FearTWD, Survival Rule Of The Week: The devil you don’t know

4) Turning Enemies To Friends

There is, potentially, one really good thing about you and an enemy being attacked by some group of crazies or cultists or cannibals: It can open the door for you and your enemy to stop being enemies.

I know I was just talking about the appearance of a third, mutually hostile, party forcing you and your erstwhile enemy to unite, but, this is bigger than that.

If you and your enemy manage to survive dealing with a larger threat, there’s the possibility that you can get them to realize that that threat is not going to be the only one like that. There will be others — More crazies, more cultists, more dangerous weirdos of all stripes — and, it would be better for both of you and your respective groups to band together against such threats when they inevitably come in the future.

There will likely be things to iron out, I mean, if you’re already in conflict with this person/group, there’s likely going to be a good reason, and, it will probably take time and work to get past that, but, if the two of you are relatively normal people, and realize that there are likely going to be many more groups of people who, frankly, aren’t, then, your enemy is going to realize that, whatever their beef is with you, or whatever it is they want from you, is not worth getting massacred by an army of psychos over.

If they’re smart, they’ll agree to bury the hatchet or give up whatever it is they wanted to take from you and take you as an ally rather than try to go it alone against whatever weirdos come down the pike, and regret not having you there to help them.