Zombie Apocalypse Setup Idea: Treehouse with a Spear Attached to a Rope

 A treehouse outfitted with spears attached to climbing ropes could serve as a reusable defense system. However, there are risks depending on where you anchor the rope—whether to yourself, the tree, or elsewhere. If you miss a throw, you risk getting pulled down, damaging the tree, or even giving zombies a climbing route. That said, if your tree is thick and sturdy enough, and the zombies begin to climb the rope, you could stab them in the head one by one as they ascend.

However, this strategy would be useless in a "World War Z" style outbreak, where zombies pile on top of one another to reach high places. Additionally, in a "Walking Dead" type scenario, where everyone is a carrier and turns upon death, sharing a small enclosed space like a treehouse with friends could be dangerous. If someone dies inside, the tight quarters could quickly turn into a death trap.

P.S. Please ignore the absurdity of the setup in the AI-generated image—it's just meant to illustrate the general idea.

Starfinder Backstory: Lucan Lacuna (July 2025 Version) | The Dementia-Stricken Ex-Magnate and Unreliable Narrator

Lucan's troubles began with the disappearance of his beloved cat, Sir Meowglen Flufflebottom Whiskerford III.

To cope, Lucan kept himself busy by opposing AbadarCorp’s credit system, calling digital currency a tool of corporate control. He advocated a return to gold coins and made his cat the mascot of his eccentric campaign for “real” money. People might have taken his movement more seriously if he hadn’t lost most of his fortune in an unrelated cat-themed crypto scam. About half of his retirement savings vanished along with his missing cat, whose custom collar held the credstick which stored the savings. He is still in possession of a few million credits without realizing it, a sum that happens to match what would remain after a divorce settlement takes half of one’s stuff.

The loss gnawed at him, festering into obsession. Episodes of manic delusion, likely fueled by creeping dementia, culminated in him convincing the Order of the Pike, a group of Hellknights tasked with hunting monsters, that his cat was a demonic shapeshifter infiltrator. Tragically and ironically, he wasn’t entirely wrong.

Lucan, ignorant of the full truth, later paid the Free Captains to protect what he believes is his beloved Sir Meowglen Flufflebottom Whiskerford III from the very Hellknights he set upon them, unaware that the “pet” he’s safeguarding may be the very threat his dementia-riddled, mythomaniac mind warned them about.

With fear of the Hellknights looming, he presented the Xenowardens with a half-burnt certificate of authenticity and a medallion forged from melted credsticks, swearing that Sir Meowglen was an endangered biomimetic companion species, one genetically linked to ancient Pact Worlds fauna.

Eventually, during what he calls a hedonvalescent (pleasure-based recovery) drug binge while grieving his lost cat, Lucan receives a fragmentary vision that leads him to believe his cat is not the shapeshifter itself, but a vessel for one.

Upon this revelation, he seeks allies among the devotees of Lao Shu Po under false pretenses, hoping they will help him capture his beloved companion and prevent its death at the hands of the Hellknights.

Now, with the Lao Shu Po, Free Captains, and Xenowardens converging against the Hellknights, Lucan clings to hope, desperate to counter the immense and insurmountable threat he himself unleashed upon the cat he still calls his own, despite its dire predicament.

Aside: As a hail Mary play that he believed would likely amount to nothing, he offered frantic prayers to the god Oras, begging the creature to develop resistance to the shapeshifter’s influence.

Beneath all of Lucan’s madness, he is haunted by an unbearable truth that surfaces in brief, fractured recollections:

Sir Meowglen was never just a cat—and never actually a "sir" for that matter—but was, in fact, his wife, transformed long ago by transmutation magic in an experiment gone horribly awry.

Will Lucan remember in time that his wife is the cat? Or is he doomed to kill her with his own hands, live unknowingly beside her in feline form, or be murdered by the shapeshifter that now possesses his transmuted wife?

My Favorite Enchantment Cards of Magic the Gathering MoribundMurdoch's Opinion! [Decemeber 14, 2018]

Authority of The Consuls

Demonic Pact

Triskaidekaphobia

Radiant Destiny

Attrition [Not in Modern)

Angelic Accord

Toward the end of this list, I began to lose faith in the cards.
I'm really not sure about those following "Divine Visitation" (Exquisite Blood, Profane Procession, Blind Obedience, Call The Bloodline).

