Hmmm. Zombies, you say? I would first completely misuse my previous time and experience in the military to get myself onto a military installation. Yup. Yes, I would. These are crazy times, right? They call for crazy measures. I would hork all the supplies, guns, amo, and MRE’s I could find and amscray out of there in an armored vehicle with as many cans of gasoline as the vehicle would hold. I would make for the dessert and use the survival skills I learned in the military to keep myself and my motley band of survivors alive. The initial wave of Zombie attacks would be fierce and gruesome. The zombie bodies would grow deep as we felled them from our desert cave sanctuary. The attacks would stop. We would wait it out for fear that this was just the calm before the storm. We would wait some more and then begin to slowly, cautiously explore further and further afield. The destruction we would find would be staggering and soul rendering. We would come across other pockets of survivors and take them into the fold. We would begin to repopulate and try to revive the society that had been deracinated. Future generations would tell the story of our brave fight and of the little gay Puerto Rican boy who had led it all.
I would be excited to finally use the machete I've been keeping next to my bed all this time. yeah, you guys think I'm kidding. I think I would stay on the move. Sleep on rooftops or in trees at night. Once things finally started to blow over, I'd find myself a house on stilts, on the water, and set up residence there. Also, why does anyone believe that setting zombies on fire is a good idea? Zombies don't feel pain, so a zombie on fire will keep moving until the flames destroy its brain, which can take a while. A zombie coming after you is bad enough, but a flaming zombie? Are you trying to make this as terrifying and disturbing as possible? Not to mention the danger posed to you and anyone in your party if the flaming zombie manages to set the surrounding area on fire. I wouldn't use fire unless the situation was absolutely dire and I had no other choice. Nope, a well-aimed bullet is a much better idea.
Note to self, once I take over the zombies, Wrey has to go first. Shhhh Mal, you are ruining my fun. (Yup folks, I'm stickingwith the whole "control the zombies" survival plan.)
*hands Chimmy a 9 mil.* "Keep the safety on until you plan to use it, and unless the thing is taken apart for cleaning, at no time should you be able to look down the barrel."
Yeah, well I am pretty sure my little Puerto Rican survivalist will out wit you and your evil army of Zombie guys. He has determination, skill, military instincts, weapons, and he looks damn good in camouflage!!!
You're thinking Twilight vampires, at which case if their eyes were yellow I'd run out and greet them. I don't think zombies are sparkly--they're dead people risen from the ground, all rotted. At least that's how I see them in my mind's eye.
For brains and flesh and that sort of thing? Or can they eat food too? The zombie flick I saw had them eating brains and human flesh, not real food.
Or Twiplight. But anyway....... I would definitely hide out and observe the zombies. If they're incredibly strong, I'd stick with my first plan, but if they're weak and easy to just smash over the head with something I wouldn't be so scared.
OMG, this is some good stuff. Ya'll slay me. Marina that was some funny stuff. Cog....*Shakes head* No, there will be no sparkly zombies in my apocalyptic world scenario. And if there were such sparkly zombies running around, I'd capture it, contain it in a large dog crate, and poke it with a stick just for the fun of it.
I run (with my husband, son, and dog.) I take Bear Grylls hostage, he'll know what to do. I run home to Kentucky and find an old deer stand out in the middle of the woods. I dont know how to kill a zombie, persay, but in my little scenario here I'm gonna say you can kill them with bullets, and I do so by taking advantage of my deer stand. I make my own knife which is what I'll use to make things I need. Then after I kill the zombies that persumably have on clothes, I cut thier clothes to make threads to set snares to kill some food to live off until the epidemic is over and I can come out of hiding. Then I write a book about my harrowing tale of survival. When the world repopulates, myself or my children will be very rich.
I don't have any weapons at home ... Should I? (Maybe there's something in the kitchen that might be used against living human beings, but nothing against zombies ...) What's it like, to have a machette next to your bed? (&, last not least, WHY do you have a machette next your bed? ) [(Oh, and .. have you mentioned it in the "Idiossyncrasies" thread? / Er, right: do you consider it an idiossyncrasy, or it's just normal? )]
I know this question was not directed at me, but... I live in Puerto Rico where having a machete is as banal and everyday as having a Philip's Head screwdriver in your junk drawer. We have different sizes for different uses.
