Protagonists (Dead Island)

The protagonists are the playable characters of and .
==Characters==
===Purna===
Purna Jackson is the "Support" specialist within the team and the Firearms expert. When her Rage mode is activated, Purna uses a Revolver with unlimited ammunition. Her Fury skill can be further upgraded to provide bonuses to nearby allies such as health regeneration and increased damage, as well as the duration and the number of targets she can take per shot.
Most of her combat skills are optimized towards ranged weapons, making her guns more effective and, initially, can increase her ability to use edged weapons. Bonuses range from increasing damage to reducing recoil. Basically, most of her combat skills are there to give additional bonuses in using firearms. Her support skills are what make her what she is. She generates an aura that improves nearby Heroes even to the point of improving the durability of their weapons. She's also the only one with the skills that improve ammunition and increase the chance of finding a rare weapon
===Xian===
Xian Mei is the Bladed Weapons expert and the "Assassin" of the group due to the high damage nature of edged weapons and her extraordinary speed and stamina. Her Fury Skill is to attack enemies with a short knife in a blinding frenzy of stabs and slashes. Unfortunately, she has the lowest health of the team which makes her the hardest Hero to use (as stated by most of the community) through the entire game.
As a Blade Specialist, she has her skills focused on making sharp melee weapons more effective and more likely to inflict critical damage. Her main elements are poison and her exclusive bleed weapon effects (similar to bleed effects added on blunt weapon mods which sharp weapons naturally do not have access to). She is able to survive through her support skills which further enhance her stamina and the effectiveness of medkits used on her.
===Sam===
Sam B, the Blunt Weapons expert, serves as the "Tank" of the group and can absorb lots of damage while fighting off numerous enemies in close combat at the same time. His Fury skill enables him to punch enemies with increased strength and knockback force. Because of his high durability and expertise with the most common type of melee weapon, he is often considered the easiest character to use.
As a Blunt Specialist, he has numerous skills that increase the attack power and durability of all blunt weapons found in the game. His main element of use is the blunt exclusive Impact which increases Blunt Weapon Damage while his support skills are focused on increasing resistance to enemy damage.
===Logan===
Logan Carter is the Throwing Weapons expert and the "Jack of all Trades" of the team. His Fury Skill allows him to throw an infinite amount of knives at nearby enemies.
Most of his skills are inclined towards improving his throwing ability and how he should be versatile in general. He gains skills that are unique to him such as being able to retrieve a thrown weapon without needing to pick it up again and inflicting damage on multiple targets with a single throw. He also has skills that make him more effective with both edged and blunt weapons. He also is the only Hero with the more reliable bonus from using alcohol. His greatest weakness is his low stamina which, despite hampering his ability to run and fight in melee, is somewhat meaningless since throwing does not consume stamina. 
Unlike the other Heroes, Logan is much better suited at using the developer items due to the fact that thrown weapons do not lose durability. He can use the Mindblowing Military Knife to pop five Walkers or Infected in a single throw with a chance for the weapon to boomerang back, allowing him to do it again without having to pick up the weapon. He can also use the Homerun Baseball Bat to knock away multiple targets which allows him to avoid being overwhelmed by large numbers of zombies.
If the player does not intend to use the developer items due to how they unfairly break the game drastically, they can still depend on the more natural weapons in game. Because of his skill with both blunt and edged weapons, he can use weapons such as Eviscerator for a damage dealing throwable, or a Sledgehammer with Tesla Mod for incapacitation. His options are almost limitless.
===John===
John Morgan is the new playable character in the game Dead Island: Riptide. He was a Sergeant of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) and is an expert in hand-to-hand combat. He was on vacation until he was caught up in the outbreak and then taken to a military ship within the Banoi peninsula, which unfortunately became shipwrecked near Palanai Island. John was imprisoned due to the fact that he refused to kill innocent civilians and, once he was bitten, he learned early on that he was immune to the virus.
John Morgan's expertise is in hand-to-hand weapons like Brass Knuckles, with additional skills that greatly improve his speed and stamina, as well as healing him on each critical hit. John is capable of going toe to toe with almost any type of enemy in single combat, with a number of skills that help him keep away from large groups or break them up with stun-based attacks. He can still fare well without a weapon, although this is inadvisable when fighting against multiple undead enemies.
