Tasks / Anticipate Zombie Apocalypse
Work as a team to prepare for one (and only one) of the following:
The Zombie Apocalypse
The Robot Uprising
The Alien Invasion
The Nuclear Holocaust
Peak Oil
Massive Climate Change
General Disaster
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4 players
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Level 0
In the zone of: EquivalenZ
Created by Dax Tran-Caffee
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Please, please. Preparing for nuclear holocaust requires an entirely different toolbox and skill set than for competing against Robots for land rights.
Zer0gee: consider which scenario it would be easier to convince 3 (exactly 3) other players go along with you for.
though it could be argued that the robot uprising could lead to the nuclear holocaust if prepared for incorrectly. as an extreme backlash, you know.
and its pretty easy to see how over-preparing for almost all of these scenarios brings us closer to peak oil.
is it too much to ask that we do not cause any of the other scenarios while preparing for another?
or is that outside of the scope of the task?
The zombie apocalypse would take us all by surprise, being that zombies are probably fictional. In an effort to stem the rotting tide, we'd see street level troops in armored mechanical suits designed for rescue/building inspection/zombie brawls.
As the zombie/human war dies down, engineers will further experiment with these mechanical designs, some possibly incorporating as yet undestroyed zombies in their research. With the zombie/human war cooling off considerably, the world's governments will find themselves focusing on a robotic arms race, the sparring governments fiercely trying to close the robot gap.
This robots race, accelerated by any number of factors; from political unrest, to pockets of zombie relapse will escalate in a robot war in which the robotic soldiers of one of the involved nations end up turning against their masters. This would lead to those robot troops fighting for control of the nation that once controlled them, perhaps being fought by the benign robots controlled by various neighbor nations.
Whether the robot war is one that is good robot against bad, or machine against man, this is yet unclear. Either way, it is bad.
Whether attracted to our planet by the probes we've sent, or happening on by chance, a world still hot with mechanical war, and undead rebellion would understandably grab the curiosity of passing extra-terrestrials. Spurred either by an interest in conquest, or self-preservation, the saucer-men will make their presence known.
Will the aliens decide that a world in a violent state of flux will be easy pickin's?
Will their landing party of friendly aliens be savaged by robo-zombies, and avenged by the hovering intergalactic militia?
Will it be a holdover of our SDI program, or it's Russian equivalent (Sderzhivanie?) that mistakes the alien landing shuttle for an incoming attack from a hostile nation and fire an opening nuclear salvo?
The final devastation of our climate, would that be rendered by our actions, or some strange alien weapon?
That's not a world I want.
I say we can stop it by not only preparing for the zombie apocalypse, but flat out stopping it before it starts. That should be our first concern.
ARE YOU SAIYNG THAT STEMMING THE ZOMBIE UPRISING RESULT IN LESSENING THE CHANCES OF A ROBOT UPRISING?
mkII brings up a good point.
history needn't progress in one direction only.
climate change seems like the most probable starting point to me.
for example, massive it could result in a rapid race to adapt humans to survive. this probably results in robots.
but in our rush to save ourselves we will have programmed them with the whole of cold war histories, leading the ever logical robots to conclude that conflict themselves.
post nuclear holocaust, there are always zombies.
or climate change could result in zombies first, which then would spawn robots and so on.
basically,
VIGILANCE!
but it does seem to come down to robo-zombies in any situation.
That robot is not good at spelling.
I'm doing what I can to avert and/or prevent the zombie apocalypse. I mean, I remove the brains from every single pre-living postmortem person that comes in here so even if they do reanimate they won't have any brains to think about getting brains with.
I hope this gets accepted, I have plans a-brewing courtusey of Lowteck.
Wait, isn't this what we're already supposed to be doing every day?
Or is that just paranoid ol' me? Ugh o.
MNZero is already busy preparing, a little bit too late, for how to deal with our zombie problem.
Gummies: Clearly Prepared for the WRONG Apocalypse
Hopefully the newly-forming Probot education subcommittee will encourage them to realize what an unlikely choice theirs was, and prevent others from making the same mistake.
For any of the disasters which happen very quickly (as opposed to slowly rising sea levels), the biggest bang for your buck does come in bug-out-bag preparation, not vastly fortified safehouses and stockpiles. Finding yourself among the first-responders in a situation is of course when this will make a difference, as newsfeeds of the impending apocalypse from elsewhere give you time to follow some plan, so long as you have one, catered to the particulars of this disaster.
My goal will be to assemble a kit that will prove most useful to myself, and more importantly to humanity at large if I should be lucky(?) enough to encounter the disaster first.
I love this, but am terribly conflicted between choosing the Robot Uprising or the Nuclear Holocaust...