Thread: [Z-Apoc.] OOC Thread + Info and Rules

RE Z-Apoc. The Extinction of Man Hmm. Well, the first victims that fall to a disease that strong is usually the weak. So most likely the people with poor health Elderly, homeless, drug-addicts due to body being ravaged by drugs, maybe the terminally ill... People that won't be missed to be crude, for the majority. So at first people will probably excuse it to them either being old, and frail or the poor choices they made in life and the flupoisoningother was too much to handle for them. The people that discover them in zombie stage will probably not initially notice something is off at least not with drug addicts considering that their appearance is already questionable. And the fresh bodies don't look that decayed yet hence not looking zombie-ish yet. Next level would probably be the more common folk, higher immunity, living in better conditions, etc... Which means the virus either found a way to jump from people of the poor category to the middle-class category. Or it evolved so it can attack people with a stronger immune system now. Doctors and hospitals, even pharmacies will most likely notice this and again due to the unknown might probably write it off as a 'tough flu epedemic'. Victims might complain that their flu or whatever is lasting longer or seems to worsen, so the docs. double up the medicine which may or may not have an effect on the virus initially....until it starts to evolve again and growing resilient against current medicine. Zombies will probably begin to be noticed in this stage, considering that the numbers of victims are increasing and caretakers will get overwhelmed at some point. Which will in turn create an opening for the 'unnoticed zombies' to start attacking people when that 'feeding instinct' starts to kick in. And that's when the government will step in to create a quarantine zone and hand out instructions and curfews to the public to try and maintain the chaos. The next stage that the government will take once the zombies truly get out of control, attacks everywhere,etc... that's when they'll start to set up refugee centers to protect the public not only from the infection but also from getting attacked. I think for the virus how it works at least. Initial symptoms would be similar to the flu muscle aches, headache, nausea, fever, etc... Then the next stage would be the dangerous one because symptoms worsen because the virus tries to kill off the body in order to reanimate it and take full control not that it's sentient or anything. Those symptoms will most likely be organ failure trouble breathing, body can't filter outprocess toxins so it's pretty much poisoning itself to the point where even the blood turns thick and muddled. Which eventually leads to death. After death, it can be case to case. The body starts to go into that decaying process while the virus is slowly reanimating the primal parts of the brain. Mobility and feeding instinct. Because the body's instinct is to keep itself alive and by doing that it needs to feed in order to transfer nutrients to the organs, etc... BUT since the organs are dead so they can't satisfy that need which results in a constant non-stop craving to eat. And since that we're at our most primal carnivorous we'll turn to prey instead of salads.