Zed World - 2 years later

[fester_hicks]

It's been 2 years since the initial uprising...

What are you doing?

[AN OLD SHOE]

i would have gathered all good hearted survivors in my area and e would all be living as happily as can be in a well blocked off section of town....some of us have made babies and we have a a good stock of food in the building but we still go on monthly raids to neighboring towns and stuff...we have 2 bases now and we have greatly reduced the risk of a zombie attack by means of killing and trapping

we have a council of all the leaders of every group found and the strongest or most active of those members make most of the decisions for the group

[TMNT Soup]

Originally Posted by fester_hicks

It's been 2 years since the initial uprising...

What are you doing?

All the zombies are dead due to decomposition. The world is rebuilding itself under a united rule and I am the leader!! BOW DOWN TO ME!!
And I get all the hot chixxx as well.
*sigh* That happening is less likely than the dead rising, I think.

[Devon]

Originally Posted by TMNT Soup

All the zombies are dead due to decomposition. The world is rebuilding itself under a united rule and I am the leader!! BOW DOWN TO ME!!
And I get all the hot chixxx as well.
*sigh* That happening is less likely than the dead rising, I think.

Yea you wish

[Headless Lynx]

Yeah TMNT has a point. Zeds are walking corpses. A corpse is a rotting sack of flesh. And a zed is a walking, groaning, rotting sack of flesh.
After 3 months the zeds will have started to fall apart and would be just as easy to as opening a door. Andinsect infestation will arrive.
After 6 months the zeds would have lost most of their muscles, ligaments, skin, and limbs would be missing and would have full insect infestation and overall would be the ultimate killer of a zed.
After 2 years however the world would be re-building and re-populating and human life will start anew. BUT, this would have a massive increase in technology due to counter-measures for another zed day and wars wouldn't occur for a very long time.

Peace on Earth, for now.....

[Zombreach]

With my luck, I would be one of the piles of rotting goo covered in insect larvae!

If I was lucky enough to survive, I would search for animals, both domestic and farm, that had survived the invasion. With my group of friends (other survivors), I would find a large estate/plantation to rebuild and restock.

And, if there was anything left in the city, I would raid the malls for supplies. Mostly non-essentials, because two years is a long time to go without the finer things in life.

[Victor Clark]

Maybe they'll rot off, and maybe they'll stay alive through radiation or something, but all I know is that I won't take any damn chances on whether or not they're outside my safe place. By now I would've either protected my house with fences or abandoned cars as a fortress for other survivors and my family members, or I would've been a member of a zombie operative destroying force (or the ZOD Squad as I call it) I created to extinguish the undead forces in my area. Either way, I can seriously see myself surviving at least 2 weeks with zombies around. Any time longer than that and I would've been a freakin' zombie ass-kicking master!

[Darkness]

"There is always the possibility that the infection will never go away completely. Though the main hordes may shrink in numbers, if the dead continue to rise, there will still be some packs of zombies roaming around."

[Devon]

and maybe the zombie virus would preserve the body longer than natural decay

[UseYourHeadCutOffTheirs]

I think that it might take a little longer than 2 years for the threat to go away. I just don't see a body dropping to the ground and becoming a pile of dirt in 2 years time. It would be close though I'm sure. Then again who knows, maybe the constant exposure to the weather and sun and heat of summer, cold of winter would break the body down faster.


Regardless, if I make it through 2 years I obviously have done something right. Either I have created some sort of safe house that is fully sustained and supported by a small community, or I have kept moving for so long that I stayed alive by scavenging and never truly resting.


I think the first thing is probably more likely. Anyone who keeps moving continuously for 2 years is going to burn out eventually. Not to mention moving around like that runs you the risk of "accidents." If the accident be breaking a leg or not seeing that half zombie starting to grab at your ankle, there's a good chance something is going to catch up with you.

[mattifikation]

Well, let me make the assumption that somehow I've come to be the "guy in charge" here, and by some stroke of luck I've managed to find access to the right people, resources, and location to pull this off. If so, here's my "ideal 2 year undead anniversary compoun." But that's not what I'd call it. I'd call it "Midgar," because I really love the game Final Fantasy VII.

I would imagine living in a small colony surrounded by a large wall. The wall would be defended by cameras and machine gun turrets, controlled by a centralized location. There'd be a walkway at the top, so extra guns could be brought to the scene of a major siege.

