Ran with Ten today - double digits! Abel hits the big time! Anyway, Ten used to be a maths teacher and had some really interesting - and useful - observations about zombie behaviour. If I understand right, if a zombie is presented with equidistant targets, they add the vectors together and follow the trajectory of the resultant vector. Doesn't say much for their reasoning, of course, but it does have some implications about the sophistication of their internal navigation systems.
Ten also said that zoms tend to home in on meat smells "even though they don't eat the stuff." Um... Ten? To paraphrase Terry Bisson, we are made out of meat. Just sayin'. I'm thinking about chumming the water for sharks. They probably smell blood and have some sort of Pavlovian response.
Not exactly a big surprise, but Ten left New Canton because they wanted
him to use his research to basically weaponize zombies. Truth be told,
NC is starting to piss me right off. Who uses the end of civilization
as a power grab? "Ooh! The fall of civilization! Now's my chance to
be the head despot in my own totalitarian regime!"
It was a cool mission, though: we were carrying the post apocalyptic equivalent of the Library at Alexandria. We traded information with Red Settlement. I hope the exchange yielded some American TV. I just can't get into Dr. Who ever since that tall guy with the scarf left. Even just the musical episode of Buffy would constitute a total score,but I'm hoping for Firefly or the first seven season of the X-Files.
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