Group 35The Attack of ‘The Land of the Dead’ Zombies

14 Days - how

will they

manage ?

The misadventures of Lauren, Olja and Rachel ECS Jumpstart - Zombie Apocalypse Challenge 2011

Who will

survive the

onslaught?

Getting to know Southampton…

Day 1Walking from the SUSU Café towards and through Southampton Common when the zombies turned up! We ran towards the Lake trying to escape, thinking we could lose them in the water but this turns out to be not such a great idea as it soon becomes apparent they don’t need to breathe.

They can walk under water! Our escape route back to the SUSU Café is cut off, we move on through the woods where we managed to outrun the zombies for a few hours as they moved very slowly.

Rachel’s behaving a bit peculiar…

Day 2 – Day 7

Rachel chases us the whole way to the pub - The Cowherds, we escape and manage to barricade ourselves in by using the broken up furniture to bar up the windows and the doors. We stay safe, the place is abandoned, we find food supplies, water and more furniture to break and defend ourselves with. We use the balcony to set off the fireworks found in the basement hoping to get help from outside. Zombies stop and stare. After 5 days, the zombies cannot be held back. We hide the supplies inside, set off more fireworks and carrying whatever we could, try to escape towards the city.

Creeping out, we find Rachel has been hiding under the stairs at the back. She is fully turned and we need to distract her to escape.

We use home made petrol bombs to try and distract her hoping this would work the same as fireworks.

Day 8

We run, looking for a safe place to hide and wait out the

infection, hoping the supplies would last.We find a radio and

listen out for sporadic messages

from other survivors.

We find Southampton abandoned… Palmerston Park is eerily quiet and we move on quickly

Day 9

Day 10We find our next base – the Southampton City Walls – Bargate Gateway

Day 11We are safe but plan for getting more supplies and fighting off the zombie attacksTwo more survivors join us, we split into two groups; one holding the Bargate and the other will recapture The Cowherd Pub to save the remaining supplies.We abandon;• Café SUSU – starting destination, large amount of people a lot of students already infected. And

a lot of places for zombies to hide. • Southampton Common Lake – first attack, zombies can walk underwater.• Palmerston park – we ran through here but as there was so much open space there was no

where to hide from the zombies. • Bargate shopping centre – we watched this when manning our fort, the zombies were climbing

all over the building’s and had taken full control of the surrounding area. We hold and defend;• Cowherds – the destination where was stayed safe for 5 days till the zombies

managed to break through our defences. • Southampton City Wall –Bargate – we than used this destination for two days as

we managed to break in and observe the zombies movements from the top of the fort.

We learn it is best to travel at night so the fireworks could have the full affect. We run everywhere as the zombies could only travel at 2- 3 mph.

Six weeks later….