Apocalypse Teams

Three categories, A, B, and C. A is your team of survivors. Smart, skilled, pragmatic. B are your followers. Valuable in many ways, perhaps very specialized, dependent family. C expendable. Old, weak, slow. If they had some broad talents they'd be in the B team. The most these people can hope for is a swift death.

So who's in your Red Hot Pawn Apocalypse Teams and why? I'm an Engineer, skilled at emergency first aid, and an expert marksman. While this "soft" apocalypse isn't the zombie horde I was hoping for, I'm an A. Who's with me?

@hand-of-hecate said
Three categories, A, B, and C. A is your team of survivors. Smart, skilled, pragmatic. B are your followers. Valuable in many ways, perhaps very specialized, dependent family. C expendable. Old, weak, slow. If they had some broad talents they'd be in the B team. The most these people can hope for is a swift death.

So who's in your Red Hot Pawn Apocalypse Teams and ...[text shortened]... sman. While this "soft" apocalypse isn't the zombie horde I was hoping for, I'm an A. Who's with me?

I would be in the C group - expendable, old but healthy. I need a strong leader, I would feel safe with Ghost of a Duke.

@torunn said
I would be in the C group - expendable, old but healthy. I need a strong leader, I would feel safe with Ghost of a Duke.

@hand-of-hecate said
Three categories, A, B, and C. A is your team of survivors. Smart, skilled, pragmatic. B are your followers. Valuable in many ways, perhaps very specialized, dependent family. C expendable. Old, weak, slow. If they had some broad talents they'd be in the B team. The most these people can hope for is a swift death.

So who's in your Red Hot Pawn Apocalypse Teams and ...[text shortened]... sman. While this "soft" apocalypse isn't the zombie horde I was hoping for, I'm an A. Who's with me?

I was always told I was a good leader when I worked in teams dealing with immediate risk to life. I would redefine the categories. I don't recognise description A as the qualities that people naturally want in a leader. I don't think you take the group forward defining people as 'followers' or as 'expendable' and I think human groups need far more than technical abilities to succeed. At times of crisis you often find resources where you least expect to find them. There will be more wisdom in the 'expendable' group than you can imagine.

“Line on the left, one cross each.”

Nisus Wettus

“He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.”

Gabriel Garcia Marquez,
Love in the Time of Cholera

@handyandy said
Ghost of a Duke for an A. He's gifted in many areas and he can walk through walls.

@hand-of-hecate said
Three categories, A, B, and C. A is your team of survivors. Smart, skilled, pragmatic. B are your followers. Valuable in many ways, perhaps very specialized, dependent family. C expendable. Old, weak, slow. If they had some broad talents they'd be in the B team. The most these people can hope for is a swift death.

So who's in your Red Hot Pawn Apocalypse Teams and ...[text shortened]... sman. While this "soft" apocalypse isn't the zombie horde I was hoping for, I'm an A. Who's with me?

@very-rusty said
None of the above. I take my own road and walk alone!

-VR

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Keep walking...

😴

@wolfgang59 said
I'm old, weak, slow, smart, skilled and pragmatic.
Where do I queue?

@great-big-stees said
"Old" is a relative term I think. Methuselah is old, Justin Bieber is young. I fall into the middle. Although technically very inept I do have some strong points (I just can't remember them, at the moment) so I think I might fit into either B or C, with B being my preference cuz I'm not ready to be a sacrificial lamb...yet.