Disclaimer: I don’t like zombies at all, and to be honest I don’t get the fascination with them (though I HAVE gone down the train of thought that we’re actually all zombies spiritually, because we’re dead in our sins until we accept Jesus’ salvation and new life in Him – which isn’t what this tag is about, but anyway 😇). However, this tag fortunately has nothing to do with brains, loose arms, or other such stuff – it could be about aliens, ancient Persians, screaming ninja monkeys, or anything, really. Tis rather chaotic and kinda reminds me of the Rescue Tag I made awhile ago.

(On a side note, in our Playmobil world the zombie equivalent is the mutants from the planet Xenon, which invade the town of Sillyville every year in an attempt to take it over and mutate it and all the inhabitants. Conventional weapons usually don’t work on them, so they must be fought with any ol’ thing lying around – such as a hot dog, a Grecian urn, or a goose gripped tightly around the neck. But I digress.)

On to the Tag of Doom.

Rules of Engagement

• Acknowledge and link back to whoever tagged you or who you snurched the tag from if you can possibly remember who it actually was. (Journey doomed me. Thanks a lot for nothing, Journey. 😆)
• Choose 5 books
• Randomly set up your books in order
• Flip to a random page in the book and write down the first two names you see
• Put the names in the categories listed below in the order you saw them (pfft, absolutely not! This is WAR, after all, which is chaos, and I’m a li’l rebel anyway. I’m using my traitorous beloved 10-sided die to randomize them. 😇)
• Cry at how doomed you are (this is an essential step, because you will almost certainly be doomed, and doom is bound to be the most common word in this tag.)

My 5 Books

1. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
2. Nova by Chuck Black
3. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
4. Combat! The Counterattack by Franklin M. Davis, Jr.
5. To Stand by yours truly 😇

(You can see I’m prepared to go down fighting. 😆 Naturally, the radio is playing “Eve of Destruction” by Barry McGuire.)

The Doomed Ones

First Person To Die:

Saunders (from Combat!). WHAT?!!! NOOOOOOOO!!!! Evil die, you have betrayed me. 😭😭😭 No doubt he sacrificed himself so that we could all escape. *gives up, sits down, and starts sobbing*

The First Person You Trip To Escape the Zombies:

Daeson (from Nova). Hmm. He’s supposed to be the Moses figure in the series, but so far he hasn’t done much Moses-ing, and in the start he was a bit of a jerk. So yeah, we can trip him.

The Person Who Trips You To Escape the Zombies:

Raviel (from Nova). I could see her doing that because she doesn’t trust many people, and she’s a tough, scrappy Raylean gal.

The First Person To Turn Into A Zombie:

Johnny (from The Outsiders). Noooooo, this is horrible! Not my precious Johnnycake! 😭😭😭 (I am going to feed my die to the zombies. It deserves it. Wretched thing.)

The Team Idiot:

Rhys (from To Stand). Hmm . . . he’s not *that* dumb, really, just a little . . . stressed-out and sometimes emotional.

The Brains of the Group:

Alice (from Alice in Wonderland). Honestly, I don’t think that’s a good choice. She’s rude and temperamental; but on the other hand, she’s got experience with bizarre things and creatures, so maybe she’ll prove helpful. I highly doubt it, though.

The Team Medic:

The Caterpillar (from Alice in Wonderland). *snorts* Nearly any of these folks would’ve made a better medic. All he’ll do is sit there smoking his long pipe and making cryptic smart remarks about which side of the mushroom we ought to eat.

The Weapons Expert:

Brockmeyer (from Combat!). Not a bad choice, actually. He’s a soldier (unlike most of these chaps) and a radio operator, so he can call down artillery.

The Brawler:

Brother Andros (from To Stand). Oh no, no, that is a terrible choice. He’s a fat friar, for Pete’s sake, who doesn’t know a thing about hand-to-hand fighting. I suppose he could just sit on someone (or something) and squash them, but . . . nope, we are doomed.

The Team Leader:

Sodapop (from The Outsiders). I dearly love Soda, but I’m afraid he is NOT cut out to be a team leader. As a middle sibling, he doesn’t have the older-sibling energy required. We are doomed.

My Team of Doom is:

First Person to Die: Saunders
The First Person You Trip To Escape the Zombies: Daeson
The Person Who Trips You To Escape the Zombies: Raviel
The First Person To Turn Into A Zombie: Johnny
The Team Idiot: Rhys
The Brains of the Group: Alice
The Team Medic: The Caterpillar
The Weapons Expert: Brockmeyer
The Brawler: Brother Andros
The Team Leader: Sodapop

No question about it, we are decidedly and finally doomed. Only one of those roles is appropriately filled (The Weapons Expert). Now, if I was going to decide the roles myself, things would go a lot better:

First Person to Die: The Caterpillar (who needs him anyway?)
The First Person You Trip To Escape the Zombies: Brother Andros (sorry-not-sorry, bro. You’re fat and unnecessary and you got in the way. 😆)
The Person Who Trips You To Escape the Zombies: Johnny (yes, he’s a sweet li’l greaser, but this IS survival, and he’s got survival instincts too.)
The First Person To Turn Into A Zombie: Alice (she’d probably stop to argue with them.)
The Team Idiot: Sodapop (no, he’s not actually stupid, but he’d probably be cracking jokes to lighten the mood. We can rely on him for other things besides thinking, anyway.)
The Brains of the Group: Raviel (she’s a techie and a spy, and she’s SMORT.)
The Team Medic: Brockmeyer (every soldier knows first aid! And with the radio he can call in a medevac.)
The Weapons Expert: Daeson (master of the Talon weapon, Starcraft fighters, and anything else he sets his mind to.)
The Brawler: Rhys (he’s a swordsman who grew up in a warrior clan. ‘Nuff said.)
The Team Leader: Saunders (he’d make a far better leader than any of these guys because he IS a sergeant and an amazing one at that!)

Spreading the Doom

I hereby doom Shekinah and anyone else who wishes to tag along to the end of the world. Here’s the list of titles to fill:

My Five Books:

First Person To Die:
The First Person You Trip To Escape the Zombies:
The Person Who Trips You To Escape the Zombies:
The First Person To Turn Into A Zombie:
The Team Idiot:
The Brains of the Group:
The Team Medic:
The Weapons Expert:
The Brawler:
The Team Leader:

My Zombie Team is:

Here’s a milk pail and a sardine tin – they sometimes work on mutants, so perhaps they’ll work here as well. I would say best of luck, but I fear misery and doom will most likely strap you on the head and sting your way.