Chapter 42-3 Chasing Ghosts

[ZombieWildfire]

Is this a Hunger Games reference?

Funnily enough, no, not intentionally. Though now you mention it...

[Jannit]

After looking through a number of the symbol meanings, it seems there are a large portion of them that relate to protection.

We've got:
2&4: Loko's mark
7&8. Damballah's mark
10. �护
14. Bird foot
17. Eye of Horus
23. Damballah (alternate)

All of these symbols have a meaning that in one way or another relates to protection. Is Ink trying to protect himself or is he telling others to protect him? Why, if it is the latter, would zombies be able to understand such a diverse set of symbols? Could he be spreading his bets by appealing to any and all possible source of protection against the coming zombie apocalypse? This seems to imply he knew something was coming though he may not have been the source of it. Could he have been part of a conspiracy to start it or even possibly to prevent it?

So many questions!

[Sin Angel]

Funnily enough, no, not intentionally. Though now you mention it...

XD I'd say he's more like president snow though.

[Zombie Yeti]

After looking through a number of the symbol meanings, it seems there are a large portion of them that relate to protection.

We've got:
2&4: Loko's mark
7&8. Damballah's mark
10. �护
14. Bird foot
17. Eye of Horus
23. Damballah (alternate)

All of these symbols have a meaning that in one way or another relates to protection. Is Ink trying to protect himself or is he telling others to protect him? Why, if it is the latter, would zombies be able to understand such a diverse set of symbols? Could he be spreading his bets by appealing to any and all possible source of protection against the coming zombie apocalypse? This seems to imply he knew something was coming though he may not have been the source of it. Could he have been part of a conspiracy to start it or even possibly to prevent it?

So many questions!

look at hiroglyphics with the Egyptians or cave men and other civs. They used pics to communicate maybe ink is the zombie Rosetta Stone. And I know spelled hiroglyphics wrong.

[Jannit]

look at hiroglyphics with the Egyptians or cave men and other civs. They used pics to communicate maybe ink is the zombie Rosetta Stone. And I know spelled hiroglyphics wrong.

That's true. However if we can agree that ink is on the exceptional side when it comes to intelligence in zombies then how can we expect others would understand the symbols?

We've already seen that they can't interpret numbers anymore and those should be something they're familiar with in their human life.

[Footbutt]

And I know spelled hiroglyphics wrong.

Jiroglyphics.
...it's a soft "J".

[FenixArc]

Jiroglyphics.
...it's a soft "J".

Could be wrong, but at least in American English I've only ever seen it spelled "Hieroglyphics".

[TacticalJHP]

Could be wrong, but at least in American English I've only ever seen it spelled "Hieroglyphics".

Correct, as far as the american way of spelling it.

http://www.discoveringegypt.com/Egyp...-Alphabet.html

[Eviebae]

That's true. However if we can agree that ink is on the exceptional side when it comes to intelligence in zombies then how can we expect others would understand the symbols?

We've already seen that they can't interpret numbers anymore and those should be something they're familiar with in their human life.

Couldn't Ink read numbers because he could read and input them in the keypad at the tower. Plus, he uses numbers on the Little One's. Randy could follow a list.

[Jannit]

Couldn't Ink read numbers because he could read and input them in the keypad at the tower. Plus, he uses numbers on the Little One's. Randy could follow a list.

Absolutely! My point is that he was the only one that we have encountered with that capability. We didn't see other zombies who were able to interpret symbols (numbers) that they should've been familiar with in life. I was wondering what the point of the markings was from a communication standpoint. Since other zombies don't seem to have the ability to recognize the numbers and interpret their significance I was saying that the idea of Ink's tattoos being used to have other zombies protect him was unlikely given their inability to recognize something as simple as numbers.