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[GlyphGryph]

You Are the The Zombie Apocalypse!

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You are the cause of a worldwide zombie epidemic!
Or, at least, you will be. Your goal is to destroy humanity via the living dead.There are a couple of important decisions to be made first, though.
What kind of zombie plague are you?
What kind of zombies do you create?
How do people become zombies, and how can your zombies be destroyed?

As the game progresses you will earn more and more "Mutation Points", to allow your zombie swarms to become even larger and more dangerous. Mutation Points can be spent an various abilities - be warned, though, that some of them may come with unintended side effects!

You are a small outbreak!

Spoiler: Personal Statistics (click to show/hide)

Patient Zero: Michael, Street Hobo, Detroit, DECEASED, UNKNOWN
Source: Independent, Interstellar
Parasite Forms:
-Centralized Internal Control Parasite
|-Transition: Adult form of larvae
|-Controller
|-Vector: Release larvae into body
-Voyager Form
|-Transition:
|-Environmental Resistance: Vacuum, Atmosphere, Water, Heat, Cold
|-Dormancy: When deprived of access to sustenance, goes into hibernation and consumes no energy.
|-Resilience: Good
|-Mobile: Slow
|-Vector: Can directly implant Control Parasite Larvae into hosts

Zombie Transmission Vectors: Larvae, via Body Fluids
Individual Abilities:no unique individuals

Vulnerability: HIV
Weak (1)
Rebellious (5)
Unaware (1)

Special Ability: Patience (1) - Your zombies will try to wait for the right time to strike...
Special Ability: Sedative Resistance, High (2) - You gain a +5 bonus to resisting sedatives as your alien system takes over sedated parts of the hosts system.
Target Identification: Smell (1) - Individuals have some abilities to find targets via smell.
Target Identification: Motion (1) - Individuals are motivated to attack by vaguely animal motion.
Medicine Resistance: Good - It's much harder to find a way to cure your victims through chemical and medicinal means.
Adaptive - Every 3 Mutation points earned, you get another for free.

Horde Abilities: Small (Size 32), No Organization, No Structure
Parasite Recognition, chemical (1) - Your horde can usually avoid attacking it's own members through the use of a pheromone that inhibits the attack reflex.
Independent (0) - Your zombies will attempt to travel alone rather than in groups, making them more difficulty to track and kill.

Mutation Points Available:

Spoiler: World Statistics (click to show/hide)

Time Elapsed:
World Knowledge: Local Caution
Outbreaks: Small Outbreak, US, Detroit
Panic: None
Organization: Normal
Special Defenses: None

[mission0]

I submit spore!

All the other zombie types and how it has been spread has been played off before, let's invent a new...ish type of way for people to become undead. So Spores! that grow in small pods off of the infected zombie(host) and go off whenever the pod is full or whenever it is agitated/hit. Thus killing a Zombie could get you infected if you are close enough or downwind.

[GlyphGryph]

That would probably be an upgrade for Viral (which I've now changed to Infectious to allow bacteria and other stuff too) or Parasite, depending on which direction you'd want to go with it.

Both of them have quite a few interesting upgrades for Transmission Vectors.

[arcadia]

Looks interesting! I'm about to cast a vote for Necromantic, but what's the time line for destroying humanity? I imagine that thoroughly decayed zombies would fare better via Necromancy. Though would time even be an issue for Infections & Parasites?

[Kilowatt]

New Type: Chemical. The Chemical in question is a compound originally intended to promote rapid regeneration of cells. Unfortunately, it also suppresses higher brain functions and causes the "infected" being to develop a ravenous hunger so as to provide materials for cellular regeneration. The infected produced are of average human size and strength (for now), but they have the nasty tendency to regenerate their wounds. The more wounded they become, the more determined they become. This is true to such an end that they will often-times cause more catastrophic damage to themselves to feed. They still feel pain, and increase in huger (and thus determination) is far outstripped by the pain response that still lingers in the subject. (Thus, large amounts of damage will cause the infected to flinch or flee depending upon the level of suppression- as a general rule, the longer someone has been infected, the more functions are suppressed, the more pain-resistant the infected is.) The only way to stop them is to destroy their brain tissue. (Or separate it from the body entirely. Beware, the heads bite.) However, a chemical agent has low mutation potential at first, but as the outbreak continues, the agent changes chemically as it interacts with other substances that cause it to degrade and/or change. The chemical is produced by specialized cells in the liver when the subject ingests the chemical it is spread by the bile produced by the liver. If an infected is incapable of feeding, it will attempt to coat the target in bile vomited forth from the stomach.

How's that?

[GlyphGryph]

How would the chemical spread? Would it have to be from some central source/organization producing and distributing more of it?

[Kilowatt]

See: developed as a drug to promote rapid regeneration.

In this case, it's touted as a miracle drug by a pharmaceutical company. The chemical's effects weren't manifested in the test subjects when it went through trial, as the chemical was modified behind the FDA's back after the trials, thus resulting in the untested and dangerous new drug that has been pre-ordered by the majority of the country's hospitals. So the main hotspots would be hospitals.

[GlyphGryph]

So... Bioshock zombies, then?

I warn you, without an obvious transmission vector this will be a tough path, but it should be doable.
(Necromantic has the benefit of not NEEDING a transmission vector)

[Kilowatt]

Obvious transmission vector? Vomit and/or bile contains the chemical. (referring to humans here)

[lemon10]

I'm voting for necromantic, because it has the benefit of being able to take people once they die, and opposed to the others where if they die they can't turn.
Can the chemical turn dead people into zombies?

And yeah, the chemical zombies produce the chemical, so it should be easily spreadable (side note: does it infect only humans?)

[KaguroDraven]

This one also chose to vote for necromantic, both for bigger numbers and becouse it's a classic.

[lemon10]

changed my mind, i think i would prefer virus, because having boss zombies, (like left4dead or resident evil), is fun and awsome, in addition to the possibility of infecting animals to spread the infection.

[Happerry]

I'll vote for Necromantic, on grounds that magic is fun.

[GlyphGryph]

I'm voting for necromantic, because it has the benefit of being able to take people once they die, and opposed to the others where if they die they can't turn.

Not necessarily true. It certainly starts that way, mind you, but thats what Mutations are for!

[GlyphGryph]

I'll let voting continue until noon, and then I will do a new poll for the top 2 choices (currently looking to be necromantic or parasitic)

Examples of Each:
Necromantic - Dawn of the Dead, Die2Nite, The Walking Dead
Infectious - 28 Days Later, Left4Dead, The Zombie Hunters
Parasitic - Dead Rising, Resident Evil 5, X-Com
Chemical - Planet Terror, Bioshock