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Westenev said :
TBH, that doesn't actually sound that bad depending on where you live and the season you're in. Snow or cold areas would effectively slow down zombies, while hot humid areas would decompose them in less than a month.

The only thing different would be that cremations would become compulsary.

The decomposition rate is slowed down. Beneath the gold, the Bitter Steel.

10-Apr-2018 03:47:18

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So, basically the walking dead then?


EDIT: Tbh, this might be a good excuse to use the Asuka expy that's been floating around in my head for awhile. The character's father, who is head of a militant church organisation, catches the disease. His son/daughter appears immune, so he kills the rest of the family one night and leaves the cursed devil child all alone.

And things just generally get worse from there.

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10-Apr-2018 03:49:31 - Last edited on 10-Apr-2018 03:55:12 by Westenev

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Westenev said :
So, basically the walking dead then?

No.

What the Walking Dead did was just have a bunch of people start rising again upon their death, and then start infecting people.

What I'm doing is having a massive plague curbstomp the globe, turning the majority of the population into zombies. People might not even know it's a zombie thing at first, they'll just start experiencing a bunch of horrific symptoms, and they won't even know how they got it because there's dozens of ways through which it can be transmitted. It also explains how the governments failed to contain it, because all the military and police have already caught it before the zombies even became a serious threat. Beneath the gold, the Bitter Steel.

10-Apr-2018 03:55:41 - Last edited on 10-Apr-2018 03:56:39 by NotFishing

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Actually, the Walking Dead implied that it was actually a human bio weapon that infected everybody on the globe - we never really saw how it started. Or maybe I missed that episode. Due to the global infection, I would guess it spread via a vector.

In short, even if you die of non-zombie related causes, you'll still end up a zombie unless you disable your brain.

I love how everyone revolted against the CDC though. I have to agree with the stance taken in Highschool of the Dead; revolting against the government durring an extinction level crisis is just stupid - yet people who follow the system are often portrayed as stupid or corrupt.
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10-Apr-2018 04:02:35 - Last edited on 10-Apr-2018 04:04:19 by Westenev

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Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven is a Choose Your Own Adventure Game set in the Zombie Apocalypse.

Without going into too many details, there's a subplot involving this group of vigilante hackers called LEGIT that is trying to find the truth behind the outbreak (they suspect the government had a hand in it). Never mind the fact that they'll lose all power within a few days, and after that the only real means they have of communicating with each other is through an email network run by crappy solar-powered homemade servers. Beneath the gold, the Bitter Steel.

10-Apr-2018 04:10:50 - Last edited on 10-Apr-2018 04:11:34 by NotFishing

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Regardless of premise, I'll join just about any zombie/horror thread that comes out on here.

I was into TWD up until like Season 4. Then it became way too formulaic. I mean, the 2nd season was a fuckin' drag regardless. Relationship triangle drama soap opera bullshit. But when the show basically boiled down to: Move to a new place, huh, this place is alright, I kind of like it here, wait, I don't like those people, big fight happens, zombies get in and trash the place after some jackass puts a Kool-Aid man sized hole in the defensive structure, we gotta leave, repeat.

I'd imagine in real life, it would be a situation much like the Enclave in the Fallout universe. Rich government people and politicians chilling in a network of bunkers for most of it, then coming out on occasion to cause trouble for the few surface-side survivors.

One aspect of disappointment I have in the Fallout series is that, two-hundred years after that, you'd think civilization would have developed and recovered a little more. I mean, people are living in towns made of scrap with big holes in their roofs. 200 years after the fact, that gives them plenty of time to build some more formidable structures. The Great Pyramid took an estimated 20 years to build with primitive tools and sheer man power. You'd think people in the Fallout universe would be able to build a house in 200 years.

10-Apr-2018 04:23:03

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Gunslinger Z said :
Move to a new place, huh, this place is alright, I kind of like it here, wait, I don't like those people, big fight happens, zombies get in and trash the place after some jackass puts a Kool-Aid man sized hole in the defensive structure, we gotta leave, repeat.


Well, the place they are at now, they won't be moving from any time soon. In the show they've actually found a proper permanent settlement, and now they're forming alliances with other communities to go to war against each other.

Don't get me wrong, the show is still absolute garbage. I'd recommend you read the comic instead. Everything is far more logical, and it is superior to the show in nearly every aspect. Also much darker.

I've also heard that the spin-off series Fear the Walking Dead has gotten pretty good too, though the first couple seasons were apparently pretty meh. Beneath the gold, the Bitter Steel.

10-Apr-2018 04:31:09 - Last edited on 10-Apr-2018 04:32:37 by NotFishing

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