Realistic or Modern More Zombies And OOC

[WantYourSoul]

You think blizzard winter in Maine is bad?


Try living in Canada.OH IDEA!!!!


Cross-country expedition to a rumoured lab/safehouse in Nunavut (basically the tip of Canada, almost in Greenland)


I have a problem with always suggesting to go to Canada in rps.


----ALSO!! I'm going to totally use that cross-country idea for my podcast, you can fight me for it.

 

[Sleipnir]

Sounds great! I wanted to visit Canada. I want to go everywhere. We oughta meet someone somewhere along the path who talks about it later, then turn North to try and beat the winter.

 

[Hel]

You think blizzard winter in Maine is bad?
Try living in Canada.OH IDEA!!!!


Cross-country expedition to a rumoured lab/safehouse in Nunavut (basically the tip of Canada, almost in Greenland)


I have a problem with always suggesting to go to Canada in rps.


----ALSO!! I'm going to totally use that cross-country idea for my podcast, you can fight me for it.

I was thinking we could go to canida or Mexico too

 

[papachan]

I've been to Vancouver and Toronto. By that, I've been in the airport and looked out gigantic windows. I really loved it there. Especially Vancouver, literally the most beautiful place I've seen in the Americas! (Beijing, however, has lovely parks and the Temple of Heaven is heartbreakingly beautiful).


Anyways. I'm sorry I haven't been on. I'm from KY, so the Derby this weekend coupled with Mother's Day really kicked my butt. I think to be fair, since you all have wandered around and done some pretty cool stuff, I will have Vladdy be a wanderer.

 

[WantYourSoul]

@papachan if you'd like, you can run into our little band of misfits, or I've been planning on adding another character so I can make them so you can have some interaction!

 

[Hel]

Also Alice is hanging out alone by the train so you could always meet her too

 

[WantYourSoul]

Oh yeah! I totally forgot about Alice there for a second, hahaha

 

[Hel]

Oh yeah! I totally forgot about Alice there for a second, hahaha

me too, honestly. She's just out at the train playing fetch with Rust. I thought about writing a bandit scene, but that would be a bit boring to write out by myself, besides, we don't need someone stealing our train. ;P

 

[Hel]

@papachan Hey, next time you're on with the rest of us we can have characters run into each other, sound good?

 

[Genon]

@Sleipnir


So I have an idea for a...unique character for a zombie work. The idea is that the virus is, well, a virus. It mutates rapidly and unpredictably, and not all mutations are as dire as the most successful strain. This character is an infectee who has this less-successful strain of the virus. The idea is that it doesn't kill the victim or sap their intelligence, but instead replaces their skin and respiratory tract with a sort of reanimated viral equivalent, and gifts them with regenerative capabilities. The idea isn't to make the victim spread the virus voluntarily: Instead, the victim seeks to congregate with other human beings, like any survivor would, and constantly releases the virus through the air. It's a devious virus that is meant to take advantage of the compassion of healthy human beings towards a person in need, to eliminate those last pockets of human resistance.


Notably, other infected will not attack one of these sapient infected due to a pheromone that the strain releases, as well as the fact that they don't look like healthy humans for obvious reasons. Furthermore, the real zombies can become infected by the airborne virus the sapient zombie releases, resulting in a new type of zombie: A Breather. Breathers combine the worst aspects of both strains: Flesh-eating insanity and airborne contagion. They can't spread the insanity-inducing strain of the virus, but they greatly increase the range of the airborne strain. It doesn't help that they can regenerate from wounds, making them multiple orders of magnitude tougher than an ordinary zombie. A sapient infected can become a Breather if they catch the lethal strain, though it is unlikely due to the aforementioned pheromone.


My character would belong to a settlement of sapient infected that the protagonists stumble upon. He wears a hazmat suit to keep the infected air separate from the outside air, and seeks to get himself to a doctor so that humanity can potentially work to develop a cure. What do you think?

 

[WantYourSoul]

I do like where you're going with that, and it would also give us initiative to go cross country to some lab or something, I don't know where I was going for that, but we'll have to see what Slip and Hel think of it!

 

[Sleipnir]

It's a fascinating and well-deliberated idea. I'll think it over; may want to make it a touch harder to spread, otherwise I don't know how we'd keep the characters from getting infected.

 

[Genon]

It's a fascinating and well-deliberated idea. I'll think it over; may want to make it a touch harder to spread, otherwise I don't know how we'd keep the characters from getting infected.

Well I could make it fluid-borne like Ebola. Or I could make it so that the majority of humans are already immune to it and only a small subset of the population is susceptible. It's not a very successful virus for a reason.

 

[WantYourSoul]

Well I could make it fluid-borne like Ebola. Or I could make it so that the majority of humans are already immune to it and only a small subset of the population is susceptible. It's not a very successful virus for a reason.

I like the idea of fluid borne, thinking they were immune and doing whatever with someone and unintentionally infecting them.(Perhaps only being infected with extremely low quantities of the virus is what created the mutuation in the first place? As if it's adapting to the immune system and laying dormant so as not to be attacked?)


