And I'm already AWOL from my unit, back to using cunning to stop the attack. But glad to see you've got some couriers lined up--I might need them!

I will be very happy creating and building us places to store our outfits and kit, bunks for sleeping and a kitchen. Ready to receive moniker.

Porridge would be honoured to join Doggy Brigade. She has offered to wear her mane on special days.

Team Preserver of Knowledge, Ad Hoc Anthropologist reporting for duty. I'd be out sifting through local lore and know-how before it disappears, searching for remedies, cures, survival strategies... And saving Shakespeare and Cervantes for future generations.

That's if I'm feeling optimistic about humanity when it all goes down. If the apocalypse catches me on a bad day, I'll be a Loner Survivalist Sage.

Either way, I'm wearing a black merino tank top, baggy olive hiking pants and barefoot sneakers, carrying a waterproof notebook, and stockpiling pens and pencils.

Ohmigoodness. Jane! Building and Engineering! Thank goodness you and Porridge have arrived.

Everyone needs a Mane. Opaline... think we need to incorporate this into the headgear designs...

LP: The Ranger Librarian!!!

Then i have to recruit my seeing nose dog, to sniff out food wherever it may lurk. And my comfort keeper kitty pack!

Yes, I will be on the front lines for sure. I will wear a uniform of Frye boots, jeans and tee. I expect the scavengers to keep me in supply of sunblock (a front line essential).

Roger that, Brooklyn. Your sunblock request has been noted by Team Scavenger! (Let us know your preferred SPF.)

Rachy ...this is great !
Suz, YES, the knowledge keepers are a priority !
Thankful for the medics that stepped up !
Jane , I am still giggling over Porridge! :). Adorable!
Such a brave pooch !
Xtabay...Team Scavenger sooo essential .

Hee hee! So glad Angie remembered we'd need loo paper.

On it, Rachy!

It's full-on Lara Croft for me. Years of first-person shooter video games have trained me for this moment!

As a Nurse Practitioner, I am throwing in with the healers. I will be triaging the sick and injured, suturing wounds, and dispensing Tylenol, band aides, and lollipops. (Hopefully the supply team is keeping a list.) I will be wearing my vintage Frye combat boots, raw hemmed cargos, and my favorite black Madewell tshirt. (Black hides blood stains really well). And I don't go anywhere without my Littmann stethoscope. Fashionable (and Fierce) Florence Nightingale reporting for duty.

I would be with the healers too (Social Worker) but I am working with the animals this time around. I want to make sure they all get what they need.

True to character and and in an attempt to create a sense of calm and community I will risk limb and life as I try to be a peacemaker, striving to nudge people towards the apology corner to resolve differences, thinking that zombies and brave Fabbers can all learn to live and work together for a better world. I will be handing out happiness factors, because you know, you just know there are going to be stories to remember. Suz is going to be writing them down. Either that or I’ll be in charge of Lockdown procedures.........

Happy to join the Medic team. Also very glad that Nemosmom is well supplied with teabags. But once we run out of those and the pharmaceuticals, I will join any interested botanists in looking for substitutes.

I also want to make sure the Healers have an antidote for the Poison Lipstick Librarian's poison in case a human is accidentally thought to be a zombie? (Is such a mistaken identity possible?)
Diana and Keturah, can you get working on the antidote please?
I want to dress like Joan from Mad Men too but don't think it fits my healing persona...

Physician reporting in. I'll be manning the Medical bay. I'll also have created a new sunscreen SPF gazillion with non microsized zinc oxide which will make us look so white we will all pass as zombies, thereby increasing the safety of on the front lines and making sure we maintain our youthful appearance. I addition I will be baking incredibly vegan desserts and creating nutritious vegan meals, and keeping the espresso machine in good working order as the combination of sugar, caffeine, fat and alcohol (yes irish and kahlua coffee will be available) are the essential nutrients that a well trained freedom fighting army runs on. I will also be the one scrounging oil filled space heaters and every down comforter, sleeping bag and coat that can be found. Lastly, someone better know how to run the generator and scrounge for gas, since there is no meaning to life with a blow drier. Just saying.....

But Gryffin we might all look so white that all the Fabbers would get swiped by the Poison Lipstick Librarian?

Jenni - no worries. Our ability to accessorize will distinguish us immediately!!

I’m so relieved that Xtabay and Gryffin have the sunblock issue under control. You are all that stands between me and a PA style moniker of “scorched warrior”.

Lol!! No way Brooklyn! We have your back and your block!!

Pediatrician reporting for duty. I will join the healers as the Fierce Mama Bear Medic protecting and caring for all the children. Do not even think about harming the children!! I will be wearing black leggings, combat boots, and a red tunic with a purple Littmann stethoscope with a bear attached to it around my neck. I will have a pair stilettos hidden in case I need them. Oh, and lots of stickers for the kids. Gotta have stickers.

I will be the resident horticulturalist...trying valiantly to grow crops to feed us....constructing hothouses and hydroponic systems.... that type of thing.
Suppose I shall weave flowers through my hair and don a long flowing dress of some sort, with some weather-beaten leather sandals. And a handful of amulets hanging around my neck.....

Love those healers, medics and the kind hearted stepping up for the children and animals in the ZA ...they are who we on the front lines fight for .
Gryffin, I know how to set up a generator....for the blow dry/color station of course!

Sign me up for the strategy team - I’ll help coordinate the reports from the warriors and figure out where we need to deploy the stiletto army next. Of course, I’ll need something to do while they’re off battling the horde, so I’ll grab my needles and thread to create new post-apoc garb from damaged clothes and sweaters.

Captain Clothier? Strategic Seamstress? Whatever, it’ll be ZA-chic.

So funny !
I love that Gretchen , “The Stiletto Army”.
Brilliant !

I will sit in the corner doing breathing exercises and offering support to all you warriors when you come back from battle, the fields, or the last salon!

I'm throwing in with La Ped on recreating the knowledge base -- finding out who knows all the arcane knowledge about how to grow and weave and dye and then getting Diana to recreate it all in her lab. And adding in how to build a computer and how to get to the moon and how to write a sonata and build a violin to play it on. In between I'll have found the lone surviving horse and be plowing the prairie ready to grow some crops. Keeper of the Prairie Compendium -- old field jacket, long skirt, and sensible boots.

I forgot to specify my outfit!!

Just the usual. Waterproof (and fireproof?) Chelsea boots, awesome jeans, turtleneck (with cami underneath in case of climate meltdown) and a brilliantly cut blazer. That jacket on its own may go some distance towards intimidating the zombie masses, but, honestly, if Gryffin and Brooklyn and Jane and a few others show up alongside me, even their leaders will shrivel up in sartorial embarrassment and disappear. There is not too much that crisp tailoring can't combat.

But just in case, I will also carry a puffer in my backpack (along with many extra pens and notebooks...).

And of course the stiletto army and combat boot corps will be fighting on their own fronts....along with the Elfin Eclectic (JennieNZ) and the the Secondhand Superb (Shevia) whose footwear will put even Dorothy's to shame.

What a relief to know we have healers, horticulturists, fighters, strategists, teachers and peacemakers.

Suz, I’m calling my unit of the stiletto army “the Velvet Regiment”. We are more fierce than our name suggests.

I think we need a musician! Someone who can strum a guitar while we sit around the campfire at the end of the day. Not so loud as to lure in the zombies of course. But enough to relax us all after a long day of fighting, scavenging, strategising, repairing, sewing, teaching, rebuilding and giving reassuring stickers to small children