==Abilities==
Character	Health	Speed	Stamina
Purna 	100 	100 	90
Xian 	90 	100 	100
Sam 	110 	100 	90
Logan 	100 	100 	80
==Biography==
The game begins with the opening cutscene, following an unnamed drunken guest as he stumbles around the Hotel on his way to Sam B's party. On the way, he meets the playable Heroes of the game, in order of Logan Carter, Sam B, Purna Jackson and Xian Mei. After passing out in his room, we are taken to one of the rooms of the heroes, who also made their way to their rooms after the party. Upon awakening, the heroes find the Hotel deserted and overrun by strange people, the infected. They manage to escape a group of them while being guided by a voice via the Hotel speaker system before being knocked out by a zombie.
They awaken in a beach hut with a group of survivors, and after helping defend the hut from zombies, they assist the survivors moving to the more secure Lifeguard Tower. From here, they assist the survivors by getting supplies, gas, food and drink to sustain them, as well as a more powerful radio receiver to try and reach a voice who has been contacting them via the radio. However, it's not enough and they will eventually need to go to the main city on the island to find more food, the City of Moresby. To this end, they return to the Hotel and, with the assistance of a security guard, they manage to make their way to the Hotel parking garage and recover an armoured truck. After escaping the Hotel with it, they take it to a mechanic to be armoured up to be an unstoppable tank. After defending the workshop, the mechanic makes them promise to take his daughter, Jin, with them to protect her, as he's been bitten and will soon turn. After finally agreeing, they leave with Jin to travel to Moresby.
Upon arrival in Moresby, they follow church bells to reach a Church of survivors that are under attack by zombies. After killing them and getting through to the Church, they aid the survivors by turning on their water supply, which was cut off when a group of punks took over the Pump Station. After taking it back and closing open hydrants, they are informed by the kindly leader of the Church, Mother Helen, that they have no supplies they can spare but if they take the Sewers to the rich side of Moresby they may find more food, since the bridge was blown to try and stem the infection.
After lowering the water levels of the Sewers and traversing them, they manage to reach the Town Hall, where the mayor informs them that they also can't provide any food, as they need it all for themselves. Almost giving up, Jin persuades them to keep on and one of the members of the Town Hall tells them to try the nearby Supermarket. It has been taken over by looters but it has tones of food and supplies left in it. Travelling through the Sewers again, they reach the Supermarket and after fighting through the large gang of looters, they reach the storeroom and take as much as they can. With Jin taking it in the truck, the Heroes travel back to the Town Hall via the Sewers to find it overrun by zombies.
Leaving it behind, they return to the Church where Mother Helen informs them that Jin has been captured trying to supply the Police Station, which has been taken over by a cut throat Raskol gang. Despite being told not to, she went there anyway and the Heroes have to rescue her. After fighting through the thugs, they reach her and take her back to the Church. With her now in tow, they supply the Church and Lifeguard Tower before returning to the Hotel, where two of the members of the Lifeguard Tower went to try and use the more powerful radio mounted on the Hotel roof to contact the voice. They eventually get through and learn that the voice is actually Ryder White, a colonel in the Banoi Island Defence Force. He tells them that he's on the Prison island in the middle of the bay. Despite their scepticism of his promise of rescue, the Heroes finally agree to follow his directions to travel into the Mingende Jungle inland to search for a man named Mowen, who can take them to a Laboratory in the jungle which can make a cure for the infection, which White desperately wants to save his infected wife.
With the help of someone at the Lifeguard Tower, the Heroes go with Jin through a network of old Japanese WWII bunkers to reach the jungle. They travel to a village which has been raided by a dangerous warlord named Afran. The leader of the village, Matutero, knows of Mowen but won't take them until the Heroes help him and the village. After recovering their stolen weapons, Matutero informs them that they'll need a boat to reach Mowen, but Afran took it. After raiding Afran's base and killing him, they recover the boat and Matutero delivers on his promise and takes them to Mowen, who reluctantly agrees to take them to the Lab.
