I've edited that rule to make it a bit clearer but SyrianHamster has it right. Biting will cause you to turn, scratches won't.

The Walking Dead universe is a little weird about this, honestly. The virus is airborne but it's dormant within everybody until they die. Once you die, the virus activates. However, if you are bitten, you get a very specific kind of illness, usually marked with an insanely high fever and hallucinations. This illness will kill you pretty quickly and you'll re-animate as a walker.

Robert Kirkman, the creator of TWD comics, says that zombie bites don't kill you because the active version of the virus is being transmitted or anything; he says you die because of infection or blood loss. The show does it differently because once someone's bitten, that's it, they're as good as dead. They never attempt to disinfect the wound which implies that the infection spreads too fast, but the show has proven that amputations can help you survive so it can't spread that fast. The show also has the virus attack your brain functions whilst you're alive so....

Yeah, it's confusing. TL;DR: Bites will give you that there walker fever, scratches won't. The wound left behind by the scratch may get infected but the infection would be the same as one caused by being stabbed. The iconic walker fever will only happen to bite victims.

Finally got my first post up lol.

Could I get some constructive criticism on that post? It's my first real forum based RP attempt

threedawg said
I've edited that rule to make it a bit clearer but SyrianHamster has it right. Biting will cause you to turn, scratches won't.The Walking Dead universe is a little weird about this, honestly. The virus is airborne but it's dormant within everybody until they die. Once you die, the virus activates. However, if you are bitten, you get a very specific kind of illness, usually marked with an insanely high fever and hallucinations. This illness will kill you pretty quickly and you'll re-animate as a walker.Robert Kirkman, the creator of TWD comics, says that zombie bites don't kill you because the active version of the virus is being transmitted or anything; he says you die because of infection or blood loss. The show does it differently because once someone's bitten, that's it, they're as good as dead. They never attempt to disinfect the wound which implies that the infection spreads too fast, but the show has proven that amputations can help you survive so it can't spread fast. The show also has the virus attack your brain functions whilst you're alive so....Yeah, it's confusing. TL;DR: Bites will give you that there walker fever, scratches won't. The wound left behind by the scratch may get infected but the infection would be the same as one caused by being stabbed. The iconic walker fever will only happen to bite victims.

Thanks a buch threedawg, I just wanted that clarified before I put something down and got it all wrong. Thank you though.

threedawg said
I've edited that rule to make it a bit clearer but SyrianHamster has it right. Biting will cause you to turn, scratches won't.The Walking Dead universe is a little weird about this, honestly. The virus is airborne but it's dormant within everybody until they die. Once you die, the virus activates. However, if you are bitten, you get a very specific kind of illness, usually marked with an insanely high fever and hallucinations. This illness will kill you pretty quickly and you'll re-animate as a walker.Robert Kirkman, the creator of TWD comics, says that zombie bites don't kill you because the active version of the virus is being transmitted or anything; he says you die because of infection or blood loss. The show does it differently because once someone's bitten, that's it, they're as good as dead. They never attempt to disinfect the wound which implies that the infection spreads too fast, but the show has proven that amputations can help you survive so it can't spread fast. The show also has the virus attack your brain functions whilst you're alive so....Yeah, it's confusing. TL;DR: Bites will give you that there walker fever, scratches won't. The wound left behind by the scratch may get infected but the infection would be the same as one caused by being stabbed. The iconic walker fever will only happen to bite victims.

The Walking Dead universe is just one big bundle of LOL. So it's the germs in the walker bite that cause a generic infection? This generic infection then kills the host in a day or two because of reasons?

I need to meet with the author, to discuss the last 60 years of zombie lore with him.

Not dissing the RP by the way, I love it, and will play no matter what the zombie lore is, but I just wanted to give the whole bite premise a good ole "o.0"

ThreeDawgFO3 said
Could I get some constructive criticism on that post? It's my first real forum based RP attempt

Hi buddy, just read your post. It's actually very good! There wasn't anything I disliked, and your first paragraph was enjoyable to read. If that's your first forum post, you'll be fine. Being active on here will increase your writing skills and will grow exponentially, so I really wouldn't worry. There's just a few things, like if you're saying something and say 'he said' after, finish the dialogue with a comma and continue the rest of the sentence on as a whole. But other than that, it's all good as far as I can see.

Hey Hamster, can you describe Cam's injuries to me. I want my post to match up to what you had in mind.

Sure. When the fence came down on her, it crushed one of her legs under the weight of the wood and walkers. The bone is in nasty shape, probably cracked in several places. The skin is also not in great shape, torn and skimmed in places. She's lost a lot of blood, and so it'll be touch and go whether she survives even with treatment.

Thinking of flipping a coin on whether or not Trevor's radio call went through.

It's tails, so the call didn't work.

I think you should focus on being able to interact with others. I liked your post but because you didn't preface it with a scenario number, I'm assuming your post either represents its own scenario or is a gateway post for you to be able to join someone else's scenario if they have a radio. I don't think there's anyone who does have a radio in the other scenarios and even if they did, the call not going through makes the post pointless from an interactivity standpoint. If you're hoping to RP, you'll have to find good in-story reasons to join someone else's scenario. I think all of our active members are currently within scenarios so if you want to create your own, you could invite a friend to this RP so that they can join your scenario. I work from home so I'm online quite often in case you're worried about a delay in the profile being approved.

