Symptoms Of Zombie Infection!

[raven_gaurd0]

I was kind of bored so I'm making a zombie disease thread. It was kind of spurred on when I heard somebody say that there were way too many health threads on lately. So I made a completely useless one!

 

 

 

So, zombies are the corpses of reanimated humans (We'll be using virus infected zombies for our scenarios :wink: ) and they can spread their disease by biting other...living humans. What I ask you, people of tip.it, is what are the symptoms of ZOOOMBIE INFEEECTION?

 

 

 

I'm thinking

 

 

 

Delirious behavior, pain of infected area, vomiting, paling of skin, bags under eyes, lack of muscle control, extreme fatigue, death...then REANIMAAATION!

 

 

 

You can number them or something if you want to, but I listed mine in chronological order.

 

 

 

Flaming is totally allowed 'cuz it's a zombie thread. I mean, come on. :-s

[redhaloguy]

A massive thrist for brains?

[Kashi]

Compulsion to make threads about zombie infection.

 

 

 

 

 

Uh oh looks like you are infected, stand still (draws gun).

[Zonorhc]

Well, sometimes you just can't help but sell your soul to a ravening star vampire, y'know?

[Ricky_Hatton]

Someone's been playing too much dead rising!

[Kiriyama]

Okay first.

 

 

 

Reanimating corpses is more of a Nercomancy thing.

 

 

 

If there was a zombie disease (T-virus, Rage virus, whatever) you wouldn't actually die, nothing can bring back the dead. Which is why these zombies we know of can be killed. (To stop a Reanimated Corpse, you'd need to destroy it, or the Necromancer).

 

 

 

Anyway signs of zombiefication, muscle tissue tightening and a hunger for human flesh.

 

 

 

Thats taking "zombiefication" into reality.

[tomdavies90]

I think you'd notice if you'd turned into a zombie to be honest, probably by the fact that you would feel completely different. Think about it, when you feel sick you can tell, you'd definitely know about if not only for the fact you are suddenly unable to walk no quicker than 2 steps a minute.

[Necromagus]

The Keeper's Diary from the Resident Evil remake for the Gamecube:

 

 

 

Keeper's Diary

 

 

 

May 9, 1998

 

 

 

Played poker tonight with Scott and Alias from Security, and Steve from Research. Steve was the big winner, but I think he was cheating. Scumbag.

 

 

 

May 10, 1998

 

 

 

One of the higher-ups assigned me to take care of a new creature. It looks like a skinned gorilla. Feeding instructions were to give it live animals. When I threw in a pig, the creature seemed to play with it... tearing off the pig's legs and pulling out the guts before it actually started eating.

 

 

 

May 11, 1998

 

 

 

At around 5 A.M., Scott woke me up. Scared the sh*t out of me, too. He was wearing a protective suit. He handed me another one and told me to

 

put it on. Said there'd been an accident in the basement lab. I just knew something like this would happen. Those bastards in Research never sleep, even on holiday.

 

 

 

May 12, 1998

 

 

 

I've been wearing the damn space suit since yesterday. My skin's getting grimy and feels itchy all over. The goddamn dogs have been looking at me funny, so I decided not to feed them today. Screw 'em.

 

 

 

May 13, 1998

 

 

 

Went to the Infirmary because my back is all swollen and feels itchy. They put a big bandage on it and told me I didn't need to wear the suit anymore. All I wanna do is sleep.

 

 

 

May 14, 1998

 

 

 

Found another big blister on my foot this morning. I ended up dragging my foot all the way to the dog's pen. They were quiet all day, which is weird. Then I realized some of them had escaped. Maybe this is their way of getting back at me for not feeding them for the last three days. If anybody finds out, I'll have my head handed to me.

 

 

 

May 16, 1998

 

 

 

Rumors going around that a researcher who tried to escape the estate last night was shot. My entire body feels hot and itchy and I'm sweating all the time now. I scratched the swelling on my arm and a piece of rotten flesh just dropped off. What the hell's happening to me?

 

 

 

May 19, 1998

 

 

 

Fever gone but itchy. Today hungry and eat doggie food.

 

 

 

May 21, 1998

 

 

 

Itchy itchy Scott came ugly face so killed him. Tasty.

 

 

 

4 / /

 

 

 

Itchy. Tasty.

