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Zombie Apocalypse
« on: January 06, 2009, 01:03:45 PM »
So, how will you survive? Discuss.
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Re: Zombie Apocalypse
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2009, 01:06:47 PM »
So, how will you survive? Discuss.

With what we have or what we'd like to have?
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« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2009, 01:15:40 PM »
I got my SKS and a healthy stash of ammo, so I'm good.
I don't remember anything. Well, I do, but it's really vague. Like I was on drugs the whole time.

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« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2009, 01:16:54 PM »
Where would I be?  What items do I have?  Who is with me?  What repells the zombies?

Then I will tell you.   ;)
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Re: Zombie Apocalypse
« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2009, 01:21:19 PM »
So you want a scenario? You're at work, your kids (if applicable) are at a babysitters when first reports roll in of people who were killed by a mysterious virus climbing out of morgues. However, their brains have already begun to decay, so they are essentially animals, with only the vague memory of the power of a human brain, so they lust after it, thinking that eating one will return sentience. However, they're also hungry, so they'll eat anything that bleeds. The disease is spreading fast, but it's undetectable until death, so you or anyone around you may be infected. Use what you'd have and do what you'd do in such a situation.
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« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2009, 01:29:13 PM »
Assuming my house hasn't been hit yet, I'd go home and grab my husband's SKS and my 38 special along with all the bullets.  I'd get my dogs in the car and tear down the road to my uncle's house (who I would have called on the way to my home to get supplies).  I'd get the dogs in his truck and fly out to the sitter's to retrieve my daughter.  Seeing as how the route I take is no where near a hospital or morgue, I should have time. 

After picking up my daughter I'd make the long haul to my grandparents house which is out in the middle of no where on a farm.  I'd call my husband somewhere during all of this and let him know where I'm going.  I'd tell him his best bet is to take the back country roads as you probably don't want to go anywhere near hospitals or morgues.  When I arrived at my grandparent's I would start collecting wood and kindling from around the area.  (I'm assuming the power will go out soon.)  I would get any ply wood or 2X4's from the shed out back and begin boarding up the windows and doors.

Do these zombies only come out at night or all the time?  You didn't specify.  That changes my situation slightly.
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« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2009, 01:29:19 PM »
Get home set up blocks and booby traps around my house and road (I live in the middle of no where). Then I'd wait it out, I have a large orchard, game, and cows for food.
I don't remember anything. Well, I do, but it's really vague. Like I was on drugs the whole time.

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Re: Zombie Apocalypse
« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2009, 01:36:06 PM »
Assuming my house hasn't been hit yet, I'd go home and grab my husband's SKS and my 38 special along with all the bullets.  I'd get my dogs in the car and tear down the road to my uncle's house (who I would have called on the way to my home to get supplies).  I'd get the dogs in his truck and fly out to the sitter's to retrieve my daughter.  Seeing as how the route I take is no where near a hospital or morgue, I should have time. 

After picking up my daughter I'd make the long haul to my grandparents house which is out in the middle of no where on a farm.  I'd call my husband somewhere during all of this and let him know where I'm going.  I'd tell him his best bet is to take the back country roads as you probably don't want to go anywhere near hospitals or morgues.  When I arrived at my grandparent's I would start collecting wood and kindling from around the area.  (I'm assuming the power will go out soon.)  I would get any ply wood or 2X4's from the shed out back and begin boarding up the windows and doors.

Do these zombies only come out at night or all the time?  You didn't specify.  That changes my situation slightly.

Problem with road are everybody is going to be trying to get out of the city, roads will be blocked.  They will end up being food for zombies and eventually zombies themselves.  Any traveling is best done with off road vehicles or on foot in the wilderness with lots of ammo just in case.  Stay away from populated areas.

And yes, most zombies that I have read can travel in daylight, except in that movie "I am legend" also, they never sleep.

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« Reply #8 on: January 06, 2009, 01:46:32 PM »
In I Am Legend, they're actually meant to be vampires. I never saw the film, even though Will Smith was in it. Personally, I'll just submit to my fate and in what little time I'll have left I'll just find a really big knife somewhere and become a zombivore. If I'm immune to the virus, great, if not it'll probably be less painful than your slow fates. Also, I can do some lootin' and rapin' before everybody else dies or goes to their grandparents homes in the country.
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« Reply #9 on: January 06, 2009, 01:50:37 PM »
So you want a scenario? You're at work, your kids (if applicable) are at a babysitters when first reports roll in of people who were killed by a mysterious virus climbing out of morgues. However, their brains have already begun to decay, so they are essentially animals, with only the vague memory of the power of a human brain, so they lust after it, thinking that eating one will return sentience. However, they're also hungry, so they'll eat anything that bleeds. The disease is spreading fast, but it's undetectable until death, so you or anyone around you may be infected. Use what you'd have and do what you'd do in such a situation.

You had to put me at work, didn't you?  At school would be so much better.

