The Zombie Plague Spreads (SR/Any tech, OOC/Signups

[Gonswanza]

Where should this be happening? Where do you want the Knights and/or the grad students to arrive?

And do you have any description of Olwean architecture and generally what things will look like where the teams arrive?

Also how should one describe the zombies? What are the powers they have? I would assume from the description they are, at the least, very undead.

I’m not really well versed in architecture, but I can tell you purple is about the plainest color buildings get in Olwe. As for where to arrive... the Imperial Palace is the site of the main war room Jason was in till recently, the House of Lore is also conducting research into the cause of the outbreak, and Fort Neilan is the forward command center for the largest gathering of military.

I'd like to participate.

Welcome.

Well sorry for the IC post that more like civil-war instead of bioterrorism or apocalypse scenario, with late introduction on zombie, though still mention it on the post. I'm trying to showing the societal collapse after months of the apocalypse, and probably adding the antagonist that might become obstacle to finding the truth, after all, my zombie is slow, which you don't need to be highly trained or be a gamer to get a good reflex just to shot a zombie.

Zuni and I have included some IC stuff that’s not technically zombies, too. No worries.

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Also lorepost for IC:

Gonswanza is basically a wasteland now. A radioactive wasteland. But there's still zombies topside, just a few strays. They are denser in the minor islands on the "outer rim" of Gonswanza, somehow surviving even in the toxic jungles.

Should radiation affect the undead anyway? The concussive force of the bomb blasts should take out large numbers of them, but I’d assume they’re immune to anything toxic.

Even if radiation could melt things in high enough doses, the backgroubd radiation is only enough to give cancer and kill crops.

They should be fine. No less effective, really.

In the toxic jungles their biology allowed them to live due to poisons and toxins being a threat, not acids. And given the wildlife's hostile immune systems, they are mostly immune. But there still will be that stray zombie boarhound (A big pig that is pure muscle with tusks like bowie knives. Very aggressive. Normally hunted for sport, in pre-zed times)

[Imperial-Octavia]

Gonswanza's post with the distress signal gave me an idea for an intro post. Gons, you may get those astronauts back slightly more metallic than when you found them.

[Gonswanza]

Gonswanza's post with the distress signal gave me an idea for an intro post. Gons, you may get those astronauts back slightly more metallic than when you found them.

Aha. They'd be thankful regardless since its better than being dead or worse.

[Olwe]

I’m not really well versed in architecture, but I can tell you purple is about the plainest color buildings get in Olwe. As for where to arrive... the Imperial Palace is the site of the main war room Jason was in till recently, the House of Lore is also conducting research into the cause of the outbreak, and Fort Neilan is the forward command center for the largest gathering of military.

Okay, but what are the zombies like?
And do you have any pictures or something of the houses the average Olwean would live in in the area most infested by zombies?
[Also a picture of the House of Lore, or a description?]

The zombies have no consensus in the OOC thread yet. In the IC thread there’s been fast zombies, slow zombies, pandemic zombies, magical zombies, zombie animals... go nuts, man.

I don’t have pictures. The houses would be just basic houses, but very brightly colored and much larger on the inside (Space Enlargement Charms are all the rage). The House of Lore is a massive, rainbow painted complex of a building that looks like a hybrid library/museum on the inside. The staff are extremely diverse, there’s definitely always Wookiees.

[Almanty]

Did you guys having immune people that resist the virus or another pathogen in your universe?

[GreatOceania]

Did you guys having immune people that resist the virus or another pathogen in your universe?

With what I’m dealing with no one is immune

[Gonswanza]

Did you guys having immune people that resist the virus or another pathogen in your universe?

With what I’m dealing with no one is immune

Ditto.

[Imperial-Octavia]

So Olwe, how well exactly can your ships pick up on stealth? It will affect how the events in the upcoming posts may go.

[Olwe]

So Olwe, how well exactly can your ships pick up on stealth? It will affect how the events in the upcoming posts may go.

If your ships are cloaked or something similar, they’ll likely escape my notice. My characters would have to be scanning with more in depth equipment, actively looking for hidden enemies, which as far as they know is not necessary. So you’ll likely surprise the hell out of them.

