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Azi Demonica

Azi Demonica

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Right, I forgot about the infection aspect... the zombie-virus is like rabies on crack.

Anyways, I'm off to try and beat the first boss fight in The Ringed City, I keep dying, but I keep trying! The Demon of Pain reminded me of my Mechanical Spirry, how the demon is skinless and on fire.

05-Apr-2017 02:53:20 - Last edited on 05-Apr-2017 02:54:27 by Azi Demonica

NotFishing

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Westenev said :
I'm imagining the thread taking place during zombie apocalypse - on a specified hour, 1/5th of the population of a sleepy city will drop dead, rising as the moaning, stumbling, people eating monsters we all know and love.

I would like to imagine that in this thread, the fire service and police would be somewhat competent and set up a functional "safezone". At some point, the players would need to converge on the safe spot, either shoring up (or tearing down) its defences or aiding in (or hinder) relief and rescue efforts across the city.

I once considered doing a zombie thread where the majority of the population didn't actually die from the zombies; they died from the disease that turned them into zombies.

Basically, a disease suddenly popped up in the major population centers of the world and began to rapidly spread out from there. It could spread through almost anything, and by the time anyone figured out what it was, most of the starting cities had already been infected. Over the course of a month or two, every major country was infected and it was beginning to spread into neighboring countries, and nothing seemed to help prevent it.

Symptoms of said disease are awful; it's basically your standard flu but much more extreme. Everyone who died (about 80% of people) became a zombie. Those were able to fight the disease off (20%) will never catch the disease again. However, it is still lying dormant inside of them and they will still become a zombie die anyways if they die from another mean.

It sounded interesting at the time because initially, no one is alive due to their own badassery. They were alive because they won the genetic lottery, and spent several days hiding inside, puking and coughing as the world turned to hell just outside their window. Also, it is something that could conceivably rip society apart. Beneath the gold, the Bitter Steel.

05-Apr-2017 13:24:07 - Last edited on 05-Apr-2017 13:27:30 by NotFishing

Azi Demonica

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NotFishing, your points there are rather different compared to other zombie ideas for sure. It kinda reminds me of the Black Death, of which real people developed giant zits that grew up to the size of an apple, then burst open, gushing blood and pus everywhere, and so spreading the disease and probably making the person bleed to death. The plague doctors developed during this time, and would sometimes lock entire families in their homes if they were too sick, though sometimes, an individual would survive despite being locked in their house and surrounded by dead people after exploding zits. Curiously enough, gravediggers were the most resistant to Black Death, as their diet included eating raw garlic, and since they buried corpses for a living since childhood, they would have had a natural resistance to disease.

Ha, as for corpses turning into monsters... (as always, this should not be watched if you're under the age of 17)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjIXwkX1e48

05-Apr-2017 19:38:19

Westenev

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Zombie films do a great job at giving us the worst of humanity, drunk on the idea that all humans are sinners and deserve the rapture. Once again, I would preferably be rid of this concept - sure, people can be real butts and should be the leading cause of on-screen death in this genre...

... but...

... I'm just not interested who a person is in the dark, if that makes any sense. What I AM interested in is how humanity overcomes a stressful problem and their own regrets while under the gaze of others. Given the worst possible situation, people will act in the worst possible manor (or die for their chivalry), and I simply don't feel this is true horror or good writing. Bad people getting punished for bad things is just a part of ordinary life.

What I'm aiming for is a world where hope exists, where there is a (ptsd inducted) happy ending. That, I feel, is true horror.
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06-Apr-2017 02:51:22 - Last edited on 06-Apr-2017 02:55:03 by Westenev

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