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THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE MEME
inspired by the Left 4 Dead games, The Walking Dead, and various other zombie-related media.

It's a scenario that needs little introduction: the dead have risen to feast upon the living.
In the beginning there were evacuations, emergency broadcasts, reassurances from the government and the media.
It was hoped that things would return to normal sooner rather than later. But eventually, all that's left are the shambling hordes.
So take up that baseball bat, or your father's shotgun. Cling tight to your memories of the better times, or your faith, or whatever keeps you going.
The odds aren't stacked in your favor....but maybe you'll survive.

WHAT.
a productive survivor is a happy survivor.

1) Scavenge/Search: The end of civilization as we know it also means the end of all things convenient, up to and including hot water, electricity and McDonald's. Whether it's ammo or edibles, you're looking for any salvageable supplies. This option is also for if you're trying to find a familiar face somewhere among all the destruction and danger.
2) Fight: Not for your right to party, but for survival. Whether against a lone zombie, an entire horde or a fellow human being, there's nothing else to do but try and come out of the encounter alive.
3) Barricade: There's nowhere to run, but you can at least hide out and hunker down for awhile. Hopefully being cooped up won't drive you stir-crazy.
4) Escape: There comes a time when the only thing to do is run. Is there a horde on your tail? A final evacuation helicopter waiting just ahead? Whatever the reason, better hope you don't stumble.
5) Scout: Charging ahead blindly is an easy way to get killed. A little reconnaissance can prove to be the wisest decision.
6) Relax: Seems like an out of place choice, doesn't it? But sometimes, peace is just as important as safety. You've managed to secure a little while to breathe, to forget the horror you've just gone through.

WHERE.
location, location, location.

1) City/Neighborhood: These places used to be bustling with life. Now they're silent, littered with wreckage and likely crawling with foes.
2) Farmstead/Mill/Lighthouse: Isolated, secluded buildings out in the sticks.
3) Sewers/Subway/Rooftops: If you're heading through these areas, you're likely just trying to get to someplace better. Here's hoping nothing gets the jump on you.
4) Hospital/Army Base/Evacuation Center: These places once offered hope and protection. There might still be firepower and supplies stocked somewhere within.
5) Woods/Swamp/Coast/General Outdoors: Nature hasn't gotten any kinder, but it might just provide needed cover or a place to gather food the old-fashioned way.

WHEN.
at what stage of the world's end do you find yourself?

1) Initial Outbreak: This awful reality is new and frightening. There's chaos and panic everywhere you turn.
2) Two Weeks Later: The horror isn't quite so fresh, or maybe you're just starting to get a little numb to it.
3) Two Months Later: Some of the dust has settled on what remains of society. How have you been holding up?
4) ???: Specific time of your choosing.

WHO.
humanity's numbers have thinned dramatically, but you aren't alone.

1) Family: In this world, kin may be all you have left, or those who are as good as.
2) Friends: Better to be in the company of those you know and trust than those you don't, right?
3) Lovers: This isn't exactly the time or place for a honeymoon, but you're lucky enough to have found your spouse/romantic partner/fuckbuddy/whatever.
4) Strangers: You don't know this person and they don't know you. In any other situation, your paths might never have crossed. But here the two of you are anyway, like it or not.
5) Enemies: Perhaps you were at each other's throats long before this world went to hell. Maybe you just ended up that way over time, or due to the stressful circumstances at work.
6) Guardian: It could be that you don't even like this other person, but you feel responsible for them anyway.

EXTRA.
feel free to add these at your own discretion.

A) Power Loss: Immortality? Gone. Magic? Nixed. You're just an ordinary person now, for better or worse.
B) Infection: You've been bitten, or scratched, or maybe you're grappling with a sickness that has the same eventual end. You can resist the symptoms for awhile, but the only "cure" to be found is a bullet to the head.
C) Injury: Unlike the option above, you aren't hurt because of a zombie. How badly have you been knocked around?

AS ALWAYS, if there isn't a prompt that suits your needs,

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(Open to any of the prompts, but particularly interested in:
What: 1, 3, 4, or 6 (6 might be where she's coping with loss, etc)
Who: 3, 5, 6

[ This seems pretty familiar. ]

[Slow posting prose preferred. Interested in settings 3-5]

[open to cross canon and assumed cr]

[Zombies, vampires, same thing right?]

[This is kinda her schtick.]

[reprise of the Donner Party zombie outbreak optional...]

[An outbreak like this is a little bit bigger than a magic jar and a few chilly zombies, but it's close enough, right? Lucifer's presence alone stirs the winds to bite and cold to weigh unseasonably heavy on the air, but more than that is the way demons swarm like wasps to the site of his arrival. They're desperate for attention, for answers, and Lucifer provides them neither. They occupy themselves with what they think he wants.

Finding a new vessel had been difficult. Few have the strength of blood and fewer still the strength of heart to carry him, and yet against all odds she says yes. She knows what it is to lose her sisters; it spares her from the wave of violence that spills into her hometown in his wake.

Today they're so much closer to the source of the odd little magic he'd been tracking since he sensed it shortly after clawing his way from Hell. Something not divine, not profane nor Otherworldly, yet stronger than many of humanity's other creations. He's curious, certainly, sidestepping the bloodshed instigated by his own offspring, the monsters they create, in favor of watching over the woman he'd found carrying a piece of that magic.

She might want to duck; one of the mongrels looks like it's about to smash through the window above her.]

It turned out that Sticky String was actually quite useful in subduing zombies, although they were still looking for a way to cause them to revert back to their previous state. Sure, Claudia would have had a much easier time if she'd just kill the hungry whatevers, but they had been people, and not all of them seemed dead. Shooting them in the head or otherwise destroying them seemed cruel.

But not all of them gave her much choice. As she ducked and sidestepped the zombie crashing through the second-story window to get to her, she drew Caliburnus to take off its head in a single slice. While the artifact sword wasn't much bang for its buck separated from the Stone that it had been pulled from, it still kept an edge on par with any modern blade, and never dulled. Unfortunately, it also did nothing to keep the gore down, so she'd learned to turn away from such actions, even as her eyes flitted from place to place hoping to find a way clear.

"Oh, you have got to be kidding me," she groaned, as she saw the woman standing off to one side. "Lady, you really don't want to be here just now."

{ because this sounds like insane fun. }

that one meme with reanimated corpses. and stuff.

Skye ≈ Agents of Shield ≈ OTA

Haruno Sakura | Naruto

Dio Brando | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

david | the last of us

cassie holmes | push

Ash Williams || Evil Dead Trilogy || OTA

Sameth | Old Kingdom | OTA

Peter Quill || Guardians of the Galaxy MCU

Angent William Brandt | Mission Impossible

Solf J Kimblee | Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood | OTA

Charley Brewster | Fright Night

Claire Redfield | Resident Evil: Degen | OTA

Sam Yao | Zombies, Run! | OTA

rachel | animorphs | ota

Claudia Donovan | Warehouse 13 | OTA (het or canon-mates preferred for ships/smut)

/helpfully does nothing

I should be glaring, shouldn't I?

Mark Cohen | RENT | OTA

Maggie Greene | Walking Dead | OTA

Joan Watson | Elementary | OTA

10K | Z Nation

Clarice Starling ♠ Hannibal!BryanFuller ♠ ota