[NorthernHero]

^ Hehe I remember reading that memo like yesterday, such a fantastic athmosphere in that game.

 

 

 

Resident Evil FTW \

[Zonorhc]

And sometimes undeath happens without you actually meaning for it to.

 

 

 

Although usually it's a plague.

[jak722]

4 itchy tasty...

 

 

 

Also, Zon, lay off the warhammer...

[raven_gaurd0]

Warhammer's awesome. With the Thousand Sons Chaos peeps... I think. Not a big fan of 40k.

 

 

 

But yeah, if you think that memo was cool, go read House of Leaves, I forgot who it's by but it's written about a horror house.

 

 

 

Well, let me put it this way:

 

 

 

The book you read is about a guy writing a book you read, and the guy who

 

's writing the book writes about the House of Leaves, but as you read into the book you realize that the author is going insane. So, you get insights to his work, but it's really mainly about him going insane as he's writing it.

 

 

 

It's pretty cool.

 

 

 

But Resident Evil is an awesome game...never played the remake. I think 4 had the best gameplay, but 1, 2, and 3 weren't...too bad.

[raven_gaurd0]

Okay first.

 

 

 

Reanimating corpses is more of a Nercomancy thing.

 

 

 

If there was a zombie disease (T-virus, Rage virus, whatever) you wouldn't actually die, nothing can bring back the dead. Which is why these zombies we know of can be killed. (To stop a Reanimated Corpse, you'd need to destroy it, or the Necromancer).

 

 

 

Anyway signs of zombiefication, muscle tissue tightening and a hunger for human flesh.

 

 

 

Thats taking "zombiefication" into reality.

 

 

 

Come on, man, I said it was a viral disease. Just roll with it.

 

 

 

And I never said that the dead are brought back, Solanum, the 'zombie disease' in the Zombie Survival Guide is just a virus pretty much using a host body as a puppet.

[knives669]

Your limbs fall off and you just keep staggering.

[Kiriyama]

Okay first.

 

 

 

Reanimating corpses is more of a Nercomancy thing.

 

 

 

If there was a zombie disease (T-virus, Rage virus, whatever) you wouldn't actually die, nothing can bring back the dead. Which is why these zombies we know of can be killed. (To stop a Reanimated Corpse, you'd need to destroy it, or the Necromancer).

 

 

 

Anyway signs of zombiefication, muscle tissue tightening and a hunger for human flesh.

 

 

 

Thats taking "zombiefication" into reality.

 

 

 

Come on, man, I said it was a viral disease. Just roll with it.

 

 

 

And I never said that the dead are brought back, Solanum, the 'zombie disease' in the Zombie Survival Guide is just a virus pretty much using a host body as a puppet.

 

 

 

First of all, you seemed to emphasise on Reanimation in the first post.

 

 

 

I doubt the virus itself can think, do you think the flu virus, or any virus, that are basically single celled organisms, can think?

 

 

 

All the virus does is affect your behaviour and (going by files I've read on RE:UC) muscle tightening.

 

 

 

Lets take the whole thing into reality.

 

 

 

Zombiefication is basically insanity mixed with Carnivorism (Yeah I think I made that word it, basically a human that eats other humans), with other side effects such as muscle tightening, mutation, vocal loss and more.

 

 

 

Don't say anything about reanimation, the closest we are to true reanimation is putting live cells into a dead heart.

[nine naked men]

You get shot and it doesn't really bother you. Unless it's a headshot, 10 points.

[azntemplar_00]

You know when I saw that title, I thought you were actually refering to this.

 

 

 

Deadly new form of MRSA emerges

 

 

 

A deadly strain of the superbug MRSA which can lead to a flesh-eating form of pneumonia has emerged....

 

...It causes large boils on the skin, and in severe cases can lead to fatal blood poisoning or necrotising pneumonia, which eats away at the lungs.

 

 

 

Somehow my brain connected 'necrotising' to 'necromancy' to 'zombie' :lol:

[raven_gaurd0]

No, but I'm gonna look like an SAS from now on... (For those of you who aren't Spec. Ops nerds, the SAS are a British Counter-Terrorist team whom wear gas masks and full kevlar and long pants...and yadda yadda yadda. Used in chemical-gas and chemical-weapon environments.)

