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From a recent solo outing. Thought i'd hold this one back until I found out some other fucker had already put it all over the net!
Graff aint what it used to be...Back in the day if you wanted to see a piece you would have to get off your arse and go and find it !!
Nowadays you find your shit all over the net before youv'e even decided what you want to do with it... Drives me fuckin nuts!!
HOLY GADUNKA! Once a common rahi, now mutated and enhanced by the Mask of Life, can the Toa Mahri defeat this powered up bottom-dweller?!
-PRISONERS OF THE PIT-
The original of this shot was ok but not too interesting. During editing I slipped into crazy mode, as though I'd popped over to a cupboard to get a screwdriver an instead fallen through a special portal and ended up in some other worldly dimension where normality is on holiday and all manner of unpredictable things can occur, and this is how the shot ended up.
Bacteria may mutate more rapidly in space and scientists theorize patterns of those mutations could help predict how pathogens become resistant to antibiotics. Such predictions could, in turn, be used to develop new drugs to use against those pathogens. Antibiotic resistant pathogens or bacteria is a growing world-wide health concern. The long-term use of many common antibiotics has led to some diseases becoming resistant to drug therapy, which can lead to longer and more complicated illnesses.
A proof-of-concept investigation, Nanobiosym Genes, is sending two strains of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria to the International Space Station. Investigators will compare patterns of their mutations to the same organisms grown on Earth in order to refine computational algorithms that predict mutations leading to antibiotic resistance.
BioServe Space Technologies at the University of Colorado, Boulder integrated this investigation, which is hosted in four BioCells Habitats and BioServe’s Space Automated Bioproduct Lab (SABL).
“More than 25 years ago, I had the hypothesis that environment has an effect on how genes mutate and evolve, or express themselves,” principal investigator Anita Goel, chairman and scientific director at Nanobiosym Inc in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said. Goel holds a doctorate of philosophy in physics and a doctor of medicine degree. “This investigation allows me to study whether we can make mutations happen by changing the environment. The first step is to understand, everything else being the same, how does microgravity affect the rate and the pattern of mutations? Some data suggest that microgravity speeds up mutations, but we don’t know the mechanism of how the environment might play a role.”
Data from the investigation can define the mutational spectrum. Combining that with algorithms can improve the ability to predict mutations, including those that lead to drug resistance.
“We can model which way drug resistance will go and use that to develop better, smarter drugs,” Goel said. “A bug can mutate in the presence of a drug and become resistant. We’re trying to get ahead of that, predict those mutations, and be ready with a drug when they show up.”
While this work is starting with infectious diseases, it can potentially be used with anything that has a DNA marker, including cancer.
There are two key steps: first, a tool that analyzes DNA or RNA, and second, algorithms to determine the right therapy for the particular disease. Goel’s company, Nanobiosym, has developed a device called Gene-RADAR that conducts the first step.
“In principle, we can provide real-time diagnosis of any disease with an RNA or DNA signature or genetic fingerprint,” she said. “Ultimately, we can build tools to decentralize health care delivery on Earth, to diagnose diseases in real time in a village in Africa or your own home, just with a drop of blood or saliva. Right now those tests can take weeks to months. The device fits in your hand, so we also can put it on the space station to do analysis and research.”
That real-time analysis has important applications in space. Currently, experiments aboard the space station are brought back to Earth for gene analysis. The device could conduct some analyses in space and send only the data back to Earth. Astronauts could immediately test for DNA life forms in samples collected on Mars, for example, or diagnosis their own infections.
Mutant pathogens in space hardly stand a chance.
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Mutated, ugly and more organic in appearance, these rahi are altered versions of the creatures seen in 2001, altered by Mahri nui's mutagen in 2007.
It was an interesting proposal to work with, especially when using pieces like Pridak's head which I felt at the time would be difficult to use in the figure.
as much as possible I wanted to achieve a fearsome appearance, which was close to the illustrated concept.
enjoy it!!
I tip my fedora once more. A mutated one comes for me. I conjure the magic with ease.
Despite the forces being repelled slowly, thanks to us lowering by the shields me and Lucien created, it isn't too much good. The rest are running low on equipment, suffice to say we could be overpowered any moment by Vertex or whoever appears.
