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Originally Posted by Kostya
I hardly see why it's necessary to make fun of me. It's quite easy to simply interpret everything in the most simplistic terms:
I say what if the people bunkered down in secure positions die.
You say: 'Die from what? Old age?' Like I'm a freakin idiot.
I can just work out a scenario where they do die. For instance:
ALONG with the zombies, suddenly, there also happens to appear a mysterious airborne disease which suddenly kills eveyone, except a tiny tiny community of South American indians on an island off the coast of Venezuela.
As I already said, there's no scenario worked out yet, so please give the straw man a break and stop making fun of me. Other people have managed to give advice and criticism without resorting to ouright ridicule.
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Well, if the virus kills everybody except that tribe, they're going to have very little trouble finding plenty of ammo, aren't they? And since zombies can't fly aircraft or steer boats, and I'd imagine that they'd get eaten up pretty bad by the fishes if they tried to walk to the island. Problem solved.
I don't think you're a "freakin idiot". I just think you need to re-examine your underlying premise if you expect people to take your story seriously, even the people who believe in zombies.
You came here asking people for advice. We're giving it to you. Ammo isn't that hard to make, it doesn't take electricity to make it, and there are millions of reloading presses in civilian hands in the US already, with many of their owners already used to scrounging for materials to save money. And berdan-primed military surplus ammo, which generally comes either sealed in zinc "spam cans" or in other waterproof containers, isn't going to "expire" any time soon. I've shot Faulkland war NATO spec surplus .308 ammo that had been left exposed to salt water and the other elements for over 10 years. After I cleaned it off to get rid of the remnants of the 20 round cardboard boxes that it came in, it fired just fine. I've shot 1950's vintage 7.62x54R ammo that had been stored underwater for long enough for the wooden shipping crates to rot away, leaving only the "spam can". It all worked. It was messy to clean, but it worked.
Reference material for you: "The Zombie Survival Guide" by Max Brooks. It's both intentionally and unintentionally funny. I'm sure you can find it on Amazon.com, and at under $20, it's a good read...