deadman on 22/1/2005 at 00:24
Quote Posted by Blood Dragon
How on earth did a zombie form?
Well, you see... When a mommy zombie and a daddy zombie love each other
veery much... :sly: :D
dr. cello on 22/1/2005 at 00:25
Right click for hot undead action!
DarthMRN on 22/1/2005 at 00:35
Where? Where? Please, tell me! :cheeky:
Hogwash on 22/1/2005 at 00:57
Quote Posted by deadman
Well, you see... When a mommy zombie and a daddy zombie love each other
veery much... :sly: :D
Liar! My mum told me that the vulture brings them, although I've heard you find them under the stinkberry bush! :cheeky:
belboz on 22/1/2005 at 01:12
Zombies form due to bad magic, in a world where pagans, hammerites, keepers, mages all practice some form of magic, there has to be some side effect like radiation sickness and your bits dropping off. but unlike radiation it spreads to the dead bodies and re-animates them.
Holywhippet on 22/1/2005 at 04:25
I'm wondering if it might be a bit like Final Fantasy 10. Those who die unhappy deaths are unwilling to pass over into the next world and thus their bodies reanimate fueled by their negative emotions. Alternately, dark magic can animate their bodies and bring them to back to "life". Thief 3 indicated that Haunts are the bodies of Hammers who's burial ground has been desecrated. Methinks the mere presence of the Eye was enough to meet this criteria. It's clearly an artifact of dark magic. I'm thinking the cemetary in the back of the cathedral probably started spitting up undead due to the influence of the eye. Some of them escaped in the city, the rest were contained in the cathedral by the Keepers who sealed the place with the elemental locks.
As for the Eye, I get the impression that only "gifted" people can hear it talk. There is no mention in the Cathedral of anyone else hearing it. There is little mention in the museum of anyone hearing it. Garrett is a special case and has special abilities which is why he can also hear the Keeper Enforcer's telepathy.
deadman on 22/1/2005 at 06:22
Quote Posted by Holywhippet
I'm wondering if it might be a bit like Final Fantasy 10. Those who die unhappy deaths are unwilling to pass over into the next world and thus their bodies reanimate fueled by their negative emotions. Alternately, dark magic can animate their bodies and bring them to back to "life".
Just look at traditional explanations for ghosts, apparitions, malevolent spirits in the 'real world'. Two words can sum up why certain spirits stick around: unfinished business. It's also believed many hauntings will occur because someone wasn't given a proper burial to their belief system. I'm going to regret saying this, but another example would be the romance movie,
Ghost, where it is explained that an apparition has power by harnessing anger, negative energies. I'd very much think many 'zombifications' (to put it in frobber's words in his FMs, I believe) occur because of soiled or messed with remains or burial sites. If there's actually any magic involved in the 'natural' process (which is to say, graverobbers, improper burial, etc.) is doubtful. Other than Necromancer's and their dark magiks, of course..
deadman.
Foolsie_Mansie on 22/1/2005 at 12:24
People might hate me for this but my theory about the Old Quarters was that the keepers caused the cataclizm so that no one would desturb The Eye. I'm probaly foolsie to think that but it would be cool that the keepers also make undead.
DarthMRN on 22/1/2005 at 13:58
Considering how they were willing to eradicate the entire City's population with Enforcers just to get their hands on Garrett, that theory certainly has some merit to it, Mansie.
Meybe they even bought or traded favors to get help from some expert in the craft, like a necro.
Foolsie_Mansie on 22/1/2005 at 14:16
My idea came from what The Eye said "Comes a man to rescue me.............THE
KEEPERS HAVE SEALED THE DOOR.........." that might just mean the particular door or all the obstacles in THC were of the keepers doing.
