Background

Mason Calder was a born and raised in Louisville Kentucky in the year 1957. Born to Melissa and Joseph Calder, with Joseph Calder a Korean war veteran and Melissa Calder a nurse turned housewife as of Calder's return from the Korean war. As a result of Joseph's Calder's veteran status and use of the GI bill, he managed to afford a house in south Louisville to give baby Mason and Melissa a home. Despite being in a poor neighborhood, Mason had a decent childhood with his father working a union job at a local steel mill, never missing gifts around his birthdays or holidays or a fine living. It was up until his teenage years where a shift in the family structure began to change. Joseph Calder along with other veterans in the area gathered to form a motorcycle club, the Hells Bandits MC as a community group of motorcycle enthusiasts and your early concepts of a vigilante neighborhood watch. Which then delved into shady activity within the club for economic benefit for all present. Mason as a teenager feared the thought of being sent to war, with the Vietnam war looming around his age. The youth during the Vietnam war era were vocally against the war, with many teenagers going as far as finding ways to be exempt from fighting in the war. Mason on the other hand mentally prepared for the draft. His father mostly urging Mason to not enlist, rather hope he could dodge the draft. However, Mason did dodge the draft as the war had ended months before he could turn 18. In his adult years (19-25), he would spend more time with his father in the steel mill working a union job for a head start at an economic advantage, though slowly being dragged into his father's motorcycle club. It wasn't long for Mason to end up being a prospect under his fathers patched status. By the time he was 20, he became a patched member of the Hells Bandits MC. Though with the turn point of Louisville being hit with the crack epidemic in the late 70s, the values and morals of the club would shift. Mason along with his father slowly watched as the club turned into an outlaw club, constant clashes with smaller gangs in the area and shadier activities such as backroom gambling, truck shipment thefts and lastly, the sale of drugs such as marijuana and crack cocaine. While hesitant at first, Mason unfortunately experienced the murder of his father as a result of a drug dispute involving his father and a small-time gang. A drug exchange that turned out to go sour leading to the murder of his father. Fueled with grief and rage, mason's life turned for the worst, focusing more on the motorcycle's clubs standing and the desire to avenge his father...which he eventually would. Towards the end of the eighties, Mason had become the enforcer of the Hells Bandits MC and losing his job at the steel mill. He still managed to earn a living through illicit activities and launders set up by the club as they had grown into the hundreds of members. He made sure to set his mother up for life, keeping her house stocked with food, bills paid and hospital bills in check, all the while his mother hoping Mason would change his ways. Now being thirty-five in the present day, he had aged into a man his father was, but now with his club was in bad standing with the law. Though the turn of events of the paranormal would begin to shift the reality and purpose of all within the club. On March ninth, 1993, sudden rips in reality itself would begin to pour out the undead into the existence he knew with the world going into chaos. Being sent on a drug collection would only force him to turn his chopper around and force his way to his mother's house, watching the horrors as he sped through the streets of Louisville. To his despair, his mother was nowhere to be found. He forced his way to his apartment complex and camped at his apartment, keeping the club's clubhouse in plain view while he hunkered down, hoping to spot more hells bandits members.