Barry

Barry is one of the four main characters in Don't Escape 4 Days in a Wasteland.

Appearance
Barry is an Afro-American man of unknown age. His sprite makes it unclear if he is bald, or if he has brown hair.

Personality
Barry has been married for 10 years to Maggie, whom he deeply loves. Her death makes him lose his will to live, and only a note left by her and her burial can encourage him to try and continue his life.

Most of the time he is calm and controlled. Barry is however send into a blind rage when he learns David entered his house without permission and took a golden locket from Maggie's body. It takes Cate holding him at gunpoint and a lot of reasoning from David to make him calm down. This is the only time in the game that Barry shows such an aggressive side of himself.

If the group recruits Cody, Barry quickly takes a liking to the kid, hinting that he may have had a child before. When David tries to give his team provisions for the oncoming night (like water against the Heat Wave or a jacket against the cold), Barry will refuse his share unless David gives Cody some first. He is also visibly upset if David chooses to save him instead of Cody during the incident on the roof of the Sidereal Plexus building, or if David teaches Cody to shoot as protection against Razor and his gang.

History
Barry and Maggie have been married for 10 years when the Lunar Explosion turned the Earth into a wasteland. The danger on the first night (giant spiders, a swarm of locusts, or poisonous gas) wrecked their home and killed Maggie. When Cate and David find Barry on Day 2, he is too depressed to do anything but sit and wait for his own life to end. If the two choose to leave him, he will have died the next day from either the heat wave or the cold snap. If however they show him a last note written by his wife and offer to give Maggie a proper burial, he joins them.

On the third day, when visiting the Sidereal Plexus building, a falling letter from the sign on the roof causes a part of the roof to collapse, endangering both Barry and Cody, or just Barry if he is the only one in the group besides Cate. David can only safe one of them. He he choses Cody, Barry will fall to his death. Cody and David find him later on the ground floor, and give him a burial.

If Barry was the one to die on this day, and the player finishes the game with at least one of the two floppy disks in the sleep machine, some of David's memories carry over to his next life. Because of this, in his nightmare for the third day, David encounters the ghost of Maggie, who warns David not to let Barry come with him to Sidereal Plexus. As such, when the incident on the roof happens again, only Cody is endangered, David can save him without having to sacrifice Barry, and both of them live.

In the Sidereal Plexus, Barry has to help David get into a locked room by moving a heavy pipe out of the way. Inside the room is one of the two floppy disks needed to get the correct ending.

If the danger for the third day involves having to fight off Razor and his gang, David can give Barry a loaded gun to defend himself. Barry doesn't like it, although he knows how to handle the gun.

If Barry lives till the end of the 4th day, he comes to the moon with David and Cate.

In the real ending, Barry is seen living with Maggie in a world where the lunar explosion never happened. The two are holding adoption papers, most likely for Cody.

Abilities
Barry has engineering skills, which he can use to make the truck that David and his friends can use for transport more fuel efficient.

He is also quite strong, making him a valuable asset when preparing the hideout for the next night, since his help greatly reduces the amount of time needed to perform tasks.