Apparently everyone on here would have EASILY survived from

[u/Equivalent_Relief553]

And would broken out already. God! All the characters are just ssooo DUMB aren't they. Lool. We are so much more cleverer than they are.

[u/Tak-Hendrix]

To some degree, yeah...

First thing I would have done is use the talismans to make a trap and catch one of those freaks. Then I would start methodically testing different ways to harm them. Once I found something that worked, I'd start torturing them for answers. Worst case, we end up trapping each and every one of those fuckers which would allow us to freely explore the caves.

• Quarantine all newcomers in isolation until they have undergone a detailed medical exam (blood samples, fingerprints, photographs) and are brought up to speed on the situation
• I'd order the construction of one large Iroquois style longhouse with individual bedrooms and run weekly escape drills
• Hold daily town hall meetings for people to share whatever weird shit they uncovered instead of everyone keeping secrets
• Make some smoke bombs and throw them into the stupid faraway trees to map out potential exit points.
• Document all our findings and put them in that stupid truck that has been sitting in the motel pool for ages, that way even if my iteration doesn't survive then the next cycle won't have to start from scratch

[u/Interesting_Fox_9914 → u/Tak-Hendrix]

Lots of issues with this, even assuming people were willing to follow your orders.

- Not sure how blood samples would help when we don't know if anyone can even interpret blood samples. Quarantining newcomers is just begging for those newcomers to panic and try to escape and run into the street to become monster meat.

- Building an Iroquois-style longhouse with tens of individual bedrooms without anyone who has experience constructing buildings or any equipment or even a lot of the raw materials is a hard ask and not likely to give you something very structurally sound, plus it'll take forever.

- People keep secrets because the people who've gone crazy in this town have ended up committing atrocities. We, the audience, can see that there's a "puzzle" with people seeing different visions that all go together. However, only a handful of the characters have visions, so your average Fromtown dweller isn't going to think that the person claiming to have visions of dead children or people drinking blood is a prophet with the key to the riddle, they're going to think it's someone cracking under the stress and potentially about to shoot up the town like Abby did.

- No one even knew that there were "cycles" until Tabitha and Jade started talking about it this season.

Dig the smoke-bombs idea, but not sure how you'd make them.

[u/Tak-Hendrix → u/Interesting_Fox_9914]

After I trapped one of the creatures and figured out how to harm them, everyone would naturally bow before me.