Tearstone

Star Wars - Emergency Transmission

Bump for justice.

The Dresden files

Templar, some of the Denarians, such as Cassius were involved with the Black Council, but some of them, like Nichodemus have proven to not be. So the Blackened Denarius group is in a gray area there.

The Dresden files

The Outsiders are.. dangerous to say the least. They're the one specific group of beings that the White Council has a rule about which is simply "NO CONTACT! No summoning them, no talking to them. Fight or run only." Or at least that's the gist of it. Cold Days covers a lot of details on the Outsiders, but there's still more about them that's sketchy and in the dark.

Basically in the Nevernever,, deep in, there's the Outer Gates which are a doorway to another realm entirely it seems. There has been battle raging around the gates for who knows how long. It has been Mab's job to fight much of this battle and keep the Outsiders from getting in. He Who Walks Behind is an Outsider. They're creatures of great power, very dangerous, and most human magic rolls off of them with little to no effect. Sidhe magic is a bit more effective, but not much more. It comes down to melee combat a lot. Rashid the Gatekeeper (Senior Council member) is involved and has been helping in the situation. Mab has committed millions of Winter fae to the fight, and most of the trouble Harry's had in the past has been a small fraction.

Anyway, Outsiders are baaaad juju. If you had it in mind, what city might you be interested in?

The Dresden files

As another thought, who says it has to be Chicago either. Baltimore would be a good choice, or perhaps somewhere on the West Coast.

I suggest Baltimore for one simple reason: It's already set up for play in the Dresdenverse if you have access to the Dresden Files RPG (which I do).

Could also set up any other decent sized city.

Walking Dead - Miami, Florida

*beep*
"Did you see that?!"
"Sure did. I want a shot of epinephrine! Restart compressions, get the O2 back and running!"

Mostly I meant it as a joke to see if anyone would respond. So yeah,, I got some kind of response.

The Dresden files

Hey Mal, let's not forget the Black Hats/Black Council/The Circle have had a hand in events since Victor Sells and the Three Eye gang got started. someone taught him in both his ability and how to make Three Eye in the first place. This could be a potent force to recruit these kids, turn them into addicts, or turn them into rampaging sorcerers with no regard for the Laws. Maybe they don't need to use Three Eye at some point, but it becomes like a magical steroid.

Not to mention the foe/sickness from the Outside, and the war with the Outsiders going on. This all could tie in very well.

Maybe the ThreeEye starts up again, what with the White Council and others busy dealing with the Fomor and their servitors as it is. Perhaps it would be a good time for Kumori and his companions to start making moves again, quietly, behind the scenes, or perhaps moving this group around?

Walking Dead - Miami, Florida

"Call it..."
"Time of death, 3:54 AM Central time (9:54 AM GMT)."

Walking Dead - Miami, Florida

Well, there's a few different ways it could progress.

First way, patient zero gets bitten or infected from something somewhere. Patient Zero wanders home, dies, turns, bites, someone else, maybe several someones before he is restrained or killed. They die and turn, and bite several someones, and so on. Typical Class 1 outbreak scenario as detailed in Max Brooks' works. The problem with this, is that with quick thinking and coordination such an event could be stopped in it's tracks.

Second way is that there's something in the water, food supply, or air that gets spread through the population. It may have hopped species from the animal kingdom, but is now among people. People start to become sick with flu-like symptoms, high fever, bad chills, severe body aches, tiredness, delirium, dehydration, nausea. After a few days to a week they begin to expire, in waves and droves. And then after a while, 10 hours or more they start to reanimate and resurrect, and that's when the real horror begins.

I could think of one or two more ways this could work, but it wouldn't be close enough to the Walking Dead to call it that anymore.

Walking Dead - Miami, Florida

So is nobody else going to weigh in or say anything?

Walking Dead - Miami, Florida

Let's not forget that with sanitation efforts now ended, insect population like mosquitoes are going to explode. West Nile, yellow fever, and malaria are going to explode again in the south amongst the surviving population.

I'm not sure I agree with the idea of malls and stores, and emergency centers having much food or supplies. If you ever study how fast the shelves of a supermarket empty when there's an emergency coming or on-going, in a situation like a zombie outbreak, its going to go even faster. Same is true for gas stations, especially as logistics break down. Who wants to deliver a load of stuff to their local Walmart when there could be zombies trying to chew my little girl's face off -right now-? What's more important? Also, how long am I going to be stuck in this traffic?

And that's before the looting starts and people start taking matters into their own hands. The cities would be pure chaos in a very short time, as police, fire, and emergency medical services are overrun. National guard gets called in along with FEMA and the CDC,but there's very little they could do. If it was one state, sure, it might not be such a big problem. It seems that every state would be having issues, or at least the major cities in short order. Which means that their resources are spread pretty thin. Martial law would probably be declared very shortly with active military moving into the cities, coordinating with whatever services were left. They would probably start engaging in combat operations and sanitization operations, much like is depicted in Season 2 of The Walking Dead. They'd be dropping napalm and setting up combat cordons.

However, it wouldn't be terribly effective, besides White Phosphorous. Military trains to shoot center mass at long to medium distance. It's drilled into them all the time. Most of the time they use burst or automatic fire as a three round burst through the chest is pretty much a bad day for anyone, and is probably the last bad day they'll ever have. When they start to shoot and the bullets pass through with no notable effect, a good number will panic and start shooting wildly. Even when they figure out headshots work, it's only going to be disciplined shooters that make it work. Expert units like SEALs, Rangers, Delta, Green Berets, Marine RECON, CavScouts, and so on will probably fare much better, or those with combat experience will probably do alright. Which means that there will be 'civilians' who handle themselves, as well as active units that are stateside that will probably do well. The military could do a number of things to increase their effectiveness, but it is likely they will try to engage on the ground, instead of from elevated positions that have been barricaded off, which leaves them in reach of the massive groups of walkers.

Now, enterprising units who think and decide to take the high ground and take a building, put a rifleman in every window above the second or third floor could be highly combat effective. Perhaps the tactic would spread to other units. If so, there's a fighting chance, especially if choppers aren't used for medivac but resupply. Drop off beans, bullets, and water, take the ones that haven't been injured by the biters, but may have been injured in another way, rotate in fresh troops.

Sorry, off on a tangent. Anyway, I think the shelves in stores would empty out very very fast, especially since it's a SHTF situation that is WrOL (without rule of law).

Maine could be good during hte warmer months, but they have really harsh winters. Life or death stuff. Just a thought.

Still looking for more, and no, Fallen dear, my long part of this post isn't an attack on you or anything. It's just a commentary on goverment inefficiency/inadequacy in a situation like that, especially in a world with no zombie culture.