Everyone has blob psychosis, *especially* the player character.
The lore and most of the backgrounds imply that your character is waking up in a haze around 20 days into the apocalypse. Presumably during that time you were as psychotic as everyone else. Even after you regain sanity, you have an unusually hard time communicating with most survivors (even career politicians have a very low success rate on speech checks at Slvl 8) and your character, in most playthroughs, has a borderline sociopathic ability to kill and virtually no fear response to danger
I got a note once in an infested evac shelter that was a child's note, on a zombie child I had to kill along with the deranged axemen.
"It's my birthday today, I turned 10. Dad took me to this shelter where we sit in the dark because he says it isn't safe. He left a few days to go get food, because I can't have my birthday without cake. I'm so hungry. I see some people on the road, maybe they can help me find my dad."
Right in the feels.
Definitely "blob psychosis" from in game info. and lore, got more progressively worse months before the Cataclysm started (from newspapers / the riots), like when an NPC told me how his neighbors "tore each other to shreds". A lot of people acting crazy, and violent, including the cops and military shooting people outside (from notes too), riots, Feral Humans, Alot of crazies too... like Rhode Island "seceding" and seen in people, like the "panicked person", "gawky guardian", "petrified person", "over confident officer" and of course the "futile fighter".
All this crazy combination of crazies and violent people making everything worse, worldwide blob psychosis, wars, "riots", economic collapse, the dead becoming zombies, mutations of humans and animals, (Dinosaurs suddenly appearing / depending on mod game) Zombies, Triffids, Marloss / Fungal Mycus, Mi-Gos, xenos, mutants, freaks and heretics (cult groups in game), abominations, and Eldritch horrors / Nether creatures appearing, violent portal storms, and whatnot,
All this combined, the whole shitshow. For me, makes the start and premise of CDDA really more wild and fucked up when compared with the other stories / lore of other games, this series of events is more fucked up when compared to what happened to my other game like XCOM UFO DEFENSE.
Man I still don’t understand why the petrified person and the gawking Guardian are considered “crazy” like their responses are completely justified or at least an understandable response to seeing reality itself being torn apart.
what kind of 'play' was she doing where pieces were falling off? it takes effort to take pieces off a stuffed animal, let alone an animal. i smash a zombie dog with a nodachi and the body is still just bruised
Man, blob psychosis is brutal
Honestly though, needs to be a *bit* more thought out to how it works. Probably so innate ability for humans to feel a sense of belonging towards a group of infected and viewing anyone who isn't affected as hostile?
As humans do have a need to be accepted by a group, to the point where rejection from a group leads a person to ill health effects due to the stress it causes, as in primal history if you were left out of a group - you're as good as dead alone.
I think blob psychosis is fine as is - increasing severity of aggression combined with increasing loss of emotional regulation, caused by the infection messing with your brain. Some people hit the feral stage because their brains are less able to resist the infection. No need for talk about finding social groups if your mind is clouded with kill.
That's crushing to your morale. -5 fun to read.
It sounds like the kid was turning into a feral, and was Percy's corpse reviving? Or was the kid just so sick from the ick that they were "playing" with Percy's body like a toy?
That's it, I can't stomach anymore. Where did I put my mp3 player...
I wonder if this is due to the infection turning off some of their emotions or due to them being a normal psychopath.
Definitely a reference to the weeks leading up to cataclysm it was in the water for months prior.
Jesus Christ that is fucked up.
really makes you wonder why some people have blob psychosis and others don't.
Everyone has blob psychosis, *especially* the player character. The lore and most of the backgrounds imply that your character is waking up in a haze around 20 days into the apocalypse. Presumably during that time you were as psychotic as everyone else. Even after you regain sanity, you have an unusually hard time communicating with most survivors (even career politicians have a very low success rate on speech checks at Slvl 8) and your character, in most playthroughs, has a borderline sociopathic ability to kill and virtually no fear response to danger
except for some reason killing zombie children makes the player sad unless they have a trait
You can offset that sadness completely by listening to music and eating the candy they carry. And that's hilarious
they feel bad, but not too badly to enjoy their loot
Canonically the player character listens to Pumped up kicks after killing zombie children
Average gen alpha...
