In a zombie apocalpyse

[Pokonic]

Well, lets see....


Going by the fact we would be assuming everyone is out of high school, I would hopefully be the smart asian guy with the psychology degree, which would probably help keep the guys with the big guns sane and secure.

[TheFallenOne]

How would he deal with them when the gas stations run out or are all infested with zombies?

Bicycle, not motorbike.
Also, that's your number one objection? Geez.

[WyvernLord]

Yeah the physics involved would knock the by bicycle over without really affecting the Zed. Also the whole katana part. *Snerk*

[Hiro Protagonest]

Also, that's your number one objection? Geez.

Nah, that would be the fact that he's biking into the middle of a zombie mob.

Depending on the quality of the katana, it might be the fact that he's using a decorational piece as a weapon.

[Serpentine]

I’m the guy who not there because he enacted his in place plan:

• Through the contents of fridge and pantry into bag.
• Throw girlfriend over shoulder.
• Head down to the marina where i use the emergency code on the gate to steal a boat.
• head over to greater cumbrae to stock up on supplies and fuel.
• Keep heading up the coast until i hit the oil rig i picked out.
• Live off the minimum six months’ supply of food and entertainments.

Though as serp is currently staying in Largs and has put herself forward as fodder, swinging by Christians to pick her up as a meat shield sounds like a good amendment.

I'm participating!

Also, gee, thanks

[Raddish]

I would be the quiet guy everyone is uncomfortable around and kicks from the group. Then I would be alone and therefore quickly eaten.

[Hiro Protagonest]

I would be the quiet guy everyone is uncomfortable around and kicks from the group. Then I would be alone and therefore quickly eaten.

What skills and talents do you have? Engineering? Fighting? Medical? Building? Planning? Shooting? Crops? Wiring?

[Objection]

Also, I know a fair bit about bowmaking. Though it would take a lot of arrows to kill a zed (my nickname for zombies since I played some flash games called Rebuild and Rebuild 2).

Aw man I love those games. Also nice image at the top of your post.

[Weezer]

Once things settle down a bit, the resident mad scientist. Chemistry, unrestrained by silly things like laws and safety regulations, is both fun and easily weaponizable

Before then I would say I'm a good generalist/problem solver, I have survival skills, am a decent shot (with both rifles and bows), moderate martial arts skills, pretty well in shape (for endurance activities at the least) and exceptional ability to make connections and analyze situations. I'd probably be the quiet guy who quietly deals with everything while people are running about/arguing about what to do.

[Cobra_Ikari]

Eventually? Probably dead. Or someone's muzzled pet zombie on a leash. >.>

[Soylent Dave]

I've spent most of my life so far befriending people who are much fatter and slower than me, so that in the event of an apocalypse I don't have to outrun the zombies, just my friends.

I'll probably just stick with that plan.

(Added bonus: fat friends go further in a 'locked in an abandoned government shelter with no supplies and cannibalism is the only option' scenario; also pretty likely when there are zombies ambling about)

[Starwulf]

I'd be one of two people: The type of person you never come across because I"m safely holed up in the middle of nowhere near a nice lake and a cabin that you would never know is there, and I already have supplies put aside because I saw the warning signs early, OR I would be the redneck dude that everyone would initially assume was racist(I do look like a big ole mountain guy when my beard is fully grown), but would eventually find out has a heart of gold, though it might be hard because I would keep disappearing to do my own thing, only rejoining the group at odd times, usually with a deer carcass dragging along behind me in a sled for the group to consume.

Much more like the first type though, as I'm a zombie movie fanatic, and I've had a zombie plan in place for years, even before it was the "in" thing to do ^^

[Silverraptor]

My friends and I have mapped out an escape route to the ocean where we'd steal a boat and make our way to an island that is populated by no more from a few hundred to a thousand. We then meet up in a privately owned cove that is owned by the mysterious, but complete engineering geniuses (Seriously, they built most of the buildings and stuff in their cove). We then would go to their rifle range and the huge stock pile of guns both of them have under their houses (One of them turned a hunting rifle into a .22 semi-automatic. Engineering geniuses.) and go to the designated buildings roofs plus easily blockadable at bottom mini-lighthouse and set off fire alarm periodically until all zombies on island (If any) come by and get shot at. Once clear, we have plenty of abandoned silver mine shafts all over the island that we can dump the bodies in. Then, we can strip and salvage every boat and town and small city on the island as well as having plenty of deer and bison (They were brought for a movie shoot 30 years ago and just left there) as well as a bunch of fishing gear.

Once we stayed for a while, we'd go to the small airport and see if there are any helicoptors or planes where we can fly over to the mainland a few times and skim through how things are or salvage any supplies or rescue any survivors that somehow made it. And should we run out of gas for planes, we have plenty of large luxary sailboats all over the island to make the 20 mile journey back and forth.

Wow, that was a wall of text, but my friends and I literally planned this out all summer when we were working at the boy scout summer camp in that cove. Its scary just how well things look. We even have an evacuation plan where the farthest 2 guys would be the drivers and drive by each one of our houses to pick us up with the routes we have planned, as well as the back-ups, and the back-up back-ups, etc.

In short, I'd be quite set for a zombie apocalypse, if I can survive getting to the port.

[thubby]

I'd be the guys fixing everything.
cars, lights, etc, etc. probably to my detriment, as they're always the guys who have to leave the nice metal bubble to save the group.

