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velocetteThe reason zombies can't work--can't work in world without magic--is all down to micro-tears. Say you could keep away the decay, say you could eradicate the little parasites we all have in our skin just waiting for us to keel over. You'd still last maybe a few weeks as a walking corpse.
If you're dead, there's nothing in your head and nothing pumped through your heart to mend and adapt, and you'd just fall apart, little by little.
This death tolling, maybe it's the Admiral failing to patch back up the parts of your brains that know how to adapt to the wear and tear of being alive.
If you're dead, there's nothing in your head and nothing pumped through your heart to mend and adapt, and you'd just fall apart, little by little.
This death tolling, maybe it's the Admiral failing to patch back up the parts of your brains that know how to adapt to the wear and tear of being alive.
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Date: 2014-04-18 07:20 pm (UTC)Oh I don't expect to have immediate success. I'm not even sure we'll ever know if he's real, but we're bound to find something if we start looking, even if it's completely unrelated. Most inventions began life with an entirely different purpose than they ended up with, after all.
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Date: 2014-04-19 02:38 am (UTC)[It's honestly difficult to tell if this is sarcastic or sincere. Maybe both.]