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[wehtamjd92]

Auto reflexes trained for combat... I like it!

[Strife26]

If I'm infected, I carefully place all of my useful items in an easily found bundle, save for a pistol and one round then I recite the Lord's Prayer to myself. I sit down and reite loudly:

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Halfway down the trail to Hell,
In a shady meadow green
Are the Souls of all dead troopers camped,
Near a good old-time canteen.
And this eternal resting place
Is known as Fiddlers' Green.


Marching past, straight through to Hell
The Infantry are seen.
Accompanied by the Engineers,
Artillery and Marines,
For none but the shades of Cavalrymen
Dismount at Fiddlers' Green.


Though some go curving down the trail
To seek a warmer scene.
No trooper ever gets to Hell
Ere he's emptied his canteen.
And so rides back to drink again
With friends at Fiddlers' Green.


And so when man and horse go down
Beneath a saber keen,
Or in a roaring charge of fierce melee
You stop a bullet clean,
And the hostiles come to get your scalp,
Just empty your canteen,
And put your pistol to your head
And go to Fiddlers' Green.

I drain any breverage I have with me and shoot myself in the head.

[inaluct]

Oh, please. That is so emotional.

I'd chain myself to something heavy with a copy of The Republic. I would inevitably try to read it after becoming a zombie, and it's hard-to-follow dialogues and well thought out rhetoric would revive my intellect, making me the first zombie philosopher and the Zombie Messiah.

I would saunter through crowds of my mindless brethren, looking for a soapbox to stand on. I would climb up to the top of my chosen speaking point, megaphone in hand, and begin to speak to the shambling horde. My inspiring speeches would foster a glow in their dead hearts; a glow of compassion for humanity. They would wake up, seeing their condition and knowing one thing:

The mindless killing and cannibalism would stop.

The word would spread throughout the zombie hordes, and they would gather with me and join hands singing "Everybody Get Together," united in undeath. The notes of song would spread throughout the infected city, and survivors everywhere would hear. Somewhere, a man with a crowbar would crawl out of his air duct and peek out of a window. Somewhere, a survivalist with a large collection of weapons would unlock his or her door and look down the hallway, towards the source of the song. A homeless man would crawl out of his battle dumpster, a crying child would cheer up and look for the singers, and a survivor trying to drive out of town would slow down and listen.

Slowly, the last remnants of humanity would gather in with the zombies, and the living and unliving would be together in their celebration of love and altruism. I will have achieved something that was impossible before the outbreak. I will have made humanity greater than the sum of it's parts.

[deadlycairn]

Any then a deathist (work with me here) human will come and blow you to pieces with his trusty shotgun, thus creating the war to end all wars!

[inaluct]

He won't be able to. The song of brotherhood will unite all men and women alongside the zombies in a glorious fraternity of compassion. He will feel the love.

[Duke 2.0]

 Then the zombies rot away, leaving behind a clear message to the survivors. Before the zombies pass on forever, they rebuild the cities and governments of the world. they will be better, without hate or violence. We will be united in our will to not hurt anybody anymore. The survivors will continue to repopulate the planet, the knowledge these undead hordes have taught us all still fresh even several generations later.
 We will enter a new golden age, where no man wishes any harm upon another. Unlike our ancestors, we won't need rules to regulate the good from the bad as we will all strive to do good. Then when we die, we shall join our previously undead brethren that have given us the greatest gift of all.

[Mulch Diggums]

Wow..I love this forum, this is the only place where the original thread could turn into this. I think that plot should develop into its own mini story =] it would be cool.

[Dakk]

I don't know if its the movies, or the fact that i was only a little kid back then, but i think today's zombies are far less scary then the zombies of old.

5 years ago, i looked over my shoulders and locked doors after watching a zombie movie, today i actually hope they kill someone important to the plot before dying again in a lame way.

[Mulch Diggums]

ಠ_ಠ
 When the zombies see my gaze, they will die. This is how I will survive. But hey, zombies of old were slow.. mindless...and uncoordinated. The new ones are much more scary. I think it may be that movies might be a little less suspense filled, maby.

[deadlycairn]

Zombies have turned from an object of horror to yet another kind of cannon fodder - at least in the movies. The games are another matter entirely - I really want a copy of L4D, those zombies sound nightmare-inducing.

[Strife26]

If only.

[deadlycairn]

Please elaborate. From what I've heard, the Director does a pretty good job of creating an atmosphere of horror.

[umiman]

It does for the first few games. But like any other media, once you get the hang of it, it loses the horror.

Versus mode is notoriously unscary though ridiculously tense.

Don't get me wrong. It's very fun. The first 20 hours of gameplay I had with it were amazing and the witch music *used* to make me jump. Now I just run up to her and blast her in the face.

[Sir_Geo]

Is that thinly veiled innuendo? 
But in all seriousness, the game does lose its horror quality after a few play throughs.

[Strife26]

I didn't see any innuendo.

Am I just oblivious?