GreatWyrmGold
2009-09-26, 05:57 PM
The advice given herein does not apply to necromancer's beasts. Rather, it applies to more Hollywood-esque zombies, often using this (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=124682). Also note that The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks was in inspiration, for this as well as for the aforlinked thread.
Introduction
There are zombies, shambling corpses crerated by necromantic rites. And then there are zombies, shambling corpses created by each other.
The first zombies were created by a ecromantic ritual using samples of an ancient substance that once created these, strengthening it and placing it in a new body. This ritual was only done once, but cabals of necromancers hoping for easy armies often use a version of it and a sample of zombie salivia or equivilant.
From the Journal of Agden Tweed, Historian
"I have heard from the archaeology team again. They have found a ruin of some ancient time. It contains many strange items, the likes of which have not been seen. A book was also found, written in what appears to be an ancient form of Common. It talks of surviving a 'zombie uprising'. It contains so many fallacies about zombies that I would have discounted it if I had not remembered reading about similar beings years ago.
"It seems that the book describes zombies similar to ones exterminated a few years back-zombies that could make more by fluidic contact. It used several terms that doubtless had meaning in those times, such as "rifle" and "Los Angeles", but it seems to be mostly sound. Many minor details were off-the author, a Max Brooks, seems to imply that all zombies are the same, whereas the real zombies have occasional variations, and the description of zombie infection, while accurate in symptoms and time between death and reanimation, is dead wrong (so to speak) about how long it takes for death.
"Thus, I belive that this cabal that made the zombies made an improved version of the ancient one. More research must be done."
Agden Tweed did indeed spend much of the rest of his life investigating this subject. He even caught some zombies and did tests on them. Much of the information given here results from his work or that of his collegues.
Introduction
There are zombies, shambling corpses crerated by necromantic rites. And then there are zombies, shambling corpses created by each other.
The first zombies were created by a ecromantic ritual using samples of an ancient substance that once created these, strengthening it and placing it in a new body. This ritual was only done once, but cabals of necromancers hoping for easy armies often use a version of it and a sample of zombie salivia or equivilant.
From the Journal of Agden Tweed, Historian
"I have heard from the archaeology team again. They have found a ruin of some ancient time. It contains many strange items, the likes of which have not been seen. A book was also found, written in what appears to be an ancient form of Common. It talks of surviving a 'zombie uprising'. It contains so many fallacies about zombies that I would have discounted it if I had not remembered reading about similar beings years ago.
"It seems that the book describes zombies similar to ones exterminated a few years back-zombies that could make more by fluidic contact. It used several terms that doubtless had meaning in those times, such as "rifle" and "Los Angeles", but it seems to be mostly sound. Many minor details were off-the author, a Max Brooks, seems to imply that all zombies are the same, whereas the real zombies have occasional variations, and the description of zombie infection, while accurate in symptoms and time between death and reanimation, is dead wrong (so to speak) about how long it takes for death.
"Thus, I belive that this cabal that made the zombies made an improved version of the ancient one. More research must be done."
Agden Tweed did indeed spend much of the rest of his life investigating this subject. He even caught some zombies and did tests on them. Much of the information given here results from his work or that of his collegues.