Act III

Round three of these random posts of summary-things

Act III

            The group finally unties Raph the next morning

                        For which I’m sure he’s very thankful

                        Ophelia keeps making mooneyes at him and that leads to

                        something like “I hope you realize that the last time I had sex, you

                        were probably in elementary school” which makes Azzer cackle

            They head off to look for safer ground/find a way out

            Little conversation about zombie hearing and how gunfire seems to attract 

            them

                        W – staring at gun – You know…. All we really need are potatoes

                        L - ….potatoes?

                        W – Yeah, I mean… these things are attracted to sound, right?
                        You just take a potato and – gestures- pff, silencer

                        A - …or we could just find a gun shop and get… silencers.

                        W – little almost pout – Or that.

            Decide to look around for a place to get silencers

            While wandering around, they start to see a good number of dead zombies

            And then they run into Xi

                        Sitting on a car eating Ramen and surrounded by corpses

                        Is probably very “What? I was hungry”

            Somehow they manage to convince Xi to come with them

                        Maybe they use food or bribe him with the fact that they have guns

                        or something

                        Who knows, maybe zombies show up and they need to fight them

                        off together and then head off for safety

            They wind up inside a building to rest

            Pokéwalker scene

                        Xi lifts up edge of shirt and has a Pokéwalker attached to his pants

                        Others basically all “…. *your not srs*”

                        Xi being very “At least being chased by zombies is good for 

                        something this way”

            Discussion of what the zombies are after they see fast/smart zombies

                        R – I…I think I know what this is. Look, if this is a variation of

                        rabies, this makes sense

                        X – What makes you think it’s rabies in the first fucking place?

                        R – There – pauses – A patient came into the ER with bite marks

                        and lacerations. We thought he’d been mauled by a dog and we

                        were planning to start treatment for rabies. But he went…berserk.

                        Attacked orderlies.

                        L – That explains the guy that came into my bar. Said he worked at

                        the hospital and that some crazy shit was going down over there. 

                        He ordered a drink before he turned into one of these monsters

                        R – nods – We had tried to evacuate the hospital after he started

                        attacking people. It… didn’t work very well.

                        X – little snort – Yeaaah, I kinda gathered that from the fact that

                        you cockfags left me unconscious and hooked up to an IV

                        R – looks away and clears throat – In any case… if a dog attacked

                        him and gave rabies then it would explain the two different forms

                        this has taken

                        X – Oh… you think it’s evolving.

                        R – nods – In a normal case of rabies, death occurs within a few

                        days. Usually due to respiratory insufficiency. As we’ve seen, this

                        is not the case with our bitey friends outside. But…that

                        would make sense if this were a new stain, better designed for

                        survival. Viruses evolve all the time.

                        W – So… what, this is some sort of mutant rabies or something?

                        X – Emobitch actually has a point with that. If this was the

                        government (and I still say it was, there’s no way that quarantine

                        would have gone up or power would have gone out that

                        quickly) then this could be some weaponized form of rabies.

                        R – While I’m hesitant to accept that the government did this that is

                        beside the point. What I’m saying is if this is rabies then having

                        two types makes sense to make the insufficiency sufficient.

            Panel(s) with slow zombies

                        If the metabolism is slowed, the infected need less oxygen. 

                        However, this also leads to infected which are sluggish and limited

                        in their facilities.

            Panel(s) with fast zombies

                        The other option is if the disease had less impact on the lungs. 

                        Their metabolisms could be maintained at higher levels. 

                        Unfortunately, this would also lead to an increase in 

                        aggression levels as the infected need more food to fuel their

                        higher levels of activity

            Cut back to group

                        R – It’s just a theory, though.

                        L – It’s a good theory, doc. Not exactly helpful to us at the

                        moment, though. But maybe it’ll help when we get out of here.

                        R – At the very least you should know that if this is the case, the

                        faster ones will be smarter and more able to defend themselves.

                        A – Of course they are. Why would anything ever be easy for us?

                        O – So… so these things can they learn? Like how to fight back

                        and hunt people?

                        W – Right, this is definitely what we needed

                        X – I know right? Now it’ll actually be some fun

                        Group just kinda staring at Xi

                        X - ….what?