sadIt had taken six of the Valium pills John kept hidden at the back of the medicine cabinet, but Alexander Kellis was finally ready. He checked the knot on his rope one more time. It was good; it would hold. Maybe it wasn't elegant, but he didn't deserve elegant, did he? He destroyed the world. Children would curse his name for generations, assuming there were any generations yet to come. John was gone, forever. It was over.
"I'll see you soon, sweetheart," he whispered, and stepped off the edge of his desk. No one would find his body for weeks. If he reanimated, he starved without harming anyone. Alexander Kellis never harmed anyone.
Not on purpose.
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When will you Rise?
May 27 2011, 14:03:31 UTC 6 years ago
On a related note, things I wonder about this world when I read these stories and the book(s):
What happened in Africa, China, India, and especially in tightly packed Japan?
If this affects mammals over 40 lbs, does this mean the ocean is now even more dangerous with zombie dolphins?
Speaking of Africa and Asia, Zombie elephants... OFMG.
Corporate animal farms... ZOMFG
This would be a great setting for All Flesh Must Be Eaten.
May 27 2011, 14:07:16 UTC 6 years ago
Zombie elephants. And hippos. And rhinos.
May 27 2011, 15:41:56 UTC 6 years ago
I suspect there isn't much ocean shipping.
May 27 2011, 16:31:50 UTC 6 years ago
May 27 2011, 16:39:08 UTC 6 years ago
May 27 2011, 17:27:55 UTC 6 years ago
Kodiak bear zombies...
Hell, deer.
A few years ago I was eating in a diner and overheard a conversation between 2 wildlife managers in Douglas Country OR talking about the elk population in the county: it was over 200,000. that's about twice the human population at the time. and elk are big...
Reindeer in Lapland...
May 27 2011, 17:44:22 UTC 6 years ago
Sometimes, in the 3-4 deer per person range (those years they give out more hunting permits).
Zombie Deer are kinda scary.
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May 27 2011, 20:08:28 UTC 6 years ago
For that matter I think some of the Nutria around here get that big.
May 27 2011, 17:05:18 UTC 6 years ago
And Orca will kick the asses of sharks when they're alive. Undead, the ocean is probably empty of sharks now. They're no longer the baddest predators.
I imagine most ocean shipping that's done now is automated and run by GPS.
May 27 2011, 20:10:07 UTC 6 years ago
You want scary, imagine someone on a nuclear sub undergoing viral amplification...
May 27 2011, 23:15:47 UTC 6 years ago
They'd all just eat each other until they rotted too much to consider each other food, wouldn't they? And all the warheads are under multiple failsafes so that a single panicking person or multiple shambling zombies couldn't set them off, right?
Or is there another angle from which I should be considering this scenario?
May 28 2011, 04:01:49 UTC 6 years ago
Subs are *incredibly* cramped. Air quality is kinda important too.
And if you lose much of the crew, you may not be able to surface the sub. Or worse, may not be able to keep it from sinking past crush depth if the ballasting is not set right.
May 28 2011, 04:51:10 UTC 6 years ago
and if you want to see zombies on subs, there's a quick flash of that happening in High School of the Dead anime.