This is a completely serious club, people who make a decent enough plan will be able to comment and review other plans. Here is some zombie info.
run/walk: they walk
scream/groan: they groan
day/night: All da time babey!
what they attack: EVERYTHING THEY HEAR, OR THAT MOVES!
survivors: very very little, like near 100-1000 people on EARTH
guns: This is real time, being your neighboorhood and everything, you have all the resources you have in your house.
cure: there is none.
where to go: so long as you have a plan to get their, go for it.
how much you can carry: AGAIN, THIS IS REAL TIME
family members: theres a high chance they are zombehs too. able to join: if you didn't read, just make a good plan.
durability: they can take ALOT of damage, worse than playing last stand 2 with just a pistol for the entire game when the zombies have twice as much life.
doors: they can't work a doorhandle for the mostpart of their brain is already rotted I am still making my plan right now, but I think some of you can do it. Let the zombie surviving begin!
But is it not only -professional- who are able to use lock picks? You need some kind of training before you are able to use the tools. Would you not? *wonders*
than knives and the shaft of my broom, so if a group of zombies catch me in a corner, I would be - dead meat.
Kitchen knife + Duct tape + Broom = Makeshift spear. Also, if you live inside an apartment complex, I recommend using a fire axe if there's one there. A fire extinguisher can take off any mugger or rioter out to get you, and propane/cars are easily set on fire to take care of any zombies in the area...just a weapon tipe for ya ;P
@ skater: Decent call, because even if you have a lockpick set, you need to know how the insides of the lock works, and each brand of lock is a different difficulty to pick, plus, you can pick a lock with nothing but a thin wire coathanger and a knife.
Yes, I will addmit that they are al ldiffrent, alot of locks are similar. I mean if you get a certain brand of lock, minus the key hole shape, thae yare all the same inside.
Yeah, You'd need a cop, or a member of the army or a thief to teach you. Just as good as breaking a door down and nailing it shut, or barricading it would do better. Lock picking would be pretty awesome to know though.
i actually just googled it, and i found a prety indepth guide to how to do it. Nailing up a door would take much longer though. I will try it on my front door once it gets warm, cause it's winter right now, and idont want to try and open it right now. lol
i actually just googled it, and i found a prety indepth guide to how to do it. Nailing up a door would take much longer though. I will try it on my front door once it gets warm, cause it's winter right now, and idont want to try and open it right now. lol
Dude, I was a really good lockpicker when I was little and I could pick a lock in like, 20 minutes. long tiem, IN THE OPEN.
awww.... no one told me how bad I failed at surviving... :'(
I guess that means that I was too terrible at using my brain at the moment. I know you people saw it! I saw you quote me! @ that quote: the outbreak being in multiple areas doesn't make sense really. If it were just a virus spread by contact with immediate infection, it couldn't have little outbreaks everywhere, it would all be in on mass, just with little arms reaching out. now, if it were to take a few days/weeks for the infection to manifest itself, I'd buy that... is that what we're looking at here? Someone please tell me how badly I did at the scenario.
those little between building bridges I was talking about? I think they link carparks to buildings or are between hospitals... I dunno.
To Mudpuddles scenario I'd grab the cricket bat, the chicken and the Guinness(I think this is the first scenario to include beer) and try to find the keys. If I couldn't, try to let the zombies chase my friends or get them to come with me. Then do my best to get home on foot, and take stock of what supplies I have, and see if the neighborhoods gone to hell. Since it's early, and no panic, I'd get my life savings and get supplies before the rush. The regular long term stuff, canned goods, farming implements, stuff to barricade the doors and windows. A gun can wait, so I'd get a crowbar and try to pick up a gun once its gone full scale. then head for the hills if necessary
Pretty good answer. I like that you realized there was no panic, and tried to get implements the normal way. Also glad you grabbed the Guinness. A little light in the details, but a solid B I think.
Skater_Kid - Good idea on the lock pick. With a basic manual you should do okay on simple doors. You promoted an additional thought in my mind however, the same thing for cars, aka, the Slim Jim. You can get them out of any cop car, and they pretty easy to use. Slide them down between the window and the door, and pop them down. Granted, your not looking to keep the window secure from zombies, most of the time but a quieter entry is useful, and lots of people put useful stuff in their cars, or in the trucks.
Curious, would there by any value in collecting car batteries? Could you use the energy off of them, maybe with jumper cables, or some such?
Would electrified wire have any effect on a zombies nervous system, come to think of it? Worked on Godzilla, sort of.
===plan=== If the lady is a team player, we could send her off in a different direction to attract the horde, then make our sneaky escape. if not, run away from the fire. now, I'm going to assume that the building we're in is abandoned (no police officer to help/steal a gun from) so see if we can get knives from the cafeteria. by then I'm assuming that the zombies were RIGHT behind her, so we would have no way to make it out of the building. On the ground that is. I seem to see that a lot of skyscrapers/tall buildings have those little bridge things between them, so if it has one we will use that to escape the horde to the next building, hopefully drawing the main portion off our tails. if not we just run.
branch 1: bridge thing available: we covertly make our escape (the only zombies are the ones that are now searching for us in the office building, right?) from the city and have saved the entire world by letting the zombies get burned... and letting the military bomb the area out of existence.
branch 2: no bridge available: we have a rather large group on our tails and they are all after us. we just find a building with on of those bridges and lead them into it and repeat plan branch 1. (they never see us go into the bridge and we close the door)
so, there is my plan. I am making some assumptions, like that the zombies will follow us into the building (they are very single-minded, right?) I hope that falls into the category of acceptable plans.