Buried Alive: Volunteering for Avalanche Dogs — By MoribundMurdoch

My cousin [Redacted], while attending Steamboat Mountain School in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, volunteered to be buried under twelve feet of packed avalanche snow so that dogs could practice finding people buried in avalanches. After a drive to Rabbit Ears Pass, an area known for its affinity for avalanches, the Search and Rescue team fitted her with a beacon as a failsafe, in case the dogs couldn’t manage the search. Using a backhoe, the team dug a 12-foot hole, creating a small snow cave about the size of a single-person tent. She then crawled into the cave. Her environment wasn’t too drab, as she was equipped with the luxuries of a sleeping bag, pad, and headlamp for reading. The workers then used the backhoe to pile snow on top of the cave. In contrast to the cold, windy blizzard outside,[REDACTED] described her confined compartment as a very appealing, silent snuggery. As time passed, her body heat melted the snow above, making the cave damp. What had started as a cozy refuge turned into a subpar dwelling, rife with gelid moisture. After an hour of being buried, the dogs found her and alerted the Search and Rescue team by barking and pawing at the snow. Once the team located her, they dug her out of the packed snow. Daylight at last, and the first thing to greet her was a smiling German Shepherd.

[I welcome comments and suggestions. I appreciate the help.]

Citations -

Almonature. "Avalanche Dogs." Digital image. Almonature. https://www.almonature.com/en_GB/blog/avalanche-dogs-complex-training-for-rescue-at-high-altitude/

The Confusing Chaff

Colorado has the worst avalanche danger of any mountain range in the world (according to my primary source storyteller). As a student at a convivial boarding school, opportunities sprang up like weeds in spring. With constant interaction between teachers and the community, we attendees had numerous chances to extend the range of our life experiences. At her school, extracurricular activities often stemmed from the interests or involvement of individual professors, leading to an ever-changing array of offerings. Many of the teachers were involved with the town’s Search and Rescue squad, which often drew volunteers from our school. A noteworthy community interaction was volunteering as the victim to help train the Search and Rescue avalanche dogs.

[REDACTED] was cheerful in her little snuggery, equipped with a headlamp to read and fill the time. With her insouciant hippie demeanor and her book to stave off any of the predictable worries, she likely kept herself from fretting about whether there was enough air or if they’d find her. They knew where she was, anyhow, thanks to the beacon. So if the pups failed to pick up the human scent, there was always a failsafe—they would come get her in an hour, regardless of whether the pups could find her or not. Although the wetness compounded the cold, she mentioned that it came with the territory and she’d grown accustomed to it. She was greeted by a smiling German Shepherd and driven back to school in time for dinner.

Back in time for dinner in Routt County, Colorado. She was a junior. Routt County Search and Rescue found her in winter, February. Perhaps she was slightly worried about the structure of the hole. Knowing she was going to be very cold, she wore many layers.

A Serendipitous Meeting -- A War Story -- By MoribundMurdoch

  

Does the rubble of burning tanks and armored vehicles inspire you to play and wise off? Well for Immo Starbreit playing soldier with friends on  abandoned tanks of  World War II  was the catalyst for his future. While the twelve-year olds were playing one of their games in the rubble, paying no heed to the dangers of war, American tanks rumbled around the corner. The lead tank stopped. The top opened. A Major appeared and asked the boys if any of them spoke English. Young Starbreit volunteered that he spoke a little. The Major told him to climb into the tank, saying he needed a guide and interpreter who knew the area. Before long Immo was acting as the daily guide and interpreter for the Americans.
Appreciative of Immo’s help after the German defeat, the Major told Immo he was an assistant professor at Princeton and that he would sponsor him to come to America for college.
Of age and a year through college in Germany Immo sent a missive to the Major asking if he could attend Princeton. Not only did the Major say “yes”, the Major arranged for Immo’s acceptance into Princeton and all of Immo’s transportation, tuition, room and board and living expenses. Contrary to the destructiveness of World War II the serendipitous meeting between a warring soldier and a child playing in the rubble proved to be a true fortune of war.


