Compact survival

Poseidon's picture

Hello guys, it’s me Poseidon giving you my second zombie plan. Survival with only what you can carry with out a bag. Why would you do this i have no idea, maybe your at youre ill prepared mothers house and have little of Zed survival equipment like you

First step when a zombie apocalypse hits is to get a ride. I would recommend a small car/SUV/Motorcycle. A motorcycle can prove difficult in the city but its compact size and high gas mileage makes it great for low-zombie roads.

It’s a bright sunny day! The sun is shining and the birds are chirping and the mailman is a zombie. Crap.
You locked yourself in your house. Good thing you installed those triple paned bullet proof glass windows and 3 inch steel doors right? Well you also hit the self destruct button and you have 5 minutes to get out of your house. Put on your best fitting jeans get 2-3 BASIC t shirts you cna wear them over each other or stuff them if your mouth. This is no time to be snarky with t shirt sayings. If you have on get a leather jacket or a motorcycle jacket if you have a motorcycle as stated above or even a trench coat would be better than nothing even if its summer for the pockets. Get a helmet, a motorcycle helmet would be best but any type would be ok. Get swim goggles if you can you know to cross the river in your car dummy or sunglasses. And gloves. Now if you don’t have time to get a duffel bag or backpack all you have is your jeans your jacket/trench coat there are a few things you should get. A gun, no comment but since you have no bag a pistol is your best bet. That can fit in a holster if you have one. If you have no gun I recommend getting a bat just to have SOMETHING against the undead. Get a survival knife, a (small) flashlight, maybe some batteries all the money and credit cards you have (just in case looting hasn’t begun yet) matches/lighter maybe a fistful of painkillers. And a compass . Easily fits in a pocket. Other pocket: water purification tablets. A Map, crazy glue, a harmonica (for morale) medical sewing kit and bobby pins. and anything else you can think of that fits. Get some duct tape and put it in your back pocket, get some rope and tie it like a belt. Get a pair of binoculars and a whistle tie it around your neck. And maybe a few garbage bags in your other back pocket (then again if you have the trash bags might as well use it to carry more stuff but this is compact survival.)
Now get out of your house before it explodes or is overrun by zombies

Assuming you take a car there might be a few precautions to keep in mind. First off, and this goes epically for SUVs, barricade the side windows that are in the back seats! If a zombie gets in through there you’re screwed. Now you can barricade the back window but I wouldn’t because A) you lost function of one of your mirrors and, its not really necessary I mean for a small car the zed is going to have to get on the trunk to pound through the back window and with an SUV the glass is *kinda* thick.

You're in your car. Now what? Well go to a gun store but if you can’t next stop is the supermarket.

NOTE: If the infection has been going on for a while EVERYONE will go there and in which case your fucked. But if its just the beginning get all the water and canned food you can. Also get some vitamins so you don’t get sick and seeds just incase you don’t find any. Get some buckets as well. Bring that to your car and get out of there!

Now you go to a home improvement store barricade it any start planting away. There are lots of plans using this strategy and I don’t want to plagiarize so check those out. But to paraphrase just pour some concrete over the entrances and plant using the gardening center on the roof and filtrate your urine and use numero zwei for manure. Keep a rotation of guards with any survivors you can find and when they break through have an escape plan that involves using the roof to get some emergency backpacks and jump to a conveniently placed car and go to ecretsu or somethin.

A few more things to note, The issue of whether to get survivors to come with you is a tricky issue, if you take any random ol' person off the streets you'd be pretty naive to think they wont steal all your crap or atleast be dead weight to you eating your water and drinking your food, despicable. But another problem is that you have less people to help defend your fortress and less people to raid. You could get your friends but that can raise almost as many problems. Lock yourself in a room with two of your friends for 2 days and youse will go crazy pretty soon which is why you never have your best friend as your roommate. That also raises the ethical standpoint, How will your mom/dad/sister/friend react to seeing you smashing a zombies head in? That would easily change their opinion of you. Just a few thins to keep in mind

F.A.Q’s

Q: What is wrong with you?
A: I got this annoying ringing in my ears and this took my mind off it.

Q: Should I vote for you
A: If you want to. I spent like 3 days writing this.

Q:Really?
A: No

Q:Why not get a bag?
A:More weight on you and the lack of luggage is the whole focus of the plan silly, kinda stupid but its good if you get ambushed and have like 45 seconds to get out for whatever reason.

Cake's picture

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I like the fresh take on the introduction to the plan. Creative way of showing the importance of minimalist tactics in a high stress situation. For the ladies, I would suggest grabbing a lot of Midol for uncontrollable cramps that may slow you down in the future. Make sure it's non drowsie.

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~Ghostie member #3

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