Surviving zombies is easy enough. Destroy the handful of people originally infected and the disease can't spread. Unless the zombies start out in the hundreds or thousands and widely spread, it would be a cakewalk to eliminate them before you even had to satart worrying about 'survival'.
Just drop bircks on their heads from a 3rd story window.Goodluck as they will never stop coming, and will eventually break in.
Get chainmail, axe and a nice safehouse and you've beaten the zombies. Good luck rebuilding!They'll rip that up. 100+ zombies will grab you, and eventually crush you to death.
Go to a small convience store with a truckMeat ramp. Have fun.
Raid the shit outta it
head back home
Make a wall around your house, about 8 feet high.
make a garden in the back yard
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peofit and survive like a boss
Surviving zombies is easy enough. Destroy the handful of people originally infected and the disease can't spread. Unless the zombies start out in the hundreds or thousands and widely spread, it would be a cakewalk to eliminate them before you even had to satart worrying about 'survival'.If you start killing people before the outbreak is large, you'll be arrested for murder. Dontcha luv it?
I think that the whole point of the zombie genre is that they're easy to survive against (yet somehow they manage to eat everyone else), thus giving you free rein to do whatever you want in a world filled with humanoids who are acceptable targets for shooting (and also move slowly).Oh yeah, the zombie genre is a complete power fantasy. You get to spend your whole life shooting zombies and doing whatever you want, dangerous, but certainly not boring.
For a slightly different take on this kind of thing, you can check out the Monster series (Monster Island (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Island_%28novel%29), Monster Nation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Nation_%28novel%29) and Monster Planet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Planet_%28novel%29)). Where all dead rise, but if you can avoid the brain damage from hypoxia during death you rise as an intelligent undead with all your human memories but an insatiable hunger for the flesh and life force of the living.
Zombies tap into social issues and cultural consciousness that are mostly aimed at the developed world... not hard to understand. It's nothing to do with being so privileged that we have to make up things to be afraid of.
so you're saying zombies are #1stworldproblems?
In a sense... They play on our subconscious feelings that are directly related to first world problems. Things such as the sense of individuality being drowned out in urban settings where there are too many voices and too much information, and where people are trapped into routines where they struggle to retain an identity (hence being trapped in enclosed spaces with small groups of peers surrounded by former human beings whose identities have been erased). I could go on, but that's just a smidgen of what it's really about that naturally appeals to people living in developed countries, or at least countries whose cultures have had plenty of time to deeply absorb the implications of the information age and overly-structured and controlled modern society.
BTW: Salmongod, have you played Cataclysm? (check the other games forum if you havent)
In all honesty, I'd probably drive out into North Carolina's more rural regions for a few months and wait for the initial burst to calm down. After that, my group and I would loop back around to Fort Bragg and salvage as much as possible: guns, ammo, artillery, tanks or aircraft if any are left, and enough cargo trucks to carry all of it and more. Then we'd head back to Raleigh and clear out the city block by block, walling off areas when we stopped until the city belongs to us again. Then we'd establish the Free City of Raleigh and I would try to win the first election. That would eventually be expanded to the Republic of Carolina as our manpower and cleared areas expanded, and eventually we might re-establish the United States with any other states that have sprung up in the time it took for the infection to subside. And then, conquer everything that is still infected by destroying the zombies there and annexing it under the authority of the New Union. Of course, that all assumes that the world manages to fully collapse under the zombie menace, which I doubt.I think that the whole point of the zombie genre is that they're easy to survive against (yet somehow they manage to eat everyone else), thus giving you free rein to do whatever you want in a world filled with humanoids who are acceptable targets for shooting (and also move slowly).Oh yeah, the zombie genre is a complete power fantasy. You get to spend your whole life shooting zombies and doing whatever you want, dangerous, but certainly not boring.
I'd probably find shelter in one of the local nuclear plants. They have well-equipped paramilitary guards and tank trenches surrounding the premises. Not quite a military base, but would still hold off zombies for a while.I hope you know how to turn off a nuclear power plant without having it blow up, meltdown, or both.
...MOAR THERMITE?I'd probably find shelter in one of the local nuclear plants. They have well-equipped paramilitary guards and tank trenches surrounding the premises. Not quite a military base, but would still hold off zombies for a while.I hope you know how to turn off a nuclear power plant without having it blow up, meltdown, or both.
I'd probably find shelter in one of the local nuclear plants. They have well-equipped paramilitary guards and tank trenches surrounding the premises. Not quite a military base, but would still hold off zombies for a while.I hope you know how to turn off a nuclear power plant without having it blow up, meltdown, or both.
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What about the zombies coming up from the bottom of the 2nd building?
Zombies are terrible climbers.Bold assertions. I assume were basing this off the low metabolism, slow moving zombies then? Because the fast ones can climb like a boss!
Zombies are terrible climbers.Bold assertions. I assume were basing this off the low metabolism, slow moving zombies then? Because the fast ones can climb like a boss!
Problem is that the slow moving ones can go longer without food, so you could be stuck on that roof for a long, long time. Hope you bought food for a while.