[Kittenwolf]

I'd be the combat pragmatist.
Most of my friends already have some kind of zombie plan organised, one of the first steps of mine is to raid the local motorbike place for a full, head to toe set of leather and (if possible) ceramic plate to make myself impervious to zombie bites, blood etc.
Then it'll be collecting weapons and going at it.

SCA training has to be up for something, right? :)

Actually, probably pragmatic person in general in a lot of ways, directing the group straight at practical, viable targets/ideas for immediate survival.

[pffh]

I would be one of the mad scientists that's either responsible for the outbreak or performing experiments on the zombies trying to find out what happened, how they work and if it's treatable.

[Frozen_Feet]

Depends on the type of zombies. If they're "must use muscles to move" sort of things, I hold a small party for the rest of the survivors in my home and laugh as the zombies freeze to immobility outside while trying to wade through 50 cm thick snow cover.

If I absolutely have to go outside, I'm the guy who owns guns and practices martial arts. Around here, I'm likely to meet zombies one-by-one, and showing one of with a long stick should be fairly easy. There's also three cars, each with enough gass to drive few hundred kilometers, right on my yard, so I don't even have to risk walking around all that much.

Now, if they're supernatural, "screw laws of physics, I'm UNDEAD" type of zombies, I'll be the guy praying and drawing religious symbols on the floor in the corner until they break my front door down and I have to make a stand.

[Killer Angel]

I'll provide all the useful infos on what to (or not to) do, thanks to the knowledge acquired in the various zombiethreads I partecipated.

[Asta Kask]

I can tell what is what when we loot pharmacies. Other than that, I think my anxiety disorder makes me best suited to join Serps as fodder.

[pffh]

I can tell what is what when we loot pharmacies. Other than that, I think my anxiety disorder makes me best suited to join Serps as fodder.

Or you could join me in performing SCIENCE! on the zombies.

[The Succubus]

I'm participating!

Also, gee, thanks

I have complete faith in you Serpy!

I think you'd make a wonderful zombie!

[Kalmageddon]

Cook and scout I guess, however I'd probably stay on my own whenever possibile, bands of survivors in zombie apocalypses always remind me of buffet tables.

[KuReshtin]

I’m the guy who not there because he enacted his in place plan:

• Through the contents of fridge and pantry into bag.
• Throw girlfriend over shoulder.
• Head down to the marina where i use the emergency code on the gate to steal a boat.
• head over to greater cumbrae to stock up on supplies and fuel.
• Keep heading up the coast until i hit the oil rig i picked out.
• Live off the minimum six months’ supply of food and entertainments.

Though as serp is currently staying in Largs and has put herself forward as fodder, swinging by Christians to pick her up as a meat shield sounds like a good amendment.

I'm all for using Serps as a meat shield if she volunteers.
As long as I can tag along with you to the oil rig.

I'm a good cook, you know.

[Asta Kask]

Really, I wouldn't want to stay alive. The saying "The living will envy the dead" comes to mind.

[H Birchgrove]

I'd be the philosopher guy who writes the constitution for the society which is created After The End.

I'd also be the resident Daniel Jackson-type, who reminds everyone to not become total *&%¤#@. Especially if we meet infected but still thinking and feeling individuals, like in I Am Legend (the original novel) and the adaptation The Omega Man.

[Sgt. Cookie]

The improviser. You see a pile of broken glass and a can of deodorant. I see shrapnel and an explosive.

[Serpentine]

I'm all for using Serps as a meat shield if she volunteers.
As long as I can tag along with you to the oil rig.

I'm a good cook, you know.

Gee, thanks guys. I feel real loved.
I'm not exactly "volunteering" so much as "predicting", thanks

[Hiro Protagonest]

^High five that's a fun game.
On topic. The guy who gets himself killed by being the dumb sort of hero.

Aw man I love those games. Also nice image at the top of your post.

You know how they say soldier 10s can kill Zed just by squintin' at 'em? It's true, 'cause in Rebuild 2 you can equip them with weapons, but their total score can never go higher than 10, so adding a weapon does nothing useful when they get to that point, and if you send them out to kill zombies, no matter how many zombies there are, from merely hazardous to completely overrun, you can send in four soldier 10s, unarmed, and have 0% chance of getting killed. "You are no match for my Kung Fu!".

Recently, I've been wanting to buy D20 Modern or GURPS 4e + GURPS 4e modern books, and play a zombie apocalypse game. It would be great for planning this stuff in real life too, since you could use most of the crazy rigs you come up with.

[H Birchgrove]

The improviser. You see a pile of broken glass and a can of deodorant. I see shrapnel and an explosive.

"I love it when a plan comes together!"

[Hiro Protagonest]

Really, I wouldn't want to stay alive. The saying "The living will envy the dead" comes to mind.

At least take this homemade flamethrower and knife and die hard.

The improviser. You see a pile of broken glass and a can of deodorant. I see shrapnel and an explosive.

Hm, I wonder how useful it would be to use empty glass bottles as throwing weapons. They would break on impact, but Zed are impervious to pain.

Also, spray that can of deodorant all over the area. It'll mess up their noses, which are the biggest problem when you try to hide. Then start throwing bottles and hope it gets them in the eyes.

Another use for the bottles would be to just help build a barricade. Stack up a bunch of bottles, glass or plastic, and that'll buy you a few extra seconds.