Here is the scenario: The 28 days syndrome just started in your city (as in the movieplotline) It started in the night so you and yorn were safely at home in your fortress.
So, you wake up in the morning with people running batshit everywhichway in the streets. With only what you currently have (at the time you are reading this thread) how equipped would you be to survive the first 28 days? Tell us about your strengths and weaknesses. Mitch the EOW predator would not be a problem for the first 30 days or so (He'd be be too damn busy with his own zombies.)
So, you wake up in the morning with people running batshit everywhichway in the streets. With only what you currently have (at the time you are reading this thread) how equipped would you be to survive the first 28 days? Tell us about your strengths and weaknesses. Mitch the EOW predator would not be a problem for the first 30 days or so (He'd be be too damn busy with his own zombies.)
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Re: 28 days later: How are you equipped?
Tue, April 15, 2008 - 9:02 PMStrengths:
I live in a cave so barricading is easy. I hate windows, you gotta get that frilly window shit, so I have wall. Nothing without tools is gonna come in.
I maintain a 30 day supply of food. After that I turn predator.
I have 5 firearms, one for each major power class. I can snipe, assault, defend, and hunt all game including slow survivors.
I keep a shitpile of ammo on hand. almost 9000 22 cal Winchester BobCat. I can headshoot zombies all day. Stack 'em up like a wall.
I have a generator (1500w) so I can play video games and starve the zombies out
I have an ice pick for when I run out of ammo
Weaknesses:
It may be difficult to find non-infected pussy. I need to get some, keep it in the pantry. -
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Re: 28 days later: How are you equipped?
Thu, April 17, 2008 - 12:42 PMOne of the areas where I would be at risk is gear for dealing with the zombies. The highly contagious 'rage' that people were being infected was a bloodborne pathogen whish makes the equation difficult. Sure, you could blast 'em in the head, but if you have ever shot anything before you know that sometimes there's a bit of spattering, especially at closer ranges.
So, I have no red-man suit to keep them from biting me, I'd have to fashion one for me and the family.
I have no face shields to block the spatters and drooling, Sun glasses would not be ideal as they are hard to see with indoors and easily knocked off. I only have a couple pair of beat up shop goggles.
On the plus side, the 28 day later zombies don't camp on your door. They leave and go looking for food n shit. You have more opportunity to clear the front door and move to a vehicle so you can evac when the food in your house runs out. It'd be easier to flee home in this situation than in a Resident Evil or Dawn of the dead scenario where the zombies are magically drawn to you. -
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Re: 28 days later: How are you equipped?
Thu, April 17, 2008 - 7:25 PMPretty much, Adam, you get your paintball mask, and you duct-tape it to your head with no intention or allowance of future removal. You put on a raincoat and some good gloves... tape the wrists solid. If you're mitch, wear a condom because I think zombieism is also an STD.
I mean, really, as long as you're wearing enough leather and duct-tape, wearing a seamless-suit of clothing that can defeat bites and scratches, who needs a gun? just walk out there and greet the throng, when they start biting and pulling at you and dragging you around, you just kinda crowd-surf your way around town! Life goes on as normal, with a minor change in transportation method.
HOW TO COMMUTE VIA ZOMBIES: Bring a stick of butter. Don the usual seamless duct-tape suit and face shield. Exit your home. As the crowd comes running, slick-up your left arm and leg. Point your right side in the direction you want to head.... you will soon be accosted by scores of zombies pulling at your limbs from all sides, trying to get a bite. The ones on the slick-side will be at a decided disadvantage, and will be continually losing grip, allowing you to be pulled in the desired direction. Apply more butter as necessary.
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Re: 28 days later: How are you equipped?
Thu, April 17, 2008 - 3:31 PMIf people are running batshit in the street's. somebody is going to have to call and tell me.
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Re: 28 days later: How are you equipped?
Thu, April 17, 2008 - 7:36 PMI love zombies. -
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Re: 28 days later: How are you equipped?
Sat, April 19, 2008 - 3:04 PMWhen we ran defensive courses back at the SO we had special redman suits for the demonstrator to wear. Something like that, with a leather undersuit, would be perfect for dealing with a highly infectous disease like rage, or whatever.
While zombies are not very likely, crazy infected people running batshit through the streets is not out of the question. If you had to get from your ininfected house to your uninfected car so you could flee the city, how would you get through all the batshit people outside who are doing the usual panicky human things we are known for?
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Re: 28 days later: How are you equipped?
Sat, April 19, 2008 - 8:10 PMAn interesting quote from one of my daily listening posts:
"I have always believed that zombie movies are a sublime way of expressing our ancient ancestral and subconscious understanding of famine. I wrote a detailed article about this idea back in 1998 and posted it on the old Vault-Co site. Any human being hungry enough is indistinguishable from the walking dead. Part of our legacy understands this and this is why zombie films are so disturbing, they activate feelings and memories in the premammalian cortex. In every zombie film, there is a feeling like a song you can hum a few bars of but can't remember the name of. We know what happens in famines, even if our conscious minds pretend they have forgotten."
... And as I read this, I imagined to myself, how would my neighbors react if they knew about my food storage supplies, and we were hit by this year's grain famine as currently in Haiti, Egypt, Malasia, India, and half a score of other nations (so far)? Wouldn't they be trying to break into my house? Wouldn't they be willing to kill me to get at the life-sustaining supplies I posess?
Really, how is a maddened, starved society any different from a bunch of rage-infected zombies?
Another quote, preceeding the one I just posted:
"Hunger talks and everything else walks. People who have never known hunger do not know what people will do when they get hungry. People who would laugh at the notion in normal times will be the first ones to eat their dead when hunger grips them. Hunger releases the beast and it overturns governments and nations in the time it takes for human beings to begin metabolizing their own body fat. Anybody anywhere who thinks they can control the demon genie called hunger usually turns out to have been wrong. There is no reasoning with a hungry man, he will get down on his fours and howl like a rabid dog when he is hungry enough."
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Re: 28 days later: How are you equipped?
Sun, April 20, 2008 - 8:52 AMyears supply with plans for sustaining another 5 . . . -
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Re: 28 days later: How are you equipped?
Sun, April 20, 2008 - 10:55 AMI agree with thousand, A hungry belly has no morals. I see it first hand every time I go to Asia.
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