Zombie Informed Survival Test (Z.I.S.T.)

[Nouw]

1.you have ran into a small hard ware store that has: gardening equipment, tools and cash register. you have locked the front door and there is no back door. their are around 200-300 zombies out side what to you do? (in this situation it's slow hard to kill zombies)

Eh this is hard as I'm not expert. My answer is that I let a zombie in one by one and I kill them by finding the heaviest yet maneuverable tool/object and smack the zombie. Rinse and repeat.

2. you have teamed up with a police man and injured 5 year old girl, the police officer is out of ammo and only has a baton left you are carrying a frying pan/combat knife/grenade/pointed metal pole (pick one) zombies are hot on your tail you are about 500m away from a save house what to you do? (these zombies are left 4 dead zombies)
Frying Pan. I pick up the 5 year old girl and run like hell with the Police Officer. Note that the girl has the 'plot/innocence' shield and I'm betting we all have good Karma so it's a win!

3. you and the person closest to you are 100m away from a helicopter that will rescue you when the other person falls over with the zombies 50m behind you have a pistol with 20 shots left what do you do? (these are 28 days later zombies)
I run, grab him and run while blindly shooting the gun. I can live with his death on my conscience.

That is the moral thing to do ergo, I live!

Sorry if I'm not taking this seriously as others.

 

[nuba km]

1.you have ran into a small hard ware store that has: gardening equipment, tools and cash register. you have locked the front door and there is no back door. their are around 200-300 zombies out side what to you do? (in this situation it's slow hard to kill zombies)

Eh this is hard as I'm not expert. My answer is that I let a zombie in one by one and I kill them by finding the heaviest yet maneuverable tool/object and smack the zombie. Rinse and repeat.

2. you have teamed up with a police man and injured 5 year old girl, the police officer is out of ammo and only has a baton left you are carrying a frying pan/combat knife/grenade/pointed metal pole (pick one) zombies are hot on your tail you are about 500m away from a save house what to you do? (these zombies are left 4 dead zombies)
Frying Pan. I pick up the 5 year old girl and run like hell with the Police Officer. Note that the girl has the 'plot/innocence' shield and I'm betting we all have good Karma so it's a win!

3. you and the person closest to you are 100m away from a helicopter that will rescue you when the other person falls over with the zombies 50m behind you have a pistol with 20 shots left what do you do? (these are 28 days later zombies)
I run, grab him and run while blindly shooting the gun. I can live with his death on my conscience.

That is the moral thing to do ergo, I live!

Sorry if I'm not taking this seriously as others.

you get a B- you will have around a 30-40% chance of survival also these scenarios don't have movie logic so good morals don't mean survival you can retake the Z.I.S.T.'s if you want.

 

[Aurora219]

first so far you are looking great with your reasoning, second no M67

First, thank you. Second, if it's not an M67 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M67_grenade], what type of grenade to I have?

and lastly the 28 days later zombies run at Olympic speed and any bodily fluids coming into contact with open areas will lead to infection.

In that case, I'll go with the "shoot my friend (in the head) as an act of mercy and run" option

very good also I thought you meant a gun with M67 but the grenade is slandered military grenade.
you get a A- you have good survival chance but you need an A to join my zombie survival group.

So who made you the master of all things fantasy? This stuff is made up, you can't tell people they're wrong just because of the way you imagine a scenario.

I made the test so therefore I mark it if you feel the results are unfair fell free to debate them.

I mark this thread as a 5 out of 10. A lot more effort could have gone into the original scenarios, as well as the marking for the participants thereof. That said, it's a slightly more interesting take on the overdone zombie threads, albeit a pointless one.

 

[Nouw]

1.you have ran into a small hard ware store that has: gardening equipment, tools and cash register. you have locked the front door and there is no back door. their are around 200-300 zombies out side what to you do? (in this situation it's slow hard to kill zombies)

Eh this is hard as I'm not expert. My answer is that I let a zombie in one by one and I kill them by finding the heaviest yet maneuverable tool/object and smack the zombie. Rinse and repeat.