Friend of mine had a pretty genius idea for dealing with fast zombies. Assuming the zombies will just run towards anything that grabs their attention, survivors in different barricaded shelters could take turns drawing zombie attention so that they keep running back and forth until they collapse.....that's a strategy for later levels of tower defense games.
I'd probably find shelter in one of the local nuclear plants. They have well-equipped paramilitary guards and tank trenches surrounding the premises. Not quite a military base, but would still hold off zombies for a while.I hope you know how to turn off a nuclear power plant without having it blow up, meltdown, or both.
I would expect most modern power plants to do this safely more or less automatically. Of course, I could be horribly wrong. :)
That said, a nuclear power plant is probably one of the better places to defend if you could hold up in one. And you'd have power for extended periods, I'm pretty sure the fuel rods are good for years, maybe decades. They probably keep them in some sort of rotation though, so no idea how long you could go without refueling.
Pikes. Makes a mean zombie kabob that's ready to be cooked.
Fuck yes, fellow Minnesota/Wisconsin person. WE SHALL MAKE A DANGEROUS ZOMBIE FIGHTING TEAM.Friend of mine had a pretty genius idea for dealing with fast zombies. Assuming the zombies will just run towards anything that grabs their attention, survivors in different barricaded shelters could take turns drawing zombie attention so that they keep running back and forth until they collapse.
Pikes. Makes a mean zombie kabob that's ready to be cooked.
Anyways, my plan involves hijacking a boat off Lake Michigan and taking that north into Canada. Fast or slow, I'm pretty sure water's gonna stop zombies in their tracks. Food and drinkable water are likely to be a crapshoot unless I can get a water purifier on board.
And most of them don't account for the inevitability of meat ramps. No, the most sensible plan is to hightail it to somewhere more than a day's walk into permafrost, and try to survive off the scraps of civilization until you can get a sufficiently large greenhouse system set up to sustain you and a small nucleus of fellow survivors who will be the basis for an eventually hopelessly inbred humanity.Pikes. Makes a mean zombie kabob that's ready to be cooked.
Stuff like this assumes sufficient opportunity to prepare, after shit has already hit the fan. Not just directing this at you, either. People tend to offer solutions that involve a lot of set-up.
I can shoot get a headshot with a pistol 3/4 times, and a shot through the eyesocket about 1/4 times. I'm an emaciated weakfuck however, so I'm not going to do so well with the stabbies. Good thing I'm a right-wing crazy with enough gun to take out half the town :PFuck yes, fellow Minnesota/Wisconsin person. WE SHALL MAKE A DANGEROUS ZOMBIE FIGHTING TEAM.Friend of mine had a pretty genius idea for dealing with fast zombies. Assuming the zombies will just run towards anything that grabs their attention, survivors in different barricaded shelters could take turns drawing zombie attention so that they keep running back and forth until they collapse.
Pikes. Makes a mean zombie kabob that's ready to be cooked.
Anyways, my plan involves hijacking a boat off Lake Michigan and taking that north into Canada. Fast or slow, I'm pretty sure water's gonna stop zombies in their tracks. Food and drinkable water are likely to be a crapshoot unless I can get a water purifier on board.
I have no skills involving guns, but I can swing a club pretty good. Oh, and I have three guns in my house so there's another reason to team up with me. I can also provide morale boosts with my amazing stand up comedy routine.
This^And most of them don't account for the inevitability of meat ramps. No, the most sensible plan is to hightail it to somewhere more than a day's walk into permafrost, and try to survive off the scraps of civilization until you can get a sufficiently large greenhouse system set up to sustain you and a small nucleus of fellow survivors who will be the basis for an eventually hopelessly inbred humanity.Pikes. Makes a mean zombie kabob that's ready to be cooked.
Stuff like this assumes sufficient opportunity to prepare, after shit has already hit the fan. Not just directing this at you, either. People tend to offer solutions that involve a lot of set-up.
And most of them don't account for the inevitability of meat ramps. No, the most sensible plan is to hightail it to somewhere more than a day's walk into permafrost, and try to survive off the scraps of civilization until you can get a sufficiently large greenhouse system set up to sustain you and a small nucleus of fellow survivors who will be the basis for an eventually hopelessly inbred humanity.Pikes. Makes a mean zombie kabob that's ready to be cooked.
Stuff like this assumes sufficient opportunity to prepare, after shit has already hit the fan. Not just directing this at you, either. People tend to offer solutions that involve a lot of set-up.
Firing a gun isn't as hard as games with skills make it out to be. Seriously, point and click interface, pretty simple.
.308 with twelve hundred rounds.Except a large group of zombies :P
I'm set. All I need to do is board up the windows and doors, fill the bathtubs and sinks with water, bring in some firewood and nothing can get me.
I don't think I could handle the recoil of most big guns, so i'd just run around with a .22 just to be safe. Its not like im going to be shooting at long ranges anyways.
Stand behind steel fence (Not a flimsy chain link, PROPER FENCE GRRRRR), get something sharp, stab zombies all day long.
Thank god im one lucky bastard then. The good thing about .22LR is that the ammo is supposedly easy to find, so I doubt i'll run out of ammo easily.I don't think I could handle the recoil of most big guns, so i'd just run around with a .22 just to be safe. Its not like im going to be shooting at long ranges anyways.