Right.  If it's a nice day, I've got one Harley and not much else.  It's a beeline run for the house.

At the house I collect all that junk dad gave me and my guns, dump the Harley and get my truck.  Now it's time to get Greeneyes and head for a more deserted area.  I don't care how good you are, enough people will overwhelm you eventually.  From here...  Hm.  I would say Land Between the Lakes.  It's the closest bit of empty land that can support life indefinitely.

That stuff my dad gave me will supposedly keep four people alive for ten days.  (Yes, dad is a pessimist who thinks Something is going to happen any day.)  I know that it has a tent, MREs, water purifying tablets, and basic supplies.  It also has the only two things anyone really needs to survive:

The Army Survival Manual and a K-Bar knife with sheathe and stone.

After that, it's a matter of waiting it out.  Set up a camp, set up security and wait.
If this is a disease, it's going to burn out eventually and sooner or later the zombies will run out of food or be destroyed.  The trick is to stay alive until then.  If that is going to take a long time; a year or more, then other considerations crop up.

At some point, I'll have to find a place to hunt a few of them.  What kills them?  Is it like Night of the Living Dead, where only a head shot kills them?  Do I need to burn them to nothingness?  Is it all about dismembering them?

After I can kill them, a trip to the hospital or a hospital supply shop is on the list.  How is this disease transmitted?  Is it a blood borne pathogen?  Airborne?  Whatever it is, I need to know, along with what kills the virus.  That means microscopes, and a class four isolation kit.  Until I know for certain, I'll treat it as an Airborne Ebola.  Finding the supplies for that will be a pain, but not nearly as big a pain as capturing and containing a subject.  Several subjects actually.
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Re: Zombie Apocalypse
« Reply #10 on: January 06, 2009, 01:57:45 PM »
They are as vulnerable as humans but vicious and plenty. All the virus does is use non-vital tissue to patch up any mess and set off the nervous system again, but the decay has removed pretty much all cognitive function, so they are pretty much driven by hunger, which is how the virus spreads. Think of the brain of a man-eating krill in a person. It is indeed a blood-borne pathogen, and can be killed by zinc pills.
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« Reply #11 on: January 06, 2009, 02:05:23 PM »
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According to that quiz my chances are pretty good.  Another one had me at 45 percent.  :(

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Re: Zombie Apocalypse
« Reply #12 on: January 06, 2009, 02:07:39 PM »
Coward, one gave me 97.3%. I'm more robust than a cockroach.
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Re: Zombie Apocalypse
« Reply #13 on: January 06, 2009, 02:10:15 PM »
I got my SKS and a healthy stash of ammo, so I'm good.

My SKS is at my cousin's house.

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Re: Zombie Apocalypse
« Reply #14 on: January 06, 2009, 02:11:26 PM »

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« Reply #15 on: January 06, 2009, 02:16:49 PM »
They are as vulnerable as humans but vicious and plenty. All the virus does is use non-vital tissue to patch up any mess and set off the nervous system again, but the decay has removed pretty much all cognitive function, so they are pretty much driven by hunger, which is how the virus spreads. Think of the brain of a man-eating krill in a person. It is indeed a blood-borne pathogen, and can be killed by zinc pills.

OK, so I want them dead at a distance, to avoid blood splatter.  I really don't want them biting me, since saliva appears to spread the disease as well.  That means head and heart shots to stop them, and knee or hip shots to slow them.

That takes the .22 out of the game, leaving me with a 5.56 AR-15, a Winchester model 94 in .44/40 and a Ruger Super Blackhawk in .44/40.  Not bad.

With reasoning ability gone, a simple cave with a stout door (Cement and steel preferred.) will keep them out.

Since I can't detect the virus until someone dies with it, We need night time security, and to find out if the virus itself will kill the carrier.  Can they carry it for years, until they die, or will the virus begin killing the host?

Then, once I know how to kill the virus, it's time to experiment.  Can I cure a person with it?  Once they've died, They just have to be shot, but if... Wait.  I can't detect it before death.... Ok... so everyone that I see that has the disease is a subject or a target.

A Blood and saliva passed pathogen that somehow reactivates the lizard brain after the death of the host.  Fascinating.  I want to do an autopsy on that corpse badly.  And one or two still moving would be nice.  Is the cortex still accepting data?  Are any of the neural networks still working?  Damn, an MRI or a CAT scan on that would be interesting.

Ah, never mind.  I get carried away sometimes.
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Re: Zombie Apocalypse
« Reply #16 on: January 06, 2009, 02:17:54 PM »
I got my SKS and a healthy stash of ammo, so I'm good.

My SKS is at my cousin's house.

Do you buy the military surplus armor piercing?

No armor piercing, it's half Yugoslavian surplus half commercial(Wolf). I have several others guns as well and a shitload of .223 and 7.62x54.
I don't remember anything. Well, I do, but it's really vague. Like I was on drugs the whole time.