Luc is getting tired, and my guns are outta bullets.
It could be true already. Day of reckoning, something wasn't right...
And I blacked out.
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We're chained to woods, like we're sinners. The sky is pitch black, and using the wind, I blow it off, revealing that my allies are nothing more at a nearly dead state.
I was crucified, our armor and gear gone, so were the weapons. The town was nothing more than a wasteland.
Then he appeared, speak of the Devil. Creek himself, out of the shadows. He must have wiped out Korea...or did he not?
Creek: "The moment has come--you thought you could win? Very pathetic. Humans are such weak creatures that you indulge in your little fantasies and powers nothing is worth of accomplishment."
Magnus: "What is this? Entrapment?"
Creek: "No...pain. You revel in your dreams, in your victories, but nothing is worth than a loop of memories."
Magnus: "We lost?"
Creek: "I would not define loss until you are seeing it. You are experiencing it right now."
Magnus: "What the..."
I feel the burn on my chest, the soreness and numbness all around my body. I look at the others, as they are tortured in different ways. Creek's snake like tail slithers towards Koles, as he reaches with his bony hand, scarring the old man. He is awaken by the grotesque creature himself.
Shit, he is even worse than Frankenstein's monster, a mess of a creation; a mix of everything, from winged bats to ghouls...it was frankly disgusting. I really wanted to look away, but I couldn't. Koles proceeds to speak despite the blood dripping on his face, wanting to lash out with his mangled body.
Koles: "You think you've achieved victory? You never did. There is no balance."
Creek: "But I have. How many lies have you told, Doctor Valeryvich? How many?"
Koles: "Long enough to sustain my lives. We're not even blood relatives, Creek...you're a horrible piece of shit."
Creek: "But you created me. Here. Indirectly thanks to your friends, who thought I could be a otherworldy, sentient creature to overtake the Black Death, to purge of it."
Koles: "The best intentions were taken over because you were seduced by the power of the Vampire King! You gained awareness..."
Creek: "Yes. But betrayal and suffering is too much, now it is your turn along with yours. My army, shall we?"
He raises his other hand, a transparent shape of what seems to be claws, and the moonlight unravels, revealing the judges. They were in cohorts all along, this whole time. And the rest were hooded figures. Seems like the worst type of cult to me. What in the hell was this...
And the rest was sprawled, littered with corpses. I identify a body with the neck sliced, presumably died under Wyndham's sword.
Nord: "We will bring suffering to you. Unlike Seams, who was unworthy, he had to be gone. Too much humanity in him."
Graybane: "Unlike the rest, we are creatures who will be judge, jury and executioner. We decide your fate as we should."
Thow: "Given the circumstances, we do what we will. Suffer in pain."
Nord: "These weaklings must be cleansed. No purification."
Graybane: "Let it commence."
Thow: "So it begins..."
He wasn't joking.
Rowena had her guts splattered out, her organs...the torture was feeding on her ability of regeneration, Preston...Sean...everyone else.
Koles: "Enough of this, if you wanted to settle it, go after me, not my own team."
Creek: "But I certainly will, regardless. Like the judges say, we decide, not you. The suffering is you watching your team slowly dying from pain, one by one."
Koles: "No--"
Creek: "Obey me Valeryvich, and say no more."
I couldn't do much either. My trenchcoat was beyond damage, and even if I could repair it, I needed the right parts conjured from magic. But with one last trick up my sleeve, I needed to act.
A teleportation stone could get me out of here. But it's rare given the fact that highly advanced magic users knew how to use it. I wriggle and try to shake from the chains, but the crucifixion pains me too much....I have to try harder.
With one more breath, I tap into the stone, teleporting out of here before I know everything else.
I have to survive.
A small ape-like creature has been mutated and controlled by the Skull Spiders! Now the beast seeks to attack the villagers of Okoto. Fight back with the mighty Master of Plasma, using the dual shoulder-mounted blasters and energy spikes! But watch out for the Skull Slasher's razor-sharp claws!