Power would come from microhydro generators, possibly supplemented by wind power. These systems are not nearly as complex as some people would have you believe. I've literally seen some of the local rednecks make functional hydro generators from garbage.

Stone houses with solid oak doors and barred windows would be constructed within those walls, to add an extra layer of defense. And of course, everybody would have some kind of gun :-)

Each household would be required to maintain a hydroponic garden with a variety of plants. These gardens would be in greenhouses so they could produce year-round. In addition to that, it would be somebody's job to maintain a fruit tree orchard and a wheat field, and another person's job to raise poultry and small and medium sized animals for food.

Ideally, I'd have a few doctors, paramedics, and nurses in the community. I also would like some people who are capable of making antibiotics. There'd be a hospital dedicated to all the medical work that needed done.

I'd demand a lot from the maintenance crew. Those guys would have to be able to do mechanical, electrical, plumbing, construction, gunsmithing, you name it. It wouldn't do any good to need one of those jobs done and not have somebody that can do it.

There would also be people in charge of producing clothing and other fabric items, since the malls won't be open anymore for shopping in.

There would be a fitness and recreation center, which would be the largest building in the compound. It would be a combination of a Gym, a performing theater, and a night club. It would be everyone's responsibility to keep it clean and running properly.

And last but not least, anyone who couldn't fill one of those specialties would be responsible for defense. Their would be a shooting range and obstacle course where I would have former members of the military training anyone who was capable to defend the compound. Those trainers would also be in charge of the defense force.

The defense force would also be in charge of any scavenging that needed done, but I think that stuff would be limited in scope at this point.

So that's my plans for the city of Midgar, which in no way resembles the city from Final Fantasy VII. Of course, anyone who's played the game knows that Midgar would be incredibly capable of withstanding a zombie attack (minus the fact that in the game nothing grows there,) but something of that scale is more like a "10 years later" or even "20 years later" project...

I just realized I have way too much time on my hands. I need a life and a girlfriend...

[Fr1day]

Ok we have got what would you do within the first hour but what about after a year?

Lets say you have survived for a year and zombies are all over the earth.
You've met other survivors let say (100 strong) and you have started to build a community, but what would your safe zone be like for your community?

For example;

What building(s) would you have built your safe zone around? Defenses that you have build to defend your community, vehicles plus modifications to them (if necessary). Methods for food to sustain yourselves etc.

Try to keep it realistic and within the bounds of what you probably would expect within a year or so of surviving.

[EvilWeasel35]

After a year I see people living a nomadic existence, living in tents and other makeshift shelters and moving on when food in that area became scarce or the threat of attack too high. This of course depends on how quickly the zeds have decayed. Are there millions still roaming the country or only a handful? There are so many variables. If there is still fuel to be found then people could be living their nomadic lives in mobile homes/camper vans (RV's), which would afford more protection and a means of escape. I can't help thinking we would be living hand-to-mouth, scavenging for food and supplies or trading. Trading posts would be set up. These would be small communities where rest stops could be made and medical supplies traded. I think some people would be lucky enough to have fortified areas, castles, airports, even small walled villages. Those inside would be safe enough to grow crops and keep animalsand walk about in daylight. There might not be that many people alive still. It depends on the ratio of human:zombie how comfortable our lives would be.

[Fr1day]

I'll post up what I was thinking to get the ball rolling

If I was in a build up area I'd probably aim for a school as most already have fenching and walls around them so they could be bulked up easily with modifications such as timber hoarding or garage doors to keep those pesky zombies out.

As the school is quite large I'd break it up into individual areas, rooms for living quaters etc.
I'd want the living quater rooms to be on the top floor so that if zombies got in each room could have a hatch to the roof allowing people to meet in one spot to retake the building (there would be backup equipment stored there for this purpose).

I'd also have green houses on the roof as well as water collection devices for everyday use and food.

Probably have a school bus for moving large amounts of people about as well as a 4x4 pickups for general purposes (all cladded with additional metal on the sides).

If I could get my hands on a digger then that would help move items around and create roadblocks as well.

I could go on but as I say thats to get the ball rolling.

[Fr1day]

[quote=EvilWeasel35;390177]This of course depends on how quickly the zeds have decayed. QUOTE]

I was thinking there would be more zombies out there, but even so if they did decay quickly then you would also have the threat of raiders to content with.

I think trading posts would be logical, you could even set one up within your own safe zone (or on the move as you say).