@SyrianHamster: I agree, TWD lore is all over the place. There's a good fan explanation for this stuff, though. In the lore, the airborne virus is dormant and only activates upon death. A fan theory says that there is one other way to activate it and that's having walker saliva enter the bloodstream. It has to be a sizable amount so the only way to transmit this would be a bite. The classic walker fever is the result of the virus activating and shutting your brain down to accelerate the zombification. I think that's a lot better than Kirkman's whole 'the bite kills you because of blood loss or infection'!

threedawg said
@SyrianHamster: I agree, TWD lore is all over the place. There's a good fan explanation for this stuff, though. In the lore, the airborne virus is dormant and only activates upon death. A fan theory says that there is one other way to activate it and that's having walker saliva enter the bloodstream. It has to be a sizable amount so the only way to transmit this would be a bite. The classic walker fever is the result of the virus activating and shutting your brain down to accelerate the zombification. I think that's a lot better than Kirkman's whole 'the bite kills you because of blood loss or infection'!

Playing the Walking Dead game right now, which I think is more based on the comic than that absurd TV show. Would an infection really kill you that quickly? I thought it took days, in the game it takes hours. Either way, I've read so many zombie-based novels, that I'm going to go ahead and include that "mixing blood", i.e, getting cut up and then covering yourself in zombie gore, is a sure fire way of catching something nasty.

Lol, the TV show, I remember watching that and thinking "why is everyone worrying about who slept with who? there's fucking zombies around" it was just so much soap drama and total rubbish in my opinion. As if like, the zombies weren't even part of it. It was just your average drama with some creepy people occasionally stopping by to move the plot forwards.

I really love the walking dead video game. It gets pretty sad but also extremely rewarding.

Dang, I suppose now would be a bad time to reveal that I adore the show... LOL

I like that they don't focus too much on the zombies, the most interesting aspect for me are the humans and how they react to the world falling apart. Season 1 and 2 were great, 3 was bad but 4 was a terrific return to form in my opinion. The show is getting pretty damn dark.

The video game blows it out of the water though. I will unabashedly admit that it made me cry a lot. It'd be incredible if they made a TV series based on the game! I think with zombie stories, suspension of disbelief is absolutely essential so weird logic doesn't bother me as much as it should. I barely flinched when Clementine opened a can of beans with the same knife that had previously been lodged into a walker's shoulder.

What you said about the walker blood makes the most sense but the reason I mentioned the saliva aspect is because the characters in TWD often cover themselves up with walker gore to mask their scent. Living as rough as they do, there's gotta be micro-cuts that the gore could seep into but they never get infected this way in the show, comic or game. I think we could say that it's possible to get infected this way but the cut would have to be fresh, deep and you'd have to get a substantial amount of walker blood in this way.

Could I join this? If so, this is where my character sheet will be.

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Name

Age

Height

Weight

Appearance

History

Personality

Weapon

Yes, you may join. Post your character sheet here and, if it's approved, I'll post it in the OP so that others can see it.

Could I join too? The first walking dead or I joined died and I've been looking for a new one for a while

Yes, we'd love to have you! You guys could jump into ThreeDawgFO3's scenario if you want, it's relatively recent and he seems like he'll be pretty active.

BTW, I'm in no relation to threedawg.

ThreeDawgFO3 said
BTW, I'm in no relation to threedawg.

Of course, I never thought it for a moment.

*Frantically makes background check*

EDIT: Missed this.

threedawg said
Dang, I suppose now would be a bad time to reveal that I adore the show... LOLI like that they don't focus too much on the zombies, the most interesting aspect for me are the humans and how they react to the world falling apart. Season 1 and 2 were great, 3 was bad but 4 was a terrific return to form in my opinion. The show is getting pretty damn dark.The video game blows it out of the water though. I will unabashedly admit that it made me cry . It'd be incredible if they made a TV series based on the game! I think with zombie stories, suspension of disbelief is absolutely essential so weird logic doesn't bother me as much as it should. I barely flinched when Clementine opened a can of beans with the same knife that had previously been lodged into a walker's shoulder.What you said about the walker blood makes the most sense but the reason I mentioned the saliva aspect is because the characters in TWD often cover themselves up with walker gore to mask their scent. Living as rough as they do, there's gotta be micro-cuts that the gore could seep into but they never get infected this way in the show, comic or game. I think we could say that it's possible to get infected this way but the cut would have to be fresh, deep and you'd have to get a substantial amount of walker blood in this way.

Loads of people like the show. I understand the human factor in the world falling apart, and that the zombies are interchangable... but like, hear me out:

I'm standing around with a bunch of strangers, trying to set up a fence so that I can sleep without getting my foot chewed off. My wife runs up to me, and tells me she's just fucked some guy she just met. Alright, now I'm going to tell you now that my reaction would be this:

"Well that's nice honey, you just sit there talking shit whilst I put up this fence... and you know, not die."

I'm fairly so sure that the world going to shit, death being a daily matter, and not being able to trust anyone would equal me not giving a fuck about trivia as who slept with who. We're humans, survival creatures, we've got ourselves a god damned on-off switch for that kind of crap. You think the West is so advanced because it's been in constant danger? Hell no, it's just we got to a point where we were so safe, we could afford to sit back and think about nonsense.

That's my take on things anyway.