Zombies?

[Recycled Human]

I know you've thought about it, or joked about it with your friends but really, what would you do? I read that zombie survival guide once and it listed a lot o food for thought. I can't recall all the details but it listed the weapons of choice, some rules to live by and described three types of people.

The three types of people was the part that interested me, they were the nomad (constantly on the move), the shut in (the guy that stays put and boards themselves up), and the last ones a bit hazy but I think it was like the hero (the kind that looks for people and tries to rescue them).

Something to that effect, at any case I'd go for the nomad and I'd carry a crowbar (said to be the best weapon) and any gun with stopping power and easy aim. I'd look for a working car and just keep it moving.

What about you RSF?

[Doaj]

If I were one of the three, then I think I'd be a cross between the Hero and the Nomad. I'm the type of person to keep moving, but I'd make all of my initial targeted locations places I'd look. However, I think I'd also have a final destination in store. For example, a deep cave mouth in a desert region would be an excellent hiding place. Seriously, I don't think anyone living in the desert would be threatened. The desert, after enough experience there, can be a relatively easy place to live. Shade, water, food, shelter, everything would be readily available to those with the right capabilities.

How I would get there? Honestly, I've always been a walker. I also don't drive well, so I think the inevitable car wreck would only give opportunity for a zombie to get me. I'm good at distant evasion though. I used to play survival games with my friends Ian and Luke. Not to be arrogant, but I was fucking good. I was a great hunter, at that. I've always been good at hiding, too, and that never hurts if I get in a sticky situation. And so long as I've got weapons, then I'd be fine. I think a metal baseball bat would be more efficient than a crowbar though. Better range; I don't trust a zombie getting close enough for me to swing a crowbar at. I'd want a handgun and a bat. Those are made for swinging.

[Recycled Human]

On the crowbar, it has a hook end that is pointed for destroying brains at a meager distance, it also has utility. It's good for breaking into boarded up places when resources are low, good for lifting stuff outof your way, pull up some manhole covers maybe...at any rate it's versitile. As for the desert, that's a cool idea, I wonder if there would be zombies in a desert...it would certainly be easier to see...And hardly populated enough to make travel by a zombie not worth the effort!

Good stuff!

[BlackJack]

Depends on when it happens. If I'm still out of shape, then I'll be a shut-in.
Maybe look for a prison or something. Any place that's designed to keep people in should be effective at keeping people out. If I'm in better shape, I'll probably become a heroic nomad (like Doaj). My target would be a northern place like Canada or Alaska. Because the zombies can't survive in such a cold environment. While I would have this goal in mind, I don't think I could ignore someone that needed help. The human race has to stick together, after all.

[Doaj]

Not to mention, I think they would be preyed upon there. The heat would make them spoil and decompose faster, and buzzards and other birds of prey would pick off the slower ones. A good environmental defense if I ever saw one. I think it'd be easy enough to have a crowbar and a bat, by the way. Good points, but I'd still want the range of the bat, with the extra uses of the crowbar.

[Atlas]

Outright combat with a zombie would genuinely scare the pants off me, so I'd probably become some evasive nomad depending on resources. I live quite rurally in the general scheme of things, but this is still a large town; I'd have to move to a more secluded area.

However! Were I to receive instruction for combat with weaponry, or personally develop an effective method with some kind of pole-arm, I'd gladly wander out and pick off zombies in small groups. There would have to be a sharp end (like a blade) so that I may remove limbs and such, for I would never trust myself to get close enough to destroy the brain before immobilising them first. That, or have two sharp ended weapons that I could sort of... rotate myself with to effective wide areas. Anything that'd give the opposition less limbs, lol.

Before all that though, I'd firstly attempt to establish some form of armour on key points of vulnerability. Neck, forearms, legs etc. Naturally it'd have to be light so as to retain natural mobility, but effective nonetheless. You could be the best fighter out there, but get a scrape from a zombie? Done for.

[Recycled Human]

For the heroes out there would you bring the survivors with you, or just rescue them and abandon them? I mean you have to consider, it's one thing to worry about being bitten or scratched, it's another to worry about other people becoming zombies.

Would you look for a cure, try to out survive the zombies or try to kill them all?

Great answer on the going north thing, and the desert is sounding better and better!

