The Zombie Survival thread.

[The Fair Lady]

Hate to break it to you, but if a zombie apocalypse ever happened, the military would stop it right quick.

If these were the slow shuffling kind of zombies, and the army knew all it took was a bullet to the head, they would be quarantied shot and eliminated pretty quickly. Also, corpses are not the most durable material, so if a bullet did not do the job, the elements would

Thanks, killjoy.

 

[cypocryphy]

Well they can't be quarantined because how can you do that to the people who die every single second all over the world? Dying makes you a zombie, not just being bit.

 

[A-Stump]

My primary weapon would be a Chinese variant SKS with an after-market reinforced bayonet.

Primary melee weapon, an iron banded sap

Clothing; Carpenter pants
Flak jacket
Longjohns
Toolbelt

Optional stuff; Multipurpose hatchet
Tenpenny nails
Binoculars

 

[Carlson]

Hate to break it to you, but if a zombie apocalypse ever happened, the military would stop it right quick.

If these were the slow shuffling kind of zombies, and the army knew all it took was a bullet to the head, they would be quarantied shot and eliminated pretty quickly. Also, corpses are not the most durable material, so if a bullet did not do the job, the elements would

fuck that. the sheer amount of people who have planned this shit out and already know the zombie weakspots means the zombie apocalypse will last about a week before the last zombie is hunted down and killed by an army of spergs. and im talkin both walkers AND runners.

This is why when I think about making any kind of game or story or whatnot in the zombie apocalypse, the first thing I need to do is figure out just WHY it became an apocalypse.

If you're going for realism, the best way would be an infection of massive amounts of water supplies and blood banks, with a disease that has an incubation period of at least a week and can be spread through bodily fluids (including mucus). This allows for large amounts of people to be infected simultaneously and continue infecting through things like sex, careless sneezes, sharing food and beverages, etc. Then after about a week, a huge amount of the targeted population near-simultaneously collapses and turns into zombies attacking everyone around. And as people try to fight back, more (including the fighters) begin to turn.

Your typical Patient Zero story is bullshit in reality, because any disease with an obvious symptom that can only be spread by the victim attacking other people would be wiped clean within days at the most. And with social media at its height, no government could keep it a secret without a total media blackout and literally shutting off the internet (which would immediately indicate that something major is going on and definitely result in citizen distrust of the government, maybe even a minor uprising of all the nutty right-wing militia groups that are convinced that the tyrannical dictatorship has finally arrived).

But with something like this, there's no chance to make a coordinated strike against the epicenter of the spread. It's diffused all over a massive zone, preferably with members of the military and police (and especially the government) being hit by it as well. Coordination will be down from the moment it hits, and the military will be divided.

 

[A-Stump]

Well, an outbreak could start first in a nation with poor communication. People start dying, people panic, and flee while wounded before news of this can really get out the virus incubating within them they make it to other countries and start spreading more. Plus, not all militaries are like the US. A lot of places can't just mobilize strike forces by air and be in a place at any time. If an infection happened somewhere like Vietnam or Cambodia you couldn't exactly expect a military response of any huge proportion.

Edit: This is also what makes other diseases so dangerous. The next deadly pandemic will probably begin under those exact conditions.

 

[Dollars2010]

I'll take out the zombies with my fangs.

 

[cypocryphy]

In the Romero movies zombies aren't from a virus, it's never explained what causes it really. But when people die they come back as long as the brain is intact.

Something is mentioned about a probe returning from Venus crashing though. So it hit the world everywhere at the same time.

 

[Some JERK]

I'd forgotten that I'd drawn up an alternate zombie plan a while back.

Spoiler

Mine alone. DO NOT STEAL.

 

[A-Stump]

In the Romero movies zombies aren't from a virus, it's never explained what causes it really. But when people die they come back as long as the brain is intact.

Something is mentioned about a probe returning from Venus crashing though. So it hit the world everywhere at the same time.

To be fair he constantly retcons his material

 

[CatParty]

I will cover myself with burritos and exlax. At least the zombies will get the poops when I am dined on.