Today I picked up Pohatu, Kopaka, and the Protectors of Ice and Fire. Fantastic parts packs. I decided to build some characters using only parts from those sets. These were the first attempts.
The Wizards age is unknown, but his life has lasted for eons, but because of severe senility he can’t even remember himself anything before the last century, perhaps he was even around when the Ancient Centaurs ruled the world in antiquity? His skin is like the old parchments he reads thick, wrinkled, stained and lifeless…
…he is quite a genius but his fading mind often makes him forget to write down any progress or amazing inventions and spells, but he is without doubt the inventor of Nuclear power, the penny fall and space travel, even though some were discovered by pure accident…
…at first he had no ambitions of his own except for a thirst for knowledge, but his ego corrupted him in the end when he collaborated with the Mad Monk Ras and gathered minions and waged a civil war in the capital…
…otherwise he loved to seduce the females of the kingdom (and otherwhere) and write smutty romantic literature that sold like butter melts in warm wether even though his income was good he could never get enough gold since he had sold his soul to devils to obtain the power of real magic…
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Bebop & Rocksteady Hit the Road!
Everyone’s favorite mutated masters of mayhem, Bebop and Rocksteady, are road tripping back to NYC! But before they can get started on their journey across America, they run into a crazy old enemy who’s bent on derailing their trip before it can begin!
Venom: First Host (2018) # 5 (of 5)
As if things couldn't get any worse, Tel-Kar, THE FIRST HOST, has set his sights on Earth! Though this Kree soldier may have been a war hero for his beloved homeworld, he has no such affections for Earth…and all that's standing between him and the planet…IS VENOM!
Vampirella: Roses For The Dead # 1
Fan Favorite artist Joe Michael Linsner is joined by writer Kristina Deak-Linsner to create a 4 issue Vampirella mini-series that gets Vampi back-to-basics as Dynamite prepares to celebrate her 50th Anniversary in 2019! Vampirella hunts down a sexual predator in order to feed her insatiable thirst for blood. While tracking him down to a Philadelphia nightclub, Evily the Witch bars her path. They clash and the plan is thwarted. Do they both decide to team up against him, or remain at odds? Whatever the means, Vampi vows to get revenge!
SO MANY OCs! Also, this will be a really long post, so just sit tight and relax.
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Goop:
Real Name: Unknown
Powers/Abilities, Can shapeshift into any shape at will and power absorption.
Weaknesses: Weighs one pound and a small gust of wind can easily blow him away.
Equipment: Rainboots
Backstory: A cosmic rock hit Earth's surface causing a hunk of goop to explode out. The goop would soon get into a school and mutated into a child's art project making Goop. Goop would soon go into the Saviors' Headquarters by accident and gets recruited by showing his powers.
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Botanist:
Real Name: Jerry Cruz
Powers/Abilities: Plant Empowerment (gives strength and durability after getting some life force from plants.) and Plant Growth
Weaknesses: Has a soft side for animals.
Equipment: Uniform and fertilizer.
Backstory: Jerry's parents were botanists. They converted their garage and backyard to plant research facilities and Jerry was tired of unable to be in certain rooms, so he decided to start destroying the plants. However, he accidentally broke a shelf and an experimental plant fell and hit his head causing a concussion. A few years later, Jerry learned about his powers and joined the Saviors. Soon after the Saviors hired Goop, Jerry took care of Goop and even decided to adopt it.
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Firestarter:
Real Name: Robby Hildebrant
Powers/Abilities: Fire Generation, Temperature Manipulation, and is Fireproof
Weaknesses: Water can extinguish his fires, needs to drink water in order to stay hydrated in the heat, and is heavy due to his Flamethrower.
Equipment: Flamethrower, uniform, grapple hook, and foldable hatchet
Backstory: Robby had an average childhood and life. Nothing really happened until his family’s home started burning with flames. Robby was the only one home and he knew he had to do something to stop it. He tried all of the things expected to stop a fire, but it kept burning. It was only until he stepped in the fire that he learnt that he had superpowers. After turning 18, he set out to become the superhero he thought of as Firestarter.
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Blackhawk
Real Name: Frank Willis
Powers/Abilities: Smart Engineer with Superhuman Strength and Durability.
