Gretchen Peregrine

Gretchen Peregrine is one of the four founders of the website Tape it or Die. She is a trained pharmacist with her own drug store, and is also a skilled gunslinger. She maintains the Tape it or Die blog along with Johnny Pipes, "Left Hand" Lance, and Wallace.

Tape it or Die
The following is a summary of Gretchen's blog posts on Tape it or Die. For the detailed blog posts, see Tape it or Die/Blog Posts.

How Long Would it Take for You to Convert?
Gretchen uses an online zombie bite calculator to estimate how long it would take for her to zombify without benefit of Zombrex, and analyzes the various medical factors behind the formula.

Zombrex - Too Little Too Late
Gretchen discusses the zombie disease and its symptoms. She points out that the zombification symptoms as printed on the box of a Zombrex dose are relatively late, many of them occurring close to or after conversion. She adds that readers should be aware of several symptoms that could be present immediately after infection.

The Best Place to Shoot a Zombie: A Brief Examination
Gretchen identifies a number of body parts and discusses the respective effectiveness of shooting a zombie in these positions. She concludes that the best solution is, indeed, to shoot them in the head.

An Open Letter to My Customers regarding Zombrex
Written in letter format, Gretchen complains about certain customers of the O Street Pharmacy regarding Zombrex. In particular, she explains the high cost of the drug, the consideration of purchasing Zombrex in massive quantities, the intake schedule of Zombrex, and administering Zombrex to infected animals.

Staying Healthy, Staying in Shape, Staying Alive
Gretchen uses the example of an old friend from Willamette, Ricky Lloyd, to illustrate the importance of staying in shape during a zombie outbreak.

This is Embarrassing
After Wallace incites an argument between "Left Hand" Lance and Johnny Pipes about who deserves to have his extra ticket to the Terror is Reality show in Fortune City, Gretchen admonishes all three parties. She scolds Wallace for goading the other two with his tickets, Johnny and Lance for forgoing dignity and bickering like children, and the other commenters for encouraging their ongoing quarrel.

In the end, she decides to purchase two extra tickets so all four of them can attend the Terror is Reality show together - inadvertently putting all four of them in the soon-to-be zombie outbreak.

An Examination of Fortune City Hotels
After going through the Fortune City website, Gretchen compares and contrasts the five hotels at Fortune City - the Yucatan Casino, the Atlantica Casino, the Americana Casino, the Fortune City Hotel, and the Slot Ranch Casino.

Fighting both PETA and CURE: A Brief Look at the Zombie Zoo
Gretchen explains the operation of zombie zoos and how they recruit zombie animals. She brings up ethical issues with animal rights groups and zombie rights groups. She also uses the example of using zombification to prolong the "life" of old and/or diseased animals to discuss the possibility of immortality through zombie research.

TiR Attendee Roll Call
Gretchen lists the names of Tape it or Die participants who will be attending the Terror is Reality show in an effort to organize a Tape it or Die meet up.

Advice: Avoid the Zombie Opera
After arriving at Fortune City and sightseeing, Gretchen complains about the zombie opera. She goes on the mention that she looks forward to seeing the zombie zoos and the Terror is Reality show.

#Liveblogging: The Problems With Being in a Mall
Gretchen briefly discusses her mild shopaholic problem, saying that is the reason why she did not want to live in a hotel above a shopping mall. She eventually decides to indulge herself in a spa at The Venus Touch.

#Liveblogging: CURE Members in Front of the Fortune City Arena
Getting ready to attend the Terror is Reality show, Gretchen complains that Wallace neglected to mention that he and Lance will be sitting in a VIP section, while she and Johnny will be seated together. She also shows several sightings of CURE members protesting outside the arena, and calls them "pathetic."

everyone out there, olease help me!!! [sic]
After the zombie outbreak strikes at Fortune City, Gretchen is separated from everybody and has lost her phone. She is lost in a dark place, and asks for help on the website. In her panicked state, her typing is uncharacteristically muddled with typographical errors.

Co-operating to survive
After finally reaching a safe haven constructed by Johnny Pipes, Gretchen regains some of her composure. She explains in detail that a terrorist attack has struck the Terror is Reality event, possibly caused by CURE or TiR contestant Chuck Greene. She pleads for survivors to contact them, and outlines their plan to search for and rescue other survivors by heading out one at a time.

Zombrex Is Not a Cure
Gretchen gives an account of something she experienced in the past few days - after shooting a zombie, she picks up her purse and finds a wallet with ID (identifying her as Susan) as well as a used Zombrex dose, suggesting that she was infected prior to the outbreak. The empty box also states clearly that Zombrex is not a cure. This leads to her contemplating why Phenotrans has not developed a one-off cure, and whether CURE is correct in thinking that they purposefully keep a cure from being created.

ZOMBREX IS NOT A CURE 2
After further thinking, Gretchen realizes that an average person could be potentially worth five-and-a-half million dollars to Phenotrans in terms of Zombrex purchases. She rationalizes that no cure would be worth that much, and CURE is correct about Zombrex being not a cure, but a means to extract money from infected survivors. She decides that vandalizing Zombrex advertisements is a small step towards protesting Phenotrans.