15-minute readiness check
Start your readiness check
Coarse, private questions — never a name, address or medical detail — that produce a prioritized list of real preparedness steps.
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The Survival Guide
A fictional zombie outbreak, used to make real Hampton Roads emergency preparedness memorable. Every comic panel below ties to one real, sourced action — never a live alert, never a substitute for official instructions.
Fictional zombie scenario — not a live emergency alert
This is a fictional zombie-themed civilian preparedness resource. During a real emergency, follow official instructions from local authorities, Virginia emergency management, the National Weather Service, and emergency services.
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Household plan
Build your household plan
Answer a few coarse questions — no address, no names — and get a sourced plan for your household.
Start the plan builderEmergency kit
Build your emergency kit
72-hour, 7-day or 14-day — sourced quantity guidance that scales to your household.
Start the kit builderReal-world hazards
Fourteen sourced playbooks — hurricanes, flooding, heat, outages and more — each with one thing to do now.
Choose a real-world hazardComic missions & scenarios
The outbreak story, told in issues, plus interactive scenarios — each one tied to a real preparedness action.
Hampton Roads resources
Official emergency management, alerts and evacuation-zone lookups for every municipality — never a live status feed.
Open the resource directoryPrintable field guide
Every checklist and sourced summary, formatted to print or save as a PDF for when the screen isn't the plan.
Open the field guideWorks offline once visited: this hub, the readiness check, hazard playbooks, the household plan, the emergency kit, comic missions, lessons, the resource directory and the printable field guide all stay usable if you lose connection later. Official external links and anything not yet visited still need a live connection.
This is still a tattoo guide first
Real tattoo preparation, artist consultations and appointment-day guidance always come first — the survival guide is a free community extra, presented by Inkcredible Tattoo.
Back to the tattoo guideThe Ink Guardian says: I introduce chapters and point at official sources. I am not a doctor, not emergency personnel, and not a substitute for local authorities.