 Originally Posted by GrimStories
Hello, been gone for a while, completed a few big projects and got stuff done, back for a visit.
OK, so here's something I used to put numbers and distance in perspective when it comes to writing and thinking about the living dead. It's a silly exercise, but an eye opener.
While on a short drive at dusk on a weekend...not a week day when there's lot of traffic, but go a few miles in the suburbs and count the headlights that you meet oncoming. One pair of headlights equals one walker...I figure that this is a good indication of interval and numbers for scattered living dead through the same area, if you're moving rapidly on foot...why? Why not? This gives you a small percentage of the number of people in an area, perhaps as many as would be wandering the streets after our collapse...it's not overwhelming, so it seemed reasonable. Just count the cars coming toward you in that short distance for thinking about later.
Anyway, I figure that even as a good shot, I'd need maybe four or five shots to snap shoot a low moving but small target at closer ranges. What shocked me is within a half mile or so, with a few dozen cars coming my way, I realized a person would be emptying magazines regularly...going a mile or so with even light traffic, I couldn't carry enough magazines to go a few miles. Even at night the traffic might astonish you. This doesn't take in to consideration fatigue, weather, fear, and the fact that once you start firing everyone of them that's mobile will come toward you.
It's a silly thing to do but if you just count the cars on the road and realize that in the suburbs and urban areas there's multiples of people out there, it almost makes the notion of shooting your way out pathetic.
Very true, and that's not all we have to worry about:
In addition to the randomly-staggering locals, you have the urban sprawl effect. That is, dead from the cities leaving those cities, pursuing the masses of panicked live ones that fled. Once on that trail, they won't just turn around and go back to the city. They will continue down the roads out into the rurals. That means that while you're walking down the highway dodging locals, you have a horde coming along behind you, closing the distance every time you stop.
Also, zombies move in all directions. You may be walking down the road, but they probably won't be. On a rural highway, you have thick foliage on both sides of the road, no more than 20 feet off the shoulder. Many of them will be staggering through that. So, while you're looking down the double-yellow line, you'll have these freaks climbing out of the woodwork on both sides of you. Not a good scenario.
It is literally a case of being surrounded at all times, and you're never very far from the nearest ghoul. And if you fire your gun, like you said, the bumrush is on.
And the whole "swing a sword" idea will get us eaten in hours. It isn't possible to physically slice or bash very many of them. Try throwing just your fist, as hard as you can, just 10 times. Notice how weak you got?
After a dozen ghouls, you'll be pathetically setting your weapon harmlessly onto a zombie's head, your strength gone. Then, it's lunchtime.
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none that involve these 4 of that i can fully assure you. i was more thinking about throwing the ghouls something akin to human snausages, whilst i make my escape.
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