>Robo zombies.
How would you do this in a campaign?
>>44255500
I've actually done this in a SAVAGE world game. Its really pretty simple.
>nanomachines son
They consume flesh and bone and convert it to a corresponding synthetic material. Bone is consumed and turned into a super-dense carbon nanotube structure, the brain made into a self replicating and repairing processing unit and the flesh is a sort of nanobot swarm.
>>44255500
Robot kits that retrofit corpses. Newly animated bodies go around collecting dead bodies and retrofitting them. Eventually go about making corpses.
None of this "a bit turns you into one" cliche. They drag bodies off to little impromptu zombie factories. When their populations start getting bug they differentiate and make specialised units for building, collecting, defending, and leadership.
Zombies link to each other wirelessly but have limited range and must build network bridges to extend the network. Bridges are made of giant piles of wired together brains.
>>44256006
>Zombies link to each other wirelessly but have limited range and must build network bridges to extend the network. Bridges are made of giant piles of wired together brains.
Now all I can think of is a bunch of zombies walking around complaining about how shitty the reception is.
>>44255500
Necrons
>>44256101
They can always resort to close range communication with the old-school acoustic modem sounds.
>tfw being hunted by a pack of techno-zombies making those horrible clicking screech sounds of dial-up internet
>>44256184
That's actually horrifying.
At least you'd know where they were.
>>44255500
One (or more) sides of a war use surgery and technology to make their dead into soldiers, like Mortal Engines' Stalkers
>>44256184
>tfw being hunted by a pack of techno-zombies making those horrible clicking screech sounds of dial-up internet
That could legitimately be pretty scary, if a whole mob of them were doing it like some kind of unearthly war-cry. Vary up the volume more, and in some other sound-effects like screaming and ambience and you could really get someone's heart going off that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0
>>44256275
>>44256345
After a while, veterans of the machine zombie wars would come to recognize some of the coded signals.
>it's 2096
>hiding in ruins with your trusty rifle
>cyberzombies are nearby making a low chorus of mixed clicking noises
>suddenly you hear a few of them screech the "I see him" signal and then go silent
>run!
>no sound but that of metal claws on stone as they rush after you
>>44256548
I would play that
>robot zombies
It sounds like someone hasn't heard the blessed word of Phyrexia
>>44256548
Remember these fellows from Chronicles of Riddick? And the sound they made?
>>44256491
>horrifying blend of biomechanical engineering and the dark arts
>represented by a conventionally beautiful woman in a sexy dress with only two metal fingers
Way to be unadventurous, artist.
>>44255500
Phyrexia, basically.
Does this count?
What if an octopus like robot with a bunch of long, thin tentacles wrapped itself around a corpse to control it like a puppet?
>>44255500
Do cyberzombies work best as a purely inhuman/unintelligent force (essentially a sci-fi version of a normal zombie apocalypse), or are they better as the soldiers of a BBEG like a mad scientist or malevolent AI?
>>44257118
>>44256624
Phyrexia is one of the best examples of biomechanical horror. It has all the elements one could need, body horror, disfigurement, uncanny valley, zombies, general gore, mechanical monstrosities, even an infection that replaces the inferior flesh with Phyrexianized metal corruption, and taints the mind and soul with the Glory of Phyrexia.
>>44257118
>>44256624
>>44257531
FATHER OF MACHINES! YOUR FILIGREE GAZE CARVES US, AND THE SCARS DANCE UPON OUR GRATEFUL FLESH!
>>44257206
he is more like a warforged or a golem
>>44257652
Thanks i honesty always wondered as the sand and windup stuff was so strange.
>>44255500
If I ever manage to do that Traveller campaign I've been hoping to do, robot zombies are totally going in.
I'll probably do them up as something like Invinicible's Reanimen, cyborg Frankenstein monsters with freakish strength, who have a basic intelligence but are remotely controlled.
>>44255500
Cyborgs with secondary support AI features.
The owner dies and the AI that is usually delegated to do minor shit like optimize nutrient absorption malfunctions and takes control of the corpse.
Nanomachines that are injected into your bloodstream and you can control at will. Naturally the self replicating machines fuck the users brain up, resulting in a human composed mostly of machine. The form is created by the human's subconscious desires (resulting in special infected) and the nanomachines spread from victim to victim via bite.
Cryxian Mechanithralls. Just slap some powered fists onto them, stick an engine into their torso, reanimate, and send them towards their former friends.
>>44255500
Do you mean once living things turned into mindless machines or robots still operating despite massive systems failure?
It could be people who sold/rented out their bodies to an AI.
>>44263254
What's that from?
>>44256888
Here, have a suitably spooky cyber-necromancer.
>>44263424
Romantically Apocaliptic.
There is literaly a web adress in top right corner.
>>44255500
It's really pretty simple.
