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At 9/25/06 05:08 PM, Dejanus wrote:

paragraphs, unlike me. Daze, I really would perfer not to go

Why? You write some damn good chapters! I love them all! The only reason Im not writing is because Im really bad at writing. I mean, i can write stories for school asignments, but they are mostly half-assed.

Allright, I will do it if no one else is up for it. I am already going to use the Dej/Ollie/Keith/Michal group, and plan to use one other. Any suggestions?

At 9/25/06 03:53 PM, Dejanus wrote: IS Stealth or Dragon going to write?

who ME?!

I thought writing the story was optional?

I mean... i guess i could but it would be begrudgingly

What do you mean? Suggestions for the next chapter? I think you should just continue from the last chapter about that group. Maybe I (my character) could obtain a gun and shoots like Dej. Anyways, its your choice, Im not the one writing it.

wait a minute wait a minute nothings making sense. can I see the list?

DEJ WROTE

Allright, I will do it if no one else is up for it. I am already going to use the Dej/Ollie/Keith/Michal group, and plan to use one other. Any suggestions?

that'd be awesome! set me up for something swett!

BEAST wrote:

It would be degrudgingly.

Then don't do it =)

um ok>

Zombie Behaviors Are Part of Everyday Life, According to Neurobiologists

There is a little zombie in all of us.

PASADENA, CA.--When you're close to that woman you love, her fragrance may cause you to say to yourself, "Hmmm, Chanel No. 5," especially if you're the suave, sophisticated kind. Or if you're more of a missing link, you may even say to yourself, "Me want woman." In either case, you're exhibiting a zombie behavior, according to the two scientists who pioneered the scientific study of consciousness.
Longtime collaborators Christof Koch and Francis Crick (of DNA helix fame) think that "zombie agents"--that is, routine behaviors that we perform constantly without even thinking--are so much a central facet of human consciousness that they deserve serious scientific attention. In a new book titled The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach, Koch writes that interest in the subject of zombies has nothing to do with fiction, much less the supernatural. Crick, who for the last 13 years has collaborated with Koch on the study of consciousness, wrote the foreword of the book.

The existence of zombie agents highlights the fact that much of what goes on in our heads escapes awareness. Only a subset of brain activity gives rise to conscious sensations, to conscious feelings. "What is the difference between neuronal activity associated with consciousness and activity that bypasses the conscious mind?" asks Koch, a professor at the California Institute of Technology and head of the Computation and Neural Systems program.

Zombie agents include everything from keeping the body balanced, to unconsciously estimating the steepness of a hill we are about to climb, to driving a car, riding a bike, and performing other routine yet complex actions. We humans couldn't function without zombie agents, whose key advantage is that reaction times are kept to a minimum. For example, if a pencil is rolling off the table, we are quite able to grab it in midair, and we do so by executing an extremely complicated set of mental operations. And zombie agents might also be involved, by way of smell, in how we choose our sexual partners.

"Zombie agents control your eyes, hands, feet, and posture, and rapidly transduce sensory input into stereotypical motor output," writes Koch. "They might even trigger aggressive or sexual behavior when getting a whiff of the right stuff.

"All, however, bypass consciousness," Koch adds. "This is the zombie in you."

Zombie actions are but one of a number of topics that Koch and Crick have investigated since they started working together on the question of the brain basis of consciousness. Much of the book concerns perceptual experiments in normal people, patients, monkeys, and mice, that address the neuronal underpinnings of thoughts and actions.

As Crick points out in his foreword, consciousness is the major unsolved problem in biology. The Quest for Consciousness describes Koch and Crick's framework for coming to grips with the ancient mind-body problem. At the heart of their framework is discovering and characterizing the neuronal correlates of consciousness, the subtle, flickering patterns of brain activity that underlie each and every conscious experience.

So thats why i had an unusual urge to bite the girl in front of me in class... Sexual zombie...

But.... that doesn't explain why I also wanted to eat her brains...

<takes bite out of Dejanus' head, i realize what im doing 15 seconds later> Holy Shit! What have I done? I dont remember accidently biting you! Nah, now I know why I lust for a girl with a nice ass...Its my head being controled by zombie agents. Cool!
<Bites Dej again without realizing>

At 9/25/06 08:49 PM, Xtesh wrote:

At 9/25/06 06:01 PM, Dejanus wrote: Allright, I will do it if no one else is up for it. I am already going to use the Dej/Ollie/Keith/Michal group, and plan to use one other. Any suggestions?

Could you use my group? We were kinda left hangin' a few(try a lot) pages back.

haha. . . . . . but . . .but . . . ollies group is in a tight fucking situation!

SOoo intense. . wait. . .your character is seth . . he's been used in the past 2 chaps. . .hasn't he?

At 9/25/06 03:53 PM, Dejanus wrote: I really dont feel like going next, I am already running an RP elsewhere.

This is a reason I'm not participating in the story. I'm writing full-time in two RPs already.

At 9/25/06 09:55 PM, HitTheTarget wrote:

This is a reason I'm not participating in the story. I'm writing full-time in two RPs already.

That's why I didn't ask you HTT =) last time you yelled at me and I think almost wet my pants. xD

. . . . so you wanna write a . . . . .

KIDDING - for serious - I'm kidding.

Daze ... dont piss off HTT ... He might start shooting shit... no, I'm serious.

At 9/25/06 10:34 PM, Snype wrote: Daze ... dont piss off HTT ... He might start shooting shit... no, I'm serious.

Alright, time to get things straight.

