Campus became a war zone dominated by zombies chasing after human flesh Friday night during Survive Raleigh.

The Survive Raleigh game began with hundreds of students ready for battle at Wolf Village and a small horde of zombies at the Bell Tower. Once the game began, it was every human for himself as people tried to outrun the zombies and make it to different checkpoints — and ultimately the Bell Tower — to claim the title of Last Human Standing.

Chloe Schigoda, one of the event creators, said the event was based off a larger version that happened in Washington, D.C.

“We wanted to do it here. We thought it might be fun to do something that involved exercise and meeting new people. Since it’s getting close to Halloween, the zombie thing seemed appropriate,” Schigoda said.

Sonum Nerurkar, a junior in environmental technology, found out about the event through friends and said it was a cool way to start off October and Halloween. Unfortunately, Nerurkar didn’t last as a human.

” I made it to two checkpoints, and then this guy started chasing me. I thought I lost him and then he came out of nowhere and killed me and he bit me. A little blood came out, but it’s OK, it’s not too bad. I had to go to the ER but I’m back,” Nerurkar said. “Then I became a zombie, and now I’ve been biting people and eating them.”

Nerurkar said she had killed about two humans as a zombie and her victims struggled a little bit.

 ”I’m a little hungry so I’ve been trying to really get some juicy ones, but everyone’s dead. And dead isn’t as good as alive. It’s not as tasty,” Nerurkar said.

Chris Collins, a freshman in First Year College, said he was doing Calculus homework when he got a text from a friend saying there was a “zombie thing” meeting at Wolf Village.

“I barely made it there on time and I just got started. It was really spontaneous,” Collins said. “Dan Allen was a horrible idea. It was the closest [checkpoint], but it was definitely swamped by the time we got there.”

After crossing the train tracks thinking they were ninjas, Collins said he and his friends emerged from the tracks to see a line of people standing just outside the safe zone. Collins was tagged soon afterwards by zombies.

“It didn’t last very long; it was very short-lived,” Collins said, but noted his kill count of seven.

 While most students participated as humans, groups such as N.C. State Parkour and Virginia Tech Parkour decided to put their skills to use as zombies.

Andrew Fellner, a freshman in aerospace engineering and member of NCSU Parkour, said the group had an edge over the humans.

“We train movement and we condition so much that [the creators] figured we’re only starting with a few people versus hundreds of people so we kind of had an edge over everybody due to our conditioning. That’s how we became the zombies,” Fellner said. “We also got a few people from Virginia Tech who are really good at parkour.”

Jacob Robeson, a sophomore in engineering, science and mechanics at Virginia Tech and a member of the school’s parkour club, said the group was originally just going to do parkour Saturday.

“We figured Zombieland sounded cool so we came tonight. We didn’t really know what was happening until we got here and we found we could either be a zombie or a human and if we were a zombie we would go hunt humans. We thought that sounded cooler, so we started out as zombies,” Robeson said.

Robeson only had one kill, but he said it was difficult not knowing any of the campus.

“We started down where the humans start – I don’t know where that is – and we found out they were all trying to get to the Bell Tower and we were just running around asking random people ‘Do you know where the Bell Tower is?’ A lot of people were like “uh… that way?” and they just kinda pointed,” Robeson said.

Victims were chosen based merely on first come, first served basis, according to Robeson.

“For us it was just who we saw. I feel like the campus is really big so we didn’t see that many people and when we did we just shouted “ZOMBIE” and if they didn’t yell ‘Zombie’ back we would chase them,” Robeson said.

Fellner said his kill count was at seven, but there were others still out there to be destroyed.

 ”I heard three people have made it so far,” Fellner said. “Maybe it’s just a rumor; maybe they’re just trying to instill hope within themselves.”

Erin Morton, a senior in bioarcheaology, was stuck with two friends at the checkpoint in the Brickyard by the Wolf Ears.

“There’s lots of running and it’s really tiring but it’s really fun to play strategy. We started off at Wolf Village –there was a ton of people,” Morton said. “We went over to Wood Hall first and came at it from the back – there was a hole in the Western Boulevard fence and we snuck through some stuff. That’s where we met our first zombies. They were running after some other people so we ran the other way, we tried to figure out how to get through the railroad tracks, there were tons of zombies at the parking deck. Then we went up on Hillsborough and sprinted down here behind the library.”

Morton had been stuck at the Wolf Ears for about 10 to 15 minutes trying to figure out a strategy.

“We have to go to the Greenway and there are a lot of zombies around here who have told us there are a lot of zombies over there. We don’t really know what we’re going to do,” Morton said.

Andrew Smith, brother of a Virginia Tech Parkour club member, came from Washington, D.C. as part of Urban Evolution, a gym started by parkour advocates. Smith said his main technique for killing humans was by asking which side people were on.

“My main technique was walking up to people who looked like they may have been participating and then being like ‘are you guys playing? Are you human or zombie?’ and surprisingly enough, I got a lot of responses,” Smith said. “If they said Zombie, I let them go; if they said Human, I chased after them.”

Smith said he focused on Hillsborough Street to find his prey.

“My favorite method was I hung out with the capture-the-flag people. I just talked to them for a little bit,” Smith said. “When I saw people heading across I walked across the road to [Hillsborough Street] and they basically just walked along it. So I would just walk out to it, ask them and they had nowhere to go because the limits of the boundaries — you couldn’t cross the road and there were buildings so you couldn’t cut back in, so I would just chase them down.”

Fellner said if the turnout is big enough, the creators may look to go downtown for a bigger game.

“That would be epic, but there’s a lot of factors involved in that. We’d probably have to notify the police to make sure it’s allowed,” Fellner said. “Even here, you’ve got people bolting in the middle of the street in front of cars. With so many people, you’re going to get some morons.”