Come up with something scientific that would cause such a thing.
The zombies must be able to bite still and limp.
Reason I posted this is because I see a whole lot of zombie stuff and no direct back story on how it started and if that would really be possible in real life.
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If you can understand the apple of Minecraft, you understand the meaning of life.
In other words, find 72 gold and 1 apple just to heal 10 hearts with one use. The point is to just prove that you went that far in the game to even make the golden apple.
Another zombie thread...
The zombie apocalypse will start when all of the zombie apocalypse nerds go to a zombie apocalypse convention and one of them spikes the punch bowl with acid.
The zombie virus will start from a cure for headaches. The cure will have a fatal side effect that liquifies the brain and recreates it into some sort of zombie brain and then we all die.
Come up with something scientific that would cause such a thing.
The zombies must be able to bite still and limp.
Reason I posted this is because I see a whole lot of zombie stuff and no direct back story on how it started and if that would really be possible in real life.
1). L4D-style pandemic.
how did it start? never played l4d
so sue me
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If you can understand the apple of Minecraft, you understand the meaning of life.
In other words, find 72 gold and 1 apple just to heal 10 hearts with one use. The point is to just prove that you went that far in the game to even make the golden apple.
Somehow a disease comes into existence that swells the brain of the infected, causing a violent change in behavior that involves trying to kill other humans and that wipes everything but basic instincts. This disease either spawns Fast Zombies anywhere or Slow Zombies in a major population center to cause an actual apocalypse. If it is an airborne bacteria, Humanity is ****ed.
No offense, but the zombie survival guide is a crock of **** as far as an actual zombie outbreak goes. It's meant for entertainment.
Assuming a disease did cause zombie like effects, the affected would still die from anything an unaffected person would. Hollywood never explains how zombies can function with sever blood loss and missing organs. The truth is, a human body physically can't. therefore, blows to the head aren't necessarily the only way to dispatch infected.
1. Why the hell would animals eat them? They're DEAD, technically. Vultures might because they look like a big moving carcass, but if the zombies are still infected with a zombifying virus thingy, the animals will quickly learn they shouldn't go near the limping "flesh sacks." Same thing with insects, probably, though zombie movies rarely say how the virus affects non-humans.
2. True.
3. True again.
4. It doesn't have to be biting. Any mixing of bodily fluids would probably spread it, not just saliva. Sex (oh yeah, a whole new level for necrophilia. And yes, imagining that will give me, and hopefully you, nightmares), sneezing, coughing, blood-to-blood, running around in the sewers (LOL!), etc. Hell, who said it even has to live in bodily fluids? Airborne zombifying virus, anyone?
Also, just wanted to point out: if you read carefully, you'll laugh, because the article says the very successful Black Plague was spread by fleas, not biting. Guess what, fleas were carried on infected rats and got the plague by biting the rat. Then, when they jumped onto the humans, they bit THEM and it spread it to the humans.
5. True.
6. True. Just hope again that the zombie virus isn't airborne... or doesn't infect the water supply. :tongue.gif:
7. Again, just hope that the zombies don't quickly outnumber the people, such as if it were airborne or infected the water supply.
Of course zombies can't survive the winter, nor a hot summer, so huge swaths of the earth would be pretty well safe if they didn't get infected by air or something. At worst, it infects a few billion and they all die off in less than six months. At best, the zombie outbreak doesn't make it out of a single region, much less spread across the globe.
1. Why the hell would animals eat them? They're DEAD, technically. Vultures might because they look like a big moving carcass, but if the zombies are still infected with a zombifying virus thingy, the animals will quickly learn they shouldn't go near the limping "flesh sacks." Same thing with insects, probably, though zombie movies rarely say how the virus affects non-humans.
2. True.
3. True again.
4. It doesn't have to be biting. Any mixing of bodily fluids would probably spread it, not just saliva. Sex (oh yeah, a whole new level for necrophilia. And yes, imagining that will give me, and hopefully you, nightmares), sneezing, coughing, blood-to-blood, running around in the sewers (LOL!), etc. Hell, who said it even has to live in bodily fluids? Airborne zombifying virus, anyone?
Also, just wanted to point out: if you read carefully, you'll laugh, because the article says the very successful Black Plague was spread by fleas, not biting. Guess what, fleas were carried on infected rats and got the plague by biting the rat. Then, when they jumped onto the humans, they bit THEM and it spread it to the humans.
5. True.
6. True. Just hope again that the zombie virus isn't airborne... or doesn't infect the water supply. :tongue.gif:
7. Again, just hope that the zombies don't quickly outnumber the people, such as if it were airborne or infected the water supply.