Actually, .22LR rounds can go up to a mile and a half. They're not going to have much power at that distance, but they can still be a threat, and could probably take out a zombie with a generous dose of luck.
Most diseases that infect humans will infect animals.Well, the zombie virus we're all assuming will happen is one that won't effect animals (The Max Brooks version.).
Good luck in the country side with whatever swarms of zombie animals you'll be having fun with.
Surviving zombies is easy enough. Destroy the handful of people originally infected and the disease can't spread. Unless the zombies start out in the hundreds or thousands and widely spread, it would be a cakewalk to eliminate them before you even had to satart worrying about 'survival'....then I shall be the one who kills the zombie killers, in order to help the disease spread. Zombie survival would be a nice change of pace. Probably exciting enough to make up for the lack of Internet.
I know where my local National Guard depot is, and worst case scenario I hightail it to Fort Bragg or Parris Island. I live near gang territory, so the criminals should keep the area safe until I can get my own armament.
Guys, we should make a map showing all of the states where Bay12ers live. Then the people in those states will make a zombie survival plan, and then we would make a plan to meet up. Planning for apocalypses are fun!
Q: Can zombies swim, or otherwise transverse large bodies of water?Well they don't need air, so eventually they'll wash up somewhere.
Q: Can zombies swim, or otherwise transverse large bodies of water?Well they don't need air, so eventually they'll wash up somewhere.
Don't count on them not being able to. If they're coordinated to do more than just QWOP around, they can probably also swim.
Pikes. Makes a mean zombie kabob that's ready to be cooked.
Stuff like this assumes sufficient opportunity to prepare, after shit has already hit the fan. Not just directing this at you, either. People tend to offer solutions that involve a lot of set-up.
Take and sharpen a long piece of wood. I'd assume this is possible by the time you have barricaded shelters and contact with other survivor groups.
Fucking love that QWOP has become a verb.I do believe something on the actual site said something about "Learn to QWOP" for what you need to do.
Fine, you UK guys can have your own map.
Ugh fine, EVERYONE GETS THEIR OWN MAP.Fine, you UK guys can have your own map.
But what about us guys in Australia? Run off to the bush?
Australian's don't need to worry about a zombie invasion. The wildlife is so deadly that without the higher thought process to avoid it, the zombie invasion would be wiped out very quickly.
Australian's don't need to worry about a zombie invasion. The wildlife is so deadly that without the higher thought process to avoid it, the zombie invasion would be wiped out very quickly.Aussies also have cans.
The zombies would never get TO Madagascar - Madagascar would lock everything down long before that could happen.I probably would end up snapping, going insane, and making cupcakes.
Anyways, my plan in a zombie survival situation has a slim to none chance of survival overall. But I still think its a good plan. I will assume that if an epidemic has gotten this bad, I am already infected and my time is likely limited anyways. Either because everyone is being raised when they die, or its a water-born virus, or something to that effect. And since the roads would all probably be blocked and the trains wouldn't be running, I'm not getting out anyways.
I DO have enough wood on hand to fortify my house - the windows and all the doors, barring one room. This is step one.
Step two is getting my ham radio working in the basement, and moving most of the food and rainwater I keep for the plants down there. The water is the most dangerous, since this is in the room with the large windows. Painful though it may be, I might have to skip that - the rest of the windows are far enough off the ground I should be fine until they can be barricaded.
I have an upstairs, with an overhang over the outside. I have a lot of rope. Step three involves dressing up in my motorcycle gear, catching a zombie and dragging it up onto the roof, then handcuffing it and binding it up. Obviously the most dangerous part so far.
The zombie is chained in the basement, the entrances to the basement are sealed, and the experiments begin. Regular reports are made to anyone who cares to listen about what I discover. If the opportunity presents itself, I may capture an additional zombie. I will test just how much they can survive, what sets them off, how they adapt to different stimuli, whether they starve, whether they retain any sense of humanity. In essence, I will attempt to find out what, exactly, we are dealing with.
The rest of the plan depends on what I learn, assuming I live through this, which is unlikely. The least I can do is hope that my information get out and gets spread and helps others, really.
On that note: I doubt the effectiveness of nuclear weapons against zombies. Almost everyone who died in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki died from burns, debris, and radiation poisoning. Zombies are unaffected by burns that aren't total conflagration, and would be immune to radiation. Debris might do a good deal of harm to them, but short of being totally buried or completely ripped apart it would have limited effect on them.Ah, but the mass murder of survivors leaves nothing for the zombies to infect!
By contrast, the destruction of crucial infrastructure that will be needed after the zombie war and irradiation of whatever survives the blast are a high cost for killing a relatively small number of the zombies, as well as some of the precious few survivors that may be in the area.
TL;DR: Nuclear Club uses Total Launch on Zombie Hordes! It's not very effective...
It seems to me like a tank or bulldozer could just drive in circles downtown and eventually kill every zombie in a given city. The noise would draw them all out and the zombies would have a hard time stopping such a machine from squishing them.Unless you ran out of gas or got swarmed by a horde of zombies, effectively making you have to slowly go over crowds of zombies.