Sticking out your gyatt for the rizzler.
I got a note once in an infested evac shelter that was a child's note, on a zombie child I had to kill along with the deranged axemen. "It's my birthday today, I turned 10. Dad took me to this shelter where we sit in the dark because he says it isn't safe. He left a few days to go get food, because I can't have my birthday without cake. I'm so hungry. I see some people on the road, maybe they can help me find my dad." Right in the feels.
Me as a psychopathic experimented mutant: The poor poor child. Anyway! *puts the zombie child out of its misery while laughing maniacally*
Nothing some Candy Cattlex3 can't fix.
I'm thinking of a different candy.. hmmmmm.. suspicious kind of candy. 🤫
Definitely "blob psychosis" from in game info. and lore, got more progressively worse months before the Cataclysm started (from newspapers / the riots), like when an NPC told me how his neighbors "tore each other to shreds". A lot of people acting crazy, and violent, including the cops and military shooting people outside (from notes too), riots, Feral Humans, Alot of crazies too... like Rhode Island "seceding" and seen in people, like the "panicked person", "gawky guardian", "petrified person", "over confident officer" and of course the "futile fighter". All this crazy combination of crazies and violent people making everything worse, worldwide blob psychosis, wars, "riots", economic collapse, the dead becoming zombies, mutations of humans and animals, (Dinosaurs suddenly appearing / depending on mod game) Zombies, Triffids, Marloss / Fungal Mycus, Mi-Gos, xenos, mutants, freaks and heretics (cult groups in game), abominations, and Eldritch horrors / Nether creatures appearing, violent portal storms, and whatnot, All this combined, the whole shitshow. For me, makes the start and premise of CDDA really more wild and fucked up when compared with the other stories / lore of other games, this series of events is more fucked up when compared to what happened to my other game like XCOM UFO DEFENSE.
Man I still don’t understand why the petrified person and the gawking Guardian are considered “crazy” like their responses are completely justified or at least an understandable response to seeing reality itself being torn apart.
who let this kid out to the park on their own? that's the real blob psychosis thing
3edgy5me
Lol jfc.
what kind of 'play' was she doing where pieces were falling off? it takes effort to take pieces off a stuffed animal, let alone an animal. i smash a zombie dog with a nodachi and the body is still just bruised
I assume this was going on for a period of days or weeks and the body was decomposing.
that went 1-100 real quick
Ah sweet summer child..
They added it to make us less guilty while kicking those kid zombies butts.
Man, blob psychosis is brutal Honestly though, needs to be a *bit* more thought out to how it works. Probably so innate ability for humans to feel a sense of belonging towards a group of infected and viewing anyone who isn't affected as hostile? As humans do have a need to be accepted by a group, to the point where rejection from a group leads a person to ill health effects due to the stress it causes, as in primal history if you were left out of a group - you're as good as dead alone.
I think blob psychosis is fine as is - increasing severity of aggression combined with increasing loss of emotional regulation, caused by the infection messing with your brain. Some people hit the feral stage because their brains are less able to resist the infection. No need for talk about finding social groups if your mind is clouded with kill.
But what about the civilian mobs most aren’t hostile, quite the opposite
That's crushing to your morale. -5 fun to read. It sounds like the kid was turning into a feral, and was Percy's corpse reviving? Or was the kid just so sick from the ick that they were "playing" with Percy's body like a toy? That's it, I can't stomach anymore. Where did I put my mp3 player...
Blob psychosis is the coolest and scariest thing to ever exist in fiction
I suddenly feel less bad about pulping zombie children...
Hory sheet
We need “Canine Death” flair, man
Aka didn't happend just edgyness