Chapter 41-3 Eye of the Storm

[Grognaurd]

I am pretty sure Michael starts to treat scratches on Datu's face, but then says Datu is still bleeding out from somewhere else and finds the bite.

Ink does not seem to be able to upgrade existing biters to inklings. I think Datu was targeted to be a little one and was scratched. With the death of the inkling, Randy infects Datu with the standard biter infection.

Randy might just be a bumbling biter 1.0 and screwing everything up all the time. Alternatively, there is enough of him left inside trying to undermine Ink without making it too obvious.

[alexcadtek]

refresh my memory, when have saul or Tanya been in a situation where they would have the chance to hear a smart one/inkling (not including bill)....speak. not being a dick, genuinely asking. I cant think of one.

I guess your correct on that, But I still dont think there is a zombie language. I was just trying to say that the smart ones can talk. Michael said that guy form water works ( RANDY ) was and Engineer and not only that he said that the guy was really smart. SO he would be a smart ZOMBIE and maybe he could read as well becasue he was carring bag with bottles from radon labs. who knows.

to me, despite the gross-ness of the w/a zombies (ya know, eating people, smelling like poo, etc) I think this would be a crazy awesome experience. sort of like taking a whole slew of people from all the countries of the world and throwing them into one place. letting them figure out how to communicate with each other and learn to live together...hmm...wait, this sounds familiar....

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[7oddisdead]

Alex,


a legit zombie language? No, I would agree that is not the case. But its in how the sounds made by the biters are interpreted by other biters. That is language...well in this definition it is. How else can we explain the hordes answering to the calls? How can we explain the mobilization to the hospital? The way that last one (hospital)is described seemed to me at least to be very organized. Also consider that from a simple bellow from bill, everyone(biters) knew to head to the hospital. How is that possible without information being conveyed in some way(language)?? Now what if what we are missing with the squeals and bellows is not due to it not being there, but our own abilities being to limited to process it? That to me is crazy awesome.

[alexcadtek]

Alex,


a legit zombie language? No, I would agree that is not the case. But its in how the sounds made by the biters are interpreted by other biters. That is language...well in this definition it is. How else can we explain the hordes answering to the calls? How can we explain the mobilization to the hospital? The way that last one (hospital)is described seemed to me at least to be very organized. Also consider that from a simple bellow from bill, everyone(biters) knew to head to the hospital. How is that possible without information being conveyed in some way(language)?? Now what if what we are missing with the squeals and bellows is not due to it not being there, but our own abilities being to limited to process it? That to me is crazy awesome.

Definetly see your point and agree. But then again do you think that it is maybe not language necessarily but and Alpha thing, like lions? Just asking what you think.

[7oddisdead]

To a certain extent yes, but there's far too many variables for me to exclude the above idea. Yes, bill calls...they come. But how is the info of bringing living people to the hospital conveyed (a la, tayna). how is the info of capturing people like datu,via a trap conveyed if the normal biters cannot also process some type of language, if not normal English? There are far to many variables really to write ANY possibility off. But yes, ink calls...they come. That I agree

[Gooer]

It might be possible that zombies interpret the calls into their own language, so they know what they mean. But, it could also be similar to how animals are able to converse with each other in the animal world with their own roars/bellows/calls/howls, considering Tanya refers to them as being more animal than human...

[tonyhind86]

Zombie language 101:

Hello: "uuuuuuuuuuuh"
Goodbye: "uuuuuuuuuuuh"
I'm hungry: "uuuuuuuuuuuuuuh"
I smell food: "uuuuuuuuuuuuuuh"

And so on....

[7oddisdead]

Zombie language 101:

Hello: "uuuuuuuuuuuh"
Goodbye: "uuuuuuuuuuuh"
I'm hungry: "uuuuuuuuuuuuuuh"
I smell food: "uuuuuuuuuuuuuuh"

And so on....

hmm...also sounds like my dating experiences

[tonyhind86]

hmm...also sounds like my dating experiences

Mine too, though there have been a few "uuuuurgh"s in there aswell...

[7oddisdead]

Nice