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| A New Kind of Zombie; Oh, we're screwed... | |
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| Topic Started: Nov 19 2013, 04:05 PM (1,457 Views) | |
| Russwallac | Nov 19 2013, 04:05 PM Post #1 |
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"Ta-da!"
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There's been a huge lack of creativity in the undead department in recent years. Zombies have been "locked down", so to speak, with a specific set of characteristics across virtually every form of media. Well, I had an idea that changes that. An entirely new species, if you will, of zombie that's very different from everything that's come before. It rectifies a lot of the issues with traditional zombies, and adds a new dash of horror to our favorite shambling corpses. So, what are these "new" zombies? For starters, they're suffering from a virus that, among other things, inhibits their higher brain functions (not that this is anything new). They still need to eat and sleep, and they don't eat people unless they're really hungry. What they DO do is try to infect people- usually by projectile-vomiting on them. We'll call these guys "Pukers". However, Pukers aren't the real threat; they're just incubators for something a whole lot worse. When a Puker reaches a certain stage, its body begins to devote its available energy and nutritional stores to the development of tumor-like growths within the chest and abdominal cavities. Eventually, these growths mature into independent organisms, which emerge from the Puker's body. They're derived from human DNA, but certainly aren't human. It's these things that are the real danger; it's a zombie apocalypse where the zombies are only the first part of the life cycle of a much deadlier organism. Basically, think of the relationship between Ichneumon wasps and caterpillars- and we're the caterpillars. |
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| trex841 | Nov 25 2013, 10:04 PM Post #31 |
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Well, there is an opening it could try to crawl out of... |
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| Kamidio | Nov 25 2013, 10:39 PM Post #32 |
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The Game Master of the SSU:NC
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND you just made it worse. Never mind that fetii look horrifying already. |
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| colddigger | Nov 26 2013, 04:07 AM Post #33 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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Now I'm even more curious, because it would induce labor I believe.. Then the mother would give natural birth to the zombie fetus, and I somehow doubt that a dead thing is going to grow. So basically they have this goofy wriggling mass that gums her when she tries to feed it. Which is basically a young baby anyway. It's like a success story of when people try to breed dogs to be puppies until they die. Except this won't die until someone steps on it by accident. Which is pretty much what you can say for the eternal puppies too. |
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Oh Fine. Oh hi you! Why don't you go check out the finery that is SGP?? v Don't click v Spoiler: click to toggle | |
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| Flisch | Nov 26 2013, 11:07 AM Post #34 |
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Superhuman
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Goddamnit Colddigger, you ruin everything. |
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| bloom_boi | Nov 26 2013, 12:49 PM Post #35 |
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What The?
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To be honest he improved it. |
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"You shall perish, whatever you do! If you are taken with arms in your hands, death! If you beg for mercy, death! Whichever way you turn, right, left, back, forward, up, down, death! You are not merely outside the law, you are outside humanity. Neither age nor sex shall save you and yours. You shall die, but first you shall taste the agony of your wife, your sister, your sons and daughters, even those in the cradle! Before your eyes the wounded man shall be taken out of the ambulance and hacked with bayonets or knocked down with the butt end of a rifle. He shall be dragged living by his broken leg or bleeding arm and flung like a suffering, groaning bundle of refuse into the gutter. Death! Death! Death!" | |
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