 After three years at Princeton and a return trip to Germany Immo acted as a liaison in U.S.-German affairs.  He later became the German Ambassador to the United States. All thanks to “wise’ing” off among burning vehicles in Berlin.  

[I welcome your comments and suggestions]

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Link to “Secondary Source Grandfather” Audio -
https://soundcloud.com/harris-familyregister/princeton-class-of-1953-story-from-a-reunion-story-not-about-a-reunion-story

Transcript of the Primary Source Audio
(Inflections and cadence missing)

This is a story that was told to me by Emo Starbright, a classmate of mine at Princeton.

What our class does is—after the 50th reunion, we go to class reunions in different cities. Emo was the sponsor for the trip to Berlin. So I got a chance to talk to him, and we got around to, you know, how you end up at Princeton. And it was a very interesting story.

Bear in mind that during World War II, we were around 10, 11, 12 years old. Emo was living in East Germany with his brother, his mother, and his sister. His father was a physician stationed in Berlin.

As the war was ending, the Russians were taking over East Germany. When they captured German soldiers, they would march them east—and not too many of those guys came back. But on the march, if anyone dropped out during the day, the Russians would just go to a nearby farmhouse, pull someone out, and put them in the line. They didn’t care whether it was a man, woman, or child. The number always had to stay the same.

So his mother started getting nervous, and they decided it was time to go to Berlin.

Before they left, she told Emo: “Go out to the pasture, look for the biggest horse, load our stuff on it, and we’ll walk to Berlin.”

So Emo, ten years old and not knowing much about horses, goes out and picks the biggest one he sees—which happens to be a pregnant mare. They're a little rambunctious, but they managed to load their belongings on her and headed for East Berlin.

Meanwhile, Emo recalled that if the Russians found anyone they didn’t like—or if a German stepped out of line—they’d just hang them from a lamppost. He said he spent a lot of time looking at dead bodies on lampposts.

When they got to Berlin, they found their dad. The city was being bombed pretty regularly by the Allies. But at that age, you feel like you’re immortal.

So, when the bombing stopped, he and a buddy would go out into the streets. There might be a burned-out tank or armored car, and they’d be out there playing around—playing cowboys and Indians or whatever.

One time, while they were out, three or four American tanks came around the corner. The lead tank stopped, and the guy inside looked down and said, “Hey, do any of you kids speak English?”

Emo said he spoke a little English he’d learned in school, so he replied, “I do.”

The man, who turned out to be a major, said, “Get in the tank.”

So Emo spent two or three weeks with the major, showing him around Berlin and acting as a kind of interpreter.

When the major had to leave, he told Emo:
“Emo, you’ve been very helpful. I want you to know my regular job is assistant professor at Princeton. When you’re old enough to go to college, here’s my card. Contact me.”

He handed Emo a card with his name and Princeton University on it.

Emo spent one year in college in Germany, then wrote to the professor and asked, “Any chance I could come to Princeton?”

The professor wrote back: “Come ahead.”

Emo ended up spending two or three years at Princeton (I think it was three, but it might’ve been two). His English got quite good.

When he returned to Germany, he got involved in U.S.–German affairs. He eventually became ambassador to the United States—and later, ambassador to France.

He told me:

“I wouldn’t have even thought of these kinds of things if I hadn’t been out, playing around, wisecracking near some burning vehicle in Berlin. In some ways, the war made me.”

I thought it was an interesting story.

Image Citation -
1. Lamprecht, Gerhard, director. Somewhere in Berlin. Somewhere in Berlin, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somewhere_in_Berlin.




My Writing Situation-
1. My Subject - Emo Starbrights progression from benighted boy to UN ambassador in U.S German Affairs.
2. My purpose - “Expedient”- to learn from my grandfather's story abilities to ameliorate my own. “Alterocentric/Allocentric/Other Regarding” - to record my families stories in a family register for our descendants and their upbringing.
3. My Intended Audience - My instructor whose putting himself in the role of my soi-disant peer/and or somebody who’s also at my level of education and life experience.
4. The Sources of Information available to me - at this point in time, only a secondary source, my grandfather recounting his friends story.
5. Constraints - Grandfather only source; secondhand source, who got it from main guy.




