Drhoz Posted November 8, 2009 Report Share Posted November 8, 2009 Re: Discussion: Taxonomy and Pathology of Halloween Monsters Well those books can go on my Christmas list good luck finding any Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted November 9, 2009 Report Share Posted November 9, 2009 Re: Discussion: Taxonomy and Pathology of Halloween Monsters I'm thinking of using this idea for a variant zombie http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-06/voodoo-wasp Lucius Alexander Reanimated palindromedary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSgt Baloo Posted November 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2009 Re: Discussion: Taxonomy and Pathology of Halloween Monsters I'm thinking of using this idea for a variant zombie http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-06/voodoo-wasp Lucius Alexander Reanimated palindromedary According to the article, toxoplasmids make people more attracted to cats. Are they kidding? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted November 10, 2009 Report Share Posted November 10, 2009 Re: Discussion: Taxonomy and Pathology of Halloween Monsters According to the article' date=' toxoplasmids make people more attracted to cats. Are they kidding?[/quote'] No, but they're possibly getting ahead of the evidence. What CAN be shown in a laboratory, as I understand it, is that toxoplasmids make rodents less afraid of cats (and therefore more apt to be eaten by them, which is probably good from a toxoplasmid's point of view.) What the clinical evidence in humans seems to show is a variety of behavioral changes - some sex-linked, oddly enough - and I'm not sure there's a medical consensus yet on any of it. Lucius Alexander The palindromedary wonders if cats make people more attracted to toxoplasmids Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSgt Baloo Posted September 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2011 Re: Discussion: Taxonomy and Pathology of Halloween Monsters Halloween's coming soon. Any new thoughts on this old topic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrosshairCollie Posted September 30, 2011 Report Share Posted September 30, 2011 Re: Discussion: Taxonomy and Pathology of Halloween Monsters I typically prefer to leave such things as mystical effects, be they curses or the results of spells, and not a 'disease' of any sort; I don't consider things like Resident Evil zombies to be 'zombies', per se. Zombies are undead, necromatic creations, not people infected with a disease that makes them cannibals. Such conditions are rarely, if ever, communicable. Vampires kind of throw me off there, of course, but I typically let their 'contagion' be completely under the control of the vampire in question; they have to intentionally inflict their curse on you. I've considered the same thing with werewolves, with only the pack alpha having the ability to transmit the curse/'induct a new pack member'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister E Posted September 30, 2011 Report Share Posted September 30, 2011 Re: Discussion: Taxonomy and Pathology of Halloween Monsters Why hasn't everyone turned into a vampire yet? So what kills vampires? Ennui. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
varmisciousknid Posted September 30, 2011 Report Share Posted September 30, 2011 Re: Discussion: Taxonomy and Pathology of Halloween Monsters I am currently running a zombie apocalypse campaign. The way that I am dealing with the disease which turns living humans into unliving mobile death machines, is by saying it is a parasite. It would not make much sense for a zombie to rip a person's throat out, killing them in 30 seconds, but somehow a virus takes hold in the brain and reanimates the body. A parasite can move under its own power, so it does not need the blood to be pumping to move throughout the body and take control of its dead host. Separating the head from the body of these zombies will deny the parasite full control of the body, it might still twitch a bit now and again. The head will still function as it did while it was attached, so it will still be dangerous. As far as vampires go, if I am not telling a masquerade game, then I like them to be like the 30 days of night vampires. Their bites will turn a human into a vamp, but they don't want that and destroy the body after they feed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt the Bruins Posted October 1, 2011 Report Share Posted October 1, 2011 Re: Discussion: Taxonomy and Pathology of Halloween Monsters I tend to go with mystical curses as the original source of both vampirism and lycanthropy. To become a werewolf you have to survive a werewolf attack, which is pretty rare, and those who do often commit suicide once they've started changing or get into pecking order fights with older, more experienced werewolves (which is much the same thing). Vampires have to drain someone to near death and feed them their own blood to pass on the infection, and once transformed they face dangers from territorial competition with other vampires, hostile confrontations with magicians or other supernatural creatures, and deliberate hunting by the Church, vengeful realtives of their victims, and assorted wackos. Zombies are either raised from the grave by necromancy or rendered brain-dead and suggestible by less mystically gifted Voodoo priests via that blowfish powder. In either case, it's not infectious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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