Post by Sparty McFly on Jan 11, 2009 15:01:55 GMT -5
For Barbarossa's zombie thread (and any other possible zombie RPs), I got information about the virus that causes zombification, Solanum.
Zombies bear festering sores, mottled skin, and decomposing flesh. Zombies show no rational thought and do not remember anything that the victim knows. They do not sleep and do not drink water. They reject all food apart from living prey. All living animals are treated as fair game to zombies, and a hospital orderly threw a rat at a zombie, to see the zombie eat it whole.
Solanum works by travelling through the bloodstream from the point of entry to the brain. They then replicate using the cells of the frontal lobe of the brain, creating a new organ which does not require food, water, or even air to run. It is, in essence, a self-sufficient organ.
After infection, their goal will be to find and devour others. The only way to kill a zombie is to remove the head or destroy it completly. Even through decapitation, the head is still a threat.
Timeline of Solanum Infection
Hour 1- Pain and discoloration of the infected area. Immediate clotting of the wound.
Hour 5- Fever between 99 F. and 103 F. Chills, slight dementia, vomiting, and acute pain in the joints.
Hour 8- Numbing of extremities and infected area, increased fever from 103 F to 106 F. increased dementia, loss of muscular coordination
Hour 11- Paralysis in the lower body, overall numbness, slowed heart rate
Hour 16- Coma
Hour 20- Cardiac arrest, cessation of brain activity
Hour 23- Reanimation
Conclusion: In short, it only takes a day for a human to become a zombie.
Solanum is 100% fatal and very contagious. Contact with infected blood or saliva results in infection. Unless you have open mouth sores, eating zombie flesh will kill you. It is fatal to all life, although humans are the only ones to experience re-animation. Parasites reject Solanum-infected hosts and all animals run, swim, or fly away from them.
This post was based on information read on the Wikipedia page "The Zombie Survival Guide". Only the symptoms except the conclusion were taken from Wikipedia.
Link to the page where info was taken from
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zombie_Survival_Guide#Solanum
It doesn't just go with Barbarossa's RP, the Solanum factfile should be read before starting a zombie RP. As well, there are also the Rage Virus zombies.
Zombies bear festering sores, mottled skin, and decomposing flesh. Zombies show no rational thought and do not remember anything that the victim knows. They do not sleep and do not drink water. They reject all food apart from living prey. All living animals are treated as fair game to zombies, and a hospital orderly threw a rat at a zombie, to see the zombie eat it whole.
Solanum works by travelling through the bloodstream from the point of entry to the brain. They then replicate using the cells of the frontal lobe of the brain, creating a new organ which does not require food, water, or even air to run. It is, in essence, a self-sufficient organ.
After infection, their goal will be to find and devour others. The only way to kill a zombie is to remove the head or destroy it completly. Even through decapitation, the head is still a threat.
Timeline of Solanum Infection
Hour 1- Pain and discoloration of the infected area. Immediate clotting of the wound.
Hour 5- Fever between 99 F. and 103 F. Chills, slight dementia, vomiting, and acute pain in the joints.
Hour 8- Numbing of extremities and infected area, increased fever from 103 F to 106 F. increased dementia, loss of muscular coordination
Hour 11- Paralysis in the lower body, overall numbness, slowed heart rate
Hour 16- Coma
Hour 20- Cardiac arrest, cessation of brain activity
Hour 23- Reanimation
Conclusion: In short, it only takes a day for a human to become a zombie.
Solanum is 100% fatal and very contagious. Contact with infected blood or saliva results in infection. Unless you have open mouth sores, eating zombie flesh will kill you. It is fatal to all life, although humans are the only ones to experience re-animation. Parasites reject Solanum-infected hosts and all animals run, swim, or fly away from them.
This post was based on information read on the Wikipedia page "The Zombie Survival Guide". Only the symptoms except the conclusion were taken from Wikipedia.
Link to the page where info was taken from
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zombie_Survival_Guide#Solanum
It doesn't just go with Barbarossa's RP, the Solanum factfile should be read before starting a zombie RP. As well, there are also the Rage Virus zombies.