Of course zombies can't survive the winter, nor a hot summer, so huge swaths of the earth would be pretty well safe if they didn't get infected by air or something. At worst, it infects a few billion and they all die off in less than six months. At best, the zombie outbreak doesn't make it out of a single region, much less spread across the globe.
Oh hell yes. HIGH FIVE!
Anyway: Zombies will appear when something happens to affect the entire world.(Think nuclear bombs.) This will then make magic to suddenly appear and then people with necrophilia will rise as necromancers and then zombies shall be made. If an apocalypse does happen, I seriously hope it happens like that. Maybe without the necrophilia part. This opinion has been highly influenced by Fred Saberhagen's "The Twelve Swords" Series.
Well, if you want a semi realistic possibility, look at voodoo zombies IRL.
The hideously toxic compound known as zombie powder essentially causes a coma like state in it's victims. The practitioner mixes to own personal recipe, so effects vary.
The real trick is making sure you get your victim out of the grave before they suffocate and really die, and then taking charge of what's left of victims mind...
Local belief provides a psychological framework for the victim to define the experience, and react accordingly.
Oxygen deprivation from burial often causes brain damage in addition to the bizarre effects of the powder itself.
So I guess you could get a small zombie plague IRL, but only somewhere like Haiti...
It would be a lot of prep work and processing, require local contacts and possibly start some kind of zombie gang war.
Excuse me, I have to go write a Call of Cthulhu scenario set in Haiti now...
Well, if you want a semi realistic possibility, look at voodoo zombies IRL.
The hideously toxic compound known as zombie powder essentially causes a coma like state in it's victims. The practitioner mixes to own personal recipe, so effects vary.
The real trick is making sure you get your victim out of the grave before they suffocate and really die, and then taking charge of what's left of victims mind...
Local belief provides a psychological framework for the victim to define the experience, and react accordingly.
Oxygen deprivation from burial often causes brain damage in addition to the bizarre effects of the powder itself.
So I guess you could get a small zombie plague IRL, but only somewhere like Haiti...
It would be a lot of prep work and processing, require local contacts and possibly start some kind of zombie gang war.
Excuse me, I have to go write a Call of Cthulhu scenario set in Haiti now...
Haha, have you ever seen those documentaries where Haitians claim that they were zombified? They had an episode on the X-Files, too, where the Haitians stuck in like North Carolina or something like that were being plagued by witchcraft and ghosts.
Also: put the scenario on Fictionpress and link me when you're done. :3
In the end, Zombies will more just be Infected Humans than the undead for them to actually exist and whether they are fast or slow would really depend on what the Zombie Plague does to the brain.
Scenario:
The world falls into a nuclear world war 3. Order, society, government is destroyed. Radioactive fallout mutates a virus that no human has any possible immunity yet, I'm thinking HIV. The virus mutates so it can hijack brain cells instead of the immune system and control it's victim. Since HIV is spread by sexual contact and by fluids, a bite or wound from a zombie can easily infect you (why would you want to have sex with a zombie is beyond me). And because the onset of AIDs takes so long, the victim has the chance to infect others before becoming a full fledged zombie.
Now we have the perfect scenario for a zombie apocalypse. Not only people are fighting against bandits and the dwindling food and water resources that are not contaminated by radiation, but now fighting against an easily spreadable virus and the masses of zombies that come everyday. Frankly, if I'm caught in it, I would wear a anti-radiaton suit, get some uncontaminated food & water and a weapon, and try to survive. Or kill myself, since I made a scenario that I can't find an easy way out of.
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It will start with magic, plain and simple. How it works is that a witch is bored and wants to see a bunch of dead people terrorizing living people for no reason besides that she thinks it's a good idea at the time. A year later and she looks back on that day that she destroyed the human race and laughs it off.
The zombies must be able to bite still and limp.
Reason I posted this is because I see a whole lot of zombie stuff and no direct back story on how it started and if that would really be possible in real life.
In other words, find 72 gold and 1 apple just to heal 10 hearts with one use. The point is to just prove that you went that far in the game to even make the golden apple.
The zombie apocalypse will start when all of the zombie apocalypse nerds go to a zombie apocalypse convention and one of them spikes the punch bowl with acid.
The end.
how did it start? never played l4d
so sue me
In other words, find 72 gold and 1 apple just to heal 10 hearts with one use. The point is to just prove that you went that far in the game to even make the golden apple.