It seems to me like a tank or bulldozer could just drive in circles downtown and eventually kill every zombie in a given city. The noise would draw them all out and the zombies would have a hard time stopping such a machine from squishing them.Unless you ran out of gas or got swarmed by a horde of zombies, effectively making you have to slowly go over crowds of zombies.
It seems to me like a tank or bulldozer could just drive in circles downtown and eventually kill every zombie in a given city. The noise would draw them all out and the zombies would have a hard time stopping such a machine from squishing them.Unless you ran out of gas or got swarmed by a horde of zombies, effectively making you have to slowly go over crowds of zombies.
I suppose once the zombie hoards were thinned out a bit you could drive off to get more gas. Zombies would get squished faster then new zombies could shamble in to replace them, so it'd be less efficient to just drive around until you ran out of fuel. Although its not perfect, eventually, I think attrition would favor the survivors driving heavy vehicles around in circles downtown.
Q: Can zombies swim, or otherwise transverse large bodies of water?Well they don't need air, so eventually they'll wash up somewhere.
Fucking love that QWOP has become a verb.
Zombies are unaffected by burns that aren't total conflagration
Uh... Why would a zombie sink like a stone? The human body without air in the lungs very nearly floats as it is.
And if you have not tried QWOP, you are missing out. Google it.
Decided to make this, since the discussion was taking over the rage thread.Not read the Rage thread at all, but I'll say the same as I have in past discussions of this type. I have some plans of what I'm going to do in case of zombie attack (or of aliens, Russians, Americans, southerners, strangely similar kids with strange eyes, creeping death, flying death, burrowing death, supernovae, supervillains, soup of the day shortages, other shortages, dwarfs, elves, kobolds, goblins, hiccups, adult acne and male patterned baldness), but if I tell anyone what they are and they end up being zombies (or aliens, Russians, Americans, etc...) then I've lost my advantage.
Discuss
Besides people, zombies wouldn't need to bite you, just get some blood on your body [hands, face, open wounds] and you'd be insta screwed.
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*I also remembered something, the SAS is one of the, if not the best elite army force currently existing today, and they're trained to fight in close quarter environments, and are trained to kill with headshots. How are these guys not the perfect zombie kill squad?!!!
Guys, we should make a map showing all of the states where Bay12ers live. Then the people in those states will make a zombie survival plan, and then we would make a plan to meet up. Planning for apocalypses are fun!I don't like in a state. (Well, my Mum would disagree, but it's my house, and I know where most things are (until she pops by and decides to tidy up, or until I know she's popping by and tidy up myself to unsuccessfully avoid the former.)
Easiest way to make progress is get on your knees and sort of scoot along, but it gets the hypothetical guy some pretty bad hypothetical scrapes.
Also, next version of QWOP needs to involve hurdles. Also also, there's a reason babies have such trouble walking.
Germane to the topic, basically, if a zombie is coordinated enough to actually walk and not walk around like the QWOP guy, water may not be enough.
If the zombies sink, then they can just walk around on the bottom.
Perhaps the virus makes the brain run without oxygen? It's not nearly as efficient, but it might still work. Cells can operate without oxygen, but they won't be able to use 100% of the sugar they get.Easiest way to make progress is get on your knees and sort of scoot along, but it gets the hypothetical guy some pretty bad hypothetical scrapes.
Also, next version of QWOP needs to involve hurdles. Also also, there's a reason babies have such trouble walking.
Germane to the topic, basically, if a zombie is coordinated enough to actually walk and not walk around like the QWOP guy, water may not be enough.
If the zombies sink, then they can just walk around on the bottom.
Guys, a zombie needs it's brain to survive? No?
Then that means they also need a way to keep their energy levels up, which also means they need to breathe, so SULLY BOUSE but zombies would drown... In the sense that their brain would shut down from oxygen deprivation.
Guys, a zombie needs it's brain to survive? No?
Then that means they also need a way to keep their energy levels up, which also means they need to breathe, so SULLY BOUSE but zombies would drown... In the sense that their brain would shut down from oxygen deprivation.
Perhaps the virus makes the brain run without oxygen? It's not nearly as efficient, but it might still work. Cells can operate without oxygen, but they won't be able to use 100% of the sugar they get.
Perhaps the virus makes the brain run without oxygen? It's not nearly as efficient, but it might still work. Cells can operate without oxygen, but they won't be able to use 100% of the sugar they get.Easiest way to make progress is get on your knees and sort of scoot along, but it gets the hypothetical guy some pretty bad hypothetical scrapes.
Also, next version of QWOP needs to involve hurdles. Also also, there's a reason babies have such trouble walking.
Germane to the topic, basically, if a zombie is coordinated enough to actually walk and not walk around like the QWOP guy, water may not be enough.
If the zombies sink, then they can just walk around on the bottom.
Guys, a zombie needs it's brain to survive? No?
Then that means they also need a way to keep their energy levels up, which also means they need to breathe, so SULLY BOUSE but zombies would drown... In the sense that their brain would shut down from oxygen deprivation.
