Survival Quest #1

[creedkingsx]

ho dere

[Damus_Graves]

Hi. Big reveal time.



Looks like I'm the sad sack that drew the short straw and gets to be zombified this game. Unless of course we find a cure, or you guys kill me first. (Or I was "lucky" enough to brush off the liquid in time. Fat chance.)

I was told this before I gave the bullet to Roflcopter. I didn't want the bullet to get lost if I got zombified, and I wanted to show that I'm still working for the team's survival, not just my own. I considered giving the test tube to someone else as well, but apparently it still has some virus left in it, and I don't want someone else to possibly have the same thing happen to them that happened to me.

I would like to emphasize that our best chance of getting out of here alive lies in keeping everyone else alive as well. We need the extra minds to solve the puzzles, and hey, if worse comes to worse, you don't have to outrun the zombies, you just have to outrun the slowest guy in your group.

I'm holding out for a chance at a cure somewhere in this place. Highly unlikely. I'll probably just get zombified and then Rofl will shoot me with the very bullet I gave him.

But I'll keep working for the good of the group as long as I can. When the time comes, if it's necessary, kill me. I hope it doesn't come to that.

You guys know I can help you. I'm telling you this a gesture of good will that I intend to keep helping everyone. My policy has and will always be complete and total honesty between everyone. We have to trust each other to survive.

And hell, who knows. Maybe if I become a zombie, I'll become the zombies' leader, stop them from attacking you, and form them together into a civilized society instead of mindless flesh-eating monsters

I'm gonna miss you Glip.

[Glip]

I'm gonna miss you Glip.

I'm not gone yet, tyvm.

I'm still alive and well, for now.

[creedkingsx]

I STILL NEED ESPO TO ANSAH THUH QUESTION

[creedkingsx]

I'm not gone yet, tyvm.

I'm still alive and well, for now.

Maybe you shoulda used the chicken on Damus.

[creedkingsx]

How does a Green chicken hurt someone anyway?
Salmonella?

[Damus_Graves]

I'm not gone yet, tyvm.

I'm still alive and well, for now.

I said it in a future tense didn't I

[Glip]

Maybe you shoulda used the chicken on Damus.

But then who would replace me if I get zombified?

Hey. Creed. Stop postfarming. Grr.

[creedkingsx]

Posts count here?

Oh, so it seems it does.

[Glip]

I said it in a future tense didn't I

Yet you implied that there was 0% chance that I might make it out of this alive...

which honestly, there might be.

Anyway. I was trying to say that as I am still alive and well, there is a chance I can still be alive and well at the end of this survival quest. Where there's a will, there's a way.

[Damus_Graves]

But then who would replace me if I get zombified?

Hey. Creed. Stop postfarming. Grr.

I agree wtf creed.
I hope you live but I am being realistic.
I dunno. Maybe I would keep you as a pet? :3

[creedkingsx]

Coming from you of all people.

[Damus_Graves]

Coming from you of all people.

♥♥

[Glip]

I agree wtf creed.
I hope you live but I am being realistic.
I dunno. Maybe I would keep you as a pet? :3

My zombie underlings after I've enslaved the entire zombie race under an iron zombified fist wouldn't allow it.

[Damus_Graves]

My zombie underlings after I've enslaved the entire zombie race under an iron zombified fist wouldn't allow it.

Can I be your zombie underling?

[Roflcopter]

-Loads gun-

Don't worry glip, i'll put you down before you become one of "THEM"...

[Damus_Graves]

-Loads gun-

Don't worry glip, i'll put you down before you become one of "THEM"...

Don't touch my master! RAWR!

[creedkingsx]

Welp, I lost Mugy.

[Gzz]

Well , in my aolution either Rofl of Creeds are eaten

(p.s. Did my anserwer counts , ezposito ? )

[creedkingsx]

Well , in my aolution either Rofl of Creeds are eaten

(p.s. Did my anserwer counts , ezposito ? )

I am not one of the survivors, though.