[Imperial-Octavia]

So Olwe, how well exactly can your ships pick up on stealth? It will affect how the events in the upcoming posts may go.

If your ships are cloaked or something similar, they’ll likely escape my notice. My characters would have to be scanning with more in depth equipment, actively looking for hidden enemies, which as far as they know is not necessary. So you’ll likely surprise the hell out of them.

Well, they won't be trying to reveal themselves, but mainly just to get to Earth so they can begin hunting/research. You will get an infiltrator left in space so the Octavians can learn more about your civ.

[Olwe]

If your ships are cloaked or something similar, they’ll likely escape my notice. My characters would have to be scanning with more in depth equipment, actively looking for hidden enemies, which as far as they know is not necessary. So you’ll likely surprise the hell out of them.

Well, they won't be trying to reveal themselves, but mainly just to get to Earth so they can begin hunting/research. You will get an infiltrator left in space so the Octavians can learn more about your civ.

Civ?

[Gonswanza]

Civ being civilization referring to your country/world

[Olwe]

Civ being civilization referring to your country/world

Thanks.

[Allanea]

So to be clear, as I understand it Gonswanza is more or less MT or PMT, at least in the broad sense that the technologies used are more or less like the ones we see IRL, rather than a full-on FT nation?

I'm thinking that now it is time to also post a bit about the not-FT aspect of my nation.

As I've explained before, the in-universe explanation for the fact that Allanea has both starships AND diesel engines is the fact that that for Allanea, fractal reality is an in-universe fact of physics - they realize that, for reasons that are not fully understood by science, in some parts of the multiverse things like gravitics engines don't work (similar to the events of Clifford Simak's Goblin Reservation). So we do maintain things like ordinary tanks and jets and our soldiers are trained with both plasma rifles and ye olde guns (in-universe these are called chemenergics).

So if Gonswanza doesn't object Allaneans could also turn up and airstrike some zombies.

[Gonswanza]

So to be clear, as I understand it Gonswanza is more or less MT or PMT, at least in the broad sense that the technologies used are more or less like the ones we see IRL, rather than a full-on FT nation?

I'm thinking that now it is time to also post a bit about the not-FT aspect of my nation.

As I've explained before, the in-universe explanation for the fact that Allanea has both starships AND diesel engines is the fact that that for Allanea, fractal reality is an in-universe fact of physics - they realize that, for reasons that are not fully understood by science, in some parts of the multiverse things like gravitics engines don't work (similar to the events of Clifford Simak's Goblin Reservation). So we do maintain things like ordinary tanks and jets and our soldiers are trained with both plasma rifles and ye olde guns (in-universe these are called chemenergics).

So if Gonswanza doesn't object Allaneans could also turn up and airstrike some zombies.

Aye, MT we are. And yea, I don't mind. In fact, I don't abject at all. The whole planet's free game.

[Allanea]

For furthyer clarification:

What kind of zombies are the zombies in Gonswanza's continuity?

How should I refer to, say, Gonswanzan-continuity-France to separate it from any other alternate-reality-France? G-France?

Should I understand it to mean that Gonswanza's stuff is located on 'NS hyperearth' so Allaneans can just, say, fly to Gonswanza's version of France, or is it elsewhere and they need to use portals or whantot?

[Gonswanza]

For furthyer clarification:

What kind of zombies are the zombies in Gonswanza's continuity?

How should I refer to, say, Gonswanzan-continuity-France to separate it from any other alternate-reality-France? G-France?

Should I understand it to mean that Gonswanza's stuff is located on 'NS hyperearth' so Allaneans can just, say, fly to Gonswanza's version of France, or is it elsewhere and they need to use portals or whantot?

They'd need portals, but we are dealing with what seems to be rather jacked versions of viral zombies, with a virus that has adapted to infect other non-human species, with a likely chance of infecting newcomers should there be sustained contact with the virus (ergo, argonians from Skyrim... But they would have to consume the zombies, get the virus injected into their bodies and maybe even get mauled by zombies a few hundred dozen times before the virus starts to change to attack them too.)

And yes, Gonswanzan earth is pretty much separate from other earths, even if the virus started mysteriously from an unknown point of origin that's now buried under the ashes of a nuclear war.

