Illithids, also known as mind flayers, are the brain eating, tentacle headed, psionic horrors that enslave people with psionics and by eating only parts of their brains. One of things that scare the Drow stupid. Their also basically 90 odd percent brain matter. Their elders are masses of fused brains and evil. The mindless thralls are far to stupid to fight effectively against forces without a mind flayer controlling them... Mind flayer powers extremely tend toward mind control and not telekinesis or setting things on fire with their minds.
Trioxine is from the Romero movies, 'X of the Living Dead' is a social commentary on consumerism or something, the reason for global zombiegedon is more nebulous basically Hell is full or something so the dead roam the Earth because they haven't bother to expand fast enough or something. Its never officially covered. Justing by the travesty that is 'Land of the Living Dead' they lost their way badly... the zombies should not be the only ones capable of mercy ot critical thinking. Its also about how much people suck... hense why they keep stringing the zombies up so they hang from trees by their ankles and using still functional ones as target practice.
In the Romero movies the US goverment botched an attempt to make a toxin to lace weed with. The idea was to make people so afraid of getting a mega bogus bad trip from hell, thus they stop smoking to avoid randomly in a state that makes herowin withdrawl look plesaent. Insted they got trioxine. Trioxine reanimates the dead and they walk around moaning as apparently rotting awake HURTS. Thus the moaning and occasional 'Brains!', the endorphins in brains stop the pain leaving you with an intelligent for a while zombie. Also as they are contagious because the bite poisons people with trioxine... killing them and reanimating them. Nuclear fire just makes it airborn and it apparently is produced by zombies bodies as a biproduct. Eletricity however fries them... doesn't brake down the trioxine though.
So basically the scenario was evil walking brain eaters made of most brains in a city increasingly full of brain eating corpses that can think.
Trioxine is from the Romero movies, 'X of the Living Dead' is a social commentary on consumerism or something, the reason for global zombiegedon is more nebulous basically Hell is full or something so the dead roam the Earth because they haven't bother to expand fast enough or something. Its never officially covered. Justing by the travesty that is 'Land of the Living Dead' they lost their way badly... the zombies should not be the only ones capable of mercy ot critical thinking. Its also about how much people suck... hense why they keep stringing the zombies up so they hang from trees by their ankles and using still functional ones as target practice.
In the Romero movies the US goverment botched an attempt to make a toxin to lace weed with. The idea was to make people so afraid of getting a mega bogus bad trip from hell, thus they stop smoking to avoid randomly in a state that makes herowin withdrawl look plesaent. Insted they got trioxine. Trioxine reanimates the dead and they walk around moaning as apparently rotting awake HURTS. Thus the moaning and occasional 'Brains!', the endorphins in brains stop the pain leaving you with an intelligent for a while zombie. Also as they are contagious because the bite poisons people with trioxine... killing them and reanimating them. Nuclear fire just makes it airborn and it apparently is produced by zombies bodies as a biproduct. Eletricity however fries them... doesn't brake down the trioxine though.
So basically the scenario was evil walking brain eaters made of most brains in a city increasingly full of brain eating corpses that can think.