[Damus_Graves]

All jokes aside. You got infect at begining of this puzzle so, based on typical zombie-ness, you have about 1-2 days of human-ness befpre you turn into a zombie. We must be close-ish to both safety and the cure. But I bet we would have to choose between them

[creedkingsx]

Depends on the movie.
Some change in like half an hour.

[Damus_Graves]

Depends on the movie.
Some change in like half an hour.

I go by the books

[creedkingsx]

There is a loooot more zombie movies than books.

[Damus_Graves]

There is a loooot more zombie movies than books.

Granted but most Zombie movies are subpar to the books imo. Books take more to write than movie scripts imo

[Fatalis]

Fact: You can't solve this with not losing your life at all and not sacrificing one pawn

[Glip]

Fact: You can't solve this with not losing your life at all and not sacrificing one pawn

Fun Fact: I already said that a long time ago.

The great Glip the Great has determined that this puzzle cannot be solved without losing atleast one pawn.

[Espozito]

So, Ima back. Answering creed's question: If zombie pawn gets blocked (can neither attack nor move), the turn goes to another zombie. If all zombies are blocked, then it is a tie (see "Puzzle results").
So, I'm giving other survivors 1-2 more hours to send me the solution.

Omg, you will totally be surprised watching the Part ending, me myself didn't expect it even XD

[Ash]

hi im back, time to work on this solution so i dont lose a life or some thing.

i dont think it matters which pawn dies, it's not like the real player will lose a life.

@glip - i find it hard to believe that you (or anyone else) can turn into a zombie because the game ends at whoever is the last man standing. Unless you get to do puzzles as a zombie..

[Espozito]

Half an hour left for puzzle solution submissions!!!!

[Ash]

woot i finished. now just to pm ezpo... i only finished with 2 pawns though

[Ash]

How to make a list of moves:

Every pawn may move 1 step forward or attack when in position, so first goes the number of column (1, 2 or 3) then the type of action (S - step forward, A - attack)

Example:
3-S
1-S
3-S
...
2-A
...

Shit I just realized this...

What if we have 2 survivors in the same column?

[Glip]

hi im back, time to work on this solution so i dont lose a life or some thing.

i dont think it matters which pawn dies, it's not like the real player will lose a life.

@glip - i find it hard to believe that you (or anyone else) can turn into a zombie because the game ends at whoever is the last man standing. Unless you get to do puzzles as a zombie..

Well, as I said before, Zombie players could work as long as there's only one at a time.

Although if not, it'll probably be something along the lines of there being a puzzle for me (or maybe the group) to solve to find a cure, and if we don't, I'm insta-dead regardless of how many "lives" I have left.

[Espozito]

Shit I just realized this...

What if we have 2 survivors in the same column?

Then this will be a number not of column, but of the pawn (from left to right).
I mean, if Survivor 3 moves to the second column after attacking Zombie 2, he will still be numbered as Survivor 3, not 2.

[Espozito]

Part 4 pre-ending

Spoiler : RP :

"Alright," - Damus holded his hammer and waited for the zombies to come closer, - "Coming through!" He came closer to one of them and bashed its head. Zombie roared silently and fell on the floor without any signs of alive... or undead at least... "Cool! Let me try!" - Mugy7 got the walking stick and kicked the other zombie in its chest. That was no use for it and other Survivors, who were behind, shouted: "No! Destroy the brains!" "Oh, right!" - Mugy7 used the stick again and pushed it right through zombie's eyeball, leaving it dead forever. Roflcopter got rid of his zombie aswell. "Well, that was pretty easy", -Damus said, clening his face from dead's blood, - "They seem to be not such a tough enemied when we outnumber them." "Good to know" - Fatalis agreed. "Aaargh!" - Mugy7 screamed as one of the zombies, crawling on the floor, bit his foot. - "Oh, God!!!". Survivors quickly ran to help their friend and Damus killed the crawler. "Oh, no, his leg... He was bitten." - CmG said, examining Mugy's foot. "Hell, can we do something to save him?" - Ash questioned. Creedkingsx looked around and found a fire axe. He picked it without a thought and was ready to to the stuff. "Woah, what do you think you are doing?!" - Damus shouted. "The only way we save him is cutting off the leg until the infection spreads through his body." - creed explained. "But what if we are already too late? Or this won't work? Jesus, we don't even have any equipment to stop the bleeding!" - TimeTrx was panicing. "Well, we always can end his agony." - Roflcopter shown the gun. "No! That's not the answer!" - Glip argued. "Anyway, we have to decide his fate. Now or never..." - Damus said, looking at bitten leg.

