Poll of the Day > You have a boat...and the zombie apocalypse happens....what do you do?

(+) Yeah! (+)

Basic scenerio. You own a boat....it's not huge, but it has a propane stove, a bathroom, a nice sized bed, a motor of course, radio, fishing gear, and you have 2 guns as well.

You happen to be out in the sound when the apocalypse happens. You hear about it on your phone/radio etc. You can get to the ocean, or dock anywhere in or around the Washington Pugent Sound. It is dangeorus to do so as everyone really wants a boat right now.

What do you do? What is your short term and long term plan? I'll post mine a bit later:)

Also for purposes of entertainment, you have a laptop (loaded with a ton of steam games that don't need internet to play). It also has a ton of E-books on it (you have an ipad as well that also has ebooks on it, and quite a few games). You have some real physical books as well, but not many. You have a Switch, a playstation 4 and a PSVR. You have a power generator on the boat (in addition to it's own motor) and currently a full tank along with 10 extra gallons of gas.

You have enough games between your PS4, Switch and Laptop to play thousands of hours...but you don't have enough gas currently to power them for more then about 100 hours or so (and that would mean not using any of the extra gas to fuel your boat.
---

so basically i get an excuse to fuck off from humanity and play video games?

neat yay zombies
---

Nade Duck posted...

so basically i get an excuse to fuck off from humanity and play video games?

neat yay zombies

Only for a very, very short time if you don't get more fuel and some food/fresh water or a way to desalt water etc.

I would have a plan but I don't want to ruin other peoples plans by posting mine. I think I could pretty safely set it up to have unlimited power (for my games), safe/fresh water, plenty of food and no way for zombies to get to me. Pirates long term might be a problem though.
---

It depends on the scale. If it's small(non global) definitely sail somewhere it hasn't reached and prepare with whatever I manage to get. Probably under official protection of whatever government is the main body. If it's global, complete isolation, most likely on some kind of large island that's uninhabited by other people. In all likelyhood I'd try to live somewhere tropical with a low population and a lot of resources even if they are temporary. If there was time for an evacuation, closed resorts would make a great temporary residence. Idk why but I always imagined I'd live in a resort or abandoned condo complex.
---

StoneRevolver posted...

It depends on the scale. If it's small(non global) definitely sail somewhere it hasn't reached and prepare with whatever I manage to get. Probably under official protection of whatever government is the main body. If it's global, complete isolation, most likely on some kind of large island that's uninhabited by other people. In all likelyhood I'd try to live somewhere tropical with a low population and a lot of resources even if they are temporary. If there was time for an evacuation, closed resorts would make a great temporary residence. Idk why but I always imagined I'd live in a resort or abandoned condo complex.

Yeah it's global. Maybe not everywhere has been over-run yet, but it's happening everywhere at once. There are safety zones etc, you could try and get to, but most are very hard/dangerous to get to.

This would be during the early/initial stages, which in my opinion is the most dangerous time. Not only is that due to so many zombies, but also so many live humans fighting for resources (probably more dangerous then the zombies even).

Even on the water, just think, all those other boats...are all going to have people on them, with guns probably, desperate for resources as well (especially ones they can get without having to go on land). Worse if you do land, it would be almost impossible to keep other people from trying to take your boat.
---

Eh, if there's a zombie apocalypse, I'm going to kill at least two and feel like I've done my part. Feel like a zombie apocalypse in the U.S. just wouldn't become the huge issue media likes to make it out to be. Country is so damn large and there are tons of guns/ammo.
---

dragon504 posted...

Eh, if there's a zombie apocalypse, I'm going to kill at least two and feel like I've done my part. Feel like a zombie apocalypse in the U.S. just wouldn't become the huge issue media likes to make it out to be. Country is so damn large and there are tons of guns/ammo.

Depends on the type of zombies. These are actually very fast zombies, that can climb etc. None of that slow shuffling stuff. Unlike in most shows/movies, infection can spread through blood, so if you shoot a zombie etc, and it's blood gets in your eye, possibly moth, definatly on a wound etc, you will probably get infected, it's not just from bites scratches.

Food is pretty safe, the infection travels through humans, so unless you eat something that has eaten part of a zombie, you should be good.

Well protected areas though, with plenty of guns ammo, and a buddy system (if one person turns etc, there is another there to shoot them right away etc), could work pretty well and start creating a wider and wider zombie free area. Long term this could lead to actually wiping out all the zombies, but it would take awhile.

Also, I would say this is actually a real world scenerio, which means zombies will actually deteriorate over time....if you survive for over 2 years or so, the danger from zombies at least will mostly be gone (the virus would still be around though and new dead people could be zombies....but in most cases other humans nearby would take em out right away.
---

28 days zombies are the scary kind. Or that movie with will smith where they come out at night, reminds me of that parkour-zombie-fps. I forget that it's called.
---

@StoneRevolver posted...

28 days zombies are the scary kind. Or that movie with will smith where they come out at night, reminds me of that parkour-zombie-fps. I forget that it's called.

Dying Light
---