Weaknesses: Frank is an alcoholic.
Equipment: A specially designed pistol (Taser and grapple-hook), a lasso, and a variety of grenades.
Backstory: A former professional pilot and actor that needed to have some fun. Life was boring for him so Frank decided to start stopping small crimes. Apparently he got praise from it and decided to fight more. The people also agreed, so Frank started the Saviors group. After a few superheroes joined, Frank bought out a small area of an office building and converted it into a tourist attraction and the Saviors' Headquarters. Sadly, during the first phases of the Saviors Group, the superheroes that joined were killed during a mission causing Willis to become an alcoholic. He would have the same charm during a mission, but he ain't what he was after. A few years later, he reopened the Saviors group and he hired 6 heroes, Firestarter, Phaser, Streak, Titan, Botanist and Goop.
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Titan:
Real Name: Chandler Timberland
Powers/Abilities: Size Manipulation (Strength and Durability when he grows)
Weaknesses: Slower the bigger he gets, also, Chad has a tendency of not planning ahead.
Equipment: Uniform
Backstory: Chandler used to be a bully at school. He would get people to do his homework until one day, the bully victims decided to teach him a lesson. They made him a pill that would supposedly make him fat, instead it made Chandler grow in size. Realizing what happened, Chandler tried to say sorry, instead he crushed 5 people. He ran off into an alleyway and got help from a fellow student, Autumn Hendricks. Chandler soon joined the Saviors with his new girlfriend, Autumn Hendricks and they are known as Titan and Streak.
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Streak:
Real Name: Autumn Hendricks
Powers/Abilities: Super-Human Speed and Durability
Weaknesses: Motion Sickness while running at fast speeds
Equipment: Uniform
Backstory: Autumn who was born in a family with lots of health issues. She was the only lucky one with an issue that would be useful. She was born with superhuman speed. Autumn would grow up always knowing that she had powers and she is extremely skilled with them. During her high-school years, she met someone in an alleyway. His name was Chandler (Titan). She taught him how to use his powers for good. Chandler and Autumn soon joined the Saviors as Titan and Streak.
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Phaser:
Real Name: Clark Jenkins
Powers/Abilities: Can phase through any object
Weaknesses: Often works alone and has no super-human strength whatsoever.
Equipment: Uniform and Pepper-Spray
Backstory: Clark has been lifelong friends to another hero, Firestarter (Robby Hildebrante). When Clark was a little boy, his parents were desperate for money and needed to feed Clark. They got a job from a scientist and Clark’s parents were supposed to make a formula that would grant the powers of Jesus Christ. Unfortunately, Clark as a young child accidentally drank the formula. Clark had no idea that he had powers until a fight happened at school where Clark phased through a bully’s punch and threw him (Buckshot) through a window injuring his arm and messing up his face. Clark would soon be expelled from school and spend some time in jail. After being released, he realized he needed to use his powers for good. Clark would go back to his parents’ home and ask them to make a costume for him that was made of unstable molecules so he can stay in his costume and phase through objects at the same time (his parents lost the science job and got money from buying stocks.) Clark finally knowing his powers would go out into the world fighting small crimes as Phaser.
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now i know bugger all about how this happens...but im glad it does.....come on then clever peeps who knows what causes this????
Health authorities on Wednesday said their latest investigation found how a mutated strain of coronavirus has possibly spread in Hong Kong.
The Centre for Health Protection found a possible link between the infection of a man who flew in from Dubai in March and three foreign domestic helpers who came down with Covid-19 recently, all of whom have contracted the same mutated strain of coronavirus, N501Y.
Officials previously said they couldn’t find any link among the cases.
The centre said after extensive contact tracing, it found that the man from Dubai and his friend attended a family gathering at a public housing flat in Chai Wan on April 13.
Three people who were at the Chai Wan gathering then attended a get-together at a flat in Sham Shui Po on April 18 which the three helpers were present.
The trio, who came down with the infection subsequently, work in Tung Chung, Kornhill and Pok Fu Lam. Hundreds of households at the residential buildings where they live have been sent to quarantine.