Upon arriving at the Lab, the Heroes set about helping the scientists there, restoring power, securing a food supply and bringing them research items so they can continue to work on a cure. After recovering a blood sample from some natives nearby who are immune to the infection, the head scientist, Dr. Robert West, tells them he'll need a tissue sample from one of the native mummies. Going with the native leader and witch doctor, Koritoia Ope, the Heroes go to the Tomb of Natives and save a native girl named Yerema, killing Ope in the process. They return to the boat and save Mowen who was under attack by zombies.
Taking Yerema to the Lab, Mowen is thankful to the heroes for saving his life at the Tomb of Natives and finally reveals that he knows a way to reach the Prison island, which was the other reason the Heroes had to find him, as without him they couldn't navigate the sea minefield that's around the high security Prison. Leaving Yerema with Dr. West, the Heroes go with Mowen back to Moresby to get a bribe for one of the prisoners, Titus Kabui, so he'll let them in, as well as more gas for the boat. From here, they briefly go to the Resort to collect some poles to push away any mines which get close before Ryder White contacts them on the radio hurriedly explaining that he heard screams at the Lab.
They return to the Lab to find it overrun and all the scientists dead. Luckily, Yerema survived due to being locked in a cage and a cure is safely in a fridge. Taking the cure and Yerema, they all make their way to the Prison. After being let in by the prisoners, they strike a deal with Titus to let them through to Cell Block C where White is. After helping get food for the prisoners and failing to get weapons for them as well, they are doing another task for Titus when White contacts them on a radio and tells them a different way to him, through the Prison sewers. Taking this route, they emerge in the Prison showers where they find Jin and Yerema, who tell them that a riot happened in the Canteen when some prisoners rose up against Titus. This caused zombies to attack and wipe out the prisoners in the Canteen. With no choice, they take an elevator to White where they are gassed unconscious.
Awaking to one of the prisoners, a man named Kevin, he informs them that White gassed them and stole the cure. However, they can still catch him before he makes it to a helicopter on the roof. To speed them up, he also reveals that White plans to nuke the island to wipe out the undead, as well as any survivors with it. Making their way through the highly overrun but faster Prison Hospital, they manage to catch up to White on the roof. After fighting through his soldiers and zombies, they find the colonel on a helipad with his undead wife in tow, who is now completely turned. Keeping them under gunpoint, he tells them that he plans to give the cure to scientists in Australia who can mass produce a vaccine. However, Jin releases the colonels wife who bites him, forcing him to shoot her. In anger, he also shoots Jin who falls off the roof to her death before injecting himself with the vaccine. However, it has the opposite effect and turns him into a mutated monster, forcing the Heroes to battle and finally kill him. Kevin flies them all away in the helicopter towards a naval fleet off shore while a news program plays in the background, reporting on the outbreak on Banoi.
==Idle Quotes==
===Purna's Quotes===
* “Blah… Bloody hell, I need a bath.”
* “(Yawn) Aah, I'm falling asleep on my bloody feet.”
* “We're wasting time!”
* “”
===Xian's Quotes===
* “(Sigh) I wish I could take a shower”
* “(Pant) Where are the authorities?”
* “(Pant) What kind of infection could this be?”
* “Can you hear that?”
===Sam's Quotes===
* “Man, what is that smell?”
* “Did you hear something?”
* “I don't believe it, but I'm kind of hungry.”
* “I fucking hate traffic!”
* “Damn, I need a shower.”
* “Man… I am fucking beat.”
* “This is just fucked up!”
* “Man, when I get home, I'm gonna sleep for a week.”
* “Man, what did I do with my phone?”
* “Shit… I could use a shower!”
* “Who do you voodoo, bitch… Who do you voodoo, bitch…”
===Logan's Quotes===
* “Hey, hey, let's get a move on.”
* “Huh… Think I'm getting some kind of rash.”
* “You know what would be good right about now?.. Beer.”
* “That Chinese chick is kind of smokin'.”
* “Huh… Wonder what time it is.”
* “(Yawn) Aah, damn.”
* “(Grunts) Man, I could really use a beer!”
* “God damn, what's the hold up?”
* “Phew. Hotter than god damn Mexico here.”
* “Ah… My knee's fuckin' killing me.”
* “Did you hear somethin'?”
* “(Sniffs) Is that me I smell?”
==Licensing==
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