No, turning into a zombie will not turn you into a hulking mass of muscle the size of a car. However, you could produce lots of acid that forms into cysts. BOOMER!Perhaps the virus makes the brain run without oxygen? It's not nearly as efficient, but it might still work. Cells can operate without oxygen, but they won't be able to use 100% of the sugar they get.Easiest way to make progress is get on your knees and sort of scoot along, but it gets the hypothetical guy some pretty bad hypothetical scrapes.
Also, next version of QWOP needs to involve hurdles. Also also, there's a reason babies have such trouble walking.
Germane to the topic, basically, if a zombie is coordinated enough to actually walk and not walk around like the QWOP guy, water may not be enough.
If the zombies sink, then they can just walk around on the bottom.
Guys, a zombie needs it's brain to survive? No?
Then that means they also need a way to keep their energy levels up, which also means they need to breathe, so SULLY BOUSE but zombies would drown... In the sense that their brain would shut down from oxygen deprivation.
The Zombie cells could respirate anaerobically, producing large amounts of Lactic Acid....
Zombie spitter anyone?
Well anyhow, I guess we can assume the zombie apocalypse everyone is preparing for does not obey the current limitations of biology, so why can't we have zombies jumping 60 feet in the air whilst throwing concrete slabs at you?
Ladies and Gentlemen..... HUNTER TANKS!!!
Necro, making cysts of anything bar bodily fluids [which would probably kill you with haemorrhages], turning you into a zombie with the desire to eat brains and explode shit defies any logical and biological sense.You're arguing if exploding zombies that shoot acid make any sense at all.
So if we're preparing for the ultimate OH MY GOD WTFZOMBIES!!!!111!!one!!! situation, we might as well Prepare for the worse OH MY GOD WTFZOMBIES!!!!111!!one!!! situation.
Easiest way to make progress is get on your knees and sort of scoot along, but it gets the hypothetical guy some pretty bad hypothetical scrapes.
Necro, making cysts of anything bar bodily fluids [which would probably kill you with haemorrhages], turning you into a zombie with the desire to eat brains and explode shit defies any logical and biological sense.You're arguing if exploding zombies that shoot acid make any sense at all.
So if we're preparing for the ultimate OH MY GOD WTFZOMBIES!!!!111!!one!!! situation, we might as well Prepare for the worse OH MY GOD WTFZOMBIES!!!!111!!one!!! situation.
On Bay12.
With Necro910.
LET THERE BE LAWLZ
Easiest way to make progress is get on your knees and sort of scoot along, but it gets the hypothetical guy some pretty bad hypothetical scrapes.
I've actually figured out how to make an actual upright run work... it's difficult, but I've managed to keep it up for a full 20 meters.
Easiest way to make progress is get on your knees and sort of scoot along, but it gets the hypothetical guy some pretty bad hypothetical scrapes.
I've actually figured out how to make an actual upright run work... it's difficult, but I've managed to keep it up for a full 20 meters.
Make that 32!! I'll master this today.
Witchcraft!
What if Greenland is shelled by head crab artillery?
Step one: Get a firearm with ammo.Fuck that, if I went depressed in the post-apoc world, I'd at least die in a blaze of glory. See: Blow up city block with explosives and incendiaries.
Step two: Climb a large building.
Step three: Put the handgun to my head
Step four: Shoot self in head and land off of building.
What? It's better than beaing evicerated and eaten.
Step one: Get a firearm with ammo.This is pretty much my plan, except with less building involved. Survival is too much trouble and it's not guaranteed the enemies will ever be defeated.
Step two: Climb a large building.
Step three: Put the handgun to my head
Step four: Shoot self in head and land off of building.
What? It's better than beaing evicerated and eaten.
I think the best zombie survival strategy is to wear a full helmet (think: one of those things that the guys standing behind the man with the bat in baseball wear), and keep a cleaver on each hand at all times (consider strapping them with leather to ensure you don't lose them)
I think the best zombie survival strategy is to wear a full helmet (think: one of those things that the guys standing behind the man with the bat in baseball wear), and keep a cleaver on each hand at all times (consider strapping them with leather to ensure you don't lose them)
and keep a cleaver on each hand at all times (consider strapping them with leather to ensure you don't lose them)
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Step four: Shoot self in head and land off of building.
'Sides that, a zombie apocalypse is very unlikely to be a global apocalypse. We can't even get information to everyone on the planet, how is a virus supposed to do better?Not knowing what the carrier mechanism is, if you start off in an 'unsafe' area and manage to get to a 'safe' one, then you might be the one to transmit the unsafeness to that area. I'm pretty sure that while there'll be safe areas, you'd have a hard time outrunning the spread if the spread is capable of using you (or the same method of migration through other individuals, well-meaning or otherwise) as the stepping-stone.
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Step four: Shoot self in head and land off of building.
What's that tale (possibly apocryphal, not going to Google for it, as I'd get loads of depressing stuff and might trigger some secret Samaritan-esque monitoring software) about the guy who, determined to die, tied a noose around his neck and to his car bumper on the edge of a cliff, doused himself in petrol and wielded a hand-gun, took some poison, set himself on light, jumped and tried to shoot himself in the head, just to make sure...
