Survive Zombie Nation!

Started by Parmaniac5 pages

Originally posted by illadelph12
What time of year does this hypothetical trek begin?
And even more important: Where does the trek begin? All we know is that we have to go to NY.

Originally posted by illadelph12
What time of year does this hypothetical trek begin?
March

Originally posted by Parmaniac
And even more important: Where does the trek begin? All we know is that we have to go to NY.
LA, California. It was stated in OP.

If this begins in March then Team 4 is definitely the best pick. You can head due East and pass through the sparsely populated parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma before the summer heat hits (which would also cut down on the number of zombies you'd encounter. Most of that route is flat and sparsely populated, so it will be easy to see anyone coming, and there won't be many potential zombies so the chances of being overwhelmed significantly drops (till you get to North Texas and Oklahoma). From Arkansas you can just cut through Tennessee to North Carolina, then up through Eastern Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania (trekking through the Appalachians during the summer is a much better route than trying to pass through the plains or the Northern Midwest, i.e. Illinois, Indiana, Ohio; more densely populated states; during the summer). Most of the heavy fighting probably wouldn't take place til we got near D.C. and Philly.

Originally posted by illadelph12
If this begins in March then Team 4 is definitely the best pick. You can head due East and pass through the sparsely populated parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma before the summer heat hits (which would also cut down on the number of zombies you'd encounter. Most of that route is flat and sparsely populated, so it will be easy to see anyone coming, and there won't be many potential zombies so the chances of being overwhelmed significantly drops (till you get to North Texas and Oklahoma). From Arkansas you can just cut through Tennessee to North Carolina, then up through Eastern Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania (trekking through the Appalachians during the summer is a much better route than trying to pass through the plains or the Northern Midwest, i.e. Illinois, Indiana, Ohio; more densely populated states; during the summer). Most of the heavy fighting probably wouldn't take place til we got near D.C. and Philly.
but that type of sparse terrain would work against spider-man as he can't web swing...

He can still run and jump faster and farther than any human. So can Blade. And the number of Zombies will be very, very low in those regions as there aren't many people, so the need to swing from building to building to avoid danger won't be of a very high priority due to the low likelihood of actually encountering a large concentration of zombies. He and Blade could just incapacitate them or kill them. It's a very safe route. Not going through many large population centers means not a lot of zombies, and given that Blade deals with far more dangerous vampires regularly, handling Rage zombies in low numbers would be a cakewalk. When we reach the East Coast Metro area Spider-man's web-slinging comes more into play as the zombie populace will be far more dense. With my route geography plays in my favor.

Originally posted by illadelph12
He can still run and jump faster and farther than any human. So can Blade. And the number of Zombies will be very, very low in those regions as there aren't many people, so the need to swing from building to building to avoid danger won't be of a very high priority due to the low likelihood of actually encountering a large concentration of zombies. He and Blade could just incapacitate them or kill them. It's a very safe route. Not going through many large population centers means not a lot of zombies, and given that Blade deals with far more dangerous vampires regularly, handling Rage zombies in low numbers would be a cakewalk. When we reach the East Coast Metro area Spider-man's web-slinging comes more into play as the zombie populace will be far more dense. With my route geography plays in my favor.
Using that strategy, why don't you grab a boat and some supplies and go out and down through the panamal canal and back up? Then the only place you'd encounter zombies is in New York. The entire rest of the time you're traveling where there wouldn't be any other people until you got to new york. What with La and new york both being coastal.

Then when you got to bilding esque new york Spider-Man could swing you to the destination easily.

Originally posted by Creshosk
Using that strategy, why don't you grab a boat and some supplies and go out and down through the panamal canal and back up? Then the only place you'd encounter zombies is in New York. The entire rest of the time you're traveling where there wouldn't be any other people until you got to new york. What with La and new york both being coastal.

Then when you got to bilding esque new york Spider-Man could swing you to the destination easily.

there are no vehicles (it was included in the OP for this very reason)

I think Brucie wanted to restrict all kinds of vehicles.

EDIT: Like I thought.

Originally posted by Starscream M
there are no vehicles (it was included in the OP for this very reason)
Do you have any idea how easy it would be to MAKE a boat?

Seriously. They may not be there now, but are you restricting MY abilities?

does blade still need to feed on blood these days?

if so he's out of luck

Originally posted by psycho gundam
does blade still need to feed on blood these days?

if so he's out of luck

good point...that would also force him to take the non-ocean route...as he'd prob need to get to hospitals along the way to get blood packs

There's still plenty of non-human blood, and there's lots of cattle farms between Cali and NY. I don't think that's really an issue.

Originally posted by illadelph12
There's still plenty of non-human blood, and there's lots of cattle farms between Cali and NY. I don't think that's really an issue.
I'm saying its an issue per Creshosh's idea of having them traveling by sea to NY

don't they only consume human blood? otherwise that would make for a humongous plot hole in the vampire lore.

Originally posted by psycho gundam
don't they only consume human blood? otherwise that would make for a humongous plot hole in the vampire lore.
not nec...animal blood is nowhere near as good for them as human blood...but they can survive on it. hence, most vampires have no moral qualms so they wouldn't bother with animal blood.

Originally posted by Starscream M
I'm saying its an issue per Creshosh's idea of having them traveling by sea to NY

Ah, gotcha. Yeah, if that were the case they'd need to secure a lot of supplies before they set sail unless Blade intends to jump in the water and try to fish for large sea mammals. Besides, if vehicles were allowed, best bet would be to just procure a train like an Amtrak or something and steamroll across country. There'd already be a food car with supplies, it travels faster than a zombie can run so there's not much worry about being boarded unless you were forced to stop, and if anything particularly large were blocking the tracks (like an abandoned 18 wheeler, for example), you could just stop and have Spider-man move it off the tracks.

Did the 28days/week virus infect the animal populace? If so, i dunno how viable drinking that blood would be for Blade.

Originally posted by marwash22
Did the 28days/week virus infect the animal populace? If so, i dunno how viable drinking that blood would be for Blade.
iirc a raven eat some corpse and while perched on a high structure, a drop of blood landed in some guy's eye and he later transformed.

the bird acted as any of it's species does *shrug*

Originally posted by Starscream M
not nec...animal blood is nowhere near as good for them as human blood...but they can survive on it. hence, most vampires have no moral qualms so they wouldn't bother with animal blood.
we're talking about blade though, marvel has it's own set of laws and it's own history concerning vampirism

Originally posted by illadelph12
Ah, gotcha. Yeah, if that were the case they'd need to secure a lot of supplies before they set sail unless Blade intends to jump in the water and try to fish for large sea mammals. Besides, if vehicles were allowed, best bet would be to just procure a train like an Amtrak or something and steamroll across country. There'd already be a food car with supplies, it travels faster than a zombie can run so there's not much worry about being boarded unless you were forced to stop, and if anything particularly large were blocking the tracks (like an abandoned 18 wheeler, for example), you could just stop and have Spider-man move it off the tracks.
I was talking about making a boat. I can't make a car or a train. If we stayed close enough to the shore so that we could stop in at a hospital to supply Blade there'd be no problem. Or we could sacrifice some of the ease later to ensure the ease now and just go with team 1.