Post by Thanatos on May 30, 2011 13:14:42 GMT
Seeing as there has been a few questions as to the sort of vocab we use here at BROKEN (eg 'Beginning', 'Walkers', 'Hideout', 'Infected' and more), Lozz, Leila and I will attempt to write up everything we know wbout our zombie outbreak. If you have any more questions, please post them in the 'Questions and greetings' board with the title 'Info Questions'. Thanks!
When did the apocalypse happen?[/u][/color]
As we all know from the plot, the zombie apocalypse began in May 2018 when patients of a drug trial turned into zombies and ate their doctors. From there, the undead patients walked around adn bit as many humans as they could find. Well, in reality, they tried to eat them, but humans are faster than zombies and in most cases, got away before the zombies could really chomp on them. Anyway, when the zombie outbreak got so bad that the armed forces could no longer subdue them, they stopped trying to defend every place in the city and just decided to protect the underground bomb shelter which had been there from the first World War (it can house up to 200 people; that was the safest place to have a Survivors post) and Aston Hall University, which was highly secure anyway since a mass shooting in there six years previous. When everywhere but these two places had been left to the zombies, the survivors called it the Beginning - the beginning of a new life, in which the dead didn't always stay dead and humans could only live in two places.
What do you mean when survivors ask other survivors 'are you infected'?[/u][/color]
In most films and books, being infected means that you are a zombie - bitten or scratched, died and then come back with a hunger for human flesh. But in BROKEN, we call zombies what they are: the dead, the undead, Walkers, Crawlers and Zombies. We call them what we see them as. Most times, if a zombie can catch hold of a human, they're eaten. But a single bite, scratch or even a zombie's bodily fluids getting inside your body can start to turn you into one of them. We call this the 'infection', which is when you are starting to turn into a zombie, but aren't quite there yet. The most visible signs of Infection are the eyes: they turn opaque or red and the skin turns pale and stiff. The Infected person looses their power of speech and movement becomes slow and unstable. When a survivor asks another if they are infected, it's just a quicker way of asking 'have you been bitten or scratched and are you turning into a zombie?'
So, what DOES 'Walker' and 'Crawler' mean?[/u][/color]
Like I said above, the survivors call the zombies what they see them as. Everyone knows that when a body is dead, it starts to rot away. As it rots away, it looses the ability to make sound, to see, smell, hear, touch and move. The flesh literally falls off the bones which, in turn, rot aswell. If a zombie is walking and being very vocal (translated: making a lot of groaning or moaning noises), it probably means that they are newer to the undead side of death. If they can walk, they are called Walkers. Likewise, if a zombie cannot walk anymore and crawls instead, they are probably a few months to a year old. These are called Crawlers. Finally, really old zombies that are much like the movies - the ones with hardly any flesh and bones that are rotting away - are often called 'Old ones' because they are old zombies.
Why haven't the survivors tried to reclaim parts of the city, like the llibrary or the hospital?[/u][/color]
Basically, they haven't reclaimed them because they can't. It's a well known fact that there are more survivors who live in the Hideout (the bomb shelter) than in Aston Hall University. But still, survivors are a rare, rare thing in the city and there simply aren't enough people to claim the zombie-infested parts of town as their own.
When did the apocalypse happen?[/u][/color]
As we all know from the plot, the zombie apocalypse began in May 2018 when patients of a drug trial turned into zombies and ate their doctors. From there, the undead patients walked around adn bit as many humans as they could find. Well, in reality, they tried to eat them, but humans are faster than zombies and in most cases, got away before the zombies could really chomp on them. Anyway, when the zombie outbreak got so bad that the armed forces could no longer subdue them, they stopped trying to defend every place in the city and just decided to protect the underground bomb shelter which had been there from the first World War (it can house up to 200 people; that was the safest place to have a Survivors post) and Aston Hall University, which was highly secure anyway since a mass shooting in there six years previous. When everywhere but these two places had been left to the zombies, the survivors called it the Beginning - the beginning of a new life, in which the dead didn't always stay dead and humans could only live in two places.
What do you mean when survivors ask other survivors 'are you infected'?[/u][/color]
In most films and books, being infected means that you are a zombie - bitten or scratched, died and then come back with a hunger for human flesh. But in BROKEN, we call zombies what they are: the dead, the undead, Walkers, Crawlers and Zombies. We call them what we see them as. Most times, if a zombie can catch hold of a human, they're eaten. But a single bite, scratch or even a zombie's bodily fluids getting inside your body can start to turn you into one of them. We call this the 'infection', which is when you are starting to turn into a zombie, but aren't quite there yet. The most visible signs of Infection are the eyes: they turn opaque or red and the skin turns pale and stiff. The Infected person looses their power of speech and movement becomes slow and unstable. When a survivor asks another if they are infected, it's just a quicker way of asking 'have you been bitten or scratched and are you turning into a zombie?'
So, what DOES 'Walker' and 'Crawler' mean?[/u][/color]
Like I said above, the survivors call the zombies what they see them as. Everyone knows that when a body is dead, it starts to rot away. As it rots away, it looses the ability to make sound, to see, smell, hear, touch and move. The flesh literally falls off the bones which, in turn, rot aswell. If a zombie is walking and being very vocal (translated: making a lot of groaning or moaning noises), it probably means that they are newer to the undead side of death. If they can walk, they are called Walkers. Likewise, if a zombie cannot walk anymore and crawls instead, they are probably a few months to a year old. These are called Crawlers. Finally, really old zombies that are much like the movies - the ones with hardly any flesh and bones that are rotting away - are often called 'Old ones' because they are old zombies.
Why haven't the survivors tried to reclaim parts of the city, like the llibrary or the hospital?[/u][/color]
Basically, they haven't reclaimed them because they can't. It's a well known fact that there are more survivors who live in the Hideout (the bomb shelter) than in Aston Hall University. But still, survivors are a rare, rare thing in the city and there simply aren't enough people to claim the zombie-infested parts of town as their own.
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