Thread: Concept for a Survival Horror Based World

We tend to desire everything in ways we can conceive as logical under the right circumstances. If we indeed had to use real life examples, I could present in a small list examples of creatures with some form of healing factor in the real world. -The axolotl is a neotenous amphibian that could regenerate limbs and organs that were damaged or lost. Although it doesn't give it Immortality, it does make it live much longer. It's used as a model in biomedicine. -The hydra not the mythological creature, but the polyp can regrow nearly any damage. It can be sliced in several pieces and each of the pieces can grow into a functioning polyp. Being a very simple animal with two layers of cells and no nervous system or complex organs helps. -Most leafy plants are able to regenerate from practically any damage, as long as they can still acquire nutrients and the materials needed to synthesis sugars in other words, their roots and leaves still need to be at least partially functional. Not even necessarily the roots many plants can be propagated from cuttings. In fact for a large number of domestic fruit trees, grafting a piece of an existing tree onto an existing rootstock is the only way that they are reproduced. Yes the perks of fiction allows anyone to forge things straight out of our dreams or nightmares in this particular case. Registering that thought process, the examples given alone can justify a scientific reason if I wish to bestow it for this otherworldly virus. Although not very trivial or vital at the moment, I decided to classified the infected in an uncomplicated manner to better comprehend what I intend to unleash in this savage world. --------- Tier 1 Normal infected that otherwise can affect speed, strength, etc based on the subject. Healthier people otherwise will be more feared, though the fatty chasing you was a world class weightlifter, such things will be accounted once the physical statistics are augmented. Tier 2 Vigorous killing machines spawned by the humans they drag back to their territory, rape, and find ways to keep them alive often by simply maiming limbs and by simple shit like wrapping them or relying on the higher tiers to keep alive. They are faster, stronger, and compared to the mindless ones can do some functions like wrapping wounds to a degree, open doors. Stuff that very simple pretty much. Their numbers are much lower, but valued. Tier 3 Those cursed with a mutation gene or cell wise or suffering from a rare disease will often morph into an abomination that has the primal urges of tier 1, but the superiority of tier 2. Varying in a multitude of ways, they can be like the special infected from L4D for example. Tier 4 A rarity are these infected, otherwise the executive table in terms of hierarchy. Each were originally individuals with greater Intellect starting by the estimate IQ of 132 where that is deemed Superior intelligence to 164 where we begin the journey to genius level IQ. These beings can shift between human and their infected form, have unique mutations, and are much harder to kill essentially. Expect each 1 to bestow a hive mind near its presence. That all I have left to say on the infection for now, feel free to make further suggestions on this subject. Soon it seems we'll chat more on society and the stuff around it.