fast zombies

[Craig]

I like the idea that the book Plague of the Dead had, that the infected are alive, running about biting people and tearing the lving crap out of them, then, when they are die or are killed (by means other than the brain being destroyed) they come back as slow zombies. But whatever, slow zombies, fast zombies, I'll normally take either.

[LoSTBoY]

IMO, the brain is the cause of the slow shamble as the motor functions have been minimised with everything else, therefore it doesn't depend on the freshness of the zombie but the capacity of the zombie's motor function. I'm not sure about this, but if a zed is continually moving then rigor mortis would not set in as they are moving their limbs and keeping them loose. Any medical doctors in the house?

[rawrOTD]

based on anatomy class, psychology class, and what ive learned from my mother being a nurse practitioner the dead would not only not be able to run but odds are they would never be able to walk upright due to not having the previous experience of walking when they were human they knew how theyd have to relearn it im guessing so lets just assume they retain that much skill from life im assuming zombies are living off of the small inner core of the brain its pretty reptile in there im not sure but i think its called the limbic? either that or the limbic is the one that processes music and emotions but with that part of the brain (whatever its called) intact they can do all basic motor skills however, the body begins to stiffen in rigor mortis only if the body is left in a single position for a length of time assuming reanimation occurs within hours the zombies would have no problem with muscles or other systems being stiff they cant run but they can definately stumble towards you sorry to add more medical slosh to this but yeah, no trouble with the traditional romero shamble at least not medically it really boils dw o how they became a zombie? bitten? how bad? where? if they were eaten or torn to bits the mobility will go way down if they died of some other cause it would effect it too but maximum speed is romero style im sure excited zombies would try to stumble faster and prolly fall over or fall apart