Chapter 47-1 The Lion's Den

**Witch_Doctor** · Jun 18th, 2014, 02:33 PM

Originally Posted by Eviebae

How do the tattoos of molecular diagrams mean protection?

Yeah! Take THAT Tanya!

**Witch_Doctor** · Jun 18th, 2014, 02:36 PM

OK, any guesses as to what Saul heard underground?

Sounds like a little one, but bigger, deeper and raspier.
Maybe burrows under ground like a giant worm.
Missing zombies.
Mad Scientist at play.

**7oddisdead** · Jun 18th, 2014, 02:41 PM

That's just wrong!

**Grognaurd** · Jun 18th, 2014, 02:47 PM

Originally Posted by Gnex

I think it has to do with your posts count Jannit, but don't quote me on that....... Maybe every 100 posts it changes?!?!?

I don't know I never notice it until it changes..... LOL

*** edit -- Or what KC said above!!! ***

The changest are a sliding scale. The next level takes more. 1,500 for the LX Destroyer I have

**Grognaurd** · Jun 18th, 2014, 02:50 PM

Originally Posted by 7oddisdead

That's just wrong!

If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes (hint: think sled dogs)

**FenixArc** · Jun 18th, 2014, 02:59 PM

Originally Posted by Z Sniper

I believe what makes these "zombies" super dangerous is the fact that the story really is about survival and their innate ability to evolve with every situation. Nature is living proof of that, except these new creatures are doing it at an alarming pace. They have adapted to just about every situation in order to ensure their survival while eliminating the one obstacle that could keep them from doing so,...HUMANS. Point well made about law enforcement and criminals, but you need to look no further than our very own military and the evolution of the "gun".

Not sure I 100% followed what you were getting at with guns and the military. Are you talking about escalation between military and civilian arms? Or between our military and other countries'?

**Witch_Doctor** · Jun 18th, 2014, 03:43 PM

Originally Posted by Storm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_and_mark_of_Cain

Well damn. That's pretty cool.
Ancient.
Means protection.
Assumed that all humans would react to it.
I don't care if it's supernatural, I like it. Cool idea.

**Witch_Doctor** · Jun 18th, 2014, 04:10 PM

Gonna disagree with Tanya. They are not responsible for L.A. being a zombie-land Mutual Assured Destruction hell hole. The reason things are worse in L.A. compared to the rest of the world is that Ink is in L.A. He is the variable that other locations are missing. Bolder and Fort Irwin did a much better job of protecting themselves without the Ink menace. Only when their locales where contaminated with Inklings, did they experience L.A.'s tribulations.

Ink is not some sort of Godzilla-like balancing force of nature. He is a self determining agent, like humans. It's the difference between natural and artificial selection. Natural selection is one of the driving mechanisms behind evolution. It is blind, reactionary, and it lacks any teleological qualities. It's like water that fills the shape what ever container it occupies. Nature isn't good or evil. It just is. We can marvel at what pleases or terrifies us about nature, but it isn't trying to be our friend or our enemy.

What Ink is doing is artificial selection. More accurately, Ink is manipulating nature. To do this requires choice, decisions, intentions. Therefore, we can judge Ink on moral grounds. He might feel that he needs to protect himself, but so the the human survivors.