia, Ms.
; lived in officers' quarters w/his family at Parchman Farm
Relationships (relatives, friends,...):
-Parents (presumed deceased)
-Abagail (wife, presumed deceased)
Weapons (currently in possession):
-M14 rifle (7.62mm)
-Side handle baton
Items (clothing, backpacks, first-aid kits, etc...):
-MS Dept. of Corrections uniform (white shirt w/a silver lieutenant's bar on each shoulder, black cargo pants)
-White shirts, jeans, black steel-toed Dockers'
-First aid kit
Mode of transportation:
-MDOC Transport vehicles
-Horseback (while on the grounds of Parchman Farm)
List 3 or more good personality traits:
-Laconic
-Dependable
-Methodical
List 3 or more bad personality traits:
-Morose
-Cynical
-Prejudiced
List 3 strengths:
-Smart
-Sharp minded
-Hard working
List 3 flaws:
-Melancholy
-Pharisaic
-High handed
Describe your character's life before the Apocalypse: Richard's life before the apocalypse was your typical hard-scrabble Mississippi life; he grew up in the northern Delta, the son of tenant farmers. Although he was smart and graduated from school with decent grades, he opted to go and start working for the state Department of Corrections, first as a transport officer and then as a prison first at Northern Mississippi State Prison in Sunflower. After a couple of years, he transferred as a corrections sergeant (and then later on, as a lieutenant) to the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Meadville, long known by its' old South moniker of Parchman Farm, where he would remain through and up to Outbreak Day...
What happened to your character on Outbreak Day?: Like other prisons and jails across the Magnolia State, Bryant and the other guards, already short-staffed as it was, was quite literally at the breaking point (Background: Mississippi was one of the first states affected by the Pandemic). Reporting in on Outbreak Day early due to what his officers called a "riot", it didn't take him long to realize it was a lot more than a riot, as frightened reports came in from one of the Farm's outlying dormitories (dormitory is what MDOC calls the prison's cellblocks; the convicts however call it by the old Southern moniker of chain gang) of prisoners eating others inside, not only inmates but guards caught inside and prison staff. Unable to get hold of prison higher-ups (unknown to him that day, they'd already taken off for points elsewhere), Bryant made the decision to seal off the dormitory; when additional reports of "riots" began to filter on in, he then ordered what guards were still there to begin releasing every convict in the entire prison, telling them they had two and only two choices: they could either leave and take their chances, or they could stay; if they stayed, they had to work alongside the guards or else they would be shot for "attempting to incite violence". Most left...however, a sizable number of convicts stayed, mainly those who were either already serving long sentences or who had no homes or family to go back to...
Describe your character's life after the Apocalypse: For almost three months, Bryant and those who remained - about 15 corrections officers, around 70 convicts and stragglers who'd come across the Farm over the months and years - eventually regained control of the entire facility. Barricading every place they could, they slowly began rebuilding some semblance of civilization, though over time Parchman Farm began to re-assume its' Old, pre-reform era Southern form and attitudes...but rebuild they did. Three years in, Parchman Farm looks for all the world as it did back in its' early: a place where guards run the prison with an iron fist, a place where the chain gang has returned with a vengeance and where the rules - and prejudices - of the Old South have returned once again to American shores...