Official Lore(spoiler)

[Wally-kun]

Oh, also Mi-go are supposed to be slavers and about as close to us humans as any of the other races in terms of technology and mindsets, and also one of the biggest minor factions. Probably one of our best bets; the big 3 really don’t have time for us and are either going to pave us over or manipulate us to suit their needs, which will mean complete and utter loss of willpower (see Mycus and blobs).

[Arek_PL]

it noticeable that blob is in simbiosis with living host
look at big ants and other insects, they are so big because of blob
alslo mutagens work because blob reacts to some chemicals and radiation causing mutations what are more or less usefull its why labs started working on mutations few days before cataclysm

so blob is not a prasite they just take over control of host body if host die

[Zaylin]

I don’t really see the mycus utilizing purifier at all, seeing as they themselves consider it a “contaminant”, and given it’s just as incompatible with their biology as the mutagen is, they’d likely just destroy anything that is blob-related and just assimilating what’s left, like how you have the fungal zombies and such.

Also I think comparing them to succubi/incubi is kind of a gross oversimplification, they’re not trying to seduce humans, they just happen to be very pragmatic in their spreading and developed things that allow them to better incorporate lifeforms with the capacity for extensive tool use and a wide spread across the planet, which also happens to be one of their largest direct threats, given they have access to fire.

[Frostwood]

[quote=“Zaylin, post:6, topic:9538”]I don’t really see the mycus utilizing purifier at all, seeing as they themselves consider it a “contaminant”, and given it’s just as incompatible with their biology as the mutagen is, they’d likely just destroy anything that is blob-related and just assimilating what’s left, like how you have the fungal zombies and such.

Also I think comparing them to succubi/incubi is kind of a gross oversimplification, they’re not trying to seduce humans, they just happen to be very pragmatic in their spreading and developed things that allow them to better incorporate lifeforms with the capacity for extensive tool use and a wide spread across the planet, which also happens to be one of their largest direct threats, given they have access to fire.[/quote]
Correct me if I’m wrong, but purifier just resets you to the baseline state, while PE062 eliminates the blob entirly-as far as I know they are two different substances-purifier isn’t that hard to make.

As far as succubi/incubi- the marloss berry is very seductive-high morale boost, doesn’t go bad, and fills you completely, and then you get hooked on the foods the Mycus provides and can’t live without it.

[Uweron]

For me, blob in zombie bodies doesn’t exist. In my opinion blob mutagen, was used to work on the mutation some sort bacteria as a biological weapon by govt. scientists.

There are some things which confirms this theory. The infection is not resistant to basic human medicines (vitamins, herbal medicines, antibiotics, disinfectants), very fast spread (an unusual thing for parasites, even in very favorable conditions), and zombies do not show any “collective” and “long-term” activity as rest “big three”.

[Valpo]

[quote=“Uweron, post:8, topic:9538”]For me, blob in zombie bodies doesn’t exist. In my opinion blob mutagen, was used to work on the mutation some sort bacteria as a biological weapon by govt. scientists.

There are some things which confirms this theory. The infection is not resistant to basic human medicines (vitamins, herbal medicines, antibiotics, disinfectants), very fast spread (an unusual thing for parasites, even in very favorable conditions), and zombies do not show any “collective” and “long-term” activity as rest “big three”.[/quote]

The blob is within zombies thats a fact. I do not know which infection your talking about but the zombification has nothing to do with a virus. It is NOT an infection in that sense. And you do NOT get infected by a zomby virus from zomby bites.

[Darkfirephoenix]

[quote=“Uweron, post:8, topic:9538”]For me, blob in zombie bodies doesn’t exist. In my opinion blob mutagen, was used to work on the mutation some sort bacteria as a biological weapon by govt. scientists.

There are some things which confirms this theory. The infection is not resistant to basic human medicines (vitamins, herbal medicines, antibiotics, disinfectants), very fast spread (an unusual thing for parasites, even in very favorable conditions), and zombies do not show any “collective” and “long-term” activity as rest “big three”.[/quote]
Zombies won’t infect you with blob, they infect you with the bacteria that are already present on their (decaying/rotting) bodies. Did you ever get bitten/scratched from a dirty source and it started swelling and oozing? That is the same as the zombie bite, it is simply a infection from bacteria.

Now why the zombies aren’t showing “collective” and “long-term” activity: The blob doesn’t care. It focused on getting into our plane, started spreading and that’s it. It will only react if something “interresting” happens, as long as that doesn’t happen it focuses onto something else. It is a Macro player, it doesn’t give a damn about how long it takes, how many hosts die etc. as long as there is no change that requires its attention.
(I have spread into this plane and started infecting, ok that is good for now, it will resolve itself and I can do something else in the meantime)

[Thwap]

So what’s going on in the rest of the world while this is happening? These portal facilities seem to have been cutting edge science, they couldn’t have existed in every country. What’s happening in South America and Europe and Africa and so forth?

[DeWolf]

What about creatures like the krek and blank bodies. ESPECIALLY the blank bodies that you find in churches. Leads me to believe something sinister is happening in less inconspicuous organizations.

[i2amroy]

Note: The Mycus only hates the blob when they interact inside of a host in sort of a “you’re poaching my mark!” type of way. Outside of hosts they tend to be fairly chill about each other, though they still will fight over who gets what land/resources in the long run.

