Do we have a definitive answer? v.AliveOrUndead?

[Osiris]

Hmm...very interesting...also did the bullet go through Tommy first....or Saul?

Todd, be mute.

[7oddisdead]

.. .... ........, ...

[LiamKerrington]

Hi there,

So how quickly would he have died? Does the virus react faster if the host is mortally wounded?

good question.
I understand it that the "zed-factor" (whatever it is - virus, mutagen, biochemical agent, bacteria, fungus, a cocktail of those, a devil's lil secret) may react instantly with the host/ victim; and yet the host's/victim's body need to attune to the Zed-thing, which takes time. Tommy was a perfect example of showing this. Also Tanya described experiments with a victim who took an amount of time to transform. Even the "little ones" reflect this to some degree, because there seems to be an ongoing process of mutation or "bodily development" within at least the "little ones"; and yes, it remains a question whether the little ones were humans once ...
Anyway: I guess as long as the zed-factor has not interacted with the victim's body up to a certain degree, I guess you may "save" the poor bastard by killing him before he is transmuted into a zombie ...

All the best!
Liam

[Witch_Doctor]

Do they poop? They have been described as smelling like shit. I was reading another Z story where the zombies walked and defecated on themselves like horses walking and crapping.

Otherwise, all of that flesh they consume will just sit in their bellies, fermenting decomposition gases.


Blocked and Bloated Anyone?

[LiamKerrington]

Do they poop? They have been described as smelling like shit. I was reading another Z story where the zombies walked and defecated on themselves like horses walking and crapping.

Otherwise, all of that flesh they consume will just sit in their bellies, fermenting decomposition gases.


Blocked and Bloated Anyone?

At least I hold it as valid that they obviously don't seem to care so much for soap and water ... >.<

[Penguine]

Since the turning process seems slow at times, I wonder if someone was bitten on the arm if you could pin him/her to the ground wrap a tourniquette around the arm to slow/stop blood flow, and then cut that bad boy off?

[Osiris]

Do they poop? They have been described as smelling like shit. I was reading another Z story where the zombies walked and defecated on themselves like horses walking and crapping.

Otherwise, all of that flesh they consume will just sit in their bellies, fermenting decomposition gases.


Blocked and Bloated Anyone?

The Reapers Are The Angels?

[Witch_Doctor]

The Reapers Are The Angels?

The Killing Floor

[Osiris]

The Killing Floor

Sounds gross.

[LiamKerrington]

Mh ... Now that Specialist Robbin told us that regulars are being slowed down up to stopped by the cold, does this impact the question if Zeds are alive or dead or the thing inbetween, being either more kind of unalive or the standard issue undead? Are regulars more like reptiles or insects, which act and behave only at certain degrees in temperature thus being alive? Or are they more kind of World War Z zombies being not really dead, but certainly not alive, thus undead?

And since little-ones don't seem to be as affected by the cold like regulars are, is it safe to assume that little-ones are a different species, which seems to be more obvious according to the way they already look and behave?

#33-2 offers a lot of information that might have major impact on WA-zombie-theories ... Thoughts, opinions?