Not so much of a plan. As mentioned in a previous post, you missed a lot of opportunities to find useful items in the building. Also I generally frown on wasting a resource like the fat lady, not everyone agrees on that. Not that you should risk yourself if she can't keep up, but unless you simply enjoy watching people being eaten, like some people (hehehe) it seems wasteful. As to the links between buildings, I've seen them in cold areas, for example most of downtown St. Paul is that way. Places like L.A., very rare. Assuming you are in such a place, getting from one building to another is really only useful if it gets you further away from the fire, as the zombies are everywhere. (Note, none are 'looking for you', as in searching, they aren't that cognitive, but hey will follow in your direction, and any who see you will move in your direction. The real problem is that there are zombies AND a fire. Any real survival plan has to include this mix. The I am curious about your option number 2, which says if you enter a building without a bridge, you will use the bridge. I think you might have gotten confused. In my experience, these bridges don't have doors though, so crossing them isn't the bonus you might think it is.
Curious though, what if zombies saw you running across the bridge, they are usually glass. I don't think they are bright enough to make the connection that they can enter the building to get to you, but you could confuse the heck out of them, much like a cat staring at a Habitrail.
All in all, yeah, it's a failure I think, but it's exactly these exercises that will help you think more clearly should a real zombie attack occur. (Or maybe something less interesting, like an earthquake.)
Oh, and thanks for the *canteen. I rarely fail spelling a word, but when I fail it, I fail it badly...
... I hate big buildings...
Just so you know Z, it wasn't a nitpick, you put the question sp? after it, so I answered.
As to 'will to live', I suspect such a situation would inspire such on instinct in you. I've had several friends who felt similarly, until they were robbed at gun point (different friends, and different occurrences) and in both cases it prompted them to change their lives and attitudes.
With designs of most super tall buildings, there is a roof, and tends to connect with the other building to where you might just need to jump to get to it. So I recommend that.
I don't know enough about tall buildings. TT TT THe highest I've been in had like ten storeys or so, and I have never thought of higher buildings being connected to other tall buildings. Had I, there would have been even more fleeing/blocking the way... Probably hurrying into an elevator if the power is still on and hope they don't manage to do something about the wiring...
Aww, zoph, you don't epically fail at the survival thing, but MudPuddle makes the point that you'll basically be in a baking oven should the fire get to your position in time.
No, he made the point that I'd basically be in a baking oven no matter what. Not considering the time. I knew it would be a risky and potentially dumb choice, but it should not be impossible to get out before the fire gets there.
*chibibashes that zombie and throws brain back into your noggin* :U lol, you may no have much will to live but....meh nvm. IF you wanna die THAT BADLY then do w/e <_<U
It's not that I want to die, it is that I am terrible at fighting for my own survival. Especially as me. If I had a roleplay character (just a normal human being with a f´different experience and attitude than me) I could probably do better with these darn scenarios.
Blah. Fail.
Compare it to mine, Cen... Yours is not fail...
is really only useful if it gets you further away from the fire, as the zombies are everywhere. (Note, none are 'looking for you', as in searching, they aren't that cognitive, but hey will follow in your direction, and any who see you will move in your direction.
My big fail with that scenario was probably that I saw it as a one-shot task rather than a full storyline set-off. Like, okay there's this little herd of zombies coming your way up an office building that will catch fire in half an hour... ... Get out. I never even considered writing it as a full plan, but I guess that's just my bad for not fully understanding the concept.
Curious though, what if zombies saw you running across the bridge, they are usually glass. I don't think they are bright enough to make the connection that they can enter the building to get to you, but you could confuse the heck out of them, much like a cat staring at a Habitrail.
That would be hilarious. Until you had to leave, of course...
Just so you know Z, it wasn't a nitpick, you put the question sp? after it, so I answered.
Yes, but you were the only one who bothered, so still thank you.
As to 'will to live', I suspect such a situation would inspire such on instinct in you. I've had several friends who felt similarly, until they were robbed at gun point (different friends, and different occurrences) and in both cases it prompted them to change their lives and attitudes.
I'm not sure... Possibly, it's really hard to guess how one would react in a real life threatening situation. *looks @ ******'* ***** * Yeah, it would still very much be fail for me...
Oh well. I guess I'll just quietly leave this thread, unless someone feels like tutoring me on how to survive the zombies...
I'll help you Z, if you really want. We love having your input, and we are, if nothing else, an educational establishment.
Consider us the Survivor-Man of the Zombie age.
Just tell me what kinds of things you think I could help you with?
Personally, I think the best place for you to start is with the initial scenario, taking into account your own environment, and the resources available to you personally, how would you try to survive.
Break it down into several parts, I would suggest something like this...
(1) Surviving the initial onslaught. Resources are available, but everyone would be fighting for them. Confusion is your foe, and your ally. (2) Short term; surviving the first few weeks. Resources become scarcer, how do you deal with basic human needs, what (local to you) kind of place would you try to hole up in, and why? What friends do you have with useful skills? What local resources are you aware of. (3) Medium range planning: The first year. What would your attitude towards survivors be, how would you flesh out your home base. Would you stay, or move? Would you hide, or be visible, hoping for humans that might not be a bigger threat then the zombies, these sorts of things. 94) Long term: If the zombies win out, and you need to find a way to survive for years, how would you do this. What skills do you have to help you? What resources would you seek out, what knowledge would you try to acquire. Would you remain independent, or would you find a larger group within which you might be a slave, but protected? How would you deal with the post-apocalyptic world?
Yeah, I think that helps a bit, at least when trying to figure out how to see the whole thing. I've only very recently taken an interest in zombies, so I'm not quite up to par with knowledge about them. I'll try working out a - better plan than my first feeble attempt.
Oh, btw. The **** in my previous post aren't swear words, I just censored it for some reason.