On the other hand Triffids and the Mycus have a sort of grudge match showdown with each other. It’s why, for example, the Mycus adrenaline rush equivalent mutation causes the duration to extend if you see Triffids, because they do not get along… like at all.

What about creatures like the krek and blank bodies. ESPECIALLY the blank bodies that you find in churches. Leads me to believe something sinister is happening in less inconspicuous organizations.

Krek I’ve always seen as sort of a wild creature/subhuman slave to the Mi-go personally. They definitely aren’t very intelligence, though they have a little bit more intelligence than say a dog. Blank bodies are one of those creepy things that could go either way. They could be part of the horrors that have been here for forever (like the amigara horrors), something from the Nether, or something of both. I’d probably align them most with the sort of “Cultist” group; i.e. they are there to be spooky and creepy and are probably created from some sort of unholy crossbreeding of Nether, Horror, and Human (similar to something like the flesh angels).

So what’s going on in the rest of the world while this is happening? These portal facilities seem to have been cutting edge science, they couldn’t have existed in every country. What’s happening in South America and Europe and Africa and so forth?

Nobody really knows. It is assumed that we took out enough of the “walls” that portals are starting to show up everywhere at least a little, though the majority are focused here (and possibly in any other countries that were experimenting with portal technology). Beyond that nobody really knows.

[Arek_PL]

[quote=“Thwap, post:11, topic:9538”]So what’s going on in the rest of the world while this is happening? These portal facilities seem to have been cutting edge science, they couldn’t have existed in every country. What’s happening in South America and Europe and Africa and so forth?

Nobody really knows. It is assumed that we took out enough of the “walls” that portals are starting to show up everywhere at least a little, though the majority are focused here (and possibly in any other countries that were experimenting with portal technology). Beyond that nobody really knows.[/quote]

Cataclysm happen during second cold war? right? pepole fear another war, countries race who get more weapons and develop more new technologies, everybody is spying on everybody. maybe enemies of unitet states had spies what managed to steal something about portal technology (or us stealed this technology from china, who knows?) so its possible that enemies in asia and more rich friends from europe have acces to portal technology

[troll_from_behind]

OR it’s Another 48 Hours Later again meaning rest of the world is ok barring the imminent nuclear armageddon.
For your survivor it really doesn’t matter, since he really never gets anywhere no matter how far he travels.
Maybe it’s all a dream or VR-trip gone bad?

[Noodles_of_Doom]

Maybe it’s all a dream or VR-trip gone bad?

Maybe it’s all some person playing a video game???

[DeWolf]

[quote=“troll from behind, post:15, topic:9538”]Maybe it’s all a dream or VR-trip gone bad?

Maybe it’s all some person playing a video game???[/quote]
Maybe its happening in you blender when you mix too many weird stuff in it.

[Xenosandbox]

[quote=“Noodles of Doom, post:16, topic:9538”][quote=“troll from behind, post:15, topic:9538”]Maybe it’s all a dream or VR-trip gone bad?

Maybe it’s all some person playing a video game???[/quote]
Maybe its happening in you blender when you mix too many weird stuff in it.[/quote]

Maybe it all just 42

[DeWolf]

[quote=“DeWolf, post:17, topic:9538”][quote=“Noodles of Doom, post:16, topic:9538”][quote=“troll from behind, post:15, topic:9538”]Maybe it’s all a dream or VR-trip gone bad?

Maybe it’s all some person playing a video game???[/quote]
Maybe its happening in you blender when you mix too many weird stuff in it.[/quote]

Maybe it all just 42[/quote]
I don’t understand that.

[Jericoshost]

[quote=“Xenosandbox, post:18, topic:9538”][quote=“DeWolf, post:17, topic:9538”][quote=“Noodles of Doom, post:16, topic:9538”][quote=“troll from behind, post:15, topic:9538”]Maybe it’s all a dream or VR-trip gone bad?

Maybe it’s all some person playing a video game???[/quote]
Maybe its happening in you blender when you mix too many weird stuff in it.[/quote]

Maybe it all just 42[/quote]
I don’t understand that.[/quote]
Hitch-hikers Guide to the cataclysm galaxy

[DeWolf]

[quote=“DeWolf, post:19, topic:9538”][quote=“Xenosandbox, post:18, topic:9538”][quote=“DeWolf, post:17, topic:9538”][quote=“Noodles of Doom, post:16, topic:9538”][quote=“troll from behind, post:15, topic:9538”]Maybe it’s all a dream or VR-trip gone bad?

Maybe it’s all some person playing a video game???[/quote]
Maybe its happening in you blender when you mix too many weird stuff in it.[/quote]

Maybe it all just 42[/quote]
I don’t understand that.[/quote]
Hitch-hikers Guide to the cataclysm galaxy[/quote]
Oh

[deoxy]

[quote=“Frostwood, post:1, topic:9538”][center]Factions[/center]

[center]Zombies[/center]

Goals: Destroy non-blob[/quote]

This part of the lore would make more sense to the players if zombies and blobs didn’t kill each other…

[Nathan]

So what's going on in the rest of the world while this is happening? These portal facilities seem to have been cutting edge science, they couldn't have existed in every country. What's happening in South America and Europe and Africa and so forth?

When the portal surge happened, the military responded by bombing them with high energy weaponry(big bombs). This caused some of the portals to close, others to become permenant, and others to shift position all over planet Earth.