There's still zombies though. And survivors. Pockets of survivors.

[Allanea]

Would either of these work?

https://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/gate.htm
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Portal


I'm figuring that what could happen is that an OAS / DREAD exploration team does this as part of their attempts to figure out what the hell is going on.

[Gonswanza]

Would either of these work?

https://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/gate.htm
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Portal


I'm figuring that what could happen is that an OAS / DREAD exploration team does this as part of their attempts to figure out what the hell is going on.

Any portal device, yea. I mean, the world has one version of a zombie virus that is non-contagious and is stored as a bioweapon for the sake of possible assassination, but it never really got developed further (in spite of a select few test subjects escaping, whom have presumably died by now, including that one accidental pin-prick on the station that was thrown into the atmosphere)... Anything's possible. Though don't expect there to be convenient respawn points or juggernogg machines.

[Imperial-Octavia]

Would either of these work?

https://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/gate.htm
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Portal


I'm figuring that what could happen is that an OAS / DREAD exploration team does this as part of their attempts to figure out what the hell is going on.

Any portal device, yea. I mean, the world has one version of a zombie virus that is non-contagious and is stored as a bioweapon for the sake of possible assassination, but it never really got developed further (in spite of a select few test subjects escaping, whom have presumably died by now, including that one accidental pin-prick on the station that was thrown into the atmosphere)... Anything's possible. Though don't expect there to be convenient respawn points or juggernogg machines.

Speaking of that, the Octavians are also going to try and research your zombie virus, anything in particular that I should note about it before I start writing about my guys running unethical experiments on it?

[Gonswanza]

Any portal device, yea. I mean, the world has one version of a zombie virus that is non-contagious and is stored as a bioweapon for the sake of possible assassination, but it never really got developed further (in spite of a select few test subjects escaping, whom have presumably died by now, including that one accidental pin-prick on the station that was thrown into the atmosphere)... Anything's possible. Though don't expect there to be convenient respawn points or juggernogg machines.

Speaking of that, the Octavians are also going to try and research your zombie virus, anything in particular that I should note about it before I start writing about my guys running unethical experiments on it?

The one that's running amok evolves rapidly to both changing conditions and foreign biology through repeat exposure. For example, the first strains may have been resistant to vaccines, but later strains change so rapidly that only nanites could really counter them. At first it only affected humans, but later exposure to animals allowed it to adapt and infect animals as a carrier and later as full-on virus factories (infecting them)... But it cannot attack anything that lacks biological substance, like a robot.

This is in stark contrast to the "homemade" virus in Gonswanzan labs, which can only infect certain humans with a weakened immune system or with a particular vulnerability to viral agents, though it burns itself out through rapid damage to tissue, along with a short lifespan outside of laboratory conditions and the host body. In essence, it's a neat way to turn someone into a living zombie without actually making them into a public danger... But it will keep them alive against their will in a horrid state.

[Imperial-Octavia]

Speaking of that, the Octavians are also going to try and research your zombie virus, anything in particular that I should note about it before I start writing about my guys running unethical experiments on it?

The one that's running amok evolves rapidly to both changing conditions and foreign biology through repeat exposure. For example, the first strains may have been resistant to vaccines, but later strains change so rapidly that only nanites could really counter them. At first it only affected humans, but later exposure to animals allowed it to adapt and infect animals as a carrier and later as full-on virus factories (infecting them)... But it cannot attack anything that lacks biological substance, like a robot.

This is in stark contrast to the "homemade" virus in Gonswanzan labs, which can only infect certain humans with a weakened immune system or with a particular vulnerability to viral agents, though it burns itself out through rapid damage to tissue, along with a short lifespan outside of laboratory conditions and the host body. In essence, it's a neat way to turn someone into a living zombie without actually making them into a public danger... But it will keep them alive against their will in a horrid state.

That's interesting since I'll be getting a sample of the first one through the dead zombies around. This means that its probably getting packed away in the bioweapons division of O.P.R.A unless anyone stops the Octavians from getting that information in their databanks.

[The Dark Domain]

is this still open to join?

[Olwe]

is this still open to join?

If you want to, we’re not that far along. Sure.

[The Dark Domain]

Cool, I'll post something tomorrow