Describe your zombie apocalypse
Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 1:31 am
I'm a HUGE fan of zombie themed movies. Always have been. I'm loving The Walking Dead on AMC. But I always hate when the zombie outbreak is explained away too easily or not at all. So I'm toying with two views, two completely different concepts: one with religious undertones (which might not fly well with some gamers but would with mine), and another with well... um... liberal undertones?
Option 1: The Christians had it right, more or less. They knew the first four seals to be broken on the book of the end times were those which unleashed four horsemen. But what they got wrong was that those horsemen were not physical riders but instead symbols of death, famine, war, and pestilence... the four aspects that describe what happens when the dead rise up with an insatiable hunger for destruction and the need to spread their disease among the living. So started the beginning of the end. Now it is the time of the fifth seal, the tribulations and time of troubles. Mankind has been weighed and measured and has fallen short. Forsaken and left in a world to fend for themselves against the terror of the four horsemen: the zombie apocalypse! The interesting aspect of this version is that the zombies are soulless, and hunger for souls that they will never be able to keep. As eyes are the window to the soul, killing a zombie permanently is done by damaging ocular nerves (or basically shooting or stabbing the brain through the eye socket).
Option 2: Mankind has finally pushed the Earth too far. With all the toxins and radiations and radio waves and micro waves and... well, plastic. All the things they have employed to make their lives less Earthly has finally poisoned the earth to the point where it has responded. Pushing forth the recently fallen bodies buried into its surface, the Earth has created the zombie outbreak as an antibody against the Human infection... a solution to the cause of its decline. It has done more than this; the cities man once held dear have overgrown with vines and tangle-weed. It has also stopped providing crops, stopped filtering its own waters through varied sizes of stones and sands. Survival in the aftermath of an outraged Earth is challenging and dangerous, and even the animals see humans as enemies rather than threats. With all of these forces arrayed against the living, humanity is shrinking and settling into tight-knit groups who roam and search for a means to survive.
I haven't decided on which to use. Heck, I might even decide not to choose and just let things unfold as I make things up as I go. But I'm very eager to hear other people's take on the coming zombie outbreak... so share!
Tell me what caused YOUR zombie apocalypse.
Option 1: The Christians had it right, more or less. They knew the first four seals to be broken on the book of the end times were those which unleashed four horsemen. But what they got wrong was that those horsemen were not physical riders but instead symbols of death, famine, war, and pestilence... the four aspects that describe what happens when the dead rise up with an insatiable hunger for destruction and the need to spread their disease among the living. So started the beginning of the end. Now it is the time of the fifth seal, the tribulations and time of troubles. Mankind has been weighed and measured and has fallen short. Forsaken and left in a world to fend for themselves against the terror of the four horsemen: the zombie apocalypse! The interesting aspect of this version is that the zombies are soulless, and hunger for souls that they will never be able to keep. As eyes are the window to the soul, killing a zombie permanently is done by damaging ocular nerves (or basically shooting or stabbing the brain through the eye socket).
Option 2: Mankind has finally pushed the Earth too far. With all the toxins and radiations and radio waves and micro waves and... well, plastic. All the things they have employed to make their lives less Earthly has finally poisoned the earth to the point where it has responded. Pushing forth the recently fallen bodies buried into its surface, the Earth has created the zombie outbreak as an antibody against the Human infection... a solution to the cause of its decline. It has done more than this; the cities man once held dear have overgrown with vines and tangle-weed. It has also stopped providing crops, stopped filtering its own waters through varied sizes of stones and sands. Survival in the aftermath of an outraged Earth is challenging and dangerous, and even the animals see humans as enemies rather than threats. With all of these forces arrayed against the living, humanity is shrinking and settling into tight-knit groups who roam and search for a means to survive.
I haven't decided on which to use. Heck, I might even decide not to choose and just let things unfold as I make things up as I go. But I'm very eager to hear other people's take on the coming zombie outbreak... so share!
Tell me what caused YOUR zombie apocalypse.