 

 

 

Necrotising is just killing, pretty much. Lol. But that would have been creepy...but naw, I'm just talking about viral zombies like from RE.

[fgfuyfyuiuy0]

You can't concentrate, your skin becomes itchy, you get blisters which later become infected, you grow pale, you feel sick, you feel cold, but really you have a raging fever, you become delirious, hard time keeping train of thought and often get sidetracked, skin starts to peel and stuff begins to fall off, you soon begin to have nightmares and can't sleep, you have open wounds and your skin is irritated and puss infested, you twitch or have spasms, and then you finally rest... until you end up reanimating. :D

 

 

 

I love zombies. One of my fantasies is for a zombie invasion... even if it is for only a day :)

 

 

 

No, but I'm gonna look like an SAS from now on... (For those of you who aren't Spec. Ops nerds, the SAS are a British Counter-Terrorist team whom wear gas masks and full kevlar and long pants...and yadda yadda yadda. Used in chemical-gas and chemical-weapon environments.)

 

 

 

Necrotising is just killing, pretty much. Lol. But that would have been creepy...but naw, I'm just talking about viral zombies like from RE.

 

 

 

All in all, there is many ways someone could become a zombie. Not just the T-virus in RE, but really anything.

 

 

 

There's a parasite who's main function is to inhabit crickets. It inserts itself in the brain of the cricket and lives off of it. After it has full control of the host, it feeds. Once it is done, it kills the host (Either by controlling the cricket to kill itself or by doing it itself) and goes and inhabits a new host.

 

 

 

Imagine a parasite who evolves to the state where it can do that to humans. This parasite being a savage (Making us kill other things instead of just living off of us for a while), we'd probably be some form of zombie. Now, if we got shot anywhere, we'd die because we are still a functioning body under the parasites control, but to destroy the parasite, you destroy the brain in which it is inhabiting.

 

 

 

Another form of a virus could, in fact, be rabies. Rabies tends to make the host violent ((This being the case with animals), but if the rabies virus somehow adapted and evolved, it could very much do the same to us. Still, along with us still being alive, there wouldn't be an instance where we 'died' and we'd certainly die, after time, if shot anywhere on our body. It'd probably take longer and we'd probably be able to infect another human in that time. Also, the problem is rabies is a slow virus. It takes time and gradually infects its host. If it evolved like maybe the T-Virus where depending how big the bite is, then maybe we'd have a full functioning zombie virus.

 

 

 

Now, we've basically stated the possibilities of full-functioning zombie inducing things. (1) Parasite (2) Viral infection. The only other thing I could think of is chemical.

 

 

 

Anyone ever heard of Tetrodotoxin? If not, click here Tetrodotoxin. Tetrodotoxin is a drug that affects the brain. It basically blocks areas of the brain where we feel pain. This allowing a numbness to exert itself throughout the whole body. Tetrodotoxin, in Africa, is one of the key ingredients to a drug called "Zombie Powder". They use this drug on humans which gives them a numbing feeling (no pain) and it makes them savage causing them to be like zombies. Of course, Tetrodotoxin will kill you if overdosed, so it is not a relatively good idea to try it, but Zombie Powder does show what humans could do if Zombie Powder was a drug that stayed within the host until death and made it transferable.

 

 

 

I consider drugs a chemical, since it is human made, but I guess I can give you a sense of chemical induced zombie activity.

 

 

 

Chemicals are a human made substance (For the most part). These chemicals consist of natural resources used together to make an element which can be used to help, destroy, or please. Chemicals are a tricky thing to mess with because Scientists have the faintest ideas what they'll get if they mix 2 compounds together. If you were to mix a compound that maybe eats away at human flesh, causes the nervous system to be blocked, and cause non-rational brain processes, which result in our former stage of thought where we were savage and not rational, then you could have a zombie problem. The thing is this chemical would have to be airborne, and oral, otherwise you have one human running around biting people with no side affects. So, you'd need one messed up pathogen to attack the brain and do what I listed above.

 

 

 

So, now we have (1) Parasite (2) Viral Infection (3) Drugs/chemical.

 

 

 

This was written by me and without any reference, so don't take credit :P

[SupportMage]

Uncanny ability to draw all gun fire to your head area.

 

 

 

Blood turns black and oily

 

 

 

Flies persist around you, though mosquitoes mostly leave you alone, but those that bite you die.