Undead 101 Part Four: Glossary and Reccomended Media

The following is a glossary of terms used both formally and informally by Harvest Team members, as well as other lingo one might find in the scope of this blog.

• BOO: short for Base of Operations; temporary command outpost for a long-term mission.
• Barbecue: Burning corpses, also use of a flamethrower or similar weapon.
• Barrellfish: A zombie unable to move due to amputation or being restrained.
• Biter(s): Revenant
• Boomstick: Any shotgun
• Brain: The act of killing a revenant/turning human with a direct attack to the brain.
• Brain Spike: Trench spike
• Dead Man's Party: Any large area believed to be/confirmed to be populated entirely by revenants.
• Evac: Evacuation
• Eyes and Ears (also E&E): Pay attention to your surroundings; also surveillance team
• Hostile: Enemy combatant
• Leftovers: Partially eaten human remains
• Liberation: Work on foreign ground, usually unauthorized.
• Lunch: Human or humans killed by a feeding revenant.
• MedEvac: Medical Evacuation, used for anyone injured by any means other than a revenant bite.
• Noncombatant: Any non-hostile uninfected civilian
• Pest Control: Clearing a room/building of revenants
• PsyEval: Psychiatric Evaluation
• RTB: Return to Base
• Snack (also Snacked On): Still-living human bitten by a revenant
• Ted Nugent Special: Crossbow
• Tortoise and Hare: A human who tries/tried to flee revenants with a quick sprint, tiring himself out in the process.
• Watching The Clock: Formation of three or four people standing with their backs to each other to prevent being blindsided.

The following is a list of books, television shows, and movies to aid with civilian survival tactics. Simply put, while in the previous edition of this blog we posted some basics for short-term survival, the time may come when you need more comprehensive knowledge that is simply out of the scope of this blog.

Remember, however, that television, movies, and most books (with the exception of a few survival guides) are FICTION. Use common sense before trying something you saw in a movie once, or disaster may befall you and your fellow survivors!

• Book: The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks
• Book: The Zombie Combat Manual by Roger Ma
• Book: Zompoc: How to Survive A Zombie Apocolypse Michael G. Thomas
• Book: Day by Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne
• Television Show: The Walking Dead
• Movie: 28 Days Later
• Movie: The Evil Dead
• Movie: Zombieland
• Movie: The Omega Man
• Movie: Night Of The Living Dead
• Movie: Dawn of the Dead (Original and Remake)
• Movie: Red Dawn (while having nothing to do with the undead, does have some handy wilderness survival tactics)

Note that the author of this blog may update these lists as time goes on.

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