Zombie Cliche Lookout: On Our Own
In zombie stories, the downfall of the emergency services is seen as a significant point in the plot. The ones that survive are usually good group members and significant characters in the story, as they are resourceful and knowledgeable about important things, like First Aid.
Discussion Question: What About You?
What makes you a good group member? What would you do in situations that no one else would have thought of? For example, in a large public building with zeds breaking in quick, what would you do before everyone gives up and runs off?
Man, where is everyone?
I’ll weigh in on the discussion question.
I believe I have pretty solid triage skills. If we need to look at a situation and quickly assess what the most urgent tasks are, I can usually help with that. I’m also a pretty easy guy to get along with, which is pretty important in a group.
For this specific situation, I’d look at two things. First, is there any way to slow or stop the zeds from getting in. If there is, and it’s not too risky, I’d go for that. If there isn’t a way to stop them, I’d be looking around for the most important supplies we have, and try to get people working to snatch those up.
Great job on the guest strips so far!
When everyone is hiding in a different room on the site, having hopelessly run from the zeds that inevitably break in, I would be the guy that remembered to pick up a floor plan of the building that I am in.
Some public buildings (colleges, universities, town halls, leisure centres, and police stations) have these in offices. This could be the difference between life and death in this situation.
I’ll respond to your “where is everyone” question with some of my own experiences: Been too busy figuring out how to recover from lack of sleep, the first night some idiot was running a noisy dryer at 3AM in our unit complex, the second night same problem only due to someone yelling at someone else on the street. Plus all of the regular day to day stuff I have to do around here. I’ve been busy trying to find time to respond, sorry about that, TheBeefThief, but that’s just the way things are going atm. Your comic is fairly good, although lacks zeds, it’s otherwise very well photographed so far, not sure where the dialogue is going yet, might comment more on that afterwards! 😀
Thanks for your support! And don’t worry about a lack of zeds, there will be some shortly!
If I’m in a building with zombies breaking in, I say half of my group starts packing up everything that might come in handy and I and the other half barricade the entrances and hold out on the zombies. Hopefully we can parkour onto an adjacent building or exit through a back door that’s clear.
Don’t forget to remove the barricades before you leave a room though- or you could be barricading somebody else out sometime in the future!
BTW, these Guest Strips are awesome! Perhaps I’ll start some Brick comic soon…
I would fully recommend producing a comic of your own, it’s fun to photograph and edit and Dave is looking for more guest strips!
TheBeefThief, the more I read your comic the more I like it. It has some, i don’t know how to describe it, some old style LEGO look that brings a real identity to your work. Can’t wait to see where this is going !
Thankyou, I am happy you enjoy reading the comic! I based the room off of a Brickfilm set, which tend to use classic box-shaped rooms seen in Lego in older sets, much different to modular buildings.
My skills tend to border on the jack of all trades the master of none, but instead I’m more of an apprentice in that field of all fields. So I’m good at helping people do what they’re good at. The only real thing I think I’d be admirable at is forestry/primitive survival and skills.
Really? That’s an awesome skill. You can pick up methods from helping people out, and you can use those always. I read an article about how people who do that are actually at an evolutionary advantage. You can’t just be the guy that lights fires or the guy that sets up shelters. You have to do all the things to become the person everyone looks to for help.
Well you’re not wrong that’s for sure, I do find myself being asked to help people do just about anything.
It means you also fare better alone than others would, as you learned a lot from helping others out. Imagine being in a group where everyone has their own job, and you never talked to the guy that lights fires? And now you’re on your own, without knowing how to keep warm.
Zombie Cliche Lookout: On Our Own
In zombie stories, the downfall of the emergency services is seen as a significant point in the plot. The ones that survive are usually good group members and significant characters in the story, as they are resourceful and knowledgeable about important things, like First Aid.
Discussion Question: What About You?
What makes you a good group member? What would you do in situations that no one else would have thought of? For example, in a large public building with zeds breaking in quick, what would you do before everyone gives up and runs off?
Man, where is everyone?
I’ll weigh in on the discussion question.
I believe I have pretty solid triage skills. If we need to look at a situation and quickly assess what the most urgent tasks are, I can usually help with that. I’m also a pretty easy guy to get along with, which is pretty important in a group.
For this specific situation, I’d look at two things. First, is there any way to slow or stop the zeds from getting in. If there is, and it’s not too risky, I’d go for that. If there isn’t a way to stop them, I’d be looking around for the most important supplies we have, and try to get people working to snatch those up.
Great job on the guest strips so far!
When everyone is hiding in a different room on the site, having hopelessly run from the zeds that inevitably break in, I would be the guy that remembered to pick up a floor plan of the building that I am in.
Some public buildings (colleges, universities, town halls, leisure centres, and police stations) have these in offices. This could be the difference between life and death in this situation.
I’ll respond to your “where is everyone” question with some of my own experiences: Been too busy figuring out how to recover from lack of sleep, the first night some idiot was running a noisy dryer at 3AM in our unit complex, the second night same problem only due to someone yelling at someone else on the street. Plus all of the regular day to day stuff I have to do around here. I’ve been busy trying to find time to respond, sorry about that, TheBeefThief, but that’s just the way things are going atm. Your comic is fairly good, although lacks zeds, it’s otherwise very well photographed so far, not sure where the dialogue is going yet, might comment more on that afterwards! 😀
Thanks for your support! And don’t worry about a lack of zeds, there will be some shortly!
If I’m in a building with zombies breaking in, I say half of my group starts packing up everything that might come in handy and I and the other half barricade the entrances and hold out on the zombies. Hopefully we can parkour onto an adjacent building or exit through a back door that’s clear.
Don’t forget to remove the barricades before you leave a room though- or you could be barricading somebody else out sometime in the future!
BTW, these Guest Strips are awesome! Perhaps I’ll start some Brick comic soon…
I would fully recommend producing a comic of your own, it’s fun to photograph and edit and Dave is looking for more guest strips!
TheBeefThief, the more I read your comic the more I like it. It has some, i don’t know how to describe it, some old style LEGO look that brings a real identity to your work. Can’t wait to see where this is going !
Thankyou, I am happy you enjoy reading the comic! I based the room off of a Brickfilm set, which tend to use classic box-shaped rooms seen in Lego in older sets, much different to modular buildings.
My skills tend to border on the jack of all trades the master of none, but instead I’m more of an apprentice in that field of all fields. So I’m good at helping people do what they’re good at. The only real thing I think I’d be admirable at is forestry/primitive survival and skills.
Really? That’s an awesome skill. You can pick up methods from helping people out, and you can use those always. I read an article about how people who do that are actually at an evolutionary advantage. You can’t just be the guy that lights fires or the guy that sets up shelters. You have to do all the things to become the person everyone looks to for help.
Well you’re not wrong that’s for sure, I do find myself being asked to help people do just about anything.
It means you also fare better alone than others would, as you learned a lot from helping others out. Imagine being in a group where everyone has their own job, and you never talked to the guy that lights fires? And now you’re on your own, without knowing how to keep warm.