Zachary McDonald

## Biography Before That Day

Zachary was a resident on the fourth floor of the apartment building in the Auburn Lake community, that would later become known as the MGR. He was a pothead and small time drug dealer with a trust fund from his stockbroker grampy in Greenwich. He was an emotional moron who had repeated his senior year of high school twice. He believed he was hardcore, and behaved as such. His primary source of driving instruction was Steven Segal movies and the Fast and the Furious. He was a public nuisance on the streets, and had caused his parents insurance to hit the roof. His favorite munchy restaurant was the Golden Palace Chinese restaurant, and he had a girl named Kimmy who had a crush on him. He kept her on the line calling her baby, and laughing at her worry for him. He was totally unreliable; a true coward with no strength. Zack's best friend/hetero life partner (up for debate) was Ryan, whom Zack always bossed around and maintained the Alpha male authority around.

## Biography After That Day

On June 23, 2010, Zack picked up Ryan and the two headed to munch at the Golden Palace on the greatest Peking Dumplings. He was totally stoned and oblivious to the news reports on the restaurant television,  only noticing the tits on the newswoman talking about the outbreak. He thought she was talking about a movie trailer. It took him fifteen minutes to realize they were alone in the Golden Palace, after which they helped themselves to the kitchen until they realized the Sour Diesel was still in his car. Zack left the restaurant to retrieve the weed and blacked out, landing on his keys and stabbing himself. When he came to, he noticed a tall man retreating in his direction and peed himself when the man shot an approaching zombie named Daryll. Having finally realized what was going on Zack hid with Ryan under a table and didn't notice the tall man's pale skin. He and Ryan fell asleep near the door of the restaurant and were awakened after the tall man had died and turned to attack them. Retreating to the kitchen, Zack eventually killed the tall man zombie with teriyaki sticks. He survived that day in the Golden Palace then returned to his apartment with Ryan, where they remained for the next year.

      Zack was the first person from the Apartment building to contact Adrian. He looked like a big time hippie, and related their situation to Adrian and the rest of the Auburn Lake Preparatory Academy survivors. He had a hydroponics system set up in his apartment, originally to grow weed, but started growing food for the survivors in the apartment building. He and Ryan collected rainwater and snow to run it. Following his rescue, he spoke with with Gilbert for hours about how to get their hydroponics out, and was amazingly helpful during the packing and move. He and Ryan kept everything remarkably organized, gave astoundingly clear instructions to everyone as far as how to handle shit, and despite Adrian's misgivings, was professional, and held shit together. The one thing that did go down that was a little sketchy, was that they really wanted to carry guns during the operation. Zack was scared of Abby so they didn't push the issue more at the time. During a shooting practice with Adrian, Zach was a wee bit unsafe with the guns. Slowly tilting a handgun to the side like in the bad gangster movies. The good sign was that when he held the gun like an adult, he shot reasonably well and eventually earned his right to carry a .38 gun. Shortly after relocating to the 3rd floor of Hall E (having avoided Gavin's room like the plague), Zack was killed in a freak accident when he walked under a falling tree Alex was cutting down without paying attention and was crushed. He died under the tree and was the first survivor that had turned by the time that Adrian had to put him down. They burned his body where it lay in the woods.