I'm not a uber, flame everybody, flip out every time I get angry. What you saw was a freak case of a bad day of work, and super annoying people. If I would flame over something as stupid(and mildly funny) thing like that, I wouldn't be in so many clubs.

Here is a list of people I'm cool with, and would never freak on ever.
Daze
Matt
Dej
Blue-Dragon
Raydar
Chances

Things straight? (I might've forgotten a few.)

What do you guys think the most likely country to start off an international outbreak is? I would go with India, they are even worse off than China. Despite Patient Zero....

At 9/25/06 10:41 PM, HitTheTarget wrote:
Things straight? (I might've forgotten a few.)

eh, how about me? I try not to piss people off... as for Dej's question, Id go with India, since it's very tightly populated and the travel isnt very restricted.

Can u imagine if it started in tokyo?

At 9/25/06 11:00 PM, StealthBeast wrote: Can u imagine if it started in tokyo?

Japan would simply shut the city out in a quarintine. The constitiution allows them to do that, and they would. Anyway, it IS an island, not likely to be international. Tokyo would be screwed, though.

At 9/25/06 10:41 PM, HitTheTarget wrote:

At 9/25/06 10:34 PM, Snype wrote: Daze ... dont piss off HTT ... He might start shooting shit... no, I'm serious.

Alright, time to get things straight.

Here is a list of people I'm cool with, and would never freak on ever.
Daze
Matt
Dej
Blue-Dragon
Raydar
Chances

Things straight? (I might've forgotten a few.)

ah for a minute their i thought i was fair game, not like I can't hold my own though.

Oh yea, all hell would break loose, since it's always the city to get raped. For example, Godzilla, volcanos...and now, a zombie outbreak! I feel sorry for those poor people who live there...

At 9/25/06 11:02 PM, Dejanus wrote:

At 9/25/06 11:00 PM, StealthBeast wrote: Can u imagine if it started in tokyo?

Japan would simply shut the city out in a quarintine. The constitiution allows them to do that, and they would. Anyway, it IS an island, not likely to be international. Tokyo would be screwed, though.

if u need directions in tokyo u can look 3 feet in any direction.

Zombies would be so massively numbered, by the time the govt. realised the zombies are actually zombies and how dangerous even letting 1 zombie get out of the area can be, it'd b over.

Plus... aren't zombies known for not drowning?

Yup. They just keep on walking on the sea bed until they melt away...

At 9/25/06 11:06 PM, Snype wrote: Yup. They just keep on walking on the sea bed until they melt away...

Japan is still too isolated. The UN would quarentine, or hell, even bomb Japan if it got out of hand. The zombies would have to walk for hundreds of miles under the sea, containment would have a lot of time to be put into place.

Well, there still is a chance for zombies to appear from the sea. Anyways, IM goin to bed. Here, its 11:15 PM NGST. See you all tomorow at two! <3

At 9/25/06 11:09 PM, Dejanus wrote:

At 9/25/06 11:06 PM, Snype wrote: Yup. They just keep on walking on the sea bed until they melt away...

Japan is still too isolated. The UN would quarentine, or hell, even bomb Japan if it got out of hand. The zombies would have to walk for hundreds of miles under the sea, containment would have a lot of time to be put into place.

... Though that would be ideal, i doubt the govt. of anything would take the risk of bombing the richst country on the planet because of zombies.

Also, think about it....

10 million zombies (about tokyos population).

Even if all countries put armed soldiers around their shores around all of the continents and islands (which is economically impossible, especially with the fall of japan), Remember, u only need 1 zombie to get into a largely populated continent.

1 stupid mistake.

1 idiot who gets too close,

1 zombie that slips by when someone relieves another persons ship, therefore pre-occupied.

1 zombie turns to 2, 2 turn to 4, turn to 8, turn to 16, turn to 32, turn to 64, to 128, and so on, until the situation becomes obviously noticed, and the area must be nuked.

And once the area is bombed/nuked, it will be unable to be inhabited my humans, so no more guard at the coastline. What does this mean? 3 or 4 more stray zombies get in.

Also, think about smaller weak countrys bordering the ocean. 1 zombie gets in, zombifies 80% of the population, 80% of that population walks towards a world power, and GG lol.

Theres a million scenerios really.

But yeah, probably a worse place to have the outbreak start would be korea, or china or something.

At 9/25/06 10:56 PM, Snype wrote:

At 9/25/06 10:41 PM, HitTheTarget wrote:
Things straight? (I might've forgotten a few.)

eh, how about me? I try not to piss people off...

I don't think of you as a prick, but if I had to flame you, I would do it without hesitation.

Undead, I know you well, you're now on the list.

F-E-A-R,

Great chapter, and good continuation of my chapter! I think they are set up for some classic zombie survival now, eh? Very well written, I am excited to see what happens next!

And the info on the segmented pole was satisfactory, fellas! I dont think i would try one anyways. Probably better off with a spiked mace or something.

At 9/26/06 07:58 AM, Team-Awesome wrote: F-E-A-R,

Great chapter, and good continuation of my chapter! I think they are set up for some classic zombie survival now, eh? Very well written, I am excited to see what happens next!

Thanks a ton, for some strange reason I thought NocturnalDaze wrote it for a second.

At 9/26/06 11:43 AM, F-E-A-R wrote:

At 9/26/06 07:58 AM, Team-Awesome wrote: F-E-A-R,

Thanks a ton, for some strange reason I thought NocturnalDaze wrote it for a second.

I did write the info about the segmented pole =P

And I don;t know if I mentioned that your chap was good . . . But Fear - your chapter was good =)