 

[Judge Holden]

In the Romero movies zombies aren't from a virus, it's never explained what causes it really. But when people die they come back as long as the brain is intact.

Something is mentioned about a probe returning from Venus crashing though. So it hit the world everywhere at the same time.

To be fair he constantly retcons his material

well its less retcon than the characters never knowing shit about the situation...unless something happned in survival/diary which I forgot the week I spent drinking to forget watching them

Personally I think Day of the Dead summed it up best by saying "fuck it, were never gonna figure this shit out"

....god i miss sperging about the romero movies. anyone wanna just turn this thread into a general classic zombie movie sperg thread? (btw classics are all good zombie movies from Night to Shaun)

 

[Fialovy]

I do have connections to an arsenal of holy water and artifacts and stuff to deal with undead through this one priest of my family church who is good friends with my family.

Wait, RPG undead-slaying logic works with these zombies, right?

Edit: If yes, then SUPER SOAKER WITH HOLY WATER!

 

[Watcher]

I do have connections to an arsenal of holy water and artifacts and stuff to deal with undead through this one priest of my family church who is good friends with my family.

Wait, RPG undead-slaying logic works with these zombies, right?

Casting Cure spells doesn't kill Zombies in movies Fia

 

[Fialovy]

Wait... so you mean I can't Turn Undead with my rosary?

 

[Carlson]

Well, an outbreak could start first in a nation with poor communication. People start dying, people panic, and flee while wounded before news of this can really get out the virus incubating within them they make it to other countries and start spreading more. Plus, not all militaries are like the US. A lot of places can't just mobilize strike forces by air and be in a place at any time. If an infection happened somewhere like Vietnam or Cambodia you couldn't exactly expect a military response of any huge proportion.

Edit: This is also what makes other diseases so dangerous. The next deadly pandemic will probably begin under those exact conditions.

Poor communication only goes so far; with cell towers being cheaper to build than the infrastructure for landlines and the internet becoming cheaper and easier to access, even developing nations are rapidly acquiring instantaneous communication methods for all citizens. The only places where a zombie virus could fester without the entire world finding out before its destruction are extremely remote tribal villages in places like Africa or the nigh-empty center of Australia. And even then, the virus can only spread with a remote tribal village so far, a few dozen or a few hundred people at most before it reaches a more developed area or dies out in the wilderness completely.

 

[A-Stump]

The infection in Romero movies are only spread through bites and scratches. This would make the matter a disease in origin or a parasite dependent on the host for transmission. The parasite thing has always made a lot more sense in terms of zombies and the 'spooky radiation' and supernatural theories are just sort of lame in my opinion. A parasite hijacking it's host and using ravenous hunger as a way to spread seems an ingenious way to propagate.

And yes, turn this into a general zombie thread, I love me some zeds

 

[CatParty]

Why are we assuming an infection? It could be magic.

 

[A-Stump]

The infection way is just a sort of scientific magic because it's not scientifically possible anyways.

 

[Fialovy]

Why are we assuming an infection? It could be magic.

That's why I was thinking just make a stronghold in a church or something. You just need some sort of clergy with a lot of holy artifacts (which you tend to automatically have in a church) and being able able to make holy water of some sort is a huge plus. I'm just basing it on Catholics since I know most about them being very much immersed in the whole subculture they have going on as well as them usually being your go-to undead-slayers in various media, but I'm sure other religions and denominations might have stuff that might work too, especially if the cause of the zombie outbreak is magic and necromancy and stuff... I guess you'll have to test it when the time comes.

I'll make sure I have a back-up plan, after all, if your priest goes down, your supply of holy water and stuff is cut, you may be able to still use some of the artifacts, but still... it might not even work depending on the zombie (since there seems to be different flavors of zombies) Zombies in fantasy tend to be weak towards holy things and white/holy/healy-supporty magic just like many other undead.

 

[A-Stump]

What if it was like in Salems Lot where the vampires weren't actually hurt by artifacts/traditional items themselves but the blind faith behind it? The tools were only as strong as the faith of those wielding it.