Zombie Apocalypse!! How would YOU handle it?

[Komori]

Surely with the popularity of zombies in today's entertainment, everyone's thought about what they would do in the case of a zombie apocalypse, right? Where would you go? Who would you go with? What would you take with you? Do you maybe try to fortify a grocery or department store? Flee to the open wildernesses? Head to a military base to seek help from the government? Could you kill another human being, even if that person wasn't really a person anymore?




As for me, I think my safest bet would be to ally myself with some sort of outdoorsman and flee to the wilderness. We'd have to subsist on hunting, and probably build our shelter in a sturdy tree. Though realistically, I probably wouldn't survive out there, being utterly out of shape and not particularly helpful in any practical way.

[Kristykimmy]

I wait for Katie (sheik30999), who will come across the country, and together we'll fight off zombies in some epic girl power team until we reach the one of the safe zones that always inevitably crop up in the post zombie apocalypse world.

I could totally kick zombie rear, because well, that's what zombies are for right?

(What, nooooooo. Katie and I totally haven't planned out what we'd do in the event of a zombie apocalypse. We're not that nerdy.)

[Thorn]

I would live on some small island, maybe. Relatively sure zombies can't swim...

[Dju]

In reality, I'd most likely die in the first 5 minutes of the film. Or maybe I wouldn't die, it'd be dead before the thing even start. XD

But if I did survive and had free options, I think I'd do it like Thorn and go to an Island. Actually, I'd get a big sailboat! Then I could sail to the Caribbean where there are a good amount of islands and fish in the sea, but in the end I guess I'd die of overexposure. Hm. Not the best plan, really.

[Breakingchains]

I'd think the most important thing would be securing as many assets as you could as fast as possible. Tools, food stores, medical supplies, and any bits and pieces you could repurpose for anything at all are going to increase your chances of survival dramatically. Ergo, I'm guessing the best thing to do would be to hole up in a Wal-mart with a group of other survivors.

Now, my little brother is a bigger zombie aficionado than I am and he claims this is already a cliché, which makes sense, because it... makes sense. I mean, boom, as long as you get there first, you're now in possession of a large hoard of food, especially if you start preserving the perishables right away (which you can do nicely with supplies already inside the store). Now, granted, you're going to want to do some home improvement--you don't want a big maze of shelves as hiding places, either for undead or that one high-strung colony member who you just know is gonna lose his marbles--BUT the shelves themselves are decent barricade material and there's makeshift weaponry everywhere you look, if you're sick in the head smart.

Then you just wait until, y'know, maggots and stray dogs render the apocalypse pretty well unable to function (Thanks Cracked!) and assuming you're careful about your hygiene, biohazard protocol, mosquito repellent, etc. in the weeks and months afterward, your group is likely gonna come out relatively unscathed.

[Robyn]

Oh man. Two options for me: either go the safe route & bomb shelter it up (let's see any amount of zombies try to claw their way through a rounded metal hull huh IT WON'T HAPPEN)...

or, uh. Get my friends together with a baseball bat & strut it out Walking Dead style. Just the thought of it is making me say I'd want to get a search party to go down to the CDC in Georgia

[Nimras]

I'd head to Lakeview -- Handsome Man's family has a house with a good vantage point to see incoming zombies, as well as a private well and plenty of surrounding cropland. I've a small arsenal, a dog with cross country experience, and the ability to get across country without roads. I could make it with few problems to a friends house and get a couple horses with packing experience, so I wouldn't have to worry about gas.

If that plan doesn't pan out, I'd head south to whatever survivors fortress Mike Rowe and the Mythbusters have set up.

[Avery]

Pff, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. 8D I'm totally gonna just get myself bit and party with some brains, chyeaah!

[Coaster]

Considering that I'm far from any zombie experience (imagined or otherwise), I'd probably die horribly in the nuke that starts everything to begin with.

Watermelon-flavoured brains would probably be very tasty.

[Killix]

I would probably die like instantly.

[Huntress]

The eternal questions: what sort of zombies are we talking (seriously, they got as much variety as vampires and it's only a matter of time until they sparkle) and how does the virus spread?

Ideally, I know I should probably head for the countryside (cities are epidemic centers) but I kinda doubt we'd be able to viably pull it off. Most plausibly we'd just fill all existing canisters in the house with water, stock up on all unperishables we can muster, weapons if we can get them (unlikely, I have no clue where the nearest guy selling weapons is xD At best we could get an axe or suchlike.) and then just hole up in the flat and see which way the apocalypse goes. It's a good flat for zombie apocalypses, last place on the 5th floor and two solid fireproof iron doors between us and the outside world. I'm near death getting up those stairs every day, I'd like to see anyone shamble up them with rotting calves and limited motorics even without the door issue.

[Crystal]

Shambling, rotting corpses give me the absolute creeps. The zombie apocalypse is pretty much my worst nightmare - which I have, in fact had (After three days of lovingly-detailed absolute terror, me and fifty other survivors made it out of Chicago alive, only to find that zombieism is a virus that can sometimes go dormant in humans. I die hiding in a cupboard after my fifty ex-friends break down the doors. Worst. Nightmare. Ever.)

I think it might be a mercy if I just die pretty fast. ;_;

[Joker]

My thinking is that what makes zombies dangerous is sheer numbers - I could probably take down a couple, but I can't do much against an entire hoard. So, I'd just try to get somewhere with as few people (and therefore zombies) as possible. There are some REALLY isolated places in the US, I think I could pull it off. Of course, I'd need a few shotguns and LOTS of ammunition...and definitely some friends as well, or the isolation would just drive me completely nuts...

[Mostly Harmless (flufflepuff)]

I'd get tons and tons of plants to fight them off.

Then I'd go where no zombie (or human) ever raids in the time of trouble: the library. There I'd figure out how to get food and stuff.

And from that point I'd wing it, with my army of plants. 8)

[Sheik]

May 17, 2013 20:59:27 GMT -5 Kristykimmy said:

I wait for Katie (sheik30999), who will come across the country, and together we'll fight off zombies in some epic girl power team until we reach the one of the safe zones that always inevitably crop up in the post zombie apocalypse world.

I could totally kick zombie rear, because well, that's what zombies are for right?

(What, nooooooo. Katie and I totally haven't planned out what we'd do in the event of a zombie apocalypse. We're not that nerdy.)

Yeah, not at all. We're perfectly not nerdy, psssh. Dunno what you're talking about. >_>;

I remember one day when I was sick from school, my friends had a discussion about what we'd do in the zombie apocalypse. They all agreed that I'd beat the zombies with an American flag while reciting the Gettysburg Address.
...not sure what that says about me, but. XD