The shot went wide, severed the rope, so he just fell into the water below, putting out the fire and in panic he swallowed some seawater which made him vomit out the poison. He then swam to shore, deciding maybe it wasn't his time[1].
Or something like that.
[1] I suppose an alternate an ironic ending might be that he decided it wasn't his time, but drowned while trying to get back onto dry land, but there'd be forensic difficulty in working this final state-of-mind, 3rd-hand, unless there were witnesses.
Power armor beats everything short of vehicles. Getting power armor would be a feat unto itself, unfortunately.
Why do you need kevlar? They're not using guns. A pair of reasonably thick jeans should be enough to fend off most damage
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Kevlar is easy to find?!
High quality motorcycle gear usually has kevlar in it. Mine is ballistic nylon, which has still proven tough enough that I was able to walk away from an accident at 40 mph without any damage to myself or the gear.
Jeans, on the other hand... I pissed my brother off enough once when we were little that he bit right through them. Definitely not sufficient protection against zombies.
OH GOD WHERE IS THE BRAIN BLEACHNo prob, put it in here with the rest
Fortunately, I have MaximumZero in my state somewhere, so that should give us enough time to fortify and arm.
Your using junk mail to kill zombies? YOU WILL SEVERE THEIR HEADS WITH A BARRAGE OF PAPERCUTS.Fortunately, I have MaximumZero in my state somewhere, so that should give us enough time to fortify and arm.
Or, I can follow Red's plan, and let him fortify while I suit up in junk-mail and wade through zombie hordes with my junk plated fists.
Nah, I live less than a half mile from a humongous scrapyard. It would be easy enough to make a suit of pseudo plate mail from car bodies and random sheet metal.
Nah, I live less than a half mile from a humongous scrapyard. It would be easy enough to make a suit of pseudo plate mail from car bodies and random sheet metal.Yes, because digging through a scrapyard is exactly the sort of thing I'd want to be doing when the living dead could jump out at me at any moment.
Or you could just be paranoid and start directing every bit of money you can to funding the construction of a bunker somewhere in West Virginia, and then towards stocking it with decades worth of preserved food and equipment. Though after a few years living off of MREs, I'd be tempted to open those massive steel vault doors and let the damn things eat me.
YOU GOT MAIL, MOTHERFUCKERSYour using junk mail to kill zombies? YOU WILL SEVERE THEIR HEADS WITH A BARRAGE OF PAPERCUTS.Fortunately, I have MaximumZero in my state somewhere, so that should give us enough time to fortify and arm.
Or, I can follow Red's plan, and let him fortify while I suit up in junk-mail and wade through zombie hordes with my junk plated fists.
YOU GOT MAIL, MOTHERFUCKERSYour using junk mail to kill zombies? YOU WILL SEVERE THEIR HEADS WITH A BARRAGE OF PAPERCUTS.Fortunately, I have MaximumZero in my state somewhere, so that should give us enough time to fortify and arm.
Or, I can follow Red's plan, and let him fortify while I suit up in junk-mail and wade through zombie hordes with my junk plated fists.
TAKE A NIGERIAN PRINCE TO THE FACE ZEDS!YOU GOT MAIL, MOTHERFUCKERSYour using junk mail to kill zombies? YOU WILL SEVERE THEIR HEADS WITH A BARRAGE OF PAPERCUTS.Fortunately, I have MaximumZero in my state somewhere, so that should give us enough time to fortify and arm.
Or, I can follow Red's plan, and let him fortify while I suit up in junk-mail and wade through zombie hordes with my junk plated fists.
WASTE AWAY IN HELL, SPAMMERS!
PITCH PLEASE, LET'S SPICE IT UPYOU GOT MAIL, MOTHERFUCKERSYour using junk mail to kill zombies? YOU WILL SEVERE THEIR HEADS WITH A BARRAGE OF PAPERCUTS.Fortunately, I have MaximumZero in my state somewhere, so that should give us enough time to fortify and arm.
Or, I can follow Red's plan, and let him fortify while I suit up in junk-mail and wade through zombie hordes with my junk plated fists.
WASTE AWAY IN HELL, SPAMMERS!
Pitch, the modern day MAGMA!!!PITCH PLEASE, LET'S SPICE IT UPYOU GOT MAIL, MOTHERFUCKERSYour using junk mail to kill zombies? YOU WILL SEVERE THEIR HEADS WITH A BARRAGE OF PAPERCUTS.Fortunately, I have MaximumZero in my state somewhere, so that should give us enough time to fortify and arm.
Or, I can follow Red's plan, and let him fortify while I suit up in junk-mail and wade through zombie hordes with my junk plated fists.
WASTE AWAY IN HELL, SPAMMERS!
NAPALMPitch, the modern day MAGMA!!!PITCH PLEASE, LET'S SPICE IT UPYOU GOT MAIL, MOTHERFUCKERSYour using junk mail to kill zombies? YOU WILL SEVERE THEIR HEADS WITH A BARRAGE OF PAPERCUTS.Fortunately, I have MaximumZero in my state somewhere, so that should give us enough time to fortify and arm.
