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Project: Dyszombie- How to be a member
Alright. Here’s how you do it:
Make sure you read all that has been put out on the project, most importantly the milieu, the objective history and the character profile. You can easily access the foundational documents by bookmarking this link. Then when you understand all of that, start writing, and submit it, with the tag “Dyszombie”. It will go into the queue, and then, I’ll review it. If it fits the milieu well, and meets certain arbitrary quality standards, I will approve it for publication. Or, I may ask you to resubmit it with revisions. Or I may reject it outright. The reasons that a submission may be rejected are 1. Because the account is irreconcilable with the milieu, 2. the quality of writing is very poor, or 3. It doesn’t focus on the survival narrative, but instead fixates on graphic description of zombie violence. If it can be saved, and is an interesting story, then I will ask you to revise and resubmit.
If it is approved for publication, you can feel free at that point to begin writing another account. All accounts will bear your name, so you will get credit, and if we eventually do publish it into a book, I’ll appoint an editorial staff from among the contributors, and we will do another round of selections, and whoever makes it into the book will be credited there, and will receive a share of the profits. Until then, everything is published under IZA’s CC license and you retain all your own rights as well.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask. But if you want, after you read everything that is there, go ahead and put together an account of survival in a dyszombie world, and submit it.
Cheers,
Doc
Project: Dyszombie Milieu
ATTN potential Contributors. The following is the dyszombie milieu. This is “privileged” information, which means that you need to know it if you want to contribute, but your character will not necessarily know it. (For what a Character knows outside of his or her own experiences, see the Field Report and the “Objective” History.) Your writings must conform to these “physics”, at the very least, and of course, I will have to judge whether some other ascertainment which is not covered here is in or out of the milieu. Again, cannibalism is outside of the milieu unless it is an uninfected person eating an uninfected person. The dyszombie will never do something like that. If you base your story on traditional understanding of zombies, it will not meet the standard for publication and will be rejected.
The accounts themselves are all in the first person (or a modified version of the third person, where the main character is merely the narrator and is relating a story he or she witnessed.) Similarly, the writing doesn’t have to be perfect. Few people who are writing for themselves, and fewer people who are writing for posterity, really make an effort to demonstrate that they care about spelling.
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Project: Dyszombie Project Overview (ATTN Contributors)
So you think you want to participate in this writing collective? Here is the overview of this project:
THE IDEA
The idea is this. Take your standard post-apocalyptic story of the zombapoocolypse milieu, following the episodic format found in recent books like World War Z and the anecdotes accompanying the practical instructions in Zombie Combat Manual. Record the last days of the final survivors. But flip it.
The standard zombie story presents a zombie archetype which is brainless, constantly searching for humans, who, upon receiving a bite, end up turning into the zombie, and joining the roving horde.
Has anyone ever wondered WHY this happens? How is it that the zombie virus turns a human being, which has about an equal chance of being good or evil, constrained by his upbringing, into a ravenous cannibal? How is it that a person’s actual moral character can change when one gets zombism? Has anyone ever really given any thought to this question? I mean, a person can die and come back to life, that is not too much of a stretch, but why is it that they come back as an automaton, dedicated either to eating the flesh of living humans, or interested in spreading the disease to those who don’t have it.
But the more interesting question is: why is that it can’t go the other way? Why do zombies have to kill without any reason? Why are they completely amoral braindead… well, zombies? Wouldn’t it be just as likely that they would become like paladins? Why wouldn’t they become moralists?
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Writers, take note!
From the creative mind of @docstodden comes Project Dyszombie:
The project is open to all serious writers who want to contribute to the milieu. When enough quality content is generated, we will compile the work into a single, standalone volume. There is a catch: The dyszombie is NOT the same as your classic Zombie…
Project Dyszombie- Field Report: “The Character of the ADZ-Infected Human”
Field Report, Johanna Ellas:
Update 0.2
Commissioned by Dr. Frederich Hausen
Civilian Defensive Control, Z Task Force
January 18, 2021
Atlanta
Introduction: The purpose of our field research and thus this short report on the nature of the person afflicted by “ADZ”, or the airborne variant of Derivative Z was to study the nature and habits of the human who suffers its effects. For brevity’s sake, subjects will be essentialized, and refered to as Z, while those not affected by ADZ are refered to as “people” or “Unaffected”. This task force began its work in Atlanta in the summer of 2020 and observed Z for a period of six months.
Note1:
Z appears to be every bit like a person, alike in all manners of physical appearance. However, every aspect of the Z is static. There is no evidence of additional hair growth or loss. There is no evidence that fingernails grow either. There is however, a healthier glow about Z previously only seen in those of excellent physical health and adequate nutrition. Skin appears to be the normal color, there is no loss in pigment in skin, eyes, or hair, teeth remain precisely as they were at the outbreak.
