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I'm in London, on the side closest to the Channel Tunnel, so I expect I'll be in a lot of trouble when the Zombie Apocalypse finally comes.
There is a tower block nearby which would actually be very defensible, but to be honest, I wouldn't trust the people inside not to panic and doom us all.
My building is a lot smaller, and my flat is one floor up, so in the short term should be good enough until there is an opening for me to escape. I might consider whether it was worth teaming up with other people from the building. There are several nice folk here, although the people right next door to me never say hello, and let the main door slam shut if they are coming out as you are going in, so I'd let them die - they clearly aren't the kind of people you could trust in a Zombie Apocalypse.
I'd also have to try and reach my friend nearby in Stratford. I'd want to do everything I could to protect her. Not sure what I'd do if I found her and she was already a zombie...
In the slightly longer term, if I could find away across the Thames, I might be tempted to try and get to Canary Wharf, but that my be a very popular idea with others, so.... actually, not sch a good idea.
Long term, I'd want to get out of London. I'd probably start off on my pushbike. I'd make sure I had spare tyres for it, and so WD40. I'd take it easy, conserving energy for a sprint when zombies saw me.
I think the biggest risk in the early phases in London would not be zombies, but looters, and panicked mobs. For that reason, I'd want a weapon suitable for dealing with both zombies and people. I'd have to give that some thought.
I'd have to remember to take my insulated backpack with me to keep food cool, and therefore fresh for longer.
I have no idea how I'd manage to transport my miniature collection, and I'd need my laptop so I could still connect to Dakka
Though guards may sleep and ships may lay at anchor, our foes know full well that big guns never tire.
I live in Wales, not the most populated country, which will be useful. I don't have an exact plan but a rough idea of what to do when the Zombie invasion occurs. Because, lets be honest, we all know it's going to happen eventually.
I find the idea of finding a castle interesting, they're large with stone walls and i'm sure alot of them have electricty and heating now. If you can find a castle out in the countryside which isn't too badly damaged with has electricty and heating it would be ideal place to settle down and rebuild civiliation. If a situation arises where you find survivors coming to your castle to live for safety, you could check them all for bites easily without actually letting them in. Looters and post-Apoc psychopathic killers would have to break down the gate or scale the walls, zombies would have to climb, they'd be easily knocked off with a big pole or something.
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WARBOSS TZOO wrote:Grab your club, hit her over the head, and drag her back to your cave. The classics are classic for a reason.
Actually Fifty, I reckon your biggest problem could be hygiene and disease; with all the corpses within London and the close proximity and denseness of it all, there could be a helluva lot of disease and that rife in the aftermath...
"It is the great irony of the Legiones Astartes: engineered to kill to achieve a victory of peace that they can then be no part of." - Roboute Guilliman
"As I recall, your face was tortured. Imagine that - the Master of the Wolves, his ferocity twisted into grief. And yet you still carried out your duty. You always did what was asked of you. So loyal. So tenacious. Truly you were the attack dog of the Emperor. You took no pleasure in what you did. I knew that then, and I know it now. But all things change, my brother. I'm not the same as I was, and you're... well, let us not mention where you are now." - Magnus the Red, to a statue of Leman Russ
Just Dave wrote:Actually Fifty, I reckon your biggest problem could be hygiene and disease; with all the corpses within London and the close proximity and denseness of it all, there could be a helluva lot of disease and that rife in the aftermath...
Animals would also pose quite a problem i'd imagine. Packs of dogs and released zoo animals would dominate.
Zombie lions? No thank you.
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WARBOSS TZOO wrote:Grab your club, hit her over the head, and drag her back to your cave. The classics are classic for a reason.
Me and my friends have already hatched a plan, since we live just 10minutes from each other. we plan to go to one of their houses which has a power generator beside it, blockade the gate and fences and use that house as our home. Plus we have some houses called terraces in Singapore with one side of the house connected to the one next to it, hence it would be easy to slowly knock down walls and expand our ''area''. We would trust nobody other than each other.
I've covered my "Zombie plans" extensively in several other threads so won't do so again,but to answer the OP question,yes..I am quite prepared...let the Apocalypse commence.
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
I said it before, and I'll say it again. Shotgun/cannon loaded with bowie knives. I'll just make up the rest as I go. Planning isn't what I do, I just....do.
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"...he could never understand the sense of a contest in which the two adversaries agreed upon the rules." Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
I have a collection of knives and a twisted fusion of axe and sledgehammer I refer to as my mauler as well as an extensive survival plan and location in which to hole up in when they come.
Remeber, don't go to the subways. Refering to the movie 'Zombieland' , a Zombie outbreak normaly starts with one homeless begar biting your leg. And subways are full of them.
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I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
jp400 wrote:Is it that time of the month for this thread to pop up yet again?
Pretty sure there are multiple threads on this topic going already.
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Yup. The new search is your friend. Just found 3 on this very subject.
Now now jp,just because you are extreamly well prepared for the zombie apocalypse doesn't mean that every one is,let those who may need multiple threads to help them survive have them.
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
On the off-chance that nano-technology hasn't evolved enough to allow the use of airbourne nanomites to devour the armies of the dead where they stand, my back-up plan is to immolate my house and swallow a whole tub of sleeping pills. No point in delaying the inevitable, and immolation will make sure my body can't be eaten.
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
A fellow student of the" Books or Brooks" I see.
