SylverFlame
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In a lot of folk lore salt keeps zombies away, so salting a zombie would be fun and may have the same effect as getting a slug with salt.
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Why don't flesh eating zombies eat each other?
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Kesh
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Right. Keep in mind that zombies are already dead... so likely, there's something in the way they were made dead (virus, magic, etc.) that prevents them from seeing each other as prey.
Easiest explanation: no more body heat. They're attracted to warm, living flesh, while other zombies are just cold corpses.
Easiest explanation: no more body heat. They're attracted to warm, living flesh, while other zombies are just cold corpses.
SylverFlame
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Good idea Kesh, but one problem. How can zombies coordinate then? I mean, they aren't tactical geniuses, but if they ignore each other, then they'd bee-line through each other to get to warm fleshy chew-toys. What if it were a mindless-flesh-eaters code of honour? No eating the competition?
Wicht
Hero
barsoomcore said:
For the record, you're right, the zombies in 28 Days did not eat people. I just picked the movie for the genre example.
It was a stupid movie wasn't it.
The zombies were angry. But only till they bit you once or twice and then they left you alone because you were one of them.
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nopantsyet
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Dead flesh has no zombie-nutrients in it. They need to consume the flesh of the living to maintain their strength in unlife.
Duh!
Duh!
Knightfall
World of Kulan DM
SylverFlame said:
Hmm, spell idea...
Sylver's Sodium Missile
ThoughtBubble
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There's a greater question there
To answer the question accurately, we first have to answer a different one: What is a zombie? How does it work?
If they're animated by negative energy, then perhaps other things animated by negative energy don't seem edible to their senses.
If zombies are created by magic and dominated by instructions, perhaps all zombies are created with the final instruction "eat living humanoids".
If zombies have some form of rudimentary intelligence, maybe they're just lonely, and want to make some more friends by chewing on them for a while.
Maybe cyber zombies just have a chip implanted that brings targets with certian criteria (ie: not other zombies) forward and makes them more visible.
To answer the question accurately, we first have to answer a different one: What is a zombie? How does it work?
If they're animated by negative energy, then perhaps other things animated by negative energy don't seem edible to their senses.
If zombies are created by magic and dominated by instructions, perhaps all zombies are created with the final instruction "eat living humanoids".
If zombies have some form of rudimentary intelligence, maybe they're just lonely, and want to make some more friends by chewing on them for a while.
Maybe cyber zombies just have a chip implanted that brings targets with certian criteria (ie: not other zombies) forward and makes them more visible.
demiurge1138
Inventor of Super-Toast
It's all about the energy chain.
For all of the sunlight that shines on the earth, about 10% of it is made usable by plants. About 10% of the energy produced by plants can be used by primary consumers, like cows, deer and vegetarians. About 10% of the energy produced by a primary consumer can be used by a secondary consumer that eats it.
So, zombies that eat other zombies aren't getting the energy they'd need to stay actively dead, as they'd be tertiary or even quaternary consumers. So the zombies go after things that eat less meat and more plants, like humans (good omnivores that we are).
Of course, this would mean that zombies would rather go after cows than humans, but most zombie hoards attack in urban areas.
Demiurge out.
For all of the sunlight that shines on the earth, about 10% of it is made usable by plants. About 10% of the energy produced by plants can be used by primary consumers, like cows, deer and vegetarians. About 10% of the energy produced by a primary consumer can be used by a secondary consumer that eats it.
So, zombies that eat other zombies aren't getting the energy they'd need to stay actively dead, as they'd be tertiary or even quaternary consumers. So the zombies go after things that eat less meat and more plants, like humans (good omnivores that we are).
Of course, this would mean that zombies would rather go after cows than humans, but most zombie hoards attack in urban areas.
Demiurge out.
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