text; un: brickfuckingmaster

[giraffic]

sorry to interrupt the celebrating the snow or whatever you do but if this place can bring creatures from our homes here you guys should probably know to look out for infected

long story short, infected are like zombies except the cordyceps fungus is a mushroom growing in your brain and they're technically still alive. don't think about it too hard.

its spread through spores, bites, and scratches if there's blood or saliva or something in it. when infected die naturally, they attach to stuff and release spores. do not breathe in the fucking spores. you WILL get infected and you WILL turn within 2 days. wear a mask.

there's 4 stages.

[ just to be helpful, each stage comes with a little drawing done by Ellie herself. she's not half bad but i am, so please refer to the wiki page, cw for body horror. ]


stage 1 -> runner, newly infected. fast, aggressive, strong. get the jump on them when they are quiet. can be killed like any non-infected, strangled, shot, etc. you might hear them crying or mumbling when they're not trying to murder you. it's creepy as fuck but you can't help them.

stage 2 -> stalker. the fungus starts growing out of them but they can still see, they'll hide and ambush when your guard is down. they can attach to walls and pretend to be dead just to fuck your shit up when you turn your back. they work with the other infected too.

stage 3 -> clicker. you can't miss them, the mushrooms are bursting out of their skull. clickers suck ass. they're blind, but that just means they're hearing if stupidly good. distract with bricks, bottles, any other object that will make noise, then sneak past. the best chance to kill one is a gunshot to the head twice, or a shiv to the neck.

stage 4 -> bloater. covered in plates of cordyceps. infected a long time, huge, deadly, throw acidic spore-filled sacks. AVOID AT ALL COSTS. seriously. they take like 5 molotov and a million nail bombs and bullets to kill. just fucking run. these fuckers WILL pull your head right off your body by the time you get a single plate off of them. i don't give a shit how strong or magic you are, they WILL fuck you up and it'll be your own fault.

i haven't seen any so far, but just one can bring down everything. if you see one, tell me.

as FEDRA likes to say, inaction costs lives.


[ the more you know ]

Comments

text | un: levi

[solitarysoul]

so how do you kill them? you said the first stage can be killed like anyone, what about the two middle stages? can i just shoot them?

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[giraffic]

they're harder to kill, but yeah you can shoot them. clickers take at least 2 shots cause you have to get past the whole face thing.

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[solitarysoul]

are the brain and the heart still the main weakspots?

[He doesn't know if mushrooms have those or not, though.]

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[giraffic]

if you can manage to hit them with all with twitching and clicking and general trying to tear your throat out yeah

[solitarysoul]

i prefer a longer range, but thanks. i'll keep that in mind.

[giraffic]

you're a sniper?

text; un: grimreaper666

[rebellions]

[ ... That's a lot of text to say "hey so we might get a zombie apocalypse somewhere down the line". Not that Ragna cares either way? He's sure he can handle a mindless mushroom monster or two, even in his current state. ]

you really gotta work on the names

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[giraffic]

yeeeeah i guess they didn't have time for better ones with the whole world ending thing

[rebellions]

ok that's fair
you might be onto something
I mean what kinda name is "black beast" anyway??

[giraffic]

says run away fast without too many words

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[melnik]

[ This is... different. Not everything lines up, but it's probably the most familiar description of "creatures from home" he's heard so far. ]

Where do you come from?

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[giraffic]

Boston, in what used to be the United States.

[melnik]

What used to be? What happened?

The world was taken over by infection?

[giraffic]

about 20 years ago yeah

outbreak day was september 26 2013. history teacher said something like 60% of everyone who was alive on outbreak day was dead or infected within the first year.

[melnik]

You've got to be kidding me.

I am from Moscow. Twenty years ago, the entire world as we knew it went up in smoke. July 9, 2013 was the day of the missile exchange. Creatures like your zombies have become commonplace on the surface in the years that followed.

If this is a coincidence, it is really an ugly one.

text; un: unitA2

[abandonware]

these are organic-based but non-human
no longer human
?

[giraffic]

still human with cordyceps growing on and controlling their brain

no one is really sure how aware they are

[abandonware]

hm. I see.

[That's awful.]

if they show up, I won't be affected by this illness.

I can take care of it.

[giraffic]

do you have a central nervous system

cause if so that's a pretty bold assumption

[abandonware]

i don't.
i'm an android.

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[spideyguy]

every time i think this place can't get any weirder ??

can the spores live inactive in something
how long can they be dormant
what do the spores look like
can it like
grow in the forest
like on trees???

[ Excuse the wall of texts, that's just the way he types - word vomit of the digits. Peter's pretty sure he'd be able to tell what a zombie looks like, but fungus?? Like a mushroom?? ]

there's really no cure?
maybe stem club could check it out

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[giraffic]

no one is immune, if that's what you mean

[ revealing her immunity is unlikely to be a death sentence here like it as at home, but she's sure as shit not taking that chance. ]

years to decades
it looks like a spec of dust in the air, and a bunch of weird meaty fungal growth when together
it can but its less likely, usually it grows in underground places or abandoned buildings

aaand no idea what stem club is

[spideyguy]

so the spores don't die, like a life cycle if they don't infect a carrier?
well thats not incredible news
blech, gross

well hopefully someone will report it if they see it. we've had all kinds of stuff come through from people's home worlds.

[ Which doesn't bode well, but then again, most things don't these days. ]

science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
any problem in any of those areas, we take a look at and see if we can help

[giraffic]

not that i've heard

[ she knows the terms, though not the actual subject matter behind them. FEDRA was more interested in raising kids to be soldiers to watch the zones than the Youth of Tomorrow, but the library hadn't sucked in a world with no other use for abandoned bookstores.

so, the scientists. consider her intrigued. ]

so you guys are the nerds

youre 20 years late unfortunately so i'd rather not see it happen here too

think you could stop it or something?

[spideyguy]

yeah, pretty much
but we average more explosions than the cooking club
so if lighting things on fire sounds fun to you?

[ He's never beating the nerd allegations, okay? The other Peter is always telling him to focus on the 'fun part' of their experiments so look! He's trying! ]

im sorry
that blows

i dont know if i could or i couldnt
but i know if i dont try i definitely wont
also im saying 'i' as if i would do it but like
team effort
and its kind of hard to believe anything is impossible when we have dudes from space in the club
they're from like, the future, and they make all kinds of shit
so who knows