Things are… Things are not good. I
mention this only on the blog. I don’t want to mention this to our group for
fear of diminishing our hopes. I hope you are not showing up to the party late
but in case you are or if you need a recap, here is what we’ve concluded after
watching our enemy for the last 312 days… We hoped that the winter would
deteriorate the bodies of our enemies, would make them weaker. We were right
but the Def-Con level has still elevated considerably.
It seems like in the past week, we
have seen a considerable amount of increased activity amongst the zombie
population. Maybe it is our locals thawing out after the winter. Maybe they are
migratory and on the move looking for more things to eat.
Way back when, I did an article
comparing zoms to lions that had made a fresh kill. If their bellies are full,
they are still very dangerous but they are not overly aggressive because their
hunger has been satisfied (if only for a while.)
Well, as far as zombie standards go,
it has been a long winter. And when a grizzly wakes up from a long hibernating
slumber, the first thing they want to do is eat. The only thing they want to do
is eat. They are ravenous. Apparently, zombies are the exact same way.
Not only are they ravenous, they are
aggressive and angry. They seem worked up and their faces are no longer just
emotionless masks. Their eyes are still very much dead but they are now
aggressive and angry. It is like they are running on 100% adrenaline and
looking to get any sort of flesh fix that they can.
Now, when these things come across our
palisade of buses, it is not just a simple probing touch against the glass
windows. Up and down the wall of buses that we have created, you can see spider
web cracks and smears of gore and ichor from their hands where they have pounded
against the defenses wanting any morsel of meat that they can come across. You
can practically feel the desperation as they claw and pound against the
defenses but I am thankful to report that we are holding strong. Striking from
within the buses, we have taken out more than a handful of these wretched
things.
Now, I mentioned last week that
their bones do seem to be becoming more porous. If zombie bones were made out
of wood, it would be like they are being eaten by termites. There are pockmarks
and holes in the bones. Is this what osteoporosis looks like? But the catch to
it is their flesh is not rotting as much as we have hoped.
Maybe it was the cold temperatures. We
don’t know. So at this point, it is easier to cave in a skull and get to that brain
than before. However, the flesh moving those bones around is not as far
decomposed as we hoped. Kind of a good news/bad news situation.
Still, with these things getting more
desperate, now more than ever you have to keep up your guard.
