Characters of Book 2

Book 1 was pretty devoid of characters. In fact, Radley is alone for about half of Book 1. Solitude was intentional but kind of hard to make work since ones thoughts can be a little boring.

Book 2 is meant to focus less on the environment and more on character development. In truth, my favorite character had to be cut from Book 1. He was actually an NPC that Radley met in-game before the apocalypse. The scene dragged a little and I felt like the book needed to get past the game into the adventure. I had to cut the character, but I'm bringing him back with a vengeance in Book 2. He's hilarious.

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