The Source/Cause of the Infection!

[Luna Guardian]

I have neither the interest nor the energy to argue the point with you. Multiple people have stated to you what your output looks like to people who can't see into your mind and are limited to interpret and read what you write. You can either accept this and try to grow as a human being, or you can keep denying it. Either way, I've no burning interest in the matter.

Also, do you really want to take a threatening and aggressive tone? Think about it

[Osiris]

I have neither the interest nor the energy to argue the point with you. Multiple people have stated to you what your output looks like to people who can't see into your mind and are limited to interpret and read what you write. You can either accept this and try to grow as a human being, or you can keep denying it. Either way, I've no burning interest in the matter.

Also, do you really want to take a threatening and aggressive tone? Think about it

Think about your own words versus the actions and the way you are presenting yourself.

[Luna Guardian]

Sorry,
I'll move on...

I think it was a good point to suggest that it might not be an "infection." Thinking truly outside the box, what else could it be?
Ooooooh, I think I've said this before but how about it's the result of something from another dimension moving through our own--like a cube moving through flatland type thing! A creature that is organized so differently than us, when it moves though our dimension all we see is this bizarre "change" in our world. That might provide the detail of organization.

If we close out the possibility of a virus, and utterly ridiculous ideas such as aliens or divine (Infernal?) intervention, I think a few good options might be nano-machines or parasites.

The former would allow for the "mutations" we've seen with some degree of scientific accuracy and would allow the "infection" to work through the machines multiplying in a host body. The machines could embed themselves in all tissue, or at least bodily fluids such as blood and saliva, and transfer from one carrier to another. This might also give an explanation to the "smart ones" and the coordination we've seen, since the smart ones may have more advanced machines or may employ or control them to a higher degree and through a kind of wireless network send messages to the nanites in other infected.

The parasite theory works in a similar fashion, but the mutations might be more difficult to explain. Ideas?

[7oddisdead]

A: I've missed osiris, he keeps things lively

B: if we must make a comparison of the "source" spreading though the w/a-verse..would it not be a lil more applicable to use, say..the spread of early Christianity throughout the world..absorbing/adapting to and generally overtaking many of the more "pagan" of religions?...i dunno, that was the first thing to pop into my mind honestly

And while I like the idea of dimensional stuff..it just doesn't for into this story..much the same way voodoo/religion/cabal etc doesn't my opinion is the most realistic version of what has caused this is the most likely source. No way have we been given a semi-rational scientific story this far only to have it venture into the more Sci FI of realms In the final hour..

[Osiris]

Nano-machine 'infection' is actually a really, really good theory. Would go a long way to explain the hive conciousness they seem to exhibit. An even more horrific version of the Matrix.

[Osiris]

A: I've missed osiris, he keeps things lively

B: if we must make a comparison of the "source" spreading though the w/a-verse..would it not be a lil more applicable to use, say..the spread of early Christianity throughout the world..absorbing/adapting to and generally overtaking many of the more "pagan" of religions?...i dunno, that was the first thing to pop into my mind honestly

And while I like the idea of dimensional stuff..it just doesn't for into this story..much the same way voodoo/religion/cabal etc doesn't my opinion is the most realistic version of what has caused this is the most likely source. No way have we been given a semi-rational scientific story this far only to have it venture into the more Sci FI of realms In the final hour..

I don't think we can discount how a dimensional shift or the introduction of an extra-dimensional being might affect the world. There's nothing to say that it isn't as viable a theory as any other--including nasal spray, as obtuse a theory as it is. Perhaps, some black mass went sideways and the barrier between this dimension and the adjacent one was destroyed or even momentarily removed allowing something to cross over into this world.

[7oddisdead]

Nano theory IS awesome...but now how would you plug something like ground zero into that equation? Control center of sorts?

[7oddisdead]

I don't think we can discount how a dimensional shift or the introduction of an extra-dimensional being might affect the world. There's nothing to say that it isn't as viable a theory as any other--including nasal spray, as obtuse a theory as it is. Perhaps, some black mass went sideways and the barrier between this dimension and the adjacent one was destroyed or even momentarily removed allowing something to cross over into this world.

Completely true...id prefer to not discount any theory myself...but, just looking within the confines of this story I think I would be slightly disappointed by the Sci fi-sque explanation..just personal opinion on that on..if your gonna be a bear be a bear...dont be a cat that shifts into a puma then morphs over to a bear..just doesn't feel natural to me.

[Osiris]

Nano theory IS awesome...but now how would you plug something like ground zero into that equation? Control centre of sorts?

If it's nano technology and it's causing some sort of genetic mutation then it makes sense that Ground Zero would be a research laboratory and that Patient Zero is accidental. "Oops... I dropped that vial and it broke all over my shoes. Dale is gonna be so mad at me." It could also be an experimental cancer therapy that utilizes nanobots to help destroy growths in the body without surgery or radiation treatments that went horribly awry when the nanobots (nanites? Or is that too Trek?) gained sentience a la Singularity, taking over the host body and reproducing as a means of self-preservation.

[Osiris]

Completely true...id prefer to not discount any theory myself...but, just looking within the confines of this story I think I would be slightly disappointed by the Sci fi-sque explanation..just personal opinion on that on..if your gonna be a bear be a bear...dont be a cat that shifts into a puma then morphs over to a bear..just doesn't feel natural to me.

I don't mind the SF explanation of it all. Grounding the story in some sort of science helps it to retain some sense of realism even if it is reaching. Then again, we're talking about zombies.