Hook Attempts Introductory Paragraph -
Playing about and wising off in an internecine conflict, World War II, changed a man's life.


Vocabulary I thought about and Avoided-
Intrepid, Impavid, Benighted, Detritus.

Language Learning Potvaliancy -- A Story of Intemperate Language Learning in Social Environments

Overly regimental teaching when learning a foreign language stunts students creativity and facilitates fysigunkus [a lack of curiosity]. When I’m referring to, “overly regimental teaching”, I’m not referring to its organizational structure; I’m referring to its limited contextual real world experience.
To be blunt, my mate Perry, (from Portugal a native Portuguese speaker), learnt his English most effectively whilst in a slight state of inebriation. As a soft spoken overweight male, Perry lacked confidence with the ladies. Ergo his professor in London, England taught him English while drinking in pubs. This facilitated speaking in a manner more effective than that of any classroom environment where a student is surrounded by peers and needs to protect his pride, devoid of real world communication nuances.
When I was in Shanghai, China, I was often on the prowl with my language learning peers mucking about and putting ourselves in somewhat precarious situations. After one late night, the boys and I were famished, ergo we were seeking nourishment. In the end, the only shop we came across was a sketchy street vendor. A sketchy vendor catalyzing our nasty premonitions of food poisoning. A fate suffered by the younger brother of Antonio. His food poisoning was so bad that the remainder of his 2 week trip was spent in the lavatory. As we approached the vendor we saw an older woman and her grandson. We appointed Antonio to do our ordering as he was currently the most proficient in Mandarin under our current inebriated conditions, i.e. he was was the one slurring his words the least. Inside this dingy tungsten lit backstall, Antonio started picking and choosing the foods. The criteria for picking the foods being those least likely to give us food poisoning.  Antonio proceeded to pick out various unrecognizable foods by utilizing his limited Mandarin at the time, repeating, “那个”,  meaning “that one”, while pointing at each of the ingredients. After sitting down with our food we thought we were out of the woods, but the garrulity of the proprietors prompted conservation between us and them. Now we were in a conversation with them with limited Mandarin. The conversation progressed with an abundance of trial and error as we were making a lot of mistakes because of the tonal language that is Chinese. Provoking our rapid fire attempts trying to match proper tones, the proprietors asked a steady stream of in context questions such as “Where are you from?” “Where do you go to school” , “How do you like your stay” and other questions, forcing us to use our brains and recall our studies. We all enjoyed ourselves and each chipped in to the conversation whether it helped or not.
It ends up that this episode was a very effective teaching method, mostly because it put us on the spot and got us to attach our Mandarin learning to a compulsory real world conversation, with all the mistakes and misunderstandings inevitable in real world communication. The classroom tries to imitate this real world experience. Unfortunately, the classroom cannot work as well as the real world since it is much more nuanced in ways that can’t be replicated. Some problems of  a formal setting include classrooms filled with concerns of pride, G.P.A, and certainly less incentive to try and fail a multitude of times. When we were conversing with the proprietors of the street shop we were laughing and coming up with creative ways of communicating as a team. We would do whatever was necessary  to be commutative because we had a strong incentive to fill our drunken bellies and eschew to test our intestinal fortitude. We failed as much as it took to finally succeed. In a classroom environment there are no retakes and time constraints preclude language learners from mastering practical speech. Yes, a typical language class does try to promote street conversations, but until you do it in the actual street it doesn’t sink in and there is a lack of contextual clues.
In Perry’s case he not only became a fluent English speaker, but also became a fashion expert in British designs. How he became a fluent English speaker through the pub going method, I don’t know exactly, but maybe it’s because he had to learn to disguitish between the multitude of English lagers and ales, or maybe he had to be wary of the strange English pub food such as haggis or kidney pies. Somehow after all that mess, he become a fluent English speaker. In any case, the unstructured learning environment forced Perry to adapt to a quick thinking natural English speaking pace. Perry had to be creative in his recall of his English just as we had to be creative in our Chinese communication. The small bit of real world success, led to genuine desire for learning. In Perry’s case, he learned about English fashion. In our case, by conversing with the Chinese proprietors,  we gained confidence to use more of our Chinese. In addition, we now understand that although we may still get food poisoning, at least our proprietors are not trying to kill us on purpose.