Most Liches are wizards. Wizards are hyper-intelligent. Some of these intelligent people love automation, and dislike messy towers. Zombies tend to leave bits of flesh and limbs lying around, and they're not really very quick or smart. Skeletons just aren't strong enough.
Clockwork soldiers, though, those are stronger, faster, more efficient. What's more, you don't have to imbue each one of them with a soul or anything. No real magic required. All you have to do is set up the factory, and then set a handful of them to maintain your metal supply. So much easier.
>>44263658
You stil gotta magic up the control units. Not evryone can be born a Heterodyne and create inteligence out off three water clocks and some spare gear.
>>44256888
Everything is made better with cute girls.
>>44256888
You say that until her skin peals back revealing the gigeresque (but still disturbingly sexy) horror beneath
>>44263745
Well, seeing as how the artist didn't do that, I guess he gets to say that indefinitely, doesn't he?
If the artist had ACTUALLY done something cool like that, we wouldn't be having this discussion at all.
>>44255500
Well that depends on what you mean by robo zombie. If you mean an average robot that has become undead, well that's just fucking stupid and doesn't make sense. Constructs don't turn into undead since they lack living flesh. They can be become golems, which acts as a form of undeath for them, though it is nothing like undeath. If you're talking about a zombie with cybernetics, well that's just much easier to do.
For example, pic related. Its the Rust-Risen, zombies with alien tech from an ancient crashed spaceship upon the fantasy world of Golarion. They function as slightly smarter zombies with an obsession for tech and eventually turning their master into one of them. Think fantasy borg without the hivemind.
As for robot golems, that's another thing found on Golarion. Those are basically broken robots that have been reanimated with elemental spirits to do very basic activities. Ultrons first appearence but without the intelligence and powered by magic instead.
Of course there is the other artificial humanoids, the androids. These are so close to being biological in their makeup, though made of artificial substances, that they can be converted into undead. Incidentally they also possess actual souls, much like regular people. More than likely look like rotting humans with fiber optics and odd looking flesh.
Zombiebots in Metal Arms were just piles of scrap and junk that not only managed to assemble itself into a working robot, but could reassemble itself multiple times before dying for good.
>>44263582
Unf. Right in the fetish.
Shit like that is how you end up with the party joining the baddies and turning the game into an evil campaign.
>>44263582
>>44264152
>Right in the fetish
>Gigeresque necromancer/fleashweaver
>Joining her
Best case you get "upgraded" into some sort of necromechanical horror, worst case uses you for raw materials and you get added to her wardrobeThough admittedly, depending on tastes, best and worst may need to be swapped in that sentence
>>44264573
>Best case you get "upgraded" into some sort of necromechanical horror
The flesh is week, anon. There's always room for a little improvement.
>>44265160
How is that an improvement? It looks like the dude is just tethered to a giant machine that isn't doing much of anything.
>>44255500
I consult my physician
>>44266229
>go to undead doctor
>"I'm afraid I have some bad news for you Anon. It looks like you're suffering from a pretty serious case of life. But don't worry, it should resolve itself in a few decades, or I could give you a prescription for something that will cure you in a single dose."
Not nearly enough Phyrexian art in this thread.
What happened to the days when there was always a Phyrexia art thread hanging around?
>>44256624
Something about the old version of this card's art seems more interesting.
>>44255500
>How would you do this in a campaign?
Nanomachines that are injected by well meaning medics and instructed to preserve life.
This is a bit morbid but you know how you're supposed to switch someone's pacemaker off when they're dying otherwise it just keeps painfully zapping their heart trying to start it because pacemakers cannot into context? Do the same with the nanites. They're fine all through someone's life but when they start to die the nanites shore up more and more of them with artificial nerves and tissue. This is all well and good until they die and the nanites can't fix the brain because it's too complex so you're left with a brainless instinctual creature whose nanites simply won't allow to die. If you cut a limb off it's just a mess of blood and artificial material, the blood rapidly cutting off as the nanites repair the leak. They can reattach parts of themselves, if left long enough they'll regrow their missing parts and they'll eat damn near anything to get the raw materials they need. They may even sport adaptations like mouths containing cutting saws and such to make it easier for the nanites to get the materials they need to continue their good work.
>>44268547
Like, compare the new version of Phyrexian Processor...
>>44268677
...with the old version.
I mean, the technical quality of the newer art seems higher, but it's just so generic compared to the old stuff.
>extrasolar human colony has lived on a massive O'Neil cylinder spaceship for thousands of years
>omnipotent AI controls the cylinder
>as time goes by the AI starts to evolve
>central AI ascends
>remaining AI starts to splits into different factions because of differing how they want to protect the human population
>One AI faction decides that human consciousness is not an important factor only the longevity of the human body matters
>the AI thinks only 45% of body matter is required for the subject to remain human
>>44255500
I only just realized that was a gif, makes it creepier and sexier
>>44255500
So, Star Trek Borg?
