Character history/trauma heads up! So, just realized that I might not have made sure everyone has some pertinent information about our favorite fuzzy blue elf here, so I'ma overshare a little just to be safe. It's in the game info that Scott, the colony's former Fearless Leader, committed suicide by zombie back in November. But it wasn't until after game start, due to team numbers and the desire to not use NPCs for roles important to PCs and, on my part, to not have to try and work out backstory on a VERY close and long term working relationship if we did get someone in who wanted the position, that we ended up with Scott as having been Kurt's scout partner. Thus, when and if we get a character who wants the spot...they can have it starting whenever we can work it in IC. Woo logic!
This means Fuzzy had his partner of almost 2 years, and friend of a whole lot more, decide fuck it it's not worth it anymore and off himself. In one of the more gruesome possible ways. He just walked out one day when they weren't on patrol and straight into a horde of the undead. Kurt found what was left and brought him back after. He...has not taken it well. Hoooowever, this isn't necessarily something most people would have a clue about. He doesn't do public histrionics. Ever. He doesn't weep or wail or beat his breast, or even brood or mope, for public display. He is always 'on'. It's how he grew up. "The public doesn't pay to see your troubles, they pay to forget their own." If Scott comes up he simply removes himself from the conversation, b/c he doesn't even want to hear about it, but he does it quietly and discreetly and most people probably wouldn't even notice. Really, he probably looks and sounds and generally acts about the same as far as most people can tell, though he drinks more.
So, there it is for any characters who'd have reason to know or care.