I'm rambling, so sorry ovo

 

[Genon]

I like the idea of fluid borne, thinking they were immune and doing whatever with someone and unintentionally infecting them.(Perhaps only being infected with extremely low quantities of the virus is what created the mutuation in the first place? As if it's adapting to the immune system and laying dormant so as not to be attacked?)
I'm rambling, so sorry ovo

Well my original idea was for them to resemble lepers of some kind. Either a hard viral skin covering their body from head to toe like a shell, or extreme discoloration. They'd be more likely to be mistaken for zombies than to have sex with anyone.

 

[Hel]

Well I could make it fluid-borne like Ebola. Or I could make it so that the majority of humans are already immune to it and only a small subset of the population is susceptible. It's not a very successful virus for a reason.

Maybe it mutated to be something that's really similar to something that most adults were already vaccinated for, and that's why it's less successful? Then it would be new babies, children, the elderly, and those who were anti vaccination or something who would be truely succeptable? I sort of like that idea. I've been planning on making a new character that won't be around too long, maybe that's how we discover it? Hmm so many thoughts.


Also, sleip, the zombies have been really vague so far, You wanna specify the type(s) a bit more or if they can run or just walk, do they decay at a fairly average pace? Is any sentience retained? That kind of thing.

 

[Genon]

Maybe it mutated to be something that's really similar to something that most adults were already vaccinated for, and that's why it's less successful? Then it would be new babies, children, the elderly, and those who were anti vaccination or something who would be truely succeptable? I sort of like that idea. I've been planning on making a new character that won't be around too long, maybe that's how we discover it? Hmm so many thoughts.
Also, sleip, the zombies have been really vague so far, You wanna specify the type(s) a bit more or if they can run or just walk, do they decay at a fairly average pace? Is any sentience retained? That kind of thing.

Interesting idea. You might want to tag @Sleipnir though.

 

[Hel]

I type so slowly that I get behind the conversation xD .


These ideas are really neat though!

 

[Hel]

I'll tell @Sleipnir to check it out when she gets out of class in 10 minutes or so,

 

[WantYourSoul]

I wasn't really meaning sex, but I do see what you mean. What I was trying to say was a newly infected, before the physical signs started to be really prominent, could potentially miss their infection?

 

[Genon]

Well my original idea was for them to resemble lepers of some kind. Either a hard viral skin covering their body from head to toe like a shell, or extreme discoloration. They'd be more likely to be mistaken for zombies than to have sex with anyone.

Also, on second thought, they should look like normal humans. If they're supposed to integrate with humans and spread the disease through the population, it wouldn't be in the virus's best interest to make the patients look visibly sick. But then it wouldn't be a zombie virus anymore, so...


On third thought, maybe it's a variant that kills and reanimates the body but leaves the brain untouched and alive? Perhaps it uses insects, dust, rodents, or droplets as a vector, solving the problem of how it spreads? @Sleipnir

I wasn't really meaning sex, but I do see what you mean. What I was trying to say was a newly infected, before the physical signs started to be really prominent, could potentially miss their infection?

I guess that could work too. The virus could easily spread before the victim started to look sick.

 

[Hel]

Also, on second thought, they should look like normal humans. If they're supposed to integrate with humans and spread the disease through the population, it wouldn't be in the virus's best interest to make the patients look visibly sick. But then it wouldn't be a zombie virus anymore, so...
On third thought, maybe it's a variant that kills and reanimates the body but leaves the brain untouched and alive? Perhaps it uses insects, dust, rodents, or droplets as a vector, solving the problem

This sort reminds me of how sleip and I usually imagine zombies, which is that they are fairly sentient when they are first turned, and remain that way as long as they eat human flesh/brains but it has to be fairly consistent and any time they are hungry. Most sentient people wouldn't do that, though, and the longer they go hungry the less sentient they become until they are your typical mindless zombies.


I'm not sure if that's how they function in this world or not. She established that it was due to some government/science experiment is all so far I believe.

 

[WantYourSoul]

Spoiler

Is this what Nathan feels like?

 

[Sleipnir]

((Yes, this is an accurate assessment of Nathan surrounded by all y'alls.))


Okay. I have a lot to keep track of for this post, oh man.


So. Mode of infection. I'm digging animals as carriers of this disease. Dogs, cats, rats, mice, bugs, Ect. Can carry the disease but don't show symptoms.


I like the idea of having multiple types of zombies. I want a sort of sliding scale of zombie-ism between sentient, fresh zombies and starved "dead" zombies, I think. I'm not opposed to the idea of other "special" zombies, like in Left 4 Dead. Some zombies can be quick; some zombies are your average shufflers. Plenty lack coordination and are probably prone to tripping. If we have more than one strain, we probably have more than one type of zombie.


What else did I have to address?


I like the idea we've got here.

 

[Sleipnir]

Surprise; I changed the name on the RP thread.