Humans vs Zombies

[Visions of Khas]

Braaaaiiiiinsssss...

This is what Stephen Colbert has to say about it:

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-col...down---zombies

(Media contributed by RIT.)

Introductory video:

If you haven't heard of it before, you have now. Humans vs Zombies - HVZ - is a popular game of tag that's swept the nation and is played on campuses all over the country. The gist is this: there are two teams; humans, and zombies. You start out as a human. If you are tagged by a zombie, you too become one and work to extend the Horde. Humans in turn can defend themselves with Nerf Blasters and tube socks. Each night there a missions. Statements are emailed to participants.

I attend the Rochester Institute of Technology, and the HVZ week is coming to a head. There were some 500 participants, of which five were initial zombies. By Monday night approximately 45% were zombified. Tonight's mission consisted of ferrying "Distress Beacons" from the residential district to academic side. I was part of a stealth detachment - five men total - with one of the packages. We made it half way under cover of darkness before being ambushed. Me and another Human were left4dead as nine zombies cut us off.

It was a pretty fun stand-off; there's virtually never any bad blood between people. I went, "So hey, how's it goin'? Any kills today?" The girl zombies shakes her head. We banter back and forth while the zombies constrict the net.

Finally, a zombie says, "Okay, let's just zerg rush 'em," and four of the zombies form a line. They are out of firing distance, so there wasn't much we could do. At the order, "Build more Ziggurats", they charged. It was a perfectly executed Attack Pattern Delta. We took out four of the zombies, but fell to the onslaught.

At the time, I had garnered the night vision goggles from our team's dumbass "captain"... who had run out on us. Later on, I found that, due to disorderly conduct (throwing his gun at the back of a kid's head) our "Captain" was banned from the game. We also discovered this wasn't his first time being banned, and he had signed into the game this year under the alias of Edward Elric. Yes, THAT Edward Elric.

Pissed with him, and the team in general, we two new recruits decided to call the Human Coordinator and have her field backup to undead territory in a ploy to get the Humans all "killed".

Yes. I am a very bad, bad person. :3

[screw_ball69]

Zomg this needs to played at cons.

[Pandonetho]

Haha, if you guys like Zombie games you guys should play some Zombie Night games in Airsoft.

[Sarov]

Man would I love to do something like that regardless of how silly I might look doing it. Too bad they probably don’t do it were I live.

I remember when I used to do reconnaissance in the forest by my friend’s house for a couple of hours at a time. It was a lot of fun. I even dressed up in camouflage and got myself a fake gun for it too.

[Xyvik]

Anybody up for a live-play version of Plants VS Zombies?

[Visions of Khas]

I even dressed up in camouflage and got myself a fake gun for it too.

People go all-out here. Like I said, some people bring night vision goggles, lights, laser pointers for Nerf blasters, camo.

There's a tunnel system on campus; one connects the residential buildings, several others connect the academic buildings. This is necessitated by horrible snowy weather in the winter. This gives humans a leg-up, but they have to eventually come out of hiding to play. It's hilarious watching humans book it from one building to another where the tunnels don't connect. Make for good ambush camps.

[Sarov]

People go all-out here. Like I said, some people bring night vision goggles, lights, laser pointers for Nerf blasters, camo.

There's a tunnel system on campus; one connects the residential buildings, several others connect the academic buildings. This is necessitated by horrible snowy weather in the winter. This gives humans a leg-up, but they have to eventually come out of hiding to play. It's hilarious watching humans book it from one building to another where the tunnels don't connect. Make for good ambush camps.

My military-obsessed brain is pleased.

Anyways, that's pretty awesome. I'd totally participate in that if I could. Maybe get some camouflage, night vision goggles, those Nerf guns that fire those styrofoam-like projectiles. Blend in with the people who aren't playing the game. I'd totally do recon there. Oh, the possibilities...

[screw_ball69]

Haha, if you guys like Zombie games you guys should play some Zombie Night games in Airsoft.

OMG, I'm an idiot for not doing this with my airsoft group.

[Visions of Khas]

My military-obsessed brain is pleased.

One of the guys I was playing with was a ROTC kid and had training with various small arms, rifles and sniper rifles. He was a good shot and impressive strategist.

Most of the people who took charge did it for the glory and authority, and the rest of us were stupid enough to follow. You never, EVER send people by ones and twos to go search and destroy missions; and never, EVER take just five people for a daring raid deep into the heart of enemy territory, armed only with one-shot guns. DUMB. That's called brain salad.

Blend in with the people who aren't playing the game.

The humans had a pretty extensive recon outfit - people forgoing the bandanas and officially being unable to play while observing enemy movement. We lacked real leaders, however. The zombies are far better coordinated.


500 players. 170 humans left. It's gonna be a massacre. :3

[Sarov]

One of the guys I was playing with was a ROTC kid and had training with various small arms, rifles and sniper rifles. He was a good shot and impressive strategist.

Most of the people who took charge did it for the glory and authority, and the rest of us were stupid enough to follow. You never, EVER send people by ones and twos to go search and destroy missions; and never, EVER take just five people for a daring raid deep into the heart of enemy territory, armed only with one-shot guns. DUMB. That's called brain salad.


The humans had a pretty extensive recon outfit - people forgoing the bandanas and officially being unable to play while observing enemy movement. We lacked real leaders, however. The zombies are far better coordinated.


500 players. 170 humans left. It's gonna be a massacre. :3

Yeah. I used to be really obsessed about the military. Studying tactics, training with weapons if I could etc. I'd even go as far as wearing actually BDUs in public. Confused the heck out of people I'll tell you that. And to an extent, I still am a bit obsessed with the military, just not as much. I used to also be in Air Cadets and in Basic Band camp we learned signals and such - how to signal stop, right, left etc. So this game would be right up my alley.

I hate having idiots for leaders. I make a pretty good strategist when I take the time to actually think of things. But I'm better at dealing with a 'squad' rather than an a 'platoon' or 'army'.

What's even stupider is if that one shot gun is the only one they have. I'd take multiple and even get extra ammunition if I could.

You'd think that common sense would make them send more people on those missions. But oh, wait, common sense isn't so common anymore. Well, I'm glad I still have it.

A massacre indeed but it'll be so much fun. XD