Poll: Mad Skillz

[featherynscale]

[Poll #999635]

EDIT: And in case anybody's interested, I'm not a survivor. Skills aside, I'm sort-of value-engineered, and I require regular outside chemical input to sustain my processes. So in case of Zombie Apocalypse, you better get me to write down anything useful I happen to know.

Comments

[project-becky.livejournal.com]

While I like to see myself as some tough and sexy kick-ass chick, shooting zombies while doing back flips in high-heeled leather boots, the truth is I'm going to be zombie chow the first day. I won't even make it to the mall.

Better start practicing... "braiiiiins"

[zylch.livejournal.com]

This is part of why I refuse to allow myself to rely on chemical input. In case of Zombie Apocalypse (or just lack of insurance to pay for drugs), I'm good to go. Also, this past year has seriously upped my survival potential. I'll be throwing spears at the zombies with atlatls long after everyone else has used up all their ammo!

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Also, if the survivors need to skin a beaver or melt bronze in a bellows-driven furnace, you're there. Note to others who would survive Zombie Apocalypse: Get zylch on your team.

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

How long of an aftermath are you talking about here?

[ysabel.livejournal.com]

I can function without drugs, but I would certainly be a good bit crazier. That said, I suspect I would survive for a while, because I've got a lot of useful skills, both in terms of immediate survival and in terms of long-term useful things. My biggest problem is that I'm not very good at most actual manual-labor-requiring things, and I suspect a lot of those would be needed.

[ysabel.livejournal.com]

A decent bow isn't hard to make, and I've been good with them in the past. Heck, a decent crossbow isn't that hard to make. I'm also a good hand with a couple kinds of slings.

Never actually used an atlatl before, though I'd love to try it.

And like I said below, I can function without drugs, I'm just a lot crazier without them. I see no need to let myself be crazier now just because I might have to tolerate being crazier later...

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

In the event of an actual apocalypse, we're kind of a bunch of Golgafrinchams, aren't we?

The Boy Scout thing proves useful

[crookedface.livejournal.com]

Well, I still remember most of the survival skills from years past. I've started fires with just sticks, I've made makeshift shelters, eaten wild plants (and a couple o' bugs), and that sort of survivalist thing.

I'm also quite good at killing things, with or without ammo. Pointy sticks, sharp rocks, clubs, hands and feet--they all work well. I also see lots of people around me in the foodstock herd. I'm not entirely joking when I say "There are two kinds of people: my people and food."

If I can keep the diabetes monster at bay, I'll do just fine.

Darwin Says NO!!

[orcjohn.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately while I have LOTS of survival knowledge, I am no longer healthy enough to actually put them into practice myself. AND I am totally dependent on modern medical and pharmacology to stay alive at this point, so no dice there.

So if you have no survival skills of your own, and want me to help you out, you'll have to burden yourself with keeping me alive long enough to teach you what I know.

Probably not worth the trouble.

[lilia-blackbear.livejournal.com]

I may not have a lot of great skills, but gosh darnit, people like me.

[liquidfun.livejournal.com]

Of course, to survive, the first thing I'd need to do is either kick the nic-fit habit for good, or raid a QT right off the bat and stock up on death sticks ...

[kellan-m-solan.livejournal.com]

Seems pretty likely I'd die in the collapse. Since anything that isn't instantaneous will probably bring me to the front lines before the end. The DHS funds St. Louis as a Tier II risk for both transportation infrastructure and as a major port. So if we were being nuked in preparation for a later invasion I'd be target number 40 or so which is well within the first strike capabilities of many nations. If the idea was straight retaliation or destruction there'd have to be an awful lot of nuclear hell before anyone would bother with saint louis... POSSIBLY long enough to get into the eastern Ozarks [the NW Ozarks will probably go when they get Whiteman for its Minuteman(s)] if you know the back-roads.

But then I'd probably be compelled to join whatever rescue/evacuation efforts the remains of the US mounted to deal with radiological fallout and die that way.

Now Zombies on the other hand I could deal with. I can have a Sako TRG-22 and a few thousand rounds of Winchester 150gr JSP to hand in about fifteen minutes. Enough ammo to get ahold of more ammo (Goodfellow Boulevard and I70 = St. Louis Army Ammunition Plant). Which should be enough to go find Zylch, whom I can hide behind when the ammo is spent }-).

[wildnsquirrelly.livejournal.com]

I'll be Ok. I've read Max Brooks' The Zombie Survival Guide, The Boy Scout Handbook, and SMCT levels 1-4. On top of that, I've been in situations where I've actually used the skills described in said volumes (well, except Brooks' book, of course), and I feel I could fairly easily do so again.

A zombie would be better off trying to find it's daily requirement of brains somewhere else.

[wildnsquirrelly.livejournal.com]

Ok, so you're not a catfish, but what were your answers to the rest of the poll, hmm?

Since you asked.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

1. Either asking the right question, or blowjobs.

2. I can make the Anubis/Mr. Potface hand puppet stick out his tongue. Apparently, this is considered 'gross' in some cultures.