Authorities have also put under quarantine those who attended the two gatherings, and anyone who’s been to the two buildings in Chai Wan and Sham Shui Po in the past three weeks are required to get tested for Covid-19.
The centre added that two of those who joined the gatherings work at Urban Bakery Works and Oliver's the Delicatessen in Central, and anyone who’s been to these two shops will have to be tested.
(20210505 RTHK News)
I made this drawing right after i drew "get on up" and it is funny to see them side by side. I pretty much just made the same drawing twice
Encino, California. Mutabilis was introduced prior to 1894 and is one of the most famous and beloved of the old garden roses. Amazing medium sized single blossoms that pass through three distinct color phases (hence the name Mutabilis, since the blooms “mutate” in color) beginning with yellow, changing to pink, and finally to crimson. Mutabilis is also known as “The Butterfly Rose” because its blossoms look like brightly colored butterflies that have landed on the bush.
A mutated zombie mocks ZDC Agent Brad Park. Being mocked by a zombie has a strong demoralizing effect on these agents.
Macro Mutations
It is well-known that viruses mutate. The current COVID-19 virus already has at least 2 variations, likely from mutations.
With this in mind, I must announce a shocking finding; the discovery of the most dramatic viral mutations ever observed in the annuls of science. Yes, I admit that my revelations have not been well-received by the scientific community, and in fact, I have been labeled a fraud and purveyor of fake news. This time, however, my astounding observations will send shockwaves throughout the immunological research teams of the world.
I have found two corona virus specimens that have grown exponentially to the point that they are a looming danger to planetary bodies and even supernatural celestial beings! I fear that if our globe is infected there will be cataclysmic symptoms such as earthquakes, floods and storms of biblical proportions. Furthermore, if celestial supernatural beings were to catch this ailment, all of their faithful followers would be plunged into despair.
We must stop this affliction now before it goes cosmic!
This photo was taken by a Kowa/SIX medium format film camera and KOWA 1:3.5/55mm lens with a Zenza Bronica 67mm SY48•2C(Y2) filter using Kodak 400TX film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitalized by Photoshop.
Part One of Two
Humanity and architecture are not invariable, both are no longer part of a place, both mutate over time, their bodies and their souls are transformed according to need and function, their shape and size dimensions. skins reflect images and inspire ideas. Both are actors engaged in the perverse game of iconicism and symbolism. Both are dependent on the "star system", "reality TV", instant news, global communication.
It is for this reason that architecture and communication are in my eyes the main pillars of the globalized world. Both "format" the human environment, material and virtual, they allow him to be Present "here and now": a deterritorialized "here" and a timeless "now". Architecture becomes sign, icon, symbol, "a phenomenological consideration of our architectural relationship suggests to us that normally we enjoy architecture as a fact of communication even without excluding functionality" functionality which would in a way become a " second function ”from the point of view of communication according to the precepts of Eco (Eco, 1972).
The identity issue is far-reaching, amplified by the search for the “sensational” both among decision-makers caught up in the globalized trend and in search of recognition, and among promoters seeking to dazzle customers bewitched by the proliferation of forms that “ take your breath away ”. The architectures therefore become more and more "stimulating objects" which stand out and mark the place by their too powerful presence.
This tendency which makes architecture "the stimulating object" and not "a preparatory stimulus which replaces the stimulating object" 16 increases tenfold the impact of its "presence" which becomes almost hegemonic in its communicative approaches to a certain culture (or civilization to use the terms linked to the September 11, 2001 clash). This brings us back to the days of absolutism, or of the conquerors of past centuries, who replaced the culture of the place with their own. At this level, the possible damage incurred in new towns without an urban past is not enormous, but in memorial towns such as Beirut the impact is severe, both historically and from a socio-cultural point of view.
In the tumultuous framework of contemporary architecture where the race for "signatures" is becoming an important, if not essential, paradigm of presence on the map of a world that is excessively globalizing, there are many examples. From Asian metropolises suffering from suffocating overcrowding to emerging desert cities whose supply outrageously exceeds demand, examples of image and message architecture abound. What is the impact of place and history on these global cities? Some of these cities have been involved in the race since the creation of the phenomenon, and the impact of ancient history and the original place is no longer real: a new urban layer has formed erasing the previous ones or the original ones. relegating to the level of the “historic basement”. While other cities (emerging from the desert) are in a non-place, an immense void without history or architectural identity of their own, which brings us back to a simple observation: an abundance of parachuted architectural objects which “fill” a space. more or less vast, like a large display of masterpieces. It’s like a permanent universal exhibition.
