I wonder: How much do a zombie register, when it walks about?
When bitten, how long do they keep their mind? Is it untill the virus gets to the brain and begins the corruption? Untill then the victim would be able to think and react, having perfectly control over their body, right? Then the virus slowly corrupts the mind/the brains starts decaying, and they lose their mind?
After that, the decay either slows down, or keeps raging, which would mean that they slowly loose their senses, would it not? The brain is soft tissue, and would decay rather fast; if the virus spread in a few minutes, and the victim looses their mind in half an hour, they would stay a zombie for - one-three days, before the brain is so damaged that there is nothing left to send the ever so important impulses, and the zombie would fall and decay to nothing?
Even faster if the nerves is cut.
Under this time, the victim slowly become more driven by hunger and generel needs, but as the decay ruins the brain, it will loose vision, sense of smell, sense of hearing, sense of touch, in a random order, untill the brain dies.
This way, it is reletively easy to live through an outbreak, as long as you stay out of the infection zones. If the virus does not spread, the outbreak is through in a week or two.
Of course I have seen theories of a parasite replacing the brain, but that would mean rather intelligent zombies, able to sense danger. Even if the intelligence is as good as that of a predator, it would still be difficult to escape those zombies, or set traps for them, unless they are driven by deadly hunger. That way, you would need to keep safe untill the easiest victims have been eaten, which would take weeks, before you can lure them into traps.
So, how does the mechanism of the virus work? Is it like a regular virus that makes the body decay, and gives a unnatural hunger (that way spreading the disease), or something intelligent?
*cracks fingers*
Allright, lets do this.
First, zombies only register Noise, and smell. It is likely there eyes would eventually become unusable, but there hearing would be good enoug hto hear your heart beat from about 5 feet away.
I would hink it would take a few hours tops. In this time, they would have control over there body, but would be in alot of pain, and if they could would be best advised to kill them selfs. They would be pretty badly mauled after getting attacked by a horde, or even just a few.
third. Decay in the zombie is practically stopped by the virus. It has a special checmical that slows down the decay keeping it in working order..
And nope, nothing intelligent bout them. Thoads base virus, was practically a walking eating machine. It had no memory, and could hardly open door nobs. *snicker* Though soe of the newer less used viruses did envolve some smarter zombies...
Now for mud....
Well, I would definatly choose the farmer, a bit of a no brainer, along wiht...the doctor and the green beret. A complete dream team if you ask me.
For startes, you get the farmer to grow food (a given) And the doctor to heal sstuff. But he could also be working on a cure. As for the green beret, they could be young or old, and it wouldn't matter. They would be able to use most any fire arm you could find. It would make it much easier to keep fire arms in working order with him around.
I would then head for the prison for a few reasons.
It would have about 300 zombies max, and most would be in jail cells, made of steel. If the zombies couldnt reach the prisoners o nthe other side, the prisoners would have dies, and the zombies would have left. If you clear one wing of bodys, or zombies, you have a great defense. Most prisons have very thick steel doors with incredible large locks. You would also have cells which would make an exalent choke point.
(Ah, mud allmost forgot to mention how much I liked the hybrid hearse. lol)
*Looks up*
I need to get away from the computer after a post like this.
