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Carnack |
Timeline Of The Living Dead...And Just Living
Dec 12 2010, 2:15 AM EST
Okay so I was talking (kinda) to Smallprint and an idea formed in my head about timelines. The order in which things can happen before and after The Panic.So here I am giving you My Thoughts on the timeline. I'm using a terrorist attack as the prime cause. The virus has a long incubation period but is infectious within a week of infection. Ye Olde Normul Wurld: We're living it. Things are working more or less like they should. The Beginning: New York, Tokyo, DC, London, and Paris are all visited by people who are simply going about their business. They are business men who travel overseas as a part of their work. They through various covert means were infected by the Zombie Disease and are unaware that they are spreading it. Business as usual continues. Buildup: People begin getting sick with flu-like symptoms. Hospitals begin getting more patients than usual. The public is worried but not overly so. Buildup Stage 2: The first deaths start to occur restricted primarily to the weak and elderly. Reports of attacks by unknown assailents are bandied about on news stations and people begin showing up in emergency rooms with bite marks. The Announcment: The governments tell citizens not to panic as more and more attacks occur in every state in the country and abroad. The Panic: http://www.zombiesurvivalwiki.com/page/The+Panic Danger Period: At this point the primary panic has died down. The majority of rioters are dead or holed up elsewhere. Essential goods are nowhere to be found due to the panic moving them into more defendable areas. At this time idiot raiders, badly prepped survivors, and pockets of military and police forces are holed up as well. Many survivors leave the large cities for the isolated woodlands only to be picked off by zombies and the aformentioned other guys. Cont Do you find this valuable? |
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Carnack |
1. RE: Timeline Of The Living Dead...And Just Living
Dec 12 2010, 2:25 AM EST
| Post edited: Dec 12 2010, 2:27 AM EST
ContGrouping: People will group up as humans do and will continue to move away from population centers. Many people will die of hunger during this period and only the hardier/better prepared will make it. Raid groups will begin to work and many will die just as quickly due not only to starvation but also armed survivors. The Calm: Survivors will generally arrive at this moment and will decide how to continue. Some will roam in small bands hunting and gathering their food. A great many however will form settlements relying on farming for food and at times trade. Lawmaking: People will begin drumming out law for their settlements. Many will want to do things the old and inefficient way and still others will want to try mixes of various systems. At this point the dumb and desperate raiders are on the decline leaving the strongest and coldest alive. Outreach: Groups will reach out to other groups forming single settelments or coalitions to challenge outside threats. Rebuilding: Life will be hard and sometimes short. We will relearn the old ways and will learn to defend ourselves from the occasional raider attack and zombie incursion. We'll build up our communities. Life will go on. The End? Who knows. My attention span is limited. Agree? Disagree? Ideas? I'm not Pedro. Numbers ain't my thing. Do you find this valuable? |
Mr_Jumbles |
2. RE: Timeline Of The Living Dead...And Just Living
Dec 12 2010, 2:56 AM EST
just gota point out that after OUTREACH youll have to add in WARRING TRIBES kind of section since the LAW MAKING section explains thatcommunes will disagree and try to take over one another for natural resources or just because they feel they are right and also there will still be tiny remains of the modern military hidden in bunkers or random places we'd never really look staying isolated from the outside world with a militant view and approach to "preserving humanity" and sooner or later those small shreds of the old world will arise from their bunkers and off shore fortresses and then theres the whole mess with the old martial law society trying to take over the newer survivalist societies Do you find this valuable? |
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Carnack |
3. RE: Timeline Of The Living Dead...And Just Living
Dec 12 2010, 4:40 AM EST
Warring tribes are ever-present. That will not change.
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Mr_Jumbles |
4. RE: Timeline Of The Living Dead...And Just Living
Dec 12 2010, 6:21 AM EST
what about the old government then?
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Rocketman52 |
5. RE: Timeline Of The Living Dead...And Just Living
Dec 12 2010, 1:12 PM EST
Very cool, Carnack.So the virus here would be spread around just like any old cold, or the flu, correct? Those infected turn contagious themselves after about a week, but don't actually turn into zombies until after that. And as usual, it is always infections, always lethal, and always turns a person? The survivors would not only be dealing with zombies, but with the black plague, basically. The smallest exposure causes disease, becomes contagious, but is still undetectable. :O Just as an observation, the quarantines and such, by both pre-governments and post-colonies would have to be ridiculously harsh and secure. I'm kinda curious - do you think that, because of the Panic, supplies would be moved to areas of armed survivors? Or areas of heavy infestation? Or just scattered around? I wasn't quite sure what you meant. And what would happen with/to armaments in this time-line? How do guns and bullets, or even bows and arrows, come and go in this? Do you find this valuable? |
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Carnack |
6. RE: Timeline Of The Living Dead...And Just Living
Dec 12 2010, 1:50 PM EST
If I were to make it a weapon that's how I'd do it. Max virulence, but with very little warning.By the time anyone knew it existed most of the country would be infected. Originally they would just be taken. Moved from the obvious locations and placed elsewhere. Some of those may be in armed survivor camps but still others would be in areas that were overrun. Firearms would be horded due to people marking them as essential gear. Do you find this valuable? |
