Molotov:
"Fuck!" I spit up at the blue sky, and maybe now I am not so calm, with my ass on the ice and this suka daring to shut me up and somebody's laughing. I fumble in the snow and pick up my magnum, which I dropped, and feel its cool metal in m…
Molotov:
I see this sukkuba suka blink her eyes for too long, like she has answers written on back of eyelids and needs time to read. I feel weight of that gun I call Last Resort in English on my back. It is assault rifle and pokes over shoulder of…
Molotov:
A chain rattles and the door is open. I see stranger's eyes. I wait for this girl to speak bullshit, and then put a hand against the door - the chain is pulled taut with a snap. "Okay," I say calmly but I am not calm, and my accent is thic…
Molotov:
It's been six days since the buildings started to cry and knock knock KNOCK third time I am at this chertovskiy minetu door. I am angry, I feel it in my gut and the twitching at each corner of my lips - the corners that would turn into sne…
I'm not sure, but did we agree that solar winds carrying radiation were responsible for the apocalypse? If so, perhaps there's energy on the winds. I'm fond of the poetry inherent in clinging for life on the harbinger of humanity's destruction.
A combination of what Rich mentioned earlier (from that Colony film), plus several scenes from the Book of Eli lead me to suggest: what about sanitation? Soap, cleaning products, wet-wipes. A great deal of harmful viruses can be avoided with clean d…
The Brothers (read: Russians) running the Mill (read: prison) where he grew up would hook kids young. It kept them in line, made them feel like little Kings. He's addicted, and wants off the stuff. It's one of the ways he treats Silica so poorly - h…
I'll take that option. Molotov treats Silica poorly, to further distance himself from the truth - he likes her. A fact which Ross has already used against him.
The Gunlugger (Molotov Kalashnikov) wasn't born in either the Underground or Underlake. I like the idea that, while travelling, he picked up some radio chatter and started communicating with a stranger. Just a few bursts of chatter then static; even…
Maybe fishing in the Underlake is very similar to mining, with all the risks of collapsing tunnels that follow. Maybe the machinery used to fish does generate that heat mentioned earlier, and this compounds the risk, causing tunnels to grow slick wi…
As for suggestions, food: fishing from Underlake; roving bands of cannibles; and enough animals, or semi-stable agriculture to support lone or small bands of survivors in forested areas. This seems to put the Undercity in a precarious position.
For…
Ah. OK, failing that, I'm still sold on Chicago; you can always toss in an Underground, as the Dresden Files did. (The Winter Court of the Fae is held in the Chicago Underground, according to Jim Butcher)
Just to point out, Adam mentioned Seattle and:
- You have a ton of landmarks: space needle, cathedrals, bridges.
- It's surrounded by water.
- Plenty of skyscrapers.
- Quite a bit of snow images, unless Google is lying.
- Its Underground is apparent…
Sure: any traumatization of children. I do find stories of parents struggling against the odds touching, whether it be novelization (the Road) or the aforementioned Last of Us, or even non-post-apocalyptic stories (of which there are many). But whe…
I think US, for familiarity, and contrast; no sense placing a snow-pocalypse in a location where you could already freeze your balls off. How about somewhere near Chicago? You've got the frozen Great Lake, and a City for flavor.
@scott, I almost feel like that should be a faction, with @Adam's coining of the term "Icewalkers." A group of drug-and-risk-taking nomads, cooking their special brew, and trading it for food, fuel, and bullets. In their wake, they leave the addicte…
I think you've got it all, @Rich. And the snowpocalypse is the most appealing of all the landscape changes, to me at least. As for the zombies, consider this as an option: a psychic ailment that rides on solar winds, causing neuron damage or chemica…