By questioning Architecture through different examples and periods up to our contemporary world, we obtain many answers to existential questions that seem enigmatic to us. The phenomenon of communication or expression through architecture is not independent of the antagonism that led to the clash of civilizations. Through its Presence, architecture configures the world of man, responding to his material needs, but also to his aspirations, dreams and ideals. She carries her Ideas within her, reflects her "vision" or her images and communicates her Messages. It contributes to enchantment by building a new world. But she can also destroy it by assaulting her senses and polluting her minds with the ideas she reflects.
The architectural work also marks the place through its presence, it stigmatizes it and becomes a symbol or image, landmark, milestone in an international journey that takes on the aspect of a challenge, seeing a new war of power through emblematic buildings. This architecture which we call “Landmark” becomes an essential paradigm of presence and mutation. Its essential mission is to be beyond the instrument, an ever more innovative precept of communication. Architecture, through this new dimension, becomes an inescapable factor of stability and continuation of the world. A conveyor of the future not just a mirror of the past. But what future is it all about? What is the Image of this new world
that we that we create? This constructed world takes into account the "genius of the place ”of its identity, its history or are we transforming. . .”Our physical environment in a kind of constipated void devoid of meaning”
Architecture thereby becomes a major and main instrument of presence and communication of these cities to plural societies. The identification with these cities and the values they carry become universal. They are the cities par excellence of a globalized world where each inhabitant identifies with them regardless of their origins and identity. The architect is not required to respect a history or a "genius of the place" he must only make an object that fits in with contemporaneity juggling with materials and technology to meet new challenges: those of communicating and to communicate through an Architecture that makes people talk about it. In this game of "universal cities" there is no longer any place for indigenous cultures or identities which must necessarily come to terms with the idea of having to transform into citizens of the world, deny their own identity for the benefit of a globality. conqueror, to blend into the image of a universalized world, to ensure their presence in their own city which is no longer theirs since they no longer identify with it. The architect himself imposes his signature by marking a place often taking into account only the criteria of overall architecture. By this fact he imposes (in conjunction with the client, the promoter, and socio-political bodies) his ideas, his image and his communication, but his architecture juxtaposed to that of his colleague does not have the same presence as only object if she was alone. Ideas, Images and communication thereby create a polyphony which can become quite confusing. As at the time of the creation of the Manhattan district, each one will go further and higher, downgrading his neighbor even before his work-challenge is completed.
The antithesis would obviously be the city that develops on the basis of the criteria of identity and values specific to the place. Contemporary architecture is in line with the idea of continuation and images that integrate without creating a break between the past, the present and the future. The new therefore adapts to the old while remaining faithful to the precepts of contemporary architecture in terms of both function and form and new technologies. The architecture that takes root in the place marks it with its presence, but taking care not to distort it. The "brand" is not meant to be a wound but a signature, a variation on the theme, an inscription in today's world. With this in mind, the architect tries to find a way to get the place out of its rigid anchorage to the world of today. Its architecture communicates through its ability to be a link, a window on the contemporary world. A kind of mistrust, against architecture, modern imbued with the old, or the opposite. But this gymnastics is only done within the “intramural” framework of towns with a strong historical character. We cannot generalize it and extrapolate it to “character” cities that are trying to become emerging landmarks in the contemporary world. In other words, these cities cannot become global because they are too steeped in local culture. A citizen of the globalized world cannot identify with it, it is the place of change of scenery to ways of excellencies.
Zombies:
Basic undead that move slowly and die fairly easy. Most of them die from rotting too much or falling over. They can be killed with basically anything.
