What is your zombie plan?

[Aileron]

2012 is fast approaching, which if you don't know is the end of the Mayan calendar, and who can't deny the intelligence of a culture that never figured out how to make metal? In these times, it is important to come up with a solid plan of surviving a zombie apocalypse.

 

There are three basic varieties of zombies: radioactive, unholy, and biological. Radioactive zombies are people who have been mutated horribly by either nuclear weapons or a power plant accident. Unholy zombies are dead people brought to undeath by demons or some sort of satanic cult. Biological zombies are infected by some sort of microorganism or parasite.

 

 

Parameters of this excercise:

-We will assume Biological zombies, as they are the most likely to need planning to survive.

 

-Biological zombie populations grow exponentially, starting with a handful of infected, but growing rapidly as those already infected infect other people. Before a certain threshold, such outbreaks are easy to control, but afterwards they are infecting people so fast that they are impossible to control. assume that zombie populations are well passed this threshold.

 

-The zombie virus has spread around the world via airports before it was noticed. assume every continent except Antarctica is infected.

 

-!@#$%^&*ume that you realize the zombie outbreak at a 'normal' time of day either at home, work, or school. We will assume you are lucky and you aren't caught sleeping or in the shower.

 

-!@#$%^&*ume a certain amount of government attempts to control the outbreak and rescue people. However, also assume that as always the government screws up whatever they try to do. This is an exercise in survival, not hoping the police save your !@#$%^&*. However, one thing that you CAN be certain about is that the government will sterilize major infected population centers with nuclear weapons, so hiding out on the top of the Empire State Building for two weeks won't work.

 

-The biological zombies will carry a virus which infects anyone they bite. You can assume that a cure for the virus exists and will be found in possession of local police forces who fell before the zombie hoards.

 

-!@#$%^&*ume you have the skills, talents, environment, and resources which you have in your current lifestyle.

 

Overall, while it certainly would be easier to survive if you are a marathon runner living in Alaska who happens to own a fishing ship, and happens to be in a gun store buying a birthday present for your cousin, you wouldn't be doing yourself any favors by planning on those things.

 

 

There will be three phases to your plan:

 

Phase 1: Getting to safety. At this stage, you need to survive from when you initially know of the outbreak and until you reach phase 2. Primarily this means gathering weapons, transportation, and fortification.

 

Phase 2: Short Term survival. This involves getting food, water, and sleep. Basically, how you would actually survive the legions of the undead rather than merely fighting them.

 

Phase 3: Long term survival. (Optional) This involves a plan for the surviving members of humanity to destroy the zombie hoard once and for all. Since any sort of plan for this would require a large group of people, it is entirely unnecessary for you to have the plan which saves the day, because if you don't someone else in your group probably will. However, you would prefer to be the big hero who saves the day rather than some lackey, wouldn't you?

[Samapico]

Screw this, I'm getting infected too, and join on the brain-eating rampage!!! Sounds fun

[rootbear75]

as long as i can reach my mom's house, guns and ammo shouldnt be a problem. as long as i had a decent amount of gas, i could run away to the docks and grab a ship (my car is a gas sipper)

[Incomplete]

Hmm well. If I found out about the outbreak at home I could be safe...sorta. When the coast is clear outside the front of my house I would jump into my car with my baseball bat and head up the road (30 second drive) to international firearms. After stocking myself up from there I would head down to the supermarket (1 min drive) and stock up on supplies. From there I would head back to my house and wait until the government blows me up...hmm there has to be a better way.

 

Possibly drive out of town, head north towards the countryside where there are very few people, few houses and lost of fields. The benefits of these would be if there are less people then theres less chance of them becoming zombies. There are more likely to be survivors in the countryside rather than in a town or city. and finally the government wouldnt bomb an empty field....unless i was really unlucky.

 

Or I could drive to my dads boat, but i'm not going to be able to save anyone from there.

 

If it's possible then I would get hold of the antidote, replicate it so i have a !@#$%^&* load and use it in tranquilizer darts...no no that would take forever. Possibly put the antidote in water supplies so maybe the sun would generate a cloud that rains down the antidote on everyone.

 

Meh just nuke them all, much easier

[»Lynx]

Lynx = Legend

 

Give me:

GT50

Gun

Dog (Really well trained Alsation - Preferably named Samantha)

Ego Problem

 

Then I'll see the butterfly and solve the problems.

 

GG

[Audry]

lol Lynx i was about to post something about I am legend XD screw that! you beat me to it!!!!

 

and lol @ the ego problem hahaha

[Guest Did]

BOOM HEAD SHOT

[Aileron]

Well, my home has plenty of high-powered guns, ammo, melee weapons, and is in a rural area with about 5 structures within a half mile radius, one of which is a greenhouse, plenty of farm fields, and two nearby fresh water streams, one of which entirely reachable by walking in the woods. Suffice to say if I'm at home on Z-day, I'll have few problems in the short term. Basically, I could sit out the zombie war from there.

