Monster Apocalypse Questions: Where are your friends?

[Deleted member 1244]

Continuing in the series of monster apocalypse scenarios;

Setting:
Monsters are being spawned everywhere.
Some people have superpowers to defend themselves against small threats
Some people have no powers at all
Govt has set up shelters for people to gather
Some government shelters have fallen to monsters some have not


Scenario:
You (powered) and your immediate family (30% with powers) are some ways away from the shelter, the radio indicates that it is a safe haven for the moment. However, it can get dangerous travelling there. Staying put appears to be safe for now, but you will soon run out of food and it is unknown if there will be another wave of monsters. Or perhaps other humans with bad intentions might show up. There are also others in the neighbourhood and their intentions are unclear but you are aware of each other.

1. Do you take the risk and journey to the shelter?

2. You get a message from a friend (powered) who is stranded somewhere alone, but via communication, you understand saving them may not be 100% safe, but it is doable. But will take time and effort.

a. Will you go pick them up and add them to your group if you decide not to go to the shelter?​

b. Will you take a detour to save them, if you were going to go to the shelter?​

c. Would your choice be different if they were a normie with no powers?​

Bonus

3. What if it's not a friend but someone on scribblehub, and they made a post here asking for help and you happen to be in the area, what will the 2 - a. b. c. answers be?

4. When it's the end of the world will you go out of your way and risk your life to save someone you have only ever known online?

 

[Corty]

1) I take my family to a shelter. Yes

2) What type of friend? Specify. A friend-friend, no. Sorry. Family first. A friend who is like family to me? I'm coming bud. Normie or not.

3) Sorry. Family first.

4) Depends on our interactions in the past. Some, I would sit and watch, eating popcorn. Some, I would try to save.

 

[Cipiteca396]

1. Do you take the risk and journey to the shelter?

Probably a moot point. I'll head in that direction if it's necessary, or away if I have to.

2. You get a message from a friend (powered) who is stranded somewhere alone, but via communication, you understand saving them may not be 100% safe, but it is doable. But will take time and effort.

a. Will you go pick them up and add them to your group if you decide not to go to the shelter?
b. Will you take a detour to save them, if you were going to go to the shelter?
c. Would your choice be different if they were a normie with no powers?

My goal would be to collect as many people as possible, normies or otherwise, and make them safe. It might be convenient to send/bring them to the shelter, and then head towards people who are still asking for help. A friend is simply a direction to head in.

3. What if it's not a friend but someone on scribblehub, and they made a post here asking for help and you happen to be in the area, what will the 2 - a. b. c. answers be?

It would be hard to justify heading somewhere too far away when people I can actually reach are available, but if they're really close by, then it's just a slight detour.

4. When it's the end of the world will you go out of your way and risk your life to save someone you have only ever known online?

Maybe not at the top of the list, priority-wise, but it is on the list. Especially if it's someone I actually like.

 

[Deleted member 148356]

Go to the woods and find a river then survive there hidden. Infinite fishes, and we can just filter water through distillation.

There are few trustworthy, will go out alone and save their ass. Convince them, otherwise respect their decision and letting them know where one live, a secret. Adding them even if powerless will be a helpful manpower.

Trust issues and if my intuition feels something bad, then will not do it. Pass the test, will do the same as above.

Help only extends in my country as I'm incapable of travelling and honestly there is none online that I trust.
If migrating comes and the path is nearby to them then kidnapping is an option.

 

[Cipiteca396]

find a river then survive there hidden.

How do you plan on dealing with monsters? Even if the fish themselves aren't monsters, monsters will come to eat them just like you, and to drink the water.

 

[Deleted member 148356]

How do you plan on dealing with monsters? Even if the fish themselves aren't monsters, monsters will come to eat them just like you, and to drink the water.

Simple just beat em.
Other ways is to make a small structure where bigger monster won't enter/exit but the fishes.
They may break it... oh well just put up traps or something to deter them.

 

[2wordsperminute]

1. Do you take the risk and journey to the shelter?

Of course. Staying put is just as risky, so it's better to do make the choice that, if you can make it there, would be safer in the long run.

2. You get a message from a friend (powered) who is stranded somewhere alone, but via communication, you understand saving them may not be 100% safe, but it is doable. But will take time and effort.

Absolutely. But, if it seems like I can't save them but I can save everyone else who's with me including myself if I retreat, I'd hope they understand why I'd run.

3. What if it's not a friend but someone on scribblehub, and they made a post here asking for help and you happen to be in the area, what will the 2 - a. b. c. answers be?

4. When it's the end of the world will you go out of your way and risk your life to save someone you have only ever known online?

3 seems highly unlikely to happen but maybe. I'd try to scout out the area they're in and see how dangerous it is first, then base my decision off of that.
4 seems even more unlikely, but some of the people I've only met through discord I've talked to long enough to want to at least try to help. But this is mostly just people that I talked to for years or VCd with a lot, anyone else probably not.

 

[TheEldritchGod]

1. Do you take the risk and journey to the shelter?

Unless my wife gets the power to Breathe without an oxygen tank, we're staying put
Besides, who's running out of food? We got monsters to eat.

2. You get a message from a friend (powered) who is stranded somewhere alone, but via communication, you understand saving them may not be 100% safe, but it is doable. But will take time and effort.

a. Will you go pick them up and add them to your group if you decide not to go to the shelter?​

AHA! The monsters have gotten sneaky. But I am not fooled.
I have no friends.

b. Will you take a detour to save them, if you were going to go to the shelter?​

Again, I have no friends. Never going to the shelter.

c. Would your choice be different if they were a normie with no powers?​

Of course. If they have no powers, it will be easier to kill and eat them.

3. What if it's not a friend but someone on scribblehub, and they made a post here asking for help and you happen to be in the area, what will the 2 - a. b. c. answers be?

My answer will be, "You are obviously someone trying to break into my home, kill and eat me. Good luck finding some other sucker.

4. When it's the end of the world will you go out of your way and risk your life to save someone you have only ever known online?

Depends. Have I expanded my base to the point that slave labor can be easily stored and controlled?

 

[J_Chemist]

1. Do you take the risk and journey to the shelter?

No. My parents are old and though they'd make the trip, I would not feel confident in the shelter. It'll likely fall and/or become an anarchist conclave. Instead, I'll either go to a location to establish a safe haven with my friends or escort them to the shelter and call it good. I won't leave them to die, but I wouldn't stay either. My parents are important as are my friends, but survival is just as key in the situation at hand.

2. You get a message from a friend (powered) who is stranded somewhere alone, but via communication, you understand saving them may not be 100% safe, but it is doable. But will take time and effort.

a. Will you go pick them up and add them to your group if you decide not to go to the shelter?​

b. Will you take a detour to save them, if you were going to go to the shelter?​

c. Would your choice be different if they were a normie with no powers?​

My friends are like family. So yes, I'll go get them regardless of the situation.

Bonus

3. What if it's not a friend but someone on scribblehub, and they made a post here asking for help and you happen to be in the area, what will the 2 - a. b. c. answers be?

Depends on the individual. Like Corty mentioned, some I would go above and beyond to help. Others I'd find a place and watch their demise. Hell, I might even do it myself.

4. When it's the end of the world will you go out of your way and risk your life to save someone you have only ever known online?

If I know it's them, yes.

 

[BearlyAlive]

My family lives in the countryside, I grew up fighting monsters. I'd rather fight a demon lord now than I did fight chickens a a kid.

I'd just let my family bunker up at home, they're halfway there to being self-sustained anyway, get my buddy, fortify further, seek other survivors and maybe some weapons. And sure, I'd help people if I can, stranger or not. Family first, tho.