[Inu]

For the heroes out there would you bring the survivors with you, or just rescue them and abandon them? I mean you have to consider, it's one thing to worry about being bitten or scratched, it's another to worry about other people becoming zombies.

Would you look for a cure, try to out survive the zombies or try to kill them all?

Hell, I'd just try to find some damn Twinkies.

[BlackJack]

For the heroes out there would you bring the survivors with you, or just rescue them and abandon them? I mean you have to consider, it's one thing to worry about being bitten or scratched, it's another to worry about other people becoming zombies.

Depends. If it's someone that can survive on their own, but is trapped under rubble or something, then we may go our separate ways (like Journey).

Would you look for a cure, try to out survive the zombies or try to kill them all?

Find a cure? Ha. I'd just try to survive, easy.

Great answer on the going north thing

[Doaj]

For the heroes out there would you bring the survivors with you, or just rescue them and abandon them? I mean you have to consider, it's one thing to worry about being bitten or scratched, it's another to worry about other people becoming zombies.

Well, I think I'd take my direction for this from a zombie nightmare I once had. I hid people I saved in a meatlocker full of dead cows because the smell of the meat covered the smell of non-zombie humans. The zombies never looked for them there, because they couldn't smell them. I suppose I'd do that, or perhaps ferry people to and from my desert post-out if I indeed obtained one.

Would you look for a cure, try to out survive the zombies or try to kill them all?

I don't know if I'd look for a cure. Honestly, on the larger scale of things, once it hits apocalyptic setting then you've lost too much of the population for a cure to be of any help. A cure would be nice either immediately, or weeks later when it isn't in high demand. i say this because, realistically, people are too far gone very quickly. Usually, although not always, 1. the disease itself eats at their brain, destroys thought function, etc. or 2. The person must die before becoming a zombie, or 3. they were maimed, disfigured, or killed as a zombie regardless. So, I don't see much hope for most of the population anyway.

However, I think when things have settled down and survivors are survivors, then a cure would be good. Firstly, you don't want slip-ups cutting down the population. People are still going to get hit by cars and have heart attacks and commit suicide. You don't need zombie-related deaths to help cut down the human population so long into it. By that point, we should be in recovery.

Also, zombies that are still wandering around can be tested on with the cure. If a zombie doesn't look like it's been chopped by any machetes or shot with any guns, then cure them. What happens? Are they comatose? Malnourished, but otherwise fine? Could they have lost their memory, motor function? Are they now mentally retarded because of the crippling affect on their brain?

There are too many questions that come up with a cure for someone who was afflicted long-term. I'd definitely go the route of trying to starve them, or create a virus of some kind that targets dead flesh, possibly nano-detritovores of some kind. Fight fire with fire. Killing them all by hand would be far too ridiculous. If you give a zombie something that makes it attack other zombies with the same eagerness that they come at humans with, and it's contagious in the same ways, then just as fast as they got us, they'd get themselves. We'd have zombies eating humans, and antizombies eating zombies, and antizombies decomposing at insane rates because they're being eaten from the inside by detritovores. It's a win-win situation (except for the apocalypse part, but whatever).

[Recycled Human]

Great stuff Doaj, I think this is the meat and potatoes of my questions... the hows and whys.

I like your antizombie concept and the methods of exterminating remaining zombies in the event we manage to stabilize our survivors. But when I mentioned a cure I was thinking more along the lines of 'in the event a survivor gets bitten but not killed' I mean, if its caught before someone turns maybe it can be prevented!

[Doaj]

As convenient as that would be, I don't think it could be easily distributed to more than 90% of people who would be in that phase at any given time, though, until the crisis is stabilized. When people are hiding in malls and gun shops and bars, how are they going to get a cure when they just got bit? Situations where someone has been bit, hasn't turned, and has access to a cure, would be few and far between.

That's why it wouldn't be the highest priority for me.

[Fuyumine]

I would assume the role of Hero.

I wouldn't feel right letting survivors go unprotected, you know? My conscience would eat at me until I got up and did something. I also think it would work to the people's advantage. For instance, we could organize multiple task groups that will take on specific jobs to help our survival. One team would help me search for survivors, another would defend our main base, and another group would be skilled persons—engineers, doctors, physicists, et cetera.