 

 

If I'm at work, a workable plan might be to hop on a forklift, run over and/or impale the legions of the undead out to my car, and drive home on the back roads. However, a more fun plan would be to drive to the nearby Walmart. While a Walmart would likely contain a large concentration of zombies, it also would happen to have everything needed for short term survival, and would be a gathering place for everyone who's in the know about zombie survival. (K-Mart however is a deathtrap - Thanks to Rosie O'Donnell they don't sell guns.) I guess the plan would be to peek in, see if the other survivors have cleared the zombies, which would be likely as it would take a while for me to get there and only walk in if they have. Then, the Walmart survivors would fortify the building until the government figures out that survivors are held up in every Walmart throughout the country and would start systematically evacuating those buildings.

 

I guess I'd stick with driving home, but you can't make a good zombie plan if it doesn't involve Walmart.

 

 

 

 

Incomplete, the problem with your plan is that the clerk at International Firearms will already be there on Z-day and he'll have to let you in. Generally, he'll have the guns and you're going to have to join his group if you want them. You'll have to convince him that either you're A: a good shot, or B: a slow runner. Also note that you won't be the only survivor there...probably every non-zombie in your neighborhood will show up there at some point, so you'll have compe!@#$%^&*ion. Considering that you don't own a gun, I doubt the clerk will believe story A. Story B doesn't work out for you either, because your role in the group would be as the first person eaten, meaning that the clerk will give you a weak gun and will spare as little ammo as possible on you. Ultimately the rest of your plan is moot, because you'll end up following this clerk around.

[Guest Did]

This like some !@#$%^&* out of a movie probably dawn of the dead

[Suicide_Run]

Plan: Get 1-3 people (friend/family/etc), load up 2 cars with food, equipment, guns and ammo. Drive to the closest place to get ammo (hunting shop) mainly cause I have access to guns. If theres ppl alive in shop, try to trade some food for ammo, if not then clear out zombes (if there is any) and loot as much as equipment as I can.

 

Then drive north (since im in Canada) and try to find an abandoned house in a rural place. Prefer those single house in a big !@#$%^&* farm field, hopefully near water supply. Build a !@#$%^&*ty fence around the perimeter so it can buy time in case zombie comes. Dig a moat around house and enjoy life until winter/summer comes and watch zombies freeze/rot =)

 

Long Weapon Weapon of Choice: .22 Rim fire Rifle

Mid Range Weapon: .22 Hand Gun or Revolver of the smallest caliber (dunno if .22 revolver exist or not)

Close Range: Bat - Prefer Metal or a Crowbar

 

Why .22 rim fire? Most of the guns that fire it is usually light and the recoil is really low. May sound like a !@#$%^&* but I rather shoot something that has low recoil than a magnum that jerks my hand up and waste nrg/time bringing back into place. Besides, its like the most basic type of ammo and all shops that has ammo sells it, would love to see you try and find high caliber special bullets in walmart. Also, a box of .22 ammo contains 1000 bullets and isnt that heavy....and having 2 weapons that share same ammunition is better.

 

Not to mention, .22 does have the stopping power to penetrate a skull and effectively stop a zombie. Though it aint as fun as watching the zombie blow up into pieces while you use some anti tank rifle against it but its effective.

[rootbear75]

shotgun is better for close-mid range

 

 

BLOW THEIR FREAKING HEAD OFF!

[»Lynx]

I'd get a Samurai and do it all Kill Bill style, not sure I'd be as sexy as Uma, but I could try...

[JDS]

depends if virus travels by air / water/ or just touch by other zombies..

[»Lynx]

Well then, I guess the I am Legend idea is probably better.

[FMBI]

I'd go to Siberia and hide for a couple years. Lots of food, fuel, and no zombies. Edited May 13, 2008 by Finland My BorgInvasion

[X`terrania]

Why does everyone rely heavily on guns? The first thing I'd honestly do is chain me and my neighbor's houses together so we could easily travel from one house to the other. I'd stock up on bottled water, canned fruits/vegetables, dried fruits, nuts, anything that can provide the valuable nutrients essential to your survival, and instead of grabbing guns I'd most likely hit up a few hardware stores and grab as many sharp objects as I can.

I'd then patrol my block (on foot) and a few close other ones until I find survivors like myself.

 

oh !@#$%^&*, and i'd take one of my sisters on patrol and let her fall before the masses of zombies

[Samapico]

[Incomplete]

[Samapico]

[Suicide_Run]

You better pray if zombie appears, they aint like those in 28 Days/Month Later ones. Those mutherf*ckers runs like !@#$%^&* or was that Dawn of the Dead?

[Incomplete]

28 days late. I actually ha a dream about that. I was locked in a park with loads of them chasing me. (like when they was chasing that man over the hill when he was running for the boat in 28 months later)

 

Was some scary !@#$%^&*. For those of you who have never played dead rising, i'll get some footage, reminds me of this.

qyfc7f0Z3wUhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyfc7f0Z3wU

[rootbear75]

isnt that the game where ur in the mall?

[X`terrania]

Some of the zombies ran in Dawn of The Dead, if you remember the first time they enter the mall that armless asian dude started running towards them when they were getting in.

[Incomplete]

All I remember of that film is where one of the zombies ripped out a girls belly piercing.

[Guest Did]

If the zombies were like the ones in 28 days later we'd all be !@#$%^&*ed probably