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It really depends on how human in mind vampires are. Demon infested corpses wouldn't care about such trappings of life the way the tragic cursed blood drinkers of some more modern myths would.
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09-03-2016, 12:47 PM | #143 |
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In this very early worldline, time passes at 1/100th homeline speed, but only on Earth. Earth is uninhabitably bathed in 100-fold magnified sunlight.
The strange thing is, the surface structures suggest that the date is 1945. Clearly something has "slowed" earth, and nobody knows what. |
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It's less like a delusional mindset and more like an instinctive impulse to not tell anyone unless you know they already know and to hide the evidence as best you can.
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09-03-2016, 02:24 PM | #145 | |
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That's not any better. It's pretty much the insane self destructive sadistic idiocy required for zombie shows. People are selfish, but not that much and not that way unless completely unhinged. But as a genre convention it's entertaining, until and unless outsiders come in and lampshade the whole farce. Like someone wandering into a musical and wondering why the heck everyone just breaks out into choreographed dance and song at random times.
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Capgrass:
In 1977, a psionic static field appeared encompassing the Earth. The field disrupts the human ability to recognize individuals. Faces, names, and identity are simply disconnected; A native looking at someone else simply sees a stranger. In effect, each person has Zeroed(Psionic), with all the implications. Long-term, everyone might be said to appear identical and generic except for the most broad statements of phenotype. Society began to collapse immediately. Even parents can only presume that a child is their own by estimating age and apparent relation, and government officials could be impersonated with trivial ease. Within three days, an individual was gunned down while claiming to be the President, and the President was never conclusively identified thereafter, but noone can say for sure that the President was slain. It's 1995 and a generation has passed never knowing their parents. Names are fading, and people are mainly known by their skills or abilities. Population has fallen dramatically, in part because disease is rising while the organization needed to inoculate and treat people has broken down. Food distribution is functioning only slightly better. |
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I don't see how you can recognize people by skills if you can't recall which people have what skills. On the other hand, names still seem perfectly workable, everyone just needs a nametag. Eventually you want a state issued somewhat difficult to forge nametag I suppose, but really pieces of tape are probably good enough to keep society from collapsing.
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Capgras delusion is much worse than mere face/voice blindness. It's a short circuit where the brain rationalizes the lack of emotional identification of technically correct appearances with some internally consistent but insane explanation from fairy dopplegangers to aliens to spies.
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Capgras delusion is an interesting direction to go though.
Some infectious agent that causes massive numbers of otherwise ultra rare specific delusions could be its own designation of hell worlds. Cotard delusion infested worlds where one completely believes themselves to be dead or not even exist could be a very weird tragic "zombie" parallel.
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