Doomsday Hall

[Cintra]

freeloaders go in the trebuchet

 

[polymoog]

If stuff needs doing, everybody will be glad to pitch in, but no way hozay will any of us do "work for works sake"
Anyway hardly anything will need doing, chill bro..

in the original series, greg was in charge of the group. youll need a group leader or at the very least, an organized committee.

there will be PLENTY of work to be done and little time for people to roll out of bed at 10 am. you saw the original series; no one was loafing around. everyone pulled their weight.

 

[Tidal]

if there is no pressure to get anything done, how will anything get done?
why have freeloaders?

1- After the apocalyptic plague wiped out 99% of humans, we'll have taken our Hall vehicle (below) into the nearby towns and cities a number of times to stock up on foodstuffs at the deserted grocers, and as tinned goods last 2 or 3 years before beginning to go "off", there'll be no danger of starvation for several years. That'll give us a breathing space to get organised and begin planting our own crops and learning to hunt and fish etc in preparation for the time when our tinned food runs out.

2- When that time comes, we'll simply do what has to be done in order to get at least one square meal on the table every day, I wouldn't call it "hard work" and I daresay even "freeloaders" would be glad to join in rather than sit around going out of their skulls with boredom..

 

[Tidal]

in the original series, greg was in charge of the group. youll need a group leader or at the very least, an organized committee..

1- Here's my "Chores List" again, basically we'll get out of bed in ones and twos when we feel like it at a civilised hour and amble down for a bit of breakfast.
The List will be on a blackboard and we'll chalk our name next to whatever activity we feel like doing that day.
Some early risers will already be out there, so we can either go join them or choose something else on the List.
That way everybody will know where everybody else is..

Tending the vegetable garden
Tending the crops in the fields
Picking berries, mushrooms and herbs etc in the woods.
Hunting rabbits, game birds and the odd deer
Fishing in the river
Fishing in the sea, gathering edible seaweed and collecting shellfish in the rockpools
Distilling seawater to obtain salt
Making bread, biscuits, booze and wine etc
Preparing and cooking food
Taking the Hall vehicle on foraging trips into the nearly-deserted towns and cities to pick up canned food, lanterns, batteries, medicines, fuel, guns and ammo, bows and crossbows etc.

2- Although Greg was nominally the leader of the Survivors group, he didn't control them in a heavy-handed way, he simply made sensible suggestions and people usually agreed with him because he made good sense.
However on rare occasions some people didn't agree with him, like in this scene where another group had dumped an ill young lady on them to look after.
Greg was concerned that if they took her into their group she might infect them all with whatever illness she'd got, but Abby and another woman blatantly overuled him and wheeled her inside.
Question- in the same situation would VC members have agreed with Greg and said "We can't take her in or she might infect us", or would they have said "Sod Greg, bring her in"?

 

[Tidal]

Okay, shortly afterwards Greg has this row with bossy-boots Abby.
(PS- later in the show she's written out and Greg was glad to see her go, "We didn't get on" he said)

 

[Cintra]

1- After the apocalyptic plague wiped out 99% of humans, we'll have taken our Hall vehicle (below) into the nearby towns and cities a number of times to stock up on foodstuffs at the deserted grocers, and as tinned goods last 2 or 3 years before beginning to go "off", there'll be no danger of starvation for several years. That'll give us a breathing space to get organised and begin planting our own crops and learning to hunt and fish etc in preparation for the time when our tinned food runs out.

2- When that time comes, we'll simply do what has to be done in order to get at least one square meal on the table every day, I wouldn't call it "hard work" and I daresay even "freeloaders" would be glad to join in rather than sit around going out of their skulls with boredom..

Having lived in a few alternative communities, I have to say they work in strange ways.
Suddenly the person who has been annoying everyone and not doing anything useful, does something huge and amazing totally unexpectedly.

These things ebb and flow. usually they work better without a defined hierarchy.

Also, I want that bus.

 

[polymoog]

Okay, shortly afterwards Greg has this row with bossy-boots Abby.
(PS- later in the show she's written out and Greg was glad to see her go, "We didn't get on" he said)

from what i understand, the person who played abby didnt care for the new director when terry nation left. one can see the show changed significantly-- plot threads were dropped and the show took on a different direction. without terry nation, it really wasnt as good.

 

[polymoog]

I nominate @polymoog to be our educator on this. Hopefully we can find some cows

p cubensis grows on horse manure (or elephant manure in thailand). i have never seen it on cow manure even though both are classified as "hot manures". the cooler weather should be very conducive for growth.

 

[Tidal]

I still have dips on driving and I insist on having

on our mix tape

Yeah great idea, and we can have a loudspeaker on top of our Doomsday vehicle to blast it out as we hit town to terrify the starving zombies and send them fleeing indoors shrieking "Aiieee, it is they who know no fear!"

 

[justjess]

It needs a name. I suggest DHOLE
Doomsday
Hall
Operating
Lead
Exploration vehicle

AHOLE

Apocalypse
Hall
Operating
Lead
Exploration vehicle

fixed it for you.

 

[Cintra]

Fk yeah!

I am going to man the guns on the roof of the AHOLE!!!

Woot!

 

[Maes17]

if there is no pressure to get anything done, how will anything get done?
why have freeloaders?

I’ll volunteer to be a freeloader for a week.
*sits back on dirty lawn cheer drinking bitter homemade lemonade*

 

[Maes17]

Fk yeah!

I am going to man the guns on the roof of the AHOLE!!!

Woot!

I’ll join you in a week
*sips on bitter lemonade - makes sour face*

 

[Cintra]

I’ll join you in a week
*sips on bitter lemonade - makes sour face*

Ok, see ya next week.
Enjoy the lemonade. I'm going zombie killing in the AHOLE.

 

[Tidal]

Okay, on our foraging trips into the cities in the AHOLE we'll have to be merciless towards any zombs who try to mess with us, and our byword will be-

 

[Cintra]

NO PRISONERS!!!!!

Butcher the Zombs!!!!

 

[Tidal]

I’ll volunteer to be a freeloader for a week.
*sits back on dirty lawn cheer drinking bitter homemade lemonade*

Good point, some of the Hall group will always have to be kept back to defend the Hall while others are out doing activities elsewhere, so i'll add 'Hall Defence' to the list of activities that members can choose to do..

 

[Tidal]

Oh ok, gotcha.
I'm assuming "we" are all invited?
But yeah, 20 just seems like a low count for building a new society/safety.
Gotta have enough people to fend off those roving zombies!! Lol.

The size of the group will be limited by how much food we can grow, fish and hunt to feed ourselves after the tinned grub runs out, so 20 seems a reasonable starting number.
Also there are just enough bedrooms at the hall for 20 people; any more than that would mean you might have to double up with a hairy trucker..

 

[polymoog]

But your knowledge will be more helpful with all the other shrooms.

i dont know if i will join this group or not.

 

[Maes17]

Then again, we could just have the freeloaders (looking at you @Maes17 ) be the food testers.

Sure why not. I can taste test anything