Occoris
05-27-2007, 01:25 AM
Okay. I'm going with the basic definition of a probable zombie virus as seen in The Zombie Survival Guide (right now i'm not botherign to change the name, either.. So from here on out it'll just be Solanum unless somebody with a big latin dictionary wants to give it a different name.) except i'm .. tweaking a little bit (let's see how many times i can say that in this post)
okay. so.. donw to what i was actually going to say:
the normal solanum viris, as outlined in Max's book, says the person completely dies and .. blahblahblah. we all know it, right? things come "back" to life.. couldn't actually happen. he says it alters the life, but clinically, the person is dead. so kinda kills that one. so instead what i'm going with is something a little more closely related to the voodoo zombie. Their vitals are dormant-ish but still running . . slowly. it'd be more like a sick/exhausted person trying to move with major cramps in 'most all their muscles (which should explain the ungainlyness) the virus would also instigate extreme amnesia(pain and confusion keeps from remembering anything)- and in the pain/numbness the zombie is feeling there wouldn't be any ability to feel past it, so any other pain wouldn't be noticed (explains the not reacting to pain)
and. . hmm. . . can't quite explain the thirst for human flesh really well. I can put it in with a unique attribute of the virus, i suppose. . . and perhaps the virus also stimulates a quick-healing.. random thing. not sure yet. something that congeals the area around the wound to keep it from bleeding out much, but doesn't rebuild the tissue all the way. That somewhat makes sense.
the onyl thing i can't make sense of in my head is the need for a head shot. Thoughts/additions/clarifications?
**secodn post of mine in this thread
yeah, see? i've got holes in all the most important parts. *laughs* that being the absolute need for a headshot and the... .. well, the healing thing. .. i suppose if it just all scabbed over really quickly that'd do the job. .. but that's take some serious platlet .. availability, there. .. *blinks*
most of the problem i'm running into here is how it all would work and still fit into something plausible. . .(go figure) . i'm thinking viral because that's more likely to keep tissue from regenerating . . but . . . bacterial is probably more likely to cause some of the other side effects . .
.. and all this this while trying to keep in line with the classic zombie.. darnitall >.>
Conference w/friend from nother forum
Butterfly says:
lust for human blood could be easily attricuted to damage in the brain
Butterfly says:
*attributed
Butterfly says:
the other two..much harder to make plausible
Sig says:
eyah, exactly. *laughs*
Sig says:
i figure i can make it not bleeding out more to.. clots and scabs quickly.
Sig says:
but that still doesn;t help the last oen much.
okay. so.. donw to what i was actually going to say:
the normal solanum viris, as outlined in Max's book, says the person completely dies and .. blahblahblah. we all know it, right? things come "back" to life.. couldn't actually happen. he says it alters the life, but clinically, the person is dead. so kinda kills that one. so instead what i'm going with is something a little more closely related to the voodoo zombie. Their vitals are dormant-ish but still running . . slowly. it'd be more like a sick/exhausted person trying to move with major cramps in 'most all their muscles (which should explain the ungainlyness) the virus would also instigate extreme amnesia(pain and confusion keeps from remembering anything)- and in the pain/numbness the zombie is feeling there wouldn't be any ability to feel past it, so any other pain wouldn't be noticed (explains the not reacting to pain)
and. . hmm. . . can't quite explain the thirst for human flesh really well. I can put it in with a unique attribute of the virus, i suppose. . . and perhaps the virus also stimulates a quick-healing.. random thing. not sure yet. something that congeals the area around the wound to keep it from bleeding out much, but doesn't rebuild the tissue all the way. That somewhat makes sense.
the onyl thing i can't make sense of in my head is the need for a head shot. Thoughts/additions/clarifications?
**secodn post of mine in this thread
yeah, see? i've got holes in all the most important parts. *laughs* that being the absolute need for a headshot and the... .. well, the healing thing. .. i suppose if it just all scabbed over really quickly that'd do the job. .. but that's take some serious platlet .. availability, there. .. *blinks*
most of the problem i'm running into here is how it all would work and still fit into something plausible. . .(go figure) . i'm thinking viral because that's more likely to keep tissue from regenerating . . but . . . bacterial is probably more likely to cause some of the other side effects . .
.. and all this this while trying to keep in line with the classic zombie.. darnitall >.>
Conference w/friend from nother forum
Butterfly says:
lust for human blood could be easily attricuted to damage in the brain
Butterfly says:
*attributed
Butterfly says:
the other two..much harder to make plausible
Sig says:
eyah, exactly. *laughs*
Sig says:
i figure i can make it not bleeding out more to.. clots and scabs quickly.
Sig says:
but that still doesn;t help the last oen much.