My primary melee weaponry would be one of two things: a Jitte and a quarterstaff. Both are sturdy, bone-breaking, and could knock a zombie on its ass. Secondary melee weapon would be a katana. Like Deadpool's katanas, it would probably never get used. It'd just be strapped to my back for cool factor. LOL.

As far as guns go: Probably a SIG Sauer, and hopefully I could find at least two. They're light weight, and the mag holds about 12 rounds. They'd be secondary guns, for the most part.

My primary firearm would be a semi-automatic shotgun. Hopefully, I could find a military issue model, since civ models hold less shells (4, to be exact, the military issue holds 8 to 10).

I'd also like to get my hand on a few grenades. You'd think they'd be rather useless on a horde of zombies running toward you. You'd only get the ones trailing in the back. However, if you manage to sneak up on a large group of unsuspecting flesh eaters, a grenade would be just what the doctor ordered.

[Inu]

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Here you go. A Zombie survival sheet. Fill it up with what it asks for. I'll post mine when it's done.

[Doaj]

What zombie movies has everyone seen? Which ones are your favorites? Did you dislike any?

[Recycled Human]

I gotta do that zombie survival sheet!! XD

As for the movies, i've seen all the popular ones, dawn of the dead etc, 28 days later (though not actual zombies), etc. I've sen the older ones too and I actually liked them more. I feel like a zombie flick (if you can get past how the zombies are made) are really quite believable... I guess the only zombie movies I don't like would be the resident evil series. It's not really about the zombies...

I like them slow and the threat being that they could surround you, I like the reanimated dead, crawling up from graves to find their victims, then turning the fallen into more dead. So yeah, the old zombie flicks are probably the best.

[BlackJack]

What zombie movies has everyone seen? Which ones are your favorites? Did you dislike any?

Like:
Shaun of the Dead
Zombieland
28 Days Later
The first live-action Resident Evil movie
Dislike:
Any Resident Evil movie except the first live-action one.

[Lawliet]

Like:
Dislike:
Any Resident Evil movie except the first live-action one.

the CGI one wasn't bad, i loved it. let me know if you want to watch it.

anyway, in case of a zombie outbreak i would do these things.

1. gather up a small group of able people (like 4 including me)
2. never, ever, ever, ever use a chainsaw
3. make sure i've got a map of the area im in and rations for an extended period.
4. keep my weapon clean and always remember this: "blades don't need reloading."
5. make sure everyone in my group knows that it is better to kill a human with one shot, rather than a zombie with 5 shots.
6. escape

there is a lot more, but i don't think anyone wants to read it. haha

[Fatal Impurity]

I personally would be a nomad shut-in, travelling town to town staying for about a week then getting supplies and leaving for another town. My weapons of choice would be bladed tonfa's (although I would sometimes use a Katana where more range is required), a sniper rifle at basecamp and a set of akimbo handgun's.

I probably would wear one of those kevlarred urban camo SWAT suit's with the helmet and everything to avoid detection\being bitten from the zombies whilst resource gathering.

My main focus would be survival so I probably would only seek help or partnership with independant suvivors like me who were skilled in fighting and staying undetected.

As for location in order to keep supplies at a decent amount I probably would barricade myself in surburban areas and when leaving drop by cities for the supplies because it would be too dangerous and the zombie population would be too high to set up camp there.

Hopefully after gathering a decent sized team of survivors (probably something like 12 decently skilled survivors) I would make sure to set up a more permanent solution in a city much akin to Will Smith's set up in I am legend, until eventually stuff like power and a perimeter could be established and a sustainable human refuge could be built.

[AmericanPsycho]

If a zombie apocalypse were to happen, the first thing I would do is wait 3 or so days gathering weapons around my neighborhood, while keeping the vehicles in my back yard, when I'm sure that there wouldn't be anyone to mess with me, I'd go raid what's left of the grocery stores and pick up my friend, who'd be doing the same thing. From there, we would go to the nearest town and get more supplies and head for the nearest missionary, and wait out there while keeping any and all survivors who aren't at the least bit infected, while killing any and all at the risk of getting infected on the spot. If the recently deceased's friends/relatives hate us for killing their dearly beloved, and they want some place else to stay, so be it. They can go somewhere else with their un-severed emotional ties.