Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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  • Mood: sad
  • Music: Kat getting ready for school.

T-minus 4 days to DEADLINE.

Reston, Virginia. July 30th, 2014.

It had taken six of the Valium pills John kept hidden at the back of the medicine cabinet, but Alexander Kellis was finally ready. He checked the knot on his rope one more time. It was good; it would hold. Maybe it wasn't elegant, but he didn't deserve elegant, did he? He destroyed the world. Children would curse his name for generations, assuming there were any generations yet to come. John was gone, forever. It was over.

"I'll see you soon, sweetheart," he whispered, and stepped off the edge of his desk. No one would find his body for weeks. If he reanimated, he starved without harming anyone. Alexander Kellis never harmed anyone.

Not on purpose.

***

Please return to your homes. Please remain calm. This is not a drill. If you have been infected, please contact authorities immediately. If you have not been infected, please remain calm. This is not a drill. Please return to your homes...

When will you Rise?
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paradisacorbasi

May 27 2011, 17:05:18 UTC 6 years ago

No, not sharks. Sharks are not mammals.

And Orca will kick the asses of sharks when they're alive. Undead, the ocean is probably empty of sharks now. They're no longer the baddest predators.

I imagine most ocean shipping that's done now is automated and run by GPS.

kengr

May 27 2011, 20:10:07 UTC 6 years ago

Naw, none of the cetaceans can do much to a large ship.

You want scary, imagine someone on a nuclear sub undergoing viral amplification...

paradisacorbasi

May 27 2011, 23:15:47 UTC 6 years ago

Really?

They'd all just eat each other until they rotted too much to consider each other food, wouldn't they? And all the warheads are under multiple failsafes so that a single panicking person or multiple shambling zombies couldn't set them off, right?

Or is there another angle from which I should be considering this scenario?

kengr

May 28 2011, 04:01:49 UTC 6 years ago

More a matter of there *really* not being much of anywhere to run, and it being impractical to isolate the risen unless you get really lucky.

Subs are *incredibly* cramped. Air quality is kinda important too.

And if you lose much of the crew, you may not be able to surface the sub. Or worse, may not be able to keep it from sinking past crush depth if the ballasting is not set right.


paradisacorbasi

May 28 2011, 04:51:10 UTC 6 years ago

...nuclear sub getting crushed. Yeah. That'd be a problem.

and if you want to see zombies on subs, there's a quick flash of that happening in High School of the Dead anime.