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The Dread One
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The Dread One
Spoot-maker
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Simple. The muscles aren't fed. They are operated by whatever's left of the nervous system.
They deteriorate after every use without being rebuilt like living muscles, which is why some zombies fall apart easier than others. Therefore, building large barricades will serve you by both providing you with protection for a time, and weakening the attacking ghoul.
And they won't have the energy to move for more than an hour.
Some threat.
why couldn't whatever caused them to rise from the dead, also break down unnecessary organs and body parts to convert into energy?
If that were the case, then the zombie would eventually run out of parts, and fall apart from the inside out.
So? That doesn't invalidate my theory.
Your theory would probably have the zombie deteriorate much quicker.
@HippiefoRk~ xD Oh lord, flying zombies.
Zombies probably can't walk across the ocean floor, but I highly doubt they can swim. Isn't it more likely that they would hover suspended somewhere below the surface? After all, bodies that
aren't zombies don't float on the surface without help. They may resurface eventually given the gas and depending on how shallow the water is, but they won't float on the surface.
Rabies does that too, it kills it's host faster than it can spread to other hosts. It DOES spread, obviously, but the host dies much faster than the rate of infection spreads.
@hippiefork: Why would it have to have been decomposing before reanimation? The time between death and revival might take less than 10 minutes.
Also, bites probably don't spread the infection. The infection is probably already there. If you die, and your nervous system is still in tact, you'll probably come back as a zombie. The safest bet would be to destroy the brain of any survivor that dies, no matter how they die.