2. you have teamed up with a police man and injured 5 year old girl, the police officer is out of ammo and only has a baton left you are carrying a frying pan/combat knife/grenade/pointed metal pole (pick one) zombies are hot on your tail you are about 500m away from a save house what to you do? (these zombies are left 4 dead zombies)
Frying Pan. I pick up the 5 year old girl and run like hell with the Police Officer. Note that the girl has the 'plot/innocence' shield and I'm betting we all have good Karma so it's a win!

3. you and the person closest to you are 100m away from a helicopter that will rescue you when the other person falls over with the zombies 50m behind you have a pistol with 20 shots left what do you do? (these are 28 days later zombies)
I run, grab him and run while blindly shooting the gun. I can live with his death on my conscience.

That is the moral thing to do ergo, I live!

Sorry if I'm not taking this seriously as others.

you get a B- you will have around a 30-40% chance of survival also these scenarios don't have movie logic so good morals don't mean survival you can retake the Z.I.S.T.'s if you want.

Provided this is our world my sense of Karma would still work but I can live with that. I'll try and retake it later when my mind is refreshed.

I might also watch the Lawnmower scene. That should be a clue to how I think but yes I know chainsaws aren't efficient.

 

[nuba km]

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I feel that's a fair mark as this is an average thread.

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C+, didn't listen to instruction properly but has a logical view on things.

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B+, very realistic view of things and a good balance of morals and logic

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B+, very realistic view of things and a good balance of morals and logic

 

[HSIAMetalKing]

1. a chainsaw takes effort to slice through a person/zombie and seeing the number and densaty of the zombies it won't be effective.

I would think that it would be easy to cut through a zombie's neck with a good enough chainsaw, especially slow, mushy ones; the main problems I would anticipate would be the fact that a chainsaw uses fuel, needs to be revved up, and makes tons of noise.

Anyways, here's my answers:

1. Arm myself with machetes and fortify the store; in a hardware place I would have nearly unlimited materials to do this, drills and boards or, at the very least, tons of shelves. The store would be basically impregnable, though of course I'd be trapped inside. I would then access the roof of the building and judge my next steps from there-- maybe devise some sort of rooftop zip-line system to get from place to place without hitting the zombie-infested streets? At the very least I could use the resources at my disposal to move to a different building in search of supplies.

2. Obviously I order the Policeman to carry the girl and cover them as best I can as we move to the safehouse-- if they move ahead of me I will hopefully be able to keep zombies off their back (though I haven't played Left 4 Dead so maybe those zombies are just super hardcore and I wouldn't be able to fend them off with a sharpened metal pole). Regardless, I would do my best to protect survivors-- being alone would be worse than death.

3. I would make a mad dash for the chopper and get inside-- if the other guy is still alive at this point I'd use the gun to cover him as best I can, although those zombies are hella fast and I'm not exactly a crack shot so I dunno. (Although I would argue that the guys in 28 Days Later aren't zombies because they're not dead, but that's another topic entirely).

 

[s0m3th1ng]

1: find a way to the roof, open the doors, and light the fertilizer section on fire. Hop down to the ground, close the doors, make smores.
2: Toss the girl to the zombies to slow them down and distract them. Run with the cop, tripping him if the zombies get too close.
3:Shoot the dude in the head to spare him the indignity of un-death and GET TO THE CHOPPA.

 

[nuba km]

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solid A+, logical and doesn't take unnecessary risk things outside the box and priorities survival over escape. You would make a excellent addition to my zombie survival team.

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

1. Grab a weapon from amongst the tools (preferably a bladed or bashing item, a shovel would do nicely) and find something that makes a shit-ton of noise. Once I'd found those, I'd use the noise-maker to help distract the zombies as I climb onto the roof and then climb down somewhere where there aren't so many. All the while I'd avoid combat if possible.

2. Give the cop the best weapon of the group (he's probably better with close combat), have him follow me as I carry the girl and keep back any zombies that get to close, and have us all run to the safehouse.

3. Sorry beloved, but there isn't much I can do to keep them away without getting myself killed. Maybe shoot them in the head (if I have time) before running the rest of the way to the chopper. Schwarzenegger would be proud.

