Zombie Invasion!

POSTED BY: Bytemite
UPDATED: Friday, March 5, 2010 21:36
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BYTEMITE

Thursday, March 4, 2010 11:01 PM

What do you do?

My plan hinges on the disease/curse only spreading through saliva and blood mixing, and requires peanut butter.

Lots of it.

KWICKO

Thursday, March 4, 2010 11:20 PM

Ruh-Roh. That puts just about everybody at risk. Who doesn't like peanut butter?! :)

"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero, Real World Event Discussions

BYTEMITE

Thursday, March 4, 2010 11:29 PM

Triple useful as a food source, an anti-biting defense, and a nutritional oral preventative for people who have been infected and are changing.

Yeah, so what zany ideas do the rest of you have?

PIZMOBEACH

Thursday, March 4, 2010 11:31 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Bytemite:
What do you do?

My plan hinges on the disease/curse only spreading through saliva and blood mixing, and requires peanut butter.

Lots of it.

Wait, your plan requires peanut butter or the disease spreading

requires peanut butter? Smooth or chunky? Jif or Skippy ?

Whaddya Do Zombie Apocalypse Conundrum:

1. Hunker/Bunker down with gov surplus, freeze dried vitals, or

2. Be mobile, scavenge, and not get boxed in.

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BYTEMITE

Thursday, March 4, 2010 11:39 PM

Extra Creamy. I believe it will increase the stickiness factor, which is all important in preventing zombie bites.

Theoretically, glue could also work, but is not as versatile, because not everyone eats glue.

>_> <_< :) (kidding)

From what I've seen, the people with a working truck/vehicle survive, so long as they don't have sex in the back seat during the crisis.

KWICKO

Friday, March 5, 2010 12:02 AM

Stay mobile. Odd as it sounds, a good 4WD *VAN* is damned handy for this. Lots of DRY storage room inside, the same ruggedness as a 4WD truck, since it's built on the same frame and drivetrain, and you can sleep inside it, safely locked away from the zombie hordes.

4WD van pros: Dry and lockable storage for you and your goodies. Windows to shoot out of. Go-anywhere capabilities. Lots of room.

Cons: Not very nimble, and not very thrifty on fuel.

Alternatively, a SMALL, front-drive car can be a boon. I've taken Honda Civics places where nobody but Jeep drivers and FJ40 owners would go. But you really can't carry much with you, and you really can't sleep in it. And like it or not, everybody's going to need sleep, even if there are zombies about.

Small vehicles pros: long range on not much gas; nimble and quick for getting out of tight fixes.

Cons: Not much room for people or supplies; can't sleep in it.

And now I've gotta lay in a supply of restaurant-size cans of peanut butter into my SHTF (Shit-hits-the-fan) larder and bug-out bags. (And I'm only partially joking).

"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero, Real World Event Discussions

BYTEMITE

Friday, March 5, 2010 12:15 AM

Don't forget vitamin supplements.

KWICKO

Friday, March 5, 2010 4:34 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Bytemite:
Don't forget vitamin supplements.

Oh, definitely. And you know what EVERYONE forgets when thinking about this kind of stuff? SPICES. Sure, go invest in gold; see how much food that gets ya when society collapses. I'll take a full set of spices (black pepper in the XXL size, please, and don't scrimp on the salt), because someone who can cook whatever's around and make it tasty is going to be able to get along with just about anyone... :)

"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero, Real World Event Discussions

FREMDFIRMA

Friday, March 5, 2010 10:02 AM

Oh indeedy.

Also, toilet paper - I used to have a waterproof bag that'd carry four rolls, and every field deployment I brought three rolls of standard issue and one of the premium stuff, which I would sell to those poor unprepared morons by the square, and even once blackmailed an officer over his preference for the premium roll.

Bonus: while you've still got a lot of it in the waterproof bag, it makes a damn nice pillow.

(which also keeps anyone from stealin it!)

-F

PIZMOBEACH

Friday, March 5, 2010 1:58 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
Stay mobile. Odd as it sounds, a good 4WD *VAN* is damned handy for this. Lots of DRY storage room inside, the same ruggedness as a 4WD truck, since it's built on the same frame and drivetrain, and you can sleep inside it, safely locked away from the zombie hordes.

4WD van pros: Dry and lockable storage for you and your goodies. Windows to shoot out of. Go-anywhere capabilities. Lots of room.

Cons: Not very nimble, and not very thrifty on fuel.

Alternatively, a SMALL, front-drive car can be a boon. I've taken Honda Civics places where nobody but Jeep drivers and FJ40 owners would go. But you really can't carry much with you, and you really can't sleep in it. And like it or not, everybody's going to need sleep, even if there are zombies about.

Small vehicles pros: long range on not much gas; nimble and quick for getting out of tight fixes.

Cons: Not much room for people or supplies; can't sleep in it.

And now I've gotta lay in a supply of restaurant-size cans of peanut butter into my SHTF (Shit-hits-the-fan) larder and bug-out bags. (And I'm only partially joking).

Trouble with being mobile is keeping mobile. It might be a good solution in the "early days" when one needs to assess the zombie outbreak proportions, but foraging for fuel and peanut butter can eat up fuel... and peanut butter. It can also get you into the worst trouble, the one you really want to avoid: other humans. Zombies are predictable, mooooaaaannnn, slow-ish, & head shot, and that's about all. People? Mad crazy buggers - you never know what's in their off hand.

I would say you go mobile at first, get a sense of the local dangers plus it helps you look for a place to build from. Survival of the race (we can discuss the pluses and minuses) depend on a stable living situation, agriculture, and procreation. Lots of boinking in fact (yeah, no cars), gotta run up the zombie killer army asap. Sooner we get rid of of the hordes the sooner we can get back to building (notice I don't say "re-building") a better civilization. And then the real work of getting Firefly back on the air starts.

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