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[livemoore]

[ She's felt so restless for a number of different reasons, and she keeps picking up her device, not sure who she's wanting to reach out to, who she wants to be reaching out to, so finally, she just addresses the network at large. ]

So, getting drunk for multiple days after you die. Par for the course, or just me?

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[talesuntold]

It's been twenty seven years. [Maggie's whole lifetime. She has no memories of a world without the reality of the walking dead.] The Rising was a worldwide disaster, but some parts of the world righted themselves much more quickly than others.

My parents made their fortune by shifting every penny they had into medical technology just before the stock market froze. Their theory was that either money would become meaningless in a full economic breakdown, or people would care more about their health if society managed to right itself.

[livemoore]

Wow, your parents are smart. And proactive. Was the...Rising slow? And are the dead fast or more of the shuffle around variety?

[ She can't help but be curious, especially when there was time to invest before everything collapsed. Maybe it was more like what was happening back home, where it's a few zombies at a time until people start to notice something isn't right. ]

[talesuntold]

It spread fast, before people were entirely certain what was happening. Mainstream news outlets didn't help by trying to sweep things under the rug. The period from 2014 to 2018 is referred to as the Rising, but it was everywhere long before the end of that time. And when I say everywhere, I don't just mean a few scattered reanimated corpses in each town. Every mammal on earth is infected. Any mammal over forty pounds will get back up after dying, or turn if exposed to the virus in its amplified state, rather than the dormant version all of us have.

As for how fast they move, it depends how long ago they died. They slow down as their bodies deteriorate.

[livemoore]

...Wow. That's different than...well, what's happened in Wonderland when zombies come to town. I mean, there was a huge thing where we were all in a neighborhood and it's not that they were tricky there were just thousands of them? It overwhelmed the neighborhood pretty easily.

[ But, there is some silver lining here. ]

I'm glad humanity manages to figure itself out. At least eventually.

[talesuntold]

We figure it out to an extent. There's a very prevalent culture of fear. People are afraid all the time, isolation is the norm, and most people shy away from touching anyone besides their nearest and dearest.

[livemoore]

I mean, I can't blame them.

[ Is her world far from that, at this point? All signs point to chaos very, very soon. ]

But time fixes a lot, I guess. Or so the saying about healing all wounds goes.

[talesuntold]

People are becoming more afraid rather than less. I'm also a journalist, and the CDC is quite literally killing to bury stories, on a large scale.

If time fixes things, twenty seven years isn't enough.

[livemoore]

But...why? If things are getting marginally better and steps toward progress are being made, then what's the point of trying to cover anything else up?

[ She also doesn't understand this particular zombie apocalypse. ]