Holywhippet on 27/1/2005 at 11:22
Something I noticed just a while ago while replaying Thief 3. Down at the docks the two guards are talking about the undead on the ship. One of them says he'll "chop of your leg or something" and the other guys says he should only do that if that's where he gets bitten, otherwise what's the point. Presumably then, the zombie condition could be disease related and an untreated zombie wound might turn you into one.
Of course that raises the question of how Garrett has avoided becoming a zombie after the number of times he's been attacked by them.
Other than adding to the atmosphere, you have to wonder how Captain Moira's ship managed to dock without anyone still alive. The Captain's log suggests the undead plague hit them all of a sudden. Maybe he managed to fight off the curse of undeath long enough to dock the ship?
DarthMRN on 27/1/2005 at 11:40
Yet another TDS inconsistency in my opinion. But as this community always does, it will yet again find some kind of sound explanation, convincing everybody it was part of ISA's plan all along.
Bho on 27/1/2005 at 12:16
Quote Posted by DarthMRN
Yet another TDS inconsistency in my opinion. But as this community always does, it will yet again find some kind of sound explanation, convincing everybody it was part of ISA's plan all along.
:rolleyes: Riiiiiiiiight. And since when were two city watchmen standing on the docks experts in zombie lore?
neecap on 27/1/2005 at 12:18
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Well, why don't you try doing it in a separate thread so that people who couldn't care less about your gripes don't have to wade through them or suffer threads being killed by them. *sniff* The poor, innocent threads! What did they ever do to you?!
Well spoken. :thumb:
DarthMRN on 27/1/2005 at 17:52
Been there, done that.
But since the good Lurimer felt he had to intrude upon the new thread he himself sent me to, I feel I can ignore that post, and keep nagging whenever I see an opportunity. :angel:
Holywhippet on 27/1/2005 at 21:11
Quote Posted by Bho
:rolleyes: Riiiiiiiiight. And since when were two city watchmen standing on the docks experts in zombie lore?
Since if you were guarding a ship full of zombies you'd find out all you could about them pronto or quit your job.
Really though, the ship itself is an inconsistancy. If a ship o' zombies sailed in they'd either tow it back out and burn it or call in the Hammerites to kill all the undead - Hammerite hammers can kill a zombie permanently.
Ultraviolet on 28/1/2005 at 06:31
Quote Posted by lokki
I'll have to stand up with and defend the "Nicknames Using Gods from Mythology" group. It's in the by-laws, and I just paid dues...
So nobody bit on my outlandish claim that people were once buried with bells, huh? Would've figured that'd pique
somebody's interest. :bored:
People were buried with bells so they could ring them if they were accidentally buried alive. It was a common phobia back then because apparently there were conditions -- such as the poisoning in Romeo & Juliet -- that seem death-like but the victim will wake, and then suffer a horrible death by suffocation and spend their last few minutes trying to claw their way out of a coffin, screaming, wearing the tips of their fingers down to the bone, peeling back the fingernails...
Quote Posted by Holywhippet
Something I noticed just a while ago while replaying Thief 3. Down at the docks the two guards are talking about the undead on the ship. One of them says he'll "chop of your leg or something" and the other guys says he should only do that if that's where he gets bitten, otherwise what's the point. Presumably then, the zombie condition could be disease related and an untreated zombie wound might turn you into one.
Possibly a "red herring" on the part of the characters. They might blame infection for the zombie problem without understanding it. Then again, it might really be an infection.
Don't we have fifty billion different conflicting vampire myths? If you suddenly thought you saw a vampire or something, and some other people did too, wouldn't you have different ideas about them because of this? Can they walk in the daylight or no? Do wooden stakes kill them? Will garlic ward them off?
lokki on 28/1/2005 at 07:42
Quote Posted by Ultraviolet
People were buried with bells so they could ring them if they were accidentally buried alive
Missed my first post on the subject, huh? :D
Anyway, thanks for acknowledging my presence here. I was beginning to think I'd been filtered :p
Bho on 28/1/2005 at 08:28
Quote Posted by Ultraviolet
Don't we have fifty billion different conflicting vampire myths? If you suddenly thought you saw a vampire or something, and some other people did too, wouldn't you have different ideas about them because of this? Can they walk in the daylight or no? Do wooden stakes kill them? Will garlic ward them off?
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And Holywhippet, the watchmen really don't have much of an idea about what they are up against. The newspaper you find in the tavern also tells you as much. Also, i would like to point out that in all of theif games, there is very little precedent for guards (not hammers) having dealings with zombies. In fact, this is the first occasion. Therefore, it's safe to assume that benny and his friend were probably parroting some superstisous nonsense that their grandmothers told them as kids to keep them in line.
Also, with regards to your question of the hammerites not being called in, you may know that they bitch slap the undead to hell, but how can you be sure that the city watch do? And even if they did know this, there is evidence that the watch are quite wary of the hammers, and would be cautious about telling them about the ship. After all, wouldn't it be perfectly in character for them to say that cleansing the ship was a favour, and ask for something in return (like a major cleansing of the pagans?)
djcorpselicker on 28/1/2005 at 08:51
I still think it would be better to have zombies unleashed on the city instead of enforcers. :D