 

[nuba km]

1: find a way to the roof, open the doors, and light the fertilizer section on fire. Hop down to the ground, close the doors, make smores.
2: Toss the girl to the zombies to slow them down and distract them. Run with the cop, tripping him if the zombies get too close.
3:Shoot the dude in the head to spare him the indignity of un-death and GET TO THE CHOPPA.

A-, you will properly not get killed by zombie but you may be left behind by other survivors and you don't work well in groups.

 

[HSIAMetalKing]

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solid A+, logical and doesn't take unnecessary risk things outside the box and priorities survival over escape. You would make a excellent addition to my zombie survival team.

Awesome, looking forward to it when Z-Day hits.

 

[shootthebandit]

1. as there is only one entrance, i would use the gardening equipment to make traps. also assuming its a hardware store im guessing theres a forklift or rideon lawnmower that i could attack powertools to

2. take the metal pole. kill the policeman (he has no bullets, whats he gonna do) use him as bait to slow the zombies as you carry the girl to the safe house

3. cap the injured guy, let the zombies get him as you take off in helo

 

[nuba km]

1. Grab a weapon from amongst the tools (preferably a bladed or bashing item, a shovel would do nicely) and find something that makes a shit-ton of noise. Once I'd found those, I'd use the noise-maker to help distract the zombies as I climb onto the roof and then climb down somewhere where there aren't so many. All the while I'd avoid combat if possible.

2. Give the cop the best weapon of the group (he's probably better with close combat), have him follow me as I carry the girl and keep back any zombies that get to close, and have us all run to the safehouse.

3. Sorry beloved, but there isn't much I can do to keep them away without getting myself killed. Maybe shoot them in the head (if I have time) before running the rest of the way to the copper. Schwarzenegger would be proud.

you get an A, you can join my zombie survival team. you think creatively and have a good balance of logic and morals though I find one of you plants a bit iffy.

 

[nuba km]

1. as there is only one entrance, i would use the gardening equipment to make traps. also assuming its a hardware store im guessing theres a forklift or rideon lawnmower that i could attack powertools to

2. take the metal pole. kill the policeman (he has no bullets, whats he gonna do) use him as bait to slow the zombies as you carry the girl to the safe house

3. cap the injured guy, let the zombies get him as you take off in helo

B, good survival instinct but don't get the value of other survivors.

 

[TheAceTheOne]

3. I empty 19 rounds into the other guy for being such an overused cliche and run back towards the helicopter, put a bullet in his face and steal his helicopter.

Quick question: Have you taken the How Cold is Your Heart quiz?

 

[shootthebandit]

1. as there is only one entrance, i would use the gardening equipment to make traps. also assuming its a hardware store im guessing theres a forklift or rideon lawnmower that i could attack powertools to

2. take the metal pole. kill the policeman (he has no bullets, whats he gonna do) use him as bait to slow the zombies as you carry the girl to the safe house

3. cap the injured guy, let the zombies get him as you take off in helo

B, good survival instinct but don't get the value of other survivors.

screw the other survivors, its me or them, dog eat dog, rat eat rat. i would save 5 year old girl though, im not evil

 

[Delta-1138]

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3. I empty 19 rounds into the other guy for being such an overused cliche and run back towards the helicopter, put a bullet in his face and steal his helicopter.

You good sir, are a fucking genius.

 

[lolmynamewastaken]

1) move largest shelves etc towards windows to force zombies to bottle neck and come one at a time ish, then using something long handed and sharpish, take them on until im eaten.
2) take the policemans weapon , carry the girl and leg it for the house.
£) shot who im with and keep running, that way they die fast and don't turn.

 

[nuba km]

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5 year old girl slows you down
trained police officer valuable asset it has nothing to do with morals but value.

ok so here goes nothing

1)gardening center will have weed killer and most likely a staff kitchen so well gimme 5 mins and will blow them to hell

2)the child is injured and i can not be sure she is not infected so i put the grenade in her back pocket and push her over bollocks to the rest of them i'm safe

3)i keep on running no point in wasting time with the gun just let the guy die

B, you know the basics but need to be more creative.