Chapter 42-3 Chasing Ghosts

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Originally Posted by Grognaurd

Yes, the scar reference is interesting. It does not sound like the normal populace and may imply test subjects. To add another bit of the obscure, Angel says that the mental hospital is not far from here and we might have been brought in to take them down.

This is so wrong on so many levels. Calling in the reserve units to conduct local law enforcement for a menal health problem. No Way! I can just let it slide to get the characters together and start the story with a bit of foreshadowing. OK, but real life, no way. However, it does sound like something a Family Cult might do in real life. Sounds like the mafia calling in some toughs to solve a problem with violence.

Tanya does not reference bruising and scaring, but she does make an interesting statement about supposed self-inflicted wounds. I take that to mean tht the Little ones bleed themselves to get blood under the nails. It is much easier to spread the disease with a scratch then a bite.

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What if the ADLO are the women from the women's complex of the prison? Could explain the longer nails.

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Originally Posted by UndeadSweeper

Burn victim, would that include Angel? Then he should had been high risk of infection but he stay the same.

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We're assuming the virus isn't airborne, otherwise the series wouldn't of gone on as long as it has (if you catch my drift, lol). Meaning, he would still require a bite/scratch to start the turning phase. Only then could we know if being burnt would accelerate the process...

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Originally Posted by UndeadSweeper

What if the ADLO are the women from the women's complex of the prison? Could explain the longer nails.

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How do you explain them growing over the episodes and the stretch marks if this were the case? Also, they're not physically developed in the same manner as women are.

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Originally Posted by scbubba

I wasn't implying that they would turn first or fastest. Just that they could have been isolated form the rest of the hospital population.

Looking at the exact reference that Jannit posted I now recall that it was in 1-1 so there wouldn't have been an Ink operating from the hospital timeline yet, I think. I was thinking that the scarred and burned reference was from later when Randy grabbed Tanya....

As for Angel, well I guess he could have been a slow turner.... But Scratch never gave us the chance to find out.

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They were referenced as being burned then too, saying that they all looked like they had been burned (something a long those lines).

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Originally Posted by Gooer

They were referenced as being burned then too, saying that they all looked like they had been burned (something a long those lines).

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Do you remember when abouts that was? I'd like to go take another listen to the description of them being burned as I have no memory of that at all. /old

Burns are mentioned after the arena bombing. I do not recall if it was Burt at the hospital or Michael at he tower, though.

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Originally Posted by Jannit

Do you remember when abouts that was? I'd like to go take another listen to the description of them being burned as I have no memory of that at all. /old

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23 - 1, around 12:23

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Originally Posted by Jannit

How do you explain them growing over the episodes and the stretch marks if this were the case? Also, they're not physically developed in the same manner as women are.

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I think that drug used to make the males into the behemoth may have different effect on a female.

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Originally Posted by Gooer

23 - 1, around 12:23

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Wow, thanks! That was much more precise than I expected.

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Originally Posted by UndeadSweeper

I think that drug used to make the males into the behemoth may have different effect on a female.

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Tanya's autopsy describes under developed Breast. We also know they started small and grew taller. I think everything is consistent that they started young. I do not know what percentage of the inmate population would be pregnant and how many women the jail would hold, but that is my :tinfoil:

Human growth hormone does work better on children than it does on adults. It is as if the growth points in the bones of adults shuts down and does not respond to the hormone. Give it to kids and it helps the long bones growth. Athletes take it for much less tangible effects.

The human body is big on what I call "homeostasis". It likes to try and stay the same. No matter what you do or how hard you try, you can only effect so much. Playing basketball will not make you seven feet tall. Lifting weights will not make you an Arnald. Hormones can stack the odds in your favor, but only some body types will respond. We may be equal in the terms of one man one vote, but physically speaking, our max potentials are very different.

However, start throwing additional hormones and drugs in very early life or even before birth before while the homeostasis is being patterned and much more is possible. These are the little ones.