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Being bitten by a walker guarantees 100% that you turn into a walker after some time (a few days i think?) unless the limb is chopped off immediately
The virus takes advantage on that wound infection to attack the body iirc

It's like, it's dormant, until your body is weak enough

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i always thought it was just a variety of normal diseases that people contracted as a result of being bitten by a dirty-ass mouth and lacked the medical tools to handle

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on the topic of Crossed, which some people have suggested
having read basically every comic available for that series
yeah no dont do Crossed, it works as a private event for like, a day

after that the people that RP as the Crossed are either going to become very distraught after RP'ing pedo-rapist-cannibals for several hours a day, or be outed as actual psychopaths
if you're not doing pedo-rapist-cannibals, you're not really doing Crossed
 
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wouldn't chopping off a limb cause the same problems as getting bitten tho, it's getting exposed to infectious elements, there's still an element of blood loss, shock etc, they're not exactly doing it surgically
Logically yeah, probably would.

But I suppose that's seen as a better risk than a guaranteed death.
 
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wouldn't chopping off a limb cause the same problems as getting bitten tho, it's getting exposed to infectious elements, there's still an element of blood loss, shock etc, they're not exactly doing it surgically

Not sure, it is a series about zombies after all- If you remove the risk of being bitten by the fuckers the fun is "gone".
 

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ye crossed is weird don't do it

highly recommend it as a comic series if you can get past all the blatant gore porn, there's a good few story arcs and characters buried in there

but you have to deal with naked rednecks lung-fucking dolphins to death while screaming about how proud his mama is

its a give and take
 
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ye crossed is weird don't do it
Even the one server I've seen that did a short-term event literally nixed 99% of the actual 'shock value' of them and reduced them to stabbing and murdering people only.

There's no way I'd trust any Gmod community with regards to Crossed.

That being said though the idea of making the 'zombies' smart infected is a neat angle.
 
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Even the one server I've seen that did a short-term event literally nixed 99% of the actual 'shock value' of them and reduced them to stabbing and murdering people only.

There's no way I'd trust any Gmod community with regards to Crossed.

That being said though the idea of making the 'zombies' smart infected is a neat angle.

to put it bluntly people like Dr Pepper would have a field day with crossed and for the sake of the community's mental health it should not be tried

lower it to something like the Crazies and you've got a more PG affair
 
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Shall we get back to the idea of TWD RP...
I think the idea is definitely a good one.

You'd really just need the means to spice things up a tad and make a consistent narrative.
 

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i've watched TWD from the mid-seasons, and i noticed that the zombies suffered from backdrop syndrome, or whatever you can call it

basically, the zombies (walkers whatever) are less the antagonist of the setting and more just the circumstances of it

would you want it to be like that in this hypothetical RP server or would you try to make the zombies more of a front and centre threat?
 

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I think the idea is definitely a good one.

You'd really just need the means to spice things up a tad and make a consistent narrative.
Aye, the idea is that maps would change quite often as a travelling theme. And as time goes on, more threats appear whether bandit groups or a herd walking through the map etc.

i've watched TWD from the mid-seasons, and i noticed that the zombies suffered from backdrop syndrome, or whatever you can call it

basically, the zombies (walkers whatever) are less the antagonist of the setting and more just the circumstances of it

would you want it to be like that in this hypothetical RP server or would you try to make the zombies more of a front and centre threat?
To start with, we start just after the outbreak, where zombies are the main issue. Then as time goes on other threats appear.
 
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To start with, we start just after the outbreak, where zombies are the main issue. Then as time goes on other threats appear.
I think starting off circa 'FEAR' when shit's hitting the fan would be good, then skipping ahead a tiny bit (a month or so).

People always appreciate time to build up their characters and pre-outbreak 'normality' for a week interspersed with cops trying to cover up reanimations and shit sounds super fun.
 

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To start with, we start just after the outbreak, where zombies are the main issue. Then as time goes on other threats appear.

good choice

iirc season 1 zombies were portrayed like George Romero's dawn of the dead, where they had just enough intelligence to open doors and occasionally fire a gun and the likes (memory might be hazy)

might make them more of a threat if a police officer zombie actually has a chance to shoot you instead of every zombie just being a naked, decayed ghoul
 
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good choice

iirc season 1 zombies were portrayed like George Romero's dawn of the dead, where they had just enough intelligence to open doors and occasionally fire a gun and the likes (memory might be hazy)

might make them more of a threat if a police officer zombie actually has a chance to shoot you instead of every zombie just being a naked, decayed ghoul
The earlier seasons had better zombies overall.

They could actually shamble at a rough jog until early Season 2 when the director's changed, use tools and had vague memories of life like opening doors. Much more interesting than the later seasons.
 
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to put it bluntly people like Dr Pepper would have a field day with crossed and for the sake of the community's mental health it should not be tried

lower it to something like the Crazies and you've got a more PG affair
he actually joined one iteration of the server as a pregnant woman

i think a zombie santa claus murdered his character
 
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