Dissection of previously deceased Z reveals all internal organs to be in the correct locations and all of the right appearance. No evidence of putridness, rot or decay indicated. Genetically, Z are no longer human. Upon testing blood at the start of the outbreak, Z cells demonstrated significant genetic alteration and damage. It was hypothesized then that the damage arrested cellular metabolism, and caused Z to enter a state of biological stasis.
One defining characteristic of Z is his lumbering walk, which is not very efficient in its energy transfer, but serves him well to allow him to do what he normally does at all hours of the day. Z spends his days and often nights walking aimlessly. Tracking devices placed on the clothing of Z have demonstrated that Z moves mostly at random, though if unencumbered by obstacle he will continue to walk in a straight line. Furthermore, during the early periods of the outbreak, Z was known to walk several hundreds of miles in a straight line before those tracking him lost contact with the device. We presume the device fell into a lake or was in some other fashion destroyed, but it is just as likely that Z walked completely out of range of the electronic component.
The other defining characteristic is Z’s blank but slightly depressed look on his face, which indicates a complete lack of interest in the world around him.
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Project Dyszombie: The Objective History of the Plague
Every society has a foundation. For some the foundation lies in the mists of time, way back before anyone can remember. These societies often rely on myth to explain their foundation. Other societies however have more recent and memorable foundations. Sometimes people who were alive then reported on the founding moments of the society.
I guess this is sort of like that: a report on the foundation of a new society, in the midst of the ashes and skeletons of the old. But unlike most societies, in this society there never was any specific meeting of some people who declared “We are *a* people.” This society, which more or less came into being by default, like some unforeseen hand flipped a switch, is more defined by what it replaced. Hopefully someone with a measure of intellectual curiosity will come along and find this account someday. But it is highly doubtful that anyone will scratch their heads one day and ask “I wonder where we came from.” Not the way things are going.
That doesn’t really matter, to be completely honest. I write because I can. Because I am one of the few left in this world that do. And as long as I am holed up in this library, which was stocked with enough canned and preserved food to feed a small city for weeks, thanks to Cold War paranoia and bureaucratic oversight, I will be able to finish my history at least. Its more likely that someone will find me here and do me in though, long before there is ever any danger of me starving to death.
When I think back to how this whole thing started, I can easily point to a single moment in history. I was just a kid, about 15 then, but I knew that what was happening would change things for ever. I knew because that night, we watched a member of the New Ethics Party, a Dr. David Owens, be elected President of the United States, and then, after we turned off the TV, my father left the house and drove the family car off a cliff outside of the city I grew up in. We were of course devastated: it seems, however that my mother was not in the least bit surprised.
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Announcing “Project: Dyszombie”
ATTN: ALL SERIOUS WRITERS AND SUPPORTERS OF THE INEVITABLE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE
RE: We need help building a new Zombie sub-milieu
I would like to cordially invite all members and followers of the Inevitable Zombie Apocalypse to participate in a new sort of project. It is called “Project: Dyszombie”. 
The project is open to all serious writers who want to contribute to the milieu. When enough quality content is generated, we will compile the work into a single, standalone volume. There is a catch: The dyszombie is NOT the same as your classic Zombie. Below is a quick FAQ:
1. What is a “Dyszombie”?
The dyszombie is a twist on the classic thinking of the zombie. Suppose everything we know about zombies was actually incorrect. Suppose there was a type of zombie that was very much alive. More alive, in fact that you and I. Suppose that zombie was not a cannibal, but possessed superhuman strength, and the inability to differentiate between friend and foe. Suppose the zombie was not the degenerate form of the human life, rotting and decaying, as a metaphor of the rot and decay in us all. In fact, suppose you and I were the degenerate form of this creature, and while we grow weaker everyday, the zombie grows stronger, is more healthy, and will eventually replace us all. And suppose this zombie attacks not the living human, but his baser tendencies. Suppose it is not our mere existence which causes the zombie attack, but the fact that we hurt one another, and steal from one another, and spend our time falling farther and farther from utopia.
This creature is called the dyszombie, or the anti-zombie.
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Fighting a Dyszombie
Anyone ever wonder why zombies need to be morally degenerate rotting corpses? What would happen if our expectations of zombie behavior is completely wrong? What would happen if a zombie was actually a morally superior, super healthy automaton bent on wiping out moral deficiencies in those of us who survive? This re-conceptualization of the zombie is called “Dyszombie”. How would you fight a dyszombie outbreak, when the very thing that set the dyszombie off are the normal survival tactics and everyone for himself attitude that people adopt in a zombie outbreak?
