Thanks for everyone's suggestions, although I will defend my position a little.
When #72 came back to the Walmart, he warned nobody of the impending danger except #53, who both escaped and abandoned the rest of the White Thorns. The only person who really knew was Steven who heard a little of their convo and #72 warned him to protect his daughter. Although Steven was prepared, he was off finding a good hiding place for his daughter.
After that, the rest of the White Thorns were trying to get first-aid supplies in a desperate and all-too-futile effort to try to revive Roy. When they snapped out of their funk, they were mourning Roy. They also did not have their guns on them at the time. So, they were both physically and mentally unprepared for an attack.
Also, carrying a body for 4.5 miles takes much longer than an extra 5 minutes. In addition to that, #72 had a knife wound in his side, which, in addition to the body he was carrying, made it extremely hard for him to get there. So, Blake probably got there in a short amount of time in the bigger picture.
As for the percentages snarky came up with, I don't like to be rude but I'm going to allow myself to say this: the decimals you put on there does not convince me that you used any logic and/or reasoning to produce such numbers.
There are openings in the human skull such as the eyes, nose and mouth that throwing a knife into could be easier. I don't research soft spots on the human body, but I think the temples are also a good spot. Those are some examples of easy places, but also, Blake is much faster and stronger and smarter than the average human. I mean, aren't all of our characters? It'd be pretty boring if we just threw someone exactly like us into a zombie apocalypse.
Blake didn't just have his hunting knives; I thought I specified this in that post as well but I must not have – nvm i did. Blake had the hunting knives in addition to the 2 throwing knives that Chris gave him.
Slitting throats is where you are actually wrong, though. Slitting throats is frighteningly easy and is often compared to cutting a slice of meat. Although the death is slower than instant, it is very effective. Not only do you cut their windpipe but also their jugular and another essential part I think.
As for the aim, Blake's been here for a while and he actually is used to a gun – he's good at using them. Also, he was more preoccupied with killing them than the injury he sustained, so the impact of the shoulder on psyche and other arm was lessened by his lack of focus on the actual injury. Afterwards, the pain hit him and he let it take him over.
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All that being said, yes, I exaggerated. I exaggerated a lot. It was pretty unrealistic, but do we truly need to make sure everything is perfect? It's a sci-fi roleplay (oh okie thanks naoh) and it's not supposed to be uber-realistic. It's supposed to be fun. I'm not going to bash on the other examples of unrealistic fighting I saw because honestly it doesn't bother me too much. I don't think we should be so anal over things all the time – we've been tensing up and arguing with each other over this role-play when our original goal was to have fun with each other. So we should stick to that.
It was appropriate to be anal about the post I made – yea, the fighting scene was a bit unreasonable. I'll tone it down next time I want to make a bold move. But from here on out let's stop fighting and just have fun with it
(also gtg sorry will read messages later)