Choose your Apocalypse

Here at Romance Writers of the Apocalypse we are not elitist when it comes to the Apocalypses. We accept all kinds. But it got me thinking about of the different Apocalyptic events there are and how survival strategies may vary depending on which kind of Armageddon you find yourself in. So today I am going to go through the different kinds.

The Zombie Apocalypse

This is one of our favourites. Hoards of the living dead lumbering across the earth seeking out fresh meat - namely you. They may have a severe craving for fresh brains, or it’s maybe just your warm entrails that get them salivating (or maybe it’s just drool). Do they salivate? We don’t get close enough to ask (thanks Andrew for posing that point). Now the zombie apocalypse is probably more just an outcome of many of the other types of Apocalypses. It may have be a virus, or mutations from a nuclear attack, but whatever the cause there is one thing that is important. Stay ahead of them and don’t get bit.

 

The Nuclear Holocaust 

For whatever reason, the bombs have fallen. Maybe the super powers have gone to war, or a super computer has decided to wipe out humanity. Either way we’re frelled. The bombs have created a nuclear winter and radiation taints everything around you. The ground, the water and air you breathe. Mutations may occur, people who didn’t die from the nuclear blasts start to drop dead from radiation poisoning. Nothing can grow in the tainted earth, water is contaminated and any animal life is dead out of luck too. So only those who’ve prepared, or are lucky and made it to shelters stocked with supplies or those in super remote areas really have a chance to start with. This is a nasty one.

 

Computer/Robot/Machine revolution

The mechanoids have risen up and decided to cleanse the earth of us pesky, weak humans. Being machines makes they hard to kill so us puny humans and our fragile bodies are in for a fight. Still machines need recourses to run, and that give us a target. But unless some sexy soldier comes back through time and space (oh yeah girls, we can wish) we are going to have to learn to kick some mechanical arse.

 

  

The Meteor Impact 

This result of the meteor is similar to a nuclear holocaust. The skies get dark, nothing can grow, we starve. Now I’m not sure about the radiation residue, I have to research. But I will be your intrepid reporter and will have the facts in my post on how to survive this one coming soon. Watch this space because this is my apocalypse of choice for my latest story.

 

    

 

 

The Alien Invasion

Visitors from out of space and dropped in and they haven’t brought us a chicken pot pie. No, these aggressive ETs are here to conquer us with ray guns and disintegrators. The either want to eat us, enslave us, wipe us off the face of the earth so they can either live here or plunder our resources. Being the plucky underdogs it is our duty to not only survive but to fight those alien biatches off this planet.

 

Climate Change/Nature disaster

We’ve squandered our time here and mother nature is pissed. She is throwing storms of ice and hurricanes, or maybe it’s earthquakes, volcanoes or any of the other major natural events. Whatever the disaster, the face of the earth is changing and mankind has to learn to change with it.

 

 

 

 

 

Supernatural Event

Demons are rising from the pits of hell and are coming to enslave and devour us. Maybe we’ll be caught in the crossfire in the war between even and hell. Or maybe it’s Armageddon, and the rapture has taken away all the true believers leaving behind the motley crew that is us. There is so much to contend with when fighting the supernatural. We need to arm ourselves differently when it comes to fighting the heavenly or hellerly (is that even a word?) hosts.

 

 

Viral Apocalypse

Holy shit. We’re being done in by microscopic organisms. People are dropping like flies, being infested by flies and creating more flies. You want to run a mile from anyone with a sniffle or a sneeze and a sore throat could be killer. Viral apocalypse can spawn zombies too. But even if it doesn’t, the stacks of dead bodies are just as dangerous. This is the one where you want to run for the hills into that isolated spot and shoot any warm body who approaches - just in case.

 

 

 

 

Stay tuned 

In upcoming posts we will be bringing tips on how to survive your chosen apocalypse. We will be bringing you tips on food, staying fit, gadgets and necessary supplies to help you survive.

Let us know your chosen apocalypse.