Group 35 encountered zombies while walking through Southampton Common and had to flee towards the lake. They discovered the zombies could walk under water, cutting off their escape route. They took refuge in an abandoned pub, barricading themselves in for 5 days until the zombies broke through. Two more survivors then joined the group, who split up to retake the pub supplies and hold the Bargate Gateway. After six weeks, the group had learned to travel at night when fireworks were most effective at distracting zombies, who could only walk at 2-3 mph.

1. Group 35
The Attack of ‘The Land of the Dead’ Zombies
The misadventures of Lauren, Olja and Rachel
ECS Jumpstart - Zombie Apocalypse Challenge 2011

2. Getting to know Southampton…

3. Day 1
Walking 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…

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. Day 9
We find Southampton abandoned… Palmerston Park is
eerily quiet and we move on quickly

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

9. Day 11
We are safe but plan for getting more supplies and fighting off the zombie attacks
Two 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.

10. 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.

11. Six weeks later….