This is a zombie apocalypse scenario RP, the setting is a few years in the future, to start with it will take place in the area surrounding the Redwood's National Park.
A emergency broadcast plays on loop and is being transmitted to all emergency broadband signals. It is a mans voice, he sounds haggard and worn. The recording is as follows:
If we had known then what we know now, we might have been able to do something, preemptive quarantine maybe, euthanization of the infected, something, anything. But we didn't know.
It swept through the world like wild fire. You would start with a tickle in the back of your throat, minor fatigue, slight nausea, maybe a runny nose an light fever, nothing serious, not even something to stay home with. That was the first sign that you had caught the airborne infection, it was what we came to call the prestage of the virus. The first glimpse that this might not be your normal cold didn't happen until a week after the initial symptoms. The top layer of the infected individuals epidermis began to peel off, it's not really even a serious thing, for most it wasn't even painful, but that was the end of the prestage of the virus. Within six hours of the peeling skin you would know. The fatigue went from minor to unbearable, what was slight irritation in the back of the throat became hyper inflammation of the lymph nodes, a runny nose became a streaming bloody nose, slight nausea and a light fever became uncontrollable vomiting and a fever of over 100 degrees. Within four hours of entering stage one the victim would enter stage two. Comatose with an intense fever of over 105, patches of skin deteriorating leaving bloody gaps of flesh. The gums, cheek, and tongue would begin to bleed profusely. In this final stage the virus caused a massive change in the victims brain in a matter of hours. The time span between entering stage two and entering stage three could be anywhere between one to seven hours. The exact reasons or determinate for that time could have probably been found at the very beginning, and maybe we could have stopped it, but really there was no time. Not enough people came in in the beginning and by the time they realize they needed help there were simply too many infected passed the point of no return. Too many reached the final stage in too short of an amount of time. In the final stage the victim regains consciousness, with no humanity left. They are simply creatures of the virus.
They are not explicitly zombies as some have taken to calling them, this was pointed out to me by a colleague before she passed. Zombies by her definition were dead and reanimated corpses, meaning that technically the victims are not zombies, they are in some ways more terrifying. From my observations the creatures have some minor intelligence and there seems to be some a variety of them.
I wish I could continue my study of them, but this will be my last entry.
As my colleague and I found, while the airborne virus was approximately 80% infectious it had what we referred to as an etr (effective turn rate) of about 75%, the blood borne variant of the virus is 100% contagious with an etr of 90%, the blood born virus does not have a prestage, bite victims will within two hours of exposure begin to experience the first stage of infection. As of recording this, it has been four and a half hours since I was bitten. I will soon enter the second stage. To any and all listening, aim for the head, and if you have a god, or gods, please pray for all of humanity, or whatever is left of it.
Sincerely signing out for a final time, Dr. David Wrightman, the last living soul at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, dated August 07, 2018.
The transmission continues in dead silence for twenty seconds and then a slight click can be heard. The emergency broadcast signal then reads off a list of safe zones and there status. It first reads off the location of the safe zone, then whether it is open, secured, in quarantine, or compromised. The last update for this list was in July of 2018. They date today is January 02, 2019, and all government established safe zones have been compromised.
The virus comes in two forms, the first being an airborne virus that spread all around the planet, infecting roughly 80% of the populace and turning 75% of the infected individuals, so within the first three weeks of the outbreak roughly 60% of the population was turned into the undead. Durning the initial wave many were reluctant to outright kill the infected, causing even more individuals to turn from blood contamination. The last estimate anyone heard was that somewhere between 80-95% of the population had been infected.
A emergency broadcast plays on loop and is being transmitted to all emergency broadband signals. It is a mans voice, he sounds haggard and worn. The recording is as follows:
If we had known then what we know now, we might have been able to do something, preemptive quarantine maybe, euthanization of the infected, something, anything. But we didn't know.
It swept through the world like wild fire. You would start with a tickle in the back of your throat, minor fatigue, slight nausea, maybe a runny nose an light fever, nothing serious, not even something to stay home with. That was the first sign that you had caught the airborne infection, it was what we came to call the prestage of the virus. The first glimpse that this might not be your normal cold didn't happen until a week after the initial symptoms. The top layer of the infected individuals epidermis began to peel off, it's not really even a serious thing, for most it wasn't even painful, but that was the end of the prestage of the virus. Within six hours of the peeling skin you would know. The fatigue went from minor to unbearable, what was slight irritation in the back of the throat became hyper inflammation of the lymph nodes, a runny nose became a streaming bloody nose, slight nausea and a light fever became uncontrollable vomiting and a fever of over 100 degrees. Within four hours of entering stage one the victim would enter stage two. Comatose with an intense fever of over 105, patches of skin deteriorating leaving bloody gaps of flesh. The gums, cheek, and tongue would begin to bleed profusely. In this final stage the virus caused a massive change in the victims brain in a matter of hours. The time span between entering stage two and entering stage three could be anywhere between one to seven hours. The exact reasons or determinate for that time could have probably been found at the very beginning, and maybe we could have stopped it, but really there was no time. Not enough people came in in the beginning and by the time they realize they needed help there were simply too many infected passed the point of no return. Too many reached the final stage in too short of an amount of time. In the final stage the victim regains consciousness, with no humanity left. They are simply creatures of the virus.
They are not explicitly zombies as some have taken to calling them, this was pointed out to me by a colleague before she passed. Zombies by her definition were dead and reanimated corpses, meaning that technically the victims are not zombies, they are in some ways more terrifying. From my observations the creatures have some minor intelligence and there seems to be some a variety of them.
I wish I could continue my study of them, but this will be my last entry.
As my colleague and I found, while the airborne virus was approximately 80% infectious it had what we referred to as an etr (effective turn rate) of about 75%, the blood borne variant of the virus is 100% contagious with an etr of 90%, the blood born virus does not have a prestage, bite victims will within two hours of exposure begin to experience the first stage of infection. As of recording this, it has been four and a half hours since I was bitten. I will soon enter the second stage. To any and all listening, aim for the head, and if you have a god, or gods, please pray for all of humanity, or whatever is left of it.
Sincerely signing out for a final time, Dr. David Wrightman, the last living soul at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, dated August 07, 2018.
The transmission continues in dead silence for twenty seconds and then a slight click can be heard. The emergency broadcast signal then reads off a list of safe zones and there status. It first reads off the location of the safe zone, then whether it is open, secured, in quarantine, or compromised. The last update for this list was in July of 2018. They date today is January 02, 2019, and all government established safe zones have been compromised.
The virus comes in two forms, the first being an airborne virus that spread all around the planet, infecting roughly 80% of the populace and turning 75% of the infected individuals, so within the first three weeks of the outbreak roughly 60% of the population was turned into the undead. Durning the initial wave many were reluctant to outright kill the infected, causing even more individuals to turn from blood contamination. The last estimate anyone heard was that somewhere between 80-95% of the population had been infected.
