Chapter 43-2 The Darkness Ahead

[tonyhind86]

Isn't a female cow. You know, cuz it has a calf.....

Either I misspelt the cow's title, or acknowledged the notion that this particular male cow can birth its own offspring

[Gooer]

Either I misspelt the cow's title, or acknowledged the notion that this particular male cow can birth its own offspring

I'd be damn impressed if they found an asexual breeding cow...... but maybe its an side-effect of the virus (or whatever)

[Litmaster]

Oh god, Datu can understand the zombie glyphs.....But what was that pain he experienced? His brain changing to understand the glyphs?

God damn, what an amazing GLYPH hanger...... get it? ba dum dum tssssh

Yuk! That joke was BAAAAAAAAAA-D!




Regarding the glyphs, if they are key to controlling the zeds, somehow, then they better get some translators on that ASAP and start writing zombie wards all over the walls of the Colony and Dunbar! If I were Micheal & Co., the first thing I'd be doing is finding the zombiglyph for "NOT FOOD" and Sharpie-ing that bitch on my forehead!

This plot is somewhat resembling another book I read that has to do with monsters, painted symbols, and a man covered head to toe in tattoos...

[Merlin1274]

It is an ancient language. We hashed that out with the symbols before. Some are ancient Egypt to some feel are angelic. Maybe some of it is primitive before a real spoken language. could be why they moan and groan and scream..LOL... Who knows what is going on in KC's mind.. I was being funny about ancient aliens but I still think its something archaic. Something he some how knew about, was coming. From old books, tablets, scrolls, etc.. This is what is awesome about this podcast.. When you think you may have it figured out. KC throws us for a loop.

[UndeadSweeper]

I wondering if there were a way to cover the tattoo would the zombie attack Ink? Maybe a can of paint Home Alone style?

[Verse]

My guess on the new behemoth.... Tat'd up as he is phase 2. My guess is that Ink worked on ppl outside the jail that was not as freaking nuts/anti-social. This was on of them. Ink couldn't tattoo the ones in the jail up because they were mean as crap. These are more docile and easier to study.

I will say this. If the Zeds have some kinda language that they learn when they are turned (Not taught. I would be ok with that, but just bite and learn) I will be pissed. Not upset. Not disliking. Pissed. Mainly because it goes against the tone that has been set from day one. The Zeds are biological in nature. They make sense within the world and are plausable. Thus why we don't have flying Zeds and multiheaded hydras and what ever else. No mind powers or Matrix stuff. Just biologocal and focused. Thicker bones, pumping more blood via changed heart, ect. To have a change that makes you have a language just appear in your head to read goes to the Supernatural. I am ok with the Occult symbols on Ink b/c it is just symbols. Religious stuff. He has never called down the rain and fire from the sky. No different than ppl tattooing crosses and such to themselves. If now we introduce a Magic element to this thing in the last half of the last season.. I will go WTF. At this time I will give KC my trust. Nothing has happened so far that I have not been ok with. Even finding out Bill Roberts and Ink are the same when I thought it was crap (I had to use a new keypad at work and took like 5 trys to get it right... so I gave KC a pass on Ink having an issue when I thought it was stuid at the time) I was ok with in time. So.. I will be patient.

That being said.....

Datu is the only person in the whole show that has been shown to be religious. He lead the prayers when the tower was falling, burying Glenn, ect. Only other time I can think of is Angel made a one off comment about "Its been a long time since Catholic School". Thats it. No one else. Always Datu.

My guess is that Datu knows the church. That it is in his native tongue or from his background.

[Litmaster]

Wonder if they are "pre-Behemoth" or "post-Behemoth" tats?

That's an interesting question, especially given that we don't know of any other zeds that have glyph tattoos other than Ink and Randy. Even the Little Ones only had the numbers, which cannot mean much of anything other than numeration, so why the big guy with tats? What could the tats mean??

I'm guessing one of them probably says something like...

[Gooer]

Yuk! That joke was BAAAAAAAAAA-D!




Regarding the glyphs, if they are key to controlling the zeds, somehow, then they better get some translators on that ASAP and start writing zombie wards all over the walls of the Colony and Dunbar! If I were Micheal & Co., the first thing I'd be doing is finding the zombiglyph for "NOT FOOD" and Sharpie-ing that bitch on my forehead!

This plot is somewhat resembling another book I read that has to do with monsters, painted symbols, and a man covered head to toe in tattoos...

I try

Oh god, i hope this doesn't turn into a "we know what controls them so we can control them now" kind of thing...

[Vlarken]

Now the symbols on Ink that Datu can read? I think Kc has grounded us in some sort of reality, so a 'turned only' language is far fetched. The symbols are biblical, I'm talkin old-world/old-testament shit: ARAMAIC. Datu didnt just take night classes for some plumbing repair...he's a linguistics master and a devout catholic.....Or, you know, his native land had some aborginal tribes using similar symbols that he learned a bit about in some history classes growing up, so he recognizes them. This doesnt guarantee Datu's survival, in fact I think he's going to die immdiately. This will leave us to all "guess" the language and spend a few days scavenging libraries in the phillipines history sections.

I like the idea of a turned-only language, even if it is far fetched. I'm super into linguistics, so Datu's being able to read this stuff intrigues the hell out of me, and I can't wait to find out the reason. At first I thought that the address was just in Latin, and Datu could of course read it because, being a practicing Catholic, he knows at least a bit of Latin. However, I missed that the address was in symbols and not in the Latin alphabet.

Many of the languages spoken in the Philippines are in similar families to languages spoken in Hawaii. After some flitting about with Wikipedia and google images (because, while I love linguistics, I'm not very familiar with these languages; I'm more into the Indo-European languages) I found out that Tagalog is originally written in a script that seems a little like what Puck was describing. I haven't really been keeping up with the forum lately, so I don't know if someone has already posted something like this. If they did, apologies. If not, take a look.

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[Litmaster]

I try

Oh god, i hope this doesn't turn into a "we know what controls them so we can control them now" kind of thing...

However... do we know that these glyphs actually CONTROL the Zeds?? So far the only concrete evidence we have is Datu getting a headache when he reads the Zombie Adress, but that could simply be a reaction to his Zed blood kicking in. As far as I know, we don't have solid evidence that the glyphs act as magical wards that COMMAND Zeds to do this or that. Sure, Ink has all the tats, but to assume that he has done that to control the other Zeds might be a leap in logic...