Red Zombies:
Zombies that are covered in red ooze, can run faster, jump higher, and rot slower. A lot slower. The ooze can be washed off the zombie if it is sprayed with water. They can only be found in dry warm places such as deserts. Symptoms of the ooze coming into contact with a human are: rashes, weakness, and the immune system being shut down. They can be killed with sturdy melee weapons and most firearms.
Tar Zombies:
Zombies that are covered in a thick, tar-like substance. They can swim fast and have feet that almost seem webbed. They are only in hot humid places such swamps.
Crushers:
A monster that is in-between being human and zombie. They have the capacity of thinking, unlike zombies. Crushers use their huge arms to crush and rip apart their prey. They also have the ability to charge and ram into walls with ease. They can be killed with sharp spears, or high caliber weapons. THESE ARE NOT ZOMBIES, THEY ARE STILL LIVING!
Zombified Crusher:
A very stupid and slow version of a Crusher. If a crusher is killed by zombies, it becomes a this. They can be killed the same way as Crusher.
Camouflaged Zombies:
Four-armed zombies that blend into their surroundings. They usually live in trees and jump down on their prey. They can sprint for a short time, but after approximately 50 feet, the give up. They can be killed with sharp melee weapons and medium to high caliber firearms.
Stalker Zombies:
Zombies that can run really fast and sneak around quietly. They usually are loners. They can be killed with most firearms. (melee is a bery bad idea for these guys)
Brute Zombies:
Giant, fat, and ugly. They spew out vomit that turns humans into zombies very quickly. They take longer to rot than all the other zombies. They can be killed with long sharp melee weapons, and high caliber firearms.
Spitter Zombies:
Spitters are zombies that have the ability to puke vomit that infects its victim. It takes about a minute for one to succumb to the effect of the infected vomit. Spitters also have warts and boils that can burst with more vomit like substance. Spitters are also extremely fast and agile. It is recommended that you use medium caliber firearms to kill them.
Mauler Zombies:
These zombies have larger fists and feet, and can punch with great force. They have very small heads, and rot just as fast as a basic zombie.They do not last long by themselves due to their weak heads and slow movement. They have slow moving packs and attack anything that moves. You can use just about and weapon to smash their tiny little heads in.
Banshees:
Banshees are mutated zombies that often go into the female gene. Banshees have the ability to alert any other zombies to a target. After screaming, they will start sprinting toward you and will not stop until you or it is dead. It is very rare for a male to become a Banshee. A Banshee decays slower, but can be killed with pretty much everything. Even though they are very easy to kill, they alert other zombies that are in a 1 mile radius.
Crazies:
Insane people that have not been mutated at all. They are found mostly in the mid west surrounding Texas since that is where the nuclear bomb was dropped. They become more insane the closer you get to the drop point of the nuke. Some are less insane such as the Hooded Warrior's Gas Empire. He has made a truce with Fort Ducced, thus becoming our ally. He supplies Fort Ducced with gasoline, diesel, and other liquids.
...Hello and welcome to my deprived sick head!
Who am I? well I am mostly Known as the Mad-Monk but my real name is according to some sources Vlad Ras! or in Neo-Greek spelling: Влад Рас and the far easterlings call me: 邪悪なひげ猿, I am ancient and have many names through history!
You might wonder what is my game? what makes this person tick, what does he long for, what is his dreams?
I will answer those questions now! or some of them I guess, I am not really a Monk, I just proclaimed that I was one and people believe me, but I was really born in a small village on the boundary of the Slavic and Nordic lands, my mum was a Nordic named Anna-Ulla and my father was of slavic origin named Slav, Slavovic, Slavic!
...no one knows that, since I killed all in my birth-village when I was thirteen, that is including my parents a siblings, I didn´t want a past and also they were no longer any use to me...
But you wonder, what I want, do I want Money? Sex? Power?
No! all of those are just means to what I want, what I really like in life is to manipulate, manipulate just for the sake of manipulation, often I do enjoy to humiliate people, get them to do things against their own will and morals, pull hope out of their bodies and humiliate them, make them crawl for me before I execute them in what manner amuses me at the moment...
You ask yourself: is this monk who killed all of his closest capable of love...
I will surprise you since I am capable of love, not romantic or sexual such, no that sort is nothing for me!
