Iconic Irony wrote:
I would do nothing.
People tend to overlook the very obvious things when it comes to specualting zombie armageddons and the like. Here are some things I've noticed in this thread alone that would get most of you killed.
1. Ammo: It is heavy. You cannot carry a bunch of it around. It is not infinite. It is not laying around all over the place.
2. With number 1 being said, you cannot run around and last very long. Mainly because you won't be able to carry enough ammo to deal with an endless mob of zombies that don't feel pain and only die to headshots, but because even if you did somehow manage to carry it all around, you would be to slow to evade and escape (or you would die of exaustion or dehydration, whichever of the three comes first)
3. You cannot carry enough food to sustain yourself for long. For that matter, unless you've been stockpiling food in your basement you aren't going to have long to last on that either.
4. You are assuming that you will be able to get to "your cool super secure fortress location". Probably won't, probably can't, probably get killed on the way because you're an idiot and made your fortress 17 miles from your house on the other side of a densly populated city. So unless you live in a car manufactering warehouse, a wal-mart or a castle with a moat made of sulphuric acid, you gonna die in route.
5. There are a finite amount of supplies in the world. You won't make it long. Most food you enjoy today has a shelf life of about a week. With no refrigeration, make that 2 days. So even if you found a really big supermarket to hole up in, in 2 days your sitting in a rotting garbage heap of infestation and decay......and disease. BUT HEY, WE STILL GOT PACKAGED NON PERISHABLE JUNK FOOD! So you can go die from a heart attack or because your too fat to lug your supplies AND run from the hordes. Can food won't last long if thats all you're eating.
6. Airplanes, boats, cars will all get you killed in a hurry. For one, it's gonna be kinda hard to drive on roads clogged with the abandoned cars of the now undead masses, and two, how you gonna get the gas outta the pump with no power? Wanna get on a boat? Unless you are a skilled sailor, navigator and overall journeyman good luck, all it takes is for one tiny storm and you are either capsized in the middle of the ocean or washing up on some jagged rocks. Airplanes........please.
The rest is trivial. If there is a zombie infestation your only hope is to live in the middle of the woods and have been off the grid for MANY years. Then it is as if nothing has happened at all. Any less and you will fail. 1 bad winter, overhunting, lack of skill in outdoor survival or even and unfortunate physical accident and you've reached the endgame of your life.
Wanna know what I'd do? To be completely honest I would do the following:
1. Look out window, see zombies.
2. Barricade windows and doors.
3. Take tally of food and ammo.
4. Be very quiet and not arouse attention.
5. Eat all food.
6. Expend all ammo killing as many zombies as possible.
7. Light house on fire.
8. An hero myself all over the wall with a shotgun, Kurt Cobain style.
9. Be on fire.
1. No guns anyway.
2. Don't intend to leave the house. I like it here, it's warm and safe.
3. Larder cupboard and chest freezer stocked with food. Canned food and frozen food respectively. Beyond that, canned food stacks and keeps well, and there's shops if I can get to them. If the roads are too clogged for a car, I have a bike. Limited carrying capacity, but I think I could fit a month's supplies in my backpack per trip.
4. I live in the 'secure location' already. And the instant I hear about a zombie invasion, I'm ordering some building supplies.
5. Again, canned food, and stuff like flour keeps very well. The contents of the freezer would stay cool for a while due to it being insulated and full of cold stuff. I feel safe in being able to last out until order is restored.
6. Why the pump? Other cars. And when THAT runs out, I have a bike.
Faliure is not an option; I'd die. Succeeding heroically is also not; I'd get killed. So, the goal is to last out until the people with guns and organisation stop the infected hordes.