Spoiler : Part results :

Listed by time of solution reply:

1. Gzz - WRONG - 7
2. Damus_Graves - RIGHT - 10
3. Roflcopter - RIGHT - 10
4. Mugy7 - WRONG - 6
5. Glip - RIGHT - 10
6. creedkingsx - WRONG - 7
7. Fatalis - RIGHT - 8
8. Ash - RIGHT - 10

Didn't reply (nothing happened to them, this time it's alright):

9. CmG - 9
10. TimeTrx - 9
11. MintBerry Crunch - 6 (CHICKENEDDDD!!!!!)

In all the scenarios Mugy7 died... so... now his life is in your hands... literally.

Options:

1. Kill the poor guy. There is no way for him to survive, so, let's end this.

To make this decision: -kill (officially)

2. Cut off his leg. There is a chance to be on time and get rid of infected part of his body.

To make this decision: -save (officially)

[Gzz]

Wow , i thought only mugy get eaten , anyway , next time i will wait a bit more..

-cut off

[Damus_Graves]

We cannot carry two infected survivors and hope to survive. Also Bites and Scratches typcially infect faster than the virus. I am sorry but I believe we should kill him.

-kill

[Damus_Graves]

That goes for anyone who gets bitten by a zombie imo. Even me. If I get infected by a bite you off me. don't even give it a second thought.

[Glip]

We cannot carry two infected survivors and hope to survive. Also Bites and Scratches typcially infect faster than the virus. I am sorry but I believe we should kill him.

-kill

What the hell, Damus? Stop trying to make up bullshit you don't even know. You have no idea whether a bite will infect faster than the H-virus in contact with an open wound. That's the host's decision. Don't try to assume that it's like all the zombie books you've read. You were already wrong about the zombies having a sense of smell.

-save

There's no reason not to. As has been stated before, multiple zombie players can't work, so it's highly unlikely he'll get zombified. Worst case scenario is he and I die on our own from being "infected." Likely it'll be that we end up only finding enough cure for one of us, and the other dies. Hopefully we find enough cure for all.

For those of you that only care about your own survival, think about it this way; with only one foot, he'll be hobbling along too slow to outrun the zombies later and ends up dying at their hands then rather than at our hands now, and in the time inbetween he could be essential to helping get us through the rest of the puzzles.

[Damus_Graves]

What the hell, Damus? Stop trying to make up bullshit you don't even know. You have no idea whether a bite will infect faster than the H-virus in contact with an open wound. That's the host's decision. Don't try to assume that it's like all the zombie books you've read. You were already wrong about the zombies having a sense of smell.

-save

There's no reason not to. As has been stated before, multiple zombie players can't work, so it's highly unlikely he'll get zombified. Worst case scenario is he and I die on our own from being "infected." Likely it'll be that we end up only finding enough cure for one of us, and the other dies. Hopefully we find enough cure for all.

For those of you that only care about your own survival, think about it this way; with only one foot, he'll be hobbling along too slow to outrun the zombies later and ends up dying at their hands then rather than at our hands now, and in the time inbetween he could be essential to helping get us through the rest of the puzzles.

I'm thinking objectively. And I said that Zombies are attracted to sounds and we might have to cloak our scent. Try again.


I said typically bites infect faster due to the virus mutating inside the host body.

Seriously Glip chill out.

[Damus_Graves]

I'm thinking objectively. And I said that Zombies are attracted to sounds and we might have to cloak our scent. Try again.