...but I do love myself when I have pulled strings, been the puppet-master and played people like cards in a good hand in a poker game against each others...
when I miscalculate on the other hand I loath my self, I hate when I have made mistakes, this of cause happens very rarely! since I am near to perfect...
I haven´t got a weakness that most humans carry, that is a heart, I cannot feel empathy, that makes it possible for me to think clearer than most, since love to others make them predictable and easy to manipulate, I don´t feel hate either, I don´t hate my fellow humans, I just don´t care for them...
So to explain for you who I am, let´s look at an incident of what happen today...
it was early morning and I was sitting in my throne room plotting, then flap of giant wings came from above, a ghastly beast with a letter in his hand landed in front of me, my imperial guards rushed forwards to kill the freakish monster and save their ruler...
I stopped them, the beast, half-bat, half human could speak so it started speaking in a hardly degenerated way, with squeaks and ultrasound but my acute mind-maze could translate the nasty beast sounds as a deranged form of human language, it said:
Master, I come here with a letter of our latest spying activities, you might now recognize me, but I am one of the wizards working for Queen Esmeralda...
Why I look like this, well it was an experiment, we had some problems with the bats you sent us to send you so my mage master that is the senior mage injected me with a potion made out of bat-DNA and then I turned like this, the mage, the senior one, he told me that you might be able to help me,since your are a very mighty mage... I can´t stand living like this my hearing is so improved it is torture a whisper sound like an earthquake!
Please help me master...
That poor guy, ha, ha, he had really screwed up that little looks he had, been turned in to a beast... so what do you think I did? Help him, ha, ha, ha NO! this was amusing, interesting, I said to my imperial guard to archive the letter with the information and then bind that bat-wizard and take him to the onion-church clocktower, I told them not to ring the bells until I was ready to watch him suffer, oh he laid jerking and twisting at the floor when we rang the bells! sadly the chock killed him, in avery contracted painful way...
then we put him in formalin and sold him to a oligarch Freak-collector...
Why did I do this you wonder? wouldn´t he be worth more alive? Yes he might have been that and yes that you might point out that the other wizard at The Queens court would become more eager to please me after hearing the news of what happened to his mutated friend!
But, Really That is NOT the reason I did it, the reason I did it was because I could, I like to be god, so perhaps I have to correct my own previous words, what really makes me tick is power, but not such power a king or queen has, no Power to humiliate and cause paint, watch a victim beg for it´s life, breaking people down... that is the sole thing that makes me tick!
I am not an Evil man I just lack Empathy!!! ...and really is that my fault?
transform, 2001, 60"w x 40"h, mixed media painting on canvas
transform = transformation = transmute = transubstantiate = metamorphose = translate = convert = change = mutate = reform = modify = revolutionize = tweak
*Exhibited at Sandra Goldie Gallery, Montreal, Canada, group show. Nov15-26.05.
Like many people, I've been heavily influenced recently by the weird and wonderful world that is p r i m e r. Whilst he is clearly under the influence of some psychotropic substance, being controlled by a band of talented but twisted monkeys, abducted and returned by unkind aliens or somehow living simultaneously in this world and another dimension, I think he's really quite good. I spent some time the other day trying to mentally deconstruct some of his more recent pictures in a 'how would I replicate that if I had to' kind of way. After I regained consciousness, I reflected that I could see how some things were done, and not others. Of course coming up with the idea in the first place is another matter. The reason I mention all this, is pre-amble to the fact that I was wondering to myself, whilst walking the hills and dales of Derbyshire: 'What would Kevin do?' Of course, no human mind could possibly comprehend that bit, so I had to settle for 'what shall I do, influenced by hallucinogenic, 9th dimension, mutated, alien technology monkeys?'
And this was it.
Thanks Kevin.
- Calling all scientific personell at HQ, we have managed to capture the Mutated alien crayfish, we have sedated it I mean seducted is shrinking and transmutates all off the time so hurry up all scientific personell this is not a drill, unless you bring your drill for experiments hurry of before the alien-critter and mutated life-form activists get here, we are gonna have some really fun in a classic unknown alien autopsy, bring all your tools because we are gonna experiment all night, Tjoohooo!