Or, I can follow Red's plan, and let him fortify while I suit up in junk-mail and wade through zombie hordes with my junk plated fists.
WASTE AWAY IN HELL, SPAMMERS!
C) Raid the local military base/air force armory. Attempt to get father to attach vulcan cannon from an A10 to my car. Get smacked upside head.
C) Raid the local military base/air force armory. Attempt to get father to attach vulcan cannon from an A10 to my car. Get smacked upside head.
Yeah... You know the old urban legend about the barely recognisable remains of car that had had JATOL rockets attached to it, ending up half way up a cliff, or something... Are you planning on doing the same thing, but backwards? The gun gives more recoil than both the Warthog engines provide forward thrust, albeit for only brief moments of time. Without the ammo-bin limits imposed by needing to intentionally take off, I suspect you could probably get overenthusiastic about the firing times you employ, and all the time the bins are getting emptier and emptier. :)
(Actually, isn't the A10 weapon called the Avenger, or something? And what kind of zombies are you expecting, needing uranium-cored armour-piercing rounds to be fired at them at a rate of 50-70 rounds every second? I think you've got other problems if you're needing one of them!)
C) Raid the local military base/air force armory. Attempt to get father to attach vulcan cannon from an A10 to my car. Get smacked upside head.
Yeah... You know the old urban legend about the barely recognisable remains of car that had had JATOL rockets attached to it, ending up half way up a cliff, or something... Are you planning on doing the same thing, but backwards? The gun gives more recoil than both the Warthog engines provide forward thrust, albeit for only brief moments of time. Without the ammo-bin limits imposed by needing to intentionally take off, I suspect you could probably get overenthusiastic about the firing times you employ, and all the time the bins are getting emptier and emptier. :)
(Actually, isn't the A10 weapon called the Avenger, or something? And what kind of zombies are you expecting, needing uranium-cored armour-piercing rounds to be fired at them at a rate of 50-70 rounds every second? I think you've got other problems if you're needing one of them!)
((edit: Just decided to look it up on Wiki. And on the article for the GAU-8/A Avenger, there's a picture of the gun next to an old-style VW Beetle. Yeah. That makes me want to get back to my old model-making practice where I'd Scratch-Build-A-Mad-Max-Vehicle... :) ))
C) Raid the local military base/air force armory. Attempt to get father to attach vulcan cannon from an A10 to my car. Get smacked upside head.
Yeah... You know the old urban legend about the barely recognisable remains of car that had had JATOL rockets attached to it, ending up half way up a cliff, or something... Are you planning on doing the same thing, but backwards? The gun gives more recoil than both the Warthog engines provide forward thrust, albeit for only brief moments of time. Without the ammo-bin limits imposed by needing to intentionally take off, I suspect you could probably get overenthusiastic about the firing times you employ, and all the time the bins are getting emptier and emptier. :)
(Actually, isn't the A10 weapon called the Avenger, or something? And what kind of zombies are you expecting, needing uranium-cored armour-piercing rounds to be fired at them at a rate of 50-70 rounds every second? I think you've got other problems if you're needing one of them!)
((edit: Just decided to look it up on Wiki. And on the article for the GAU-8/A Avenger, there's a picture of the gun next to an old-style VW Beetle. Yeah. That makes me want to get back to my old model-making practice where I'd Scratch-Build-A-Mad-Max-Vehicle... :) ))
It would be glorious. Remember that I drive a car that weighs less than 2500 lbs.
What kind of currency would be best for the post-apocalypse? I would imagine trade credit would still be used, based on either necessity or usefulness (food being the highest value).
Sorry, this was from an earlier part of the conversation but, I just QWOPed my way to the end! It took me 20 minutes.
As for my zombie plan, gather family, board up windows, survive off of food (Under no circumstances will we eat the cats, they're family and skilled hunters, and will probably hiss at zombies.), forage surrounding neighborhood, with dad, grandpa, and two guns (grandpa because he went through bootcamp, and knows how to use guns. Plus they're his guns.), when food runs out in surrounding area, we must venture further out but keep our shelter. We will leave a gun at home with the others at all times, and we could hunt coyote, deer, and rabbits, however sad that will make me.
What kind of currency would be best for the post-apocalypse? I would imagine trade credit would still be used, based on either necessity or usefulness (food being the highest value).Bottlecaps, duh.
I could trade "Not punching your face" for goods, but I have a feeling that this would make me a bad person.Grab an airhorn! HONK! Give me all your cheese! HONK!
Honk? O_o???I could trade "Not punching your face" for goods, but I have a feeling that this would make me a bad person.Grab an airhorn! HONK! Give me all your cheese! HONK!
How am I not suprised that Imiknorris threw in a Homestuck reference.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Barbarossa: How do you do this running shit without launching yourself backwards into a concussion?Just caught this in the OOC quotes thread. Here's my advice: Whenever I go running, I just keep repeating this litany out loud.
Barbarossa: How do you do this running shit without launching yourself backwards into a concussion?Just caught this in the OOC quotes thread. Here's my advice: Whenever I go running, I just keep repeating this litany out loud.
