The Zombies Are Coming! The Zombies Are Coming! [10 comments]
Brittney
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In light of today’s Red White and Dead event, I felt it was appropriate to bring up a topic that will not only allow you guys to get to know me better, but we will totally connect on a whole new level because of it. I promise.
If there were a zombie apocalypse, where would you go, which weapons would you use, and would you travel alone?
Okay, so maybe the question isn’t ENTIRELY blind date material, but hey, it’s important. Being the zombie nut that I am, I sometimes find myself musing over this matter (usually when I’m bored at work).
As you sit and read this, it’s easy to say where you would LIKE to make your last stand when the walking pus-bags begin roaming, but let’s face it, we’ll probably end up with our hands on our head, frantically running around and screaming like little girls.
But still…it’s always good to have a plan in THEORY.
Weapons: I’m decent with a rifle and a shotgun, so I’d take a 30.06 and a 12 gauge. Some of the macho types prefer hand-to-hand combat with an axe or chainsaw, and I say you’re crazy. What if blood splatter lands in your mouth or eyes? We all know the T-Virus…er, I mean unknown disease, is highly contagious. Duh.
Companions: To be a lone wolf or join a pack? With more people comes more responsibility (such as the necessity for extra supplies and food) however there is such a thing as safety in numbers. I would join a group of survivors any day over being a loner and inevitably making an inanimate object my new best friend. BUT. People tend to go batshit crazy in reaction to dead people roaming the land (weird, right?), so finding trustworthy companions that aren’t going to shank you or steal your goodies while on ‘night watch’ could prove to be rather difficult.
Location: This is really what it comes down to, isn’t it? Whether you’re alone, in a group, or somehow GameShark’d your life to grant you infinite ammo, if your location is less than ideal you aren’t going to survive the long, looming apocalypse.
Films, novels and comics have taught us that warehouses, malls, abandoned villages and even prisons are the cream of the crop, and I can’t argue. But there are major things to consider. Finding an aforementioned goldmine even remotely abandoned would require the same luck you would need to win the lottery. Even if you were to stumble across a warehouse completely void of zombies, that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Ensuring that unwanted intruders (both the living and the dead) can’t and won’t infiltrate your cozy little home is an entirely different matter. And what about food? You’re bound to run out sometime, just as you will with bottled water. Will you attempt to grow your own crops by making do with available supplies, or will you have to raid local towns and 7-Elevens?
My ideal place of refuge? Costco. Ammo shortages might be a problem, but it’s a huge warehouse, contains more non-perishable food than I know what to do with, generators, an office I can lock up and sleep in at night, and here’s the biggie: free videogames and consoles.
And if I, you know, ever feel like being saved I can crawl up on the roof and paint a sprawling ”HALP” across it for when the government comes for us.
They will come for us…right?
Cue the cliche line of “No one’s coming for us.”
Maybe you haven’t given this as much thought as I have (I admit, I’m bored at work a lot) but in a nutshell, where and what would you do should the zombies rise?
I guess if all else fails, you can do what I did this March at PAX East.
Team up with Jill Valentine.
Tags: Braaaaaiiiiins, Resident Evil, What if?, WHAT WOULD U DO?!, Zombies
The answers depend on the kind of zombies – we talking slow Romero-esque zombies? Fast, highly contagious types (a la 28 days later)? Or goofy, and non-contagious voodoo zombies?
location- walmart or any other super store
weapons- something with a large clip. say a M 240 or SAW and a trusty ol’ desert eagle.
Companions- yes, ill be dammed if i gotta talk to a volley ball and one needs an outlet, and competition to see who can drop the un-dead the fastest. because im sure my x-box isnt gunna work well for FPS’s online.
Hmmm. Have you ever read The Morningstar Strain: Plague of the Dead? I think that version of zombie is my fave.
How THEY work is if the person is infected while living, they turn into the fast, 28 days later zombies. However once they are killed ( but not via a headshot, which would put them down perm.) they awake to become a slow shambler.
You clearly put more thought into this than the average human. =)
If I can just replay my dream from the other night, it will clearly illustrate to me what I need to do – because I was kicking ass. Until I died. Crap.
The ultimate hidey-hole would be one of those military bunkers designed to withstand a nuclear attack (and it will most likely be stocked to the rafters with suppplies). I’d bring as many people as I could reasonably provide for. Someone (on FB) mentioned the shark suit. That’s nice, but if time permits, I think a kevlar-based wetsuit would work better. You want freedom of movement along with your bite protection. I’d prefer an array of weapons if possible: a long range rifle, a shotgun, a chainsaw, and the most important one – the flamethrower. You get containment AND purification in one device. All these items use ammo or fuel, however, so I would need a machete or katana (or both!) to back them up.
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Well let’s see weapon of choice would be some form of shotgun, aim for the head and pull trigger will take even the fastes of zombies down; just because they are fast doesnt mean they can dodge bullets they are still somewhat bound by physics. I would also carry a bladed weapon of somesort, purhaps a machette or a katana or maybe even find a bayonette. As for whether or not I would take people with me, join people or be a lone wolf, I would choose to be a lone wolf, but if people needed help i would aide them, stay with them for a bit (but use my own supplies and maybe lend them some of mine for the time being) and leave. It is survival and the best way to ensure your survival is to be alone and get enough supplies for yourself. As for where I would choose as my spot I would never stay anywehre for long. I would also have some form of transport, such as a hummer with maybe a plow or something attached to the front to ram through zombies and debris that will undoubtebly be on the roads; and have offroad wheels for when i need to go offraod. I would stay at hotels, abandoned homes, businesses and so forth but head for a hospital. Once there I would set up a radio transmission and broadcast the location of the hospital for any who wish to seek shelter. I would keep going back and forth from there and other palces to stock up on weapons, ammunition, food, and other such items escential for survival. And there would be rooms for people to sleep in, and security cameras and alarms and so forth to monitor any unwanted guests. And on the roof there would hopefully be a helicopter and hopefully I would find a pilot and if need be; like in the case where the hospital is compromised, we would take the best of the people; myself included, and get out of there with enough supplies to last us to our next destination.
My friends and I have this fairly worked out. Two of them have fairly large weapon caches already, so we grab all of them, and take over a Costco, also a Ranch and Home (lots of long lasting food, more ammo, clothes if needed).
Locally they are about 2 blocks apart, which means we get to convert cars into Mad Max style machines. With Costco doing car maintenance this area makes the conversions much easier.
Roof top access for sniping, and an eventual victory for the humans. That is until the zombies become radioactive.
I would find the largest group of humans and join up with them. Then, I would knowingly infect myself (and secretly a few others) and just go to town on them.
Weapons: Rifle with lots of ammo, and a bo. Mostly because those are the only two weapons I can even kinda wield. Bo is desperate, yes, but I’ve learned from D&D that you always need a backup weapon, and something that does Bashing damage.
Companions: Maybe I’m a weirdo, but I’d rather be alone. However, I need internet interaction, and possibly a phone. That, and all my most prized possessions.
Location: My current dorm, but completely empty. It’s all connected with underground tunnels, going clear from one end of the set to the other, and including a nice big dining hall, as well as most of the other necessities. No need to go outside, and my third floor corner room would make a good sniping point.
This is all academic, though, as I am deathly afraid of zombies. Seriously, can we have a vampire plague instead? Vampires don’t give me nightmares. Heck, I’ve played a vampire before. They terrify me far less.
Has a zombie ever been shown swimming? I mean, if they can’t swim, then I’d say houseboat in the carribean, find an island and a group of people good at board games, and enjoy the end day by day.