I said typically due to the virus mutating inside the host body.

Seriously Glip chill out.

Also so back at the problem at hand.

There is one question that is uber imporant:
How fast does the virus work once someone gets infected by a bite

How fast by vial infection (like Glip)?


-unkill

I'll wait for host confirmation.

[Glip]

I'm thinking objectively. And I said that Zombies are attracted to sounds and we might have to cloak our scent. Try again.


I said typically bites infect faster due to the virus mutating inside the host body.

Seriously Glip chill out.

I am chill. I'm not the one suggesting we should kill the other survivors.

And you're still assuming BS about the virus mutating inside the body. Please try to put away all your assumed knowledge and everything that you've read in zombie books before. This is Espo's game. Nothing is guaranteed to be like any zombie book you've ever read before, and it's likely to not be.

[Damus_Graves]

I am chill. I'm not the one suggesting we should kill the other survivors.

And you're still assuming BS about the virus mutating inside the body. Please try to put away all your assumed knowledge and everything that you've read in zombie books before. This is Espo's game. Nothing is guaranteed to be like any zombie book you've ever read before, and it's likely to not be.

But I have only been wrong about one thing out of three.

I am assuming based not upon my previous knowledge but upon the rates that the zombies seemed to have popped up versus the rate they originally got infected, limited knowledge taken cause of meager info.

[Glip]

But I have only been wrong about one thing out of three.

I am assuming based not upon my previous knowledge but upon the rates that the zombies seemed to have popped up versus the rate they originally got infected, limited knowledge taken cause of meager info.

The gun needs to be our absolutely last resort. Zombies are drawn to sounds over everything else and we are going to need something to mask our smell to match theirs

I see two assumed zombie facts here. What is third thing you were supposedly right about? And I don't even understand what you're saying in the second paragraph.

Also, just noticed you never actually did say that we "might" have to mask our scent. You said it as an assumed truth, just as you said that the bite would typically infect faster than the virus itself in contact with an open wound.

[Damus_Graves]

I see two assumed zombie facts here. What is third thing you were supposedly right about? And I don't even understand what you're saying in the second paragraph.

Also, just noticed you never actually did say that we "might" have to mask our scent. You said it as an assumed truth, just as you said that the bite would typically infect faster than the virus itself in contact with an open wound.

That someone would get infected was my third assumption.

All my thoughts were assumptions and maybes mate.

[Gzz]

Ok , it seems that i need to use it...
-use medikit

[Glip]

That someone would get infected was my third assumption.

All my thoughts were assumptions and maybes mate.

Technically, it's not even guaranteed yet that anyone is infected.

And thanks for agreeing with me that all your declarative statements before were in fact just assumptions and should not be taken as absolute truth to be acted on.

For future reference, I would greatly appreciate it if you voice your "assumptions and maybes" as "X might be possible, maybe we should do Y." (or something similar) and not as "X is happening/will happen. Do Y."

[Damus_Graves]

Ok , it seems that i need to use it...
-use medikit

I forgot we had a medkit. We could use the axe Creed so helpfully found to cleanly cut the leg, full leg otherwise it wont work imo, and use the medkit to clean and "heal" the wound so he doesn't die of blood loss. Unfortunately this means a lack of free mobility. Anyone have a match we can cauterize the wound with?

Technically, it's not even guaranteed yet that anyone is infected.

And thanks for agreeing with me that all your declarative statements before were in fact just assumptions and should not be taken as absolute truth to be acted on.

For future reference, I would greatly appreciate it if you voice your "assumptions and maybes" as "X might be possible, maybe we should do Y." (or something similar) and not as "X is happening/will happen. Do Y."

But that's not as much fun

[Ash]

-save

I see why not. I still find it unfair to be eliminated out of the game by player-decision-voting rather than loss of lives.
P.S: I still have more lives than a cat

[Damus_Graves]

You guys are so nice. I would love to get infected and be grouped with you all. You would save me from "death"