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« Reply #17 on: January 06, 2009, 02:20:11 PM »
http://www.allthetests.com/quiz22/quizpu.php?testid=1164528592

try this one.

"Congratulations! You are one in few that will probably survive an entire zombie breakout! You might even save some poor defenceless survivors too! You are with the best!"

WooHoo... I'll live. ;D
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« Reply #18 on: January 06, 2009, 02:20:27 PM »
"Congratulations! You are one in few that will probably survive an entire zombie breakout! You might even save some poor defenceless survivors too! You are with the best!"

When I was finally able to answer all of them. It gives you thirty seconds for all ten, including reading time? I can't read  a full paragraph, decide and scroll down in three seconds!
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« Reply #19 on: January 06, 2009, 02:28:37 PM »
"Congratulations! You are one in few that will probably survive an entire zombie breakout! You might even save some poor defenceless survivors too! You are with the best!"

When I was finally able to answer all of them. It gives you thirty seconds for all ten, including reading time? I can't read  a full paragraph, decide and scroll down in three seconds!
I die in a few days.
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« Reply #20 on: January 06, 2009, 02:29:30 PM »
We had a thread like this a long time ago.  I remember Midnight and I getting in this big argument about what would be the best way, and he kept insisting that barricading up a lighthouse would be the best.  But he's a know-it-all jackass.

However, he lives in the middle of Texas, and most of the world lives inland as well.  Perhaps a good bastion of defense for some people, but definitely not everyone.

For me, it would depend on one thing: Whether or not the zombies are the learning type (like in Romero's films).  If so, probably the only and best way to survive is to get as far away from (former) civilization as possible.  Where nobody lives, nobody dies.

Otherwise, I'd bash out the stairs of a two story house and barricade up what I could of the house otherwise.  If they get in, I can still at least stay on the upper level until they either get bored and go away, until I make a new plan, or until they start sacrificing themselves to make a zombie mountain and crawl up to me (which would be the likely case in the Intelli-zombie scenario).
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« Reply #21 on: January 06, 2009, 02:33:17 PM »
A lighthouse would work out fairly well. Not too many people where most of them are. Narrow easily barricadable corridor. Lots of range/great vantage point. Unscalable walls.

You both had basically the same idea, get as high as possible. I don't even see how you two were disagreeing.

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« Reply #22 on: January 06, 2009, 02:36:44 PM »
I'm thinking about joining the zombies.  I never really been part of a clique. I'm a team player though.
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« Reply #23 on: January 06, 2009, 02:37:48 PM »
I say live off an oil rig. Can zombies swim?
I don't remember anything. Well, I do, but it's really vague. Like I was on drugs the whole time.

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« Reply #24 on: January 06, 2009, 02:38:21 PM »
I'm thinking about joining the zombies.  I never really been part of a clique. I'm a team player though.
I think I'll have lots of kids, then you send them out with a 100 second delayed bomb. Just long enough for the zombies to crowd around them in their lust for child flesh before BOOM.

If you hunkered down in an orphanage with enough c4, you might beat the zombies.

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« Reply #25 on: January 06, 2009, 02:39:07 PM »
If so, probably the only and best way to survive is to get as far away from (former) civilization as possible.  Where nobody lives, nobody dies.
This.

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« Reply #26 on: January 06, 2009, 02:39:50 PM »
I'm thinking about joining the zombies.  I never really been part of a clique. I'm a team player though.
I think I'll have lots of kids, then you send them out with a 100 second delayed bomb. Just long enough for the zombies to crowd around them in their lust for child flesh before BOOM.

If you hunkered down in an orphanage with enough c4, you might beat the zombies.

Best plan yet.
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« Reply #27 on: January 06, 2009, 02:41:29 PM »
Heck, you could tell the little kids that outside is freedom, but they have to wear the special "freedom jacket" to go outside.

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« Reply #28 on: January 06, 2009, 02:42:52 PM »
I'm thinking about joining the zombies.  I never really been part of a clique. I'm a team player though.
I think I'll have lots of kids, then you send them out with a 100 second delayed bomb. Just long enough for the zombies to crowd around them in their lust for child flesh before BOOM.

If you hunkered down in an orphanage with enough c4, you might beat the zombies.

Best plan yet.


The only problem is that children and C4 will be limited in number where as us zombies probably won't be.
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« Reply #29 on: January 06, 2009, 02:45:04 PM »
I'm thinking about joining the zombies.  I never really been part of a clique. I'm a team player though.
I think I'll have lots of kids, then you send them out with a 100 second delayed bomb. Just long enough for the zombies to crowd around them in their lust for child flesh before BOOM.

If you hunkered down in an orphanage with enough c4, you might beat the zombies.

Best plan yet.


The only problem is that children and C4 will be limited in number where as us zombies probably won't be.

Nah... there are only 230 million people in the USA.  Since they can't travel well, due to their food supply problems, they would be manageable.

Plus, if you tie a rope to the child's foot, you can reuse it for the second batch of zombies.
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