Well, It's go time.
I signal the people holding the door. At this point, all 16 of us are armed, ready for what ever we find out there.
Upon getting the signal, one of the 4 people holding the door now bring up the blunt end of a spear, and, after two hits, smash the small glass window. Almost on cue, a series of foul smelling, blood soaked arms reached through.
The door holders proceeded to stab the arms, but despite filling them with a series of holes, there was no response to it at all from the infected.
I see... Well, I guess it's time to switch up the tactics.
"Ok, use the spears to tear the arms off."
They then spent the next minute using the spears as levers, all working on separate arms.
However, when the first arm came off, something remarkable happened.
The arm continued to move. Not that much, but, it continued to writhe and slowing inch its way forward.
Remarkable? Yes.
Horrifying? Apparently, to everyone but me.
So while everyone gawked and shrieked at it, I simply went over to it, stabbed it with a spear, moved over to a window, and, using another spear, scraped it off and dropped it outside.
And almost straight away, another arm came off.
This time, however, the reaction was less severe, and one of the girls simply did what I did: Impale it, and then get it out the window.
By the time the third one came off, everyone seemed to have slightly gotten over it.
That hand too was quickly disposed of.
Two hands later, and only dripping stubs were, barely, poking in from the window.
It was then that I orders they start stabbing the infected through the window, partially to push them away, and partially to check the apparent lack of pain they now experience.
We were at least successful in one of them. Pain does not affect them at all.
Unfortunately, every time we tried to push them away, they just moved forward again.
What's worse, is the position and tactics we are left with.
They don't feel pain, and even when limbs are disconnected, they could move still. However, that movement was slow, and sluggish, and only amounted to dragging. Still, we're still left with a disadvantage.
We don't know how many of them there are out there, and we certainly don't have enough to take on many at once.
And while a few ideas popped up in my head, one stuck with me.
We funnel them. If we could somehow limit the flow of them inward, then we could take some time with each.
But how would we do that?
If we were to just open the door and close after one, we would quickly be over-run by an unrelenting crowd of infected ramming through instead.
So, we could either find a way to limit entry into the room through easy or hard means.
Easy: Use tables to block the full entry into the room by cramming them next to the door in a manner that let only one in at a time, and then place one table in front of the entry to stand behind, and then repeatedly stab the head to hopefully kill it. I'm assuming that the body will still move after, like the arms, but at least then they wouldn't be that much of a threat anymore, and we could just dispose of them out the window like before.
Or, we could have it so we cut a gap at the bottom of the door, and then drag them in one by one executing them all slowly, yet safely.
Of course I want to do the second one, but we have no real way of somehow cutting through a thick wooden door. Maybe the spears could, but they could probably snap part of the door in doing it, and in doing so the infected, with all the pressure they are currently exerting on the door, could be able to break the door apart. No matter how unlikely that may be, I don't want to risk it. Also, there is no real way to doing something like that and holding the door closed effectively too, so the first one it will have to be.
No matter how risky it is.
So, I ordered to do very that. Placing the tables behind the door in a manner to just let one person in at once, once they are pulled back, as right now they are replacing the door holders, and then one in front of where the opening in the door will be. Positioning five behind the table, I placed the rest in reserve, prepared it be switched round at any time.
And after readying it all, we pulled the tables that had been blocking the door backward, and then let the steady stream of the infected trickle in...