         A little inebriation and socializing in the real world, helps promote the less inhibited and creative interactive language skills that are the core to communicating as well as providing the desire to be able to communicate evermore effectively. Ergo all language classes should be conducted in pubs.

[I welcome your comments and suggestions]

Staff Member MoribundMurdoch's Anime List As of October 12, 2018 Recovery Attempt

一。 Gintama (2006)

二。 Golden Boy (1995)

三。 Gurren Lagann (2007)

四。 Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! (2016)

五。 One Punch Man (2015)

六。 Cowboy Bebop (1998)

七。 LEGEND OF THE GALACTIC HEROs (1988)

八。 Tiger And Bunny (2011)

九。 Saiki Kusuo no Ψ Nan (2016)

十。 Kiseijuu: Sei no Kakuritsu (2014)

十一。 Toradora! (2008)

十二。 Steins;Gate (2011)

十三。 Space☆Dandy (2014)

十四。 Black Lagoon (2006)

十五。 Noragami (2014)

十六。 No Game No Life (2014)

十七。 JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken: Stardust Crusaders

十八。 Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma

十九。 The Tatami Galaxy

二十。 Danna ga Nani wo Itteiru ka Wakaranai Ken

二十一。 boku no hero academia

二十二。 Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?

二十三。 Re: Life in a different world from zero, ReZero

二十四。 Great Teacher Onizuka

二十五。 ReLIFE

二十六。 Keiji Ultimate Survivor

二十七。 Jojo Bizarre Adventure Battle Tendency

二十八。 Log Horizon

二十九。 Ansatsu Kyoushitsu [Assassination Classroom]

三十。 Akame ga Kill!

三十一。 Kill La Kill!

三十二。 Overlord

三十三。 Deadman Wonderland

三十四。 Trigun

三十五。 Ao no Exorcist [Blue Exorcist]

三十六。 Danshi-Koukousei-no-Nichijou [Daily Lives of High School Boys]

三十七。 Shingeki no Kyojin

三十八。 FairyTail

三十九。 Naruto

四十。 One Piece

四十一。 Dragonball

四十二。 Samurai Champloo

四十三。 Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood

四十四。 Initial D

四十五。 Outlaw Star

四十六。 Kaiba

四十七。 Rurouni Kenshin

四十八。 Hellsing Ultimate

四十九。 Tokyo Ghoul

五十。 Fate/Zero

五十一。 Desert Punk

五十二。 Mononoke

五十二。 Kokoro Connect

五十三。 Haikyu [Volleyball]

五十四。 Bakuman

五十五。 Psycho Pass

五十六。 Mushishi/Mushishi Zoku Shou

五十七。 Natsume Yuujinchou Go [Natsume's Book of Friends]

五十八。 Fune-wo-Amu [The Great Passage]

五十九。 K/K: Return of Kings

六十。 GodEater

六十一。 JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken: Diamond wa Kudakenai [Diamond Is Unbreakable]

六十二。 Fullmetal Alchemist

六十三。 Boku dake ga Inai Machi (ERASED)

六十四。 Kingdom [Manga isTooGood, AnimeAnnoyingAnimation--Position Due to Manga]

六十五。 MobPsycho

六十六。 Neon Genesis Evangelion

六十七。 Hataraku Maou-sama! [The Devil Is a Part-Timer!]

In order of goodness from top [best] to bottom [least favorite].

#animemoribund #animelist #moribundmurdoch #animemurdoch #goldenboy

Why is One Piece and Naruto below FairyTail? I have no idea.
Why is Initial D and Outlaw Star so far down on the list? Where is Redline?
Why is JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken: Diamond wa Kudakenai [Diamond Is Unbreakable] so low on the list?

[I welcome your comments and suggestions]