15 BRAINS ; anonymous text

[livable]

Scenario: Zombies exist. They are conscious beings, look just like humans (no rotted flesh), except they have super strength and have to eat human brains or they'll lose their minds and go full Romero-style like in the movies. Probably a couple hundred of them in terms of population. Most of them don't kill humans, they buy brains off of coroners or funeral directors for premium prices just to keep from becoming murderers because while yes, they do feel hunger when they look at a human person, they also used to be a human and aren't typically psychopaths unless they already were before they died. They also sometimes get glimpses of the memories of the humans they eat. It can be spread via scratching, biting, and sexual contact. It's not spreadable to anything but in-species (so zombie rats can only infect rats, zombie humans can only infect humans).

What do you do about the zombie population?

(Disclaimer: This is hypothetical. Been watching a lot of B horror and got curious!)

[ She has been watching B horror movies, anyway. All replies from Liv are anon text unless otherwise stated. ]

Comments

[livable]

No one's asking for your help, I'm just telling you that it's not a solution to a problem and you telling me no one has proposed anything bad toward Everglade and that it functions just as well as anywhere else is a lie.

"Nominally legitimate" means what now because I don't hear anyone volunteering their passed loved ones as Meals on Slab Wheels.

[deathsought]

Those 'anonymous threats' so far seem to be exactly that. When there is an army marching on Everglade, I will take them seriously. Until then, I say let them try.

It means, as opposed to those who are in a position to object to having their brains extracted from their skulls. Absent that, the only other solution would be to create artificial gray matter.

Something that is a distinct possibility with Nova City's technology, or my own magic. Whether or not it will provide sustenance is another matter entirely.

[livable]

In the meantime, tell anyone who's different from the average human it's safe despite being the only place with those threats.

If I were a zombie, I don't think I'd want the CheeseWiz version of brain food.

[ artificially created brain matter sounds worse than brain mush tubes. ]

[deathsought]

Fayren was plagued for months by anti-magic terrorists, and now has a literal plague that causes mages to lose control over their magic, something that is a little too convenient for the aforementioned terrorists' platitudes for my tastes. Roughly half of the population there is also different from the average human, including and especially myself. I didn't call Everglade 'safe.' I called it functional. I know better than most than to trust humans to do the right thing, which is my offer to help the archway should those threats be carried out stands.

Then I would say, 'suit yourself.' At the very least, there seems to be no shortage of cadavers in any of the archways these days.