My Pathfinder Campaign for the denizens of MCF: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1939035-where-are-we-sandbox-pathfinder-campaign-ooc/
Assuming a disease did cause zombie like effects, the affected would still die from anything an unaffected person would. Hollywood never explains how zombies can function with sever blood loss and missing organs. The truth is, a human body physically can't. therefore, blows to the head aren't necessarily the only way to dispatch infected.
1. Why the hell would animals eat them? They're DEAD, technically. Vultures might because they look like a big moving carcass, but if the zombies are still infected with a zombifying virus thingy, the animals will quickly learn they shouldn't go near the limping "flesh sacks." Same thing with insects, probably, though zombie movies rarely say how the virus affects non-humans.
2. True.
3. True again.
4. It doesn't have to be biting. Any mixing of bodily fluids would probably spread it, not just saliva. Sex (oh yeah, a whole new level for necrophilia. And yes, imagining that will give me, and hopefully you, nightmares), sneezing, coughing, blood-to-blood, running around in the sewers (LOL!), etc. Hell, who said it even has to live in bodily fluids? Airborne zombifying virus, anyone?
Also, just wanted to point out: if you read carefully, you'll laugh, because the article says the very successful Black Plague was spread by fleas, not biting. Guess what, fleas were carried on infected rats and got the plague by biting the rat. Then, when they jumped onto the humans, they bit THEM and it spread it to the humans.
5. True.
6. True. Just hope again that the zombie virus isn't airborne... or doesn't infect the water supply. :tongue.gif:
7. Again, just hope that the zombies don't quickly outnumber the people, such as if it were airborne or infected the water supply.
Of course zombies can't survive the winter, nor a hot summer, so huge swaths of the earth would be pretty well safe if they didn't get infected by air or something. At worst, it infects a few billion and they all die off in less than six months. At best, the zombie outbreak doesn't make it out of a single region, much less spread across the globe.
You heard that, green and red.
I hope you arent taking this seriously.
Oh hell yes. HIGH FIVE!
Anyway: Zombies will appear when something happens to affect the entire world.(Think nuclear bombs.) This will then make magic to suddenly appear and then people with necrophilia will rise as necromancers and then zombies shall be made. If an apocalypse does happen, I seriously hope it happens like that. Maybe without the necrophilia part. This opinion has been highly influenced by Fred Saberhagen's "The Twelve Swords" Series.
The hideously toxic compound known as zombie powder essentially causes a coma like state in it's victims. The practitioner mixes to own personal recipe, so effects vary.
The real trick is making sure you get your victim out of the grave before they suffocate and really die, and then taking charge of what's left of victims mind...
Local belief provides a psychological framework for the victim to define the experience, and react accordingly.
Oxygen deprivation from burial often causes brain damage in addition to the bizarre effects of the powder itself.
So I guess you could get a small zombie plague IRL, but only somewhere like Haiti...
It would be a lot of prep work and processing, require local contacts and possibly start some kind of zombie gang war.
Excuse me, I have to go write a Call of Cthulhu scenario set in Haiti now...
Haha, have you ever seen those documentaries where Haitians claim that they were zombified? They had an episode on the X-Files, too, where the Haitians stuck in like North Carolina or something like that were being plagued by witchcraft and ghosts.
Also: put the scenario on Fictionpress and link me when you're done. :3
You heard that, green and red.
My Pathfinder Campaign for the denizens of MCF: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1939035-where-are-we-sandbox-pathfinder-campaign-ooc/
The world falls into a nuclear world war 3. Order, society, government is destroyed. Radioactive fallout mutates a virus that no human has any possible immunity yet, I'm thinking HIV. The virus mutates so it can hijack brain cells instead of the immune system and control it's victim. Since HIV is spread by sexual contact and by fluids, a bite or wound from a zombie can easily infect you (why would you want to have sex with a zombie is beyond me). And because the onset of AIDs takes so long, the victim has the chance to infect others before becoming a full fledged zombie.
Now we have the perfect scenario for a zombie apocalypse. Not only people are fighting against bandits and the dwindling food and water resources that are not contaminated by radiation, but now fighting against an easily spreadable virus and the masses of zombies that come everyday. Frankly, if I'm caught in it, I would wear a anti-radiaton suit, get some uncontaminated food & water and a weapon, and try to survive. Or kill myself, since I made a scenario that I can't find an easy way out of.
[12:41] Coffeeeeeee!
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[16:29] "And lo, the tacos were delicious"
Are you guys talking about this?
Or this?
The first thing is a Splicer, from the video game Bioshock. Very nice game, very nice.