"LEFT THIGH! RIGHT CALF! RIGHT THIGH! LEFT CALF! REPEAT! MAINTAIN MOMENTUM!"
It usually scares my legs so badly that I just zoom right along. You should try it sometime in a public place where people can offer you tips on correcting your technique.
Zombies will investigate noises. SO CLOWNS SHALL BE THE NEW WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTIONHonk? O_o???I could trade "Not punching your face" for goods, but I have a feeling that this would make me a bad person.Grab an airhorn! HONK! Give me all your cheese! HONK!
I'll need to look at Homestuck sometime.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I'll need to look at Homestuck sometime.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
For the sole purpose of "WHAT IS THIS NONSENSE"
That is a brilliant piece of fridge logic. I will not be fulfilled until I see a setting where the heroes use squeaky toys and whoopee cushions to confuse and distract zombies.Zombies will investigate noises. SO CLOWNS SHALL BE THE NEW WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTIONHonk? O_o???I could trade "Not punching your face" for goods, but I have a feeling that this would make me a bad person.Grab an airhorn! HONK! Give me all your cheese! HONK!
I think it would confuse and distract the humans as well :PThat is a brilliant piece of fridge logic. I will not be fulfilled until I see a setting where the heroes use squeaky toys and whoopee cushions to confuse and distract zombies.Zombies will investigate noises. SO CLOWNS SHALL BE THE NEW WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTIONHonk? O_o???I could trade "Not punching your face" for goods, but I have a feeling that this would make me a bad person.Grab an airhorn! HONK! Give me all your cheese! HONK!
Maybe we should contact Sarah Northway with that little tidbit of information...Who?
The maker of Rebuild and Rebuild 2.Ah, yes. We definitely should :P
The maker of Rebuild and Rebuild 2.Ah, yes. We definitely should :P
"You know how zombies go towards sounds? Well we just killed a bunch of them today using whoopy cushions and spikes. It was hilarious!"
+5 morale
My wife, and an elven longsword.
Yeah, we're in trouble. Remind me to try this again after playing as the Pyro in TF2. Infinite flamethrower FTW.
...I'm really hoping Yu-Gi-Oh cards don't count as weapons in the video games. If they don't, I get to use that mine launcher thing from Ratchet & Clank: Gladiator. At the highest level. If they do I'm forced to hope they're zombies who can play card games.
ZOMBIES ON MOTORCYCAAAAALS...I'm really hoping Yu-Gi-Oh cards don't count as weapons in the video games. If they don't, I get to use that mine launcher thing from Ratchet & Clank: Gladiator. At the highest level. If they do I'm forced to hope they're zombies who can play card games.
Zombies on motorcycles.
ZOMBIES ON MOTORCYCAAAAALS...I'm really hoping Yu-Gi-Oh cards don't count as weapons in the video games. If they don't, I get to use that mine launcher thing from Ratchet & Clank: Gladiator. At the highest level. If they do I'm forced to hope they're zombies who can play card games.
Zombies on motorcycles.
Let's see... A friend of mine who's also 17 and also probably not in that good shape, or my girlfriend. Don't know which.So long as they're D&D zombies, you should be good. Otherwise, you might just end up making them stronger.
An M1 Garand (Caravaneer). Or, if D&D on the Internet counts, either Cure Light Wounds if it counts as a weapon, or a quarterstaff. Although I never actually used the quarterstaff.
Lightning magic, or a steel mace, and my brother.
...I guess he can play guitar, at least.
My wife, and an elven longsword.
Yeah, we're in trouble. Remind me to try this again after playing as the Pyro in TF2. Infinite flamethrower FTW.
We aren't choosing anything. It's the last weapon we used in a video game and the last person we texted.Lightning magic, or a steel mace, and my brother.
...I guess he can play guitar, at least.My wife, and an elven longsword.
Yeah, we're in trouble. Remind me to try this again after playing as the Pyro in TF2. Infinite flamethrower FTW.
I didn't know we could choose those kind of things!
In this case, I'll take Pope Ratzinger and a few dozens of turn undead scrolls.
Why do you all want to wear shark suits, I mean its just so out of place and impractical.
That explains what pubs are... Suicide Rooms for the Unsure Zombie...Why do you all want to wear shark suits, I mean its just so out of place and impractical.
They all read the Zombie Survival Guide and believed it. What they don't know is that the author is in fact a zombie spreading counterintelligence. As it turns out, you actually kill zombies by destroying the liver.
We aren't choosing anything. It's the last weapon we used in a video game and the last person we texted.Lightning magic, or a steel mace, and my brother.
...I guess he can play guitar, at least.My wife, and an elven longsword.
Yeah, we're in trouble. Remind me to try this again after playing as the Pyro in TF2. Infinite flamethrower FTW.
I didn't know we could choose those kind of things!
In this case, I'll take Pope Ratzinger and a few dozens of turn undead scrolls.
Aaaaaaaand I just realized the last weapon I used in a game was a man-sized sword forged for the superhuman general of the army of a god of holiness and light. It'd probably be pretty useful if I could lift the dame thing.