>>44255500
Aka Me Industries added a bit of code to their MkXI NanoMeds designed the form internal resuply nodes within the marrow of the joints of a recipient. This was due to the efficiency and market acceptance of the previous generation of NanoMeds and would cut down on supply costs for recipients of the treatment for subsequent injuries with simple firmware updates rather then actual NanoMed injections. They didn't expect for the construction feature to interfere with the Bone Repair subroutines resulting in after a year of minimal ware on the body, ie: no injuries greater then superficial tissue damage, the MedBots continued to construct more restock and resupply nodes in the skeletal structure of the patient.
Fist cases were discovered by the sudden onset of severe anemia. sadly these cases were mostly treated with an application of NanoMeds or a Firmware update. the fist deaths occurred due to saturation of the bone marrow with MedBots and Support structures and the leaching of nearly all heavy metals in the body. sadly these first cases were the roll out samples, and thus entire stations and long haul shipping vessel employees succumbed almost simultaneously. Secondary waves of death toll spread the alarm, the cause was not yet connected to NanoMeds and were treated with blood transfusions and mineral supplements to stave off the effects.
The epidemic swelled and the Commonwealth and several Aka Me Medical(tm) Carriers were devoted to fighting the the illness whatever it was. Application of further doses of NanoMed resulted in Increased rate of decay of health and ultimately the medical professionals were baffled by the cause of the sickness.
Cont.
>>44271233
After a year of deaths and the spread of the illness to all corners of human space an action was put into effect by Aka Me Industries to add a Firmware update that would use the NanoMeds, Now version MkXIII, that would use the bodies natural functions to direct a sick or wounded individual bodily in the case of sever weakness or unconsciousness as a way to aid those suffering from the weakening caused by the sever anemia. and utilized a worm program to more quickly disseminate the update throughout known space.
The Unintended result was for all Unconscious or critically ill individuals upon receipt of the update through WiFi-networks not currently in a designated medical facility immediately stood and proceeded in an orderly fashion to the nearest medical facility. This included every body of the recently deceased in morgues and research facilities and battle fields and execution chambers. The reaction to these events were violent.
The NanoMeds Receiver/Transmitters pinged the networks that their patients were receiving further harm in the form of bodily attack by armed persons. As a result the Aka Me Medical(tm) Computer system updated the Worm with basic defensive capabilities borrowed from the Aka Me Military(tm) Computer system. The Action was logged and pinged to Aka Me HQ on Europa.
cont.
>>44268695
That kind of stuff was super generic for it's time.
You only thinks that stuff looks unique because no one make them like that anymore.
>>44271260
The lengthy process of extracting the NanoMeds from those already in medical facilities or those not yet incapacitated by the weakness brought on by the over abundance of nanites in their system. Sadly the Military software bundle came coupled with adaptive ECM that made removing the NanoMeds from afflicted individuals who had died or fallen unconscious was nearly impossible especially once in a "Defensive Posture."
To this day those long haul freighters, ships gone adrift due to personnel succumbing to the outbreak and off map stations such as pirate bases or 'Black' sites are still infested with the shambling dead.
Luckily NanoMed MkXV was released to repair the damage done and protect Aka Me Ind. investors from the embarrassment and stock hit of anyone ever needing to know the true cause of the epidemic that nearly brought humanity to its knees. All they needed to know was NanoMed A true Cure All once and For All.
>>44256184
Fucking hell, adding this to my sci-fi campaign.
>>44268591
This. Genius.
>>44256548
Old grizzled zombie hunter complaining that the techno zombies didn't use to run, just shamble about.
I don't remember the full context but their was this beautiful bit of butchery.
>>44271780
How would Superman even be cyberized?
What sort of operating tools could pierce his skin to attach robotic bits?
>>44273978
Kryptonite or weakening him with massive amounts of red sunlight.
>>44255500
Watch "Frankenstein's Army". You will know the glory of Nazi robo-zombies fighting Soviet troops during WWII.
>>44274231
If we're recommending movies with this theme, you've got to check out "Virus."
Do you have time to hear about our lich lord and savior?
>>44271780
Why bother cutting off so much of the superhuman's bodies to put metal on them? They're already stronger than any normal human. If anything it should be the normal cyberzombies that look like horrible robot crab monsters and shit while the cyborg superheros look like the normally do but with a costume change.
So, what is the processing power of a single reanimated skeleton?
How many would you need to wire together to make a supercomputer?
>>44275846
https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Necroputer
in short a whole bunch the threads come up from time to time, trying to optimize the concept.
The zero patient goes missing under mysterious circumstances. A large megacorporation is producing a series of clones of patient zero, retrofitted with cyberware for mission designation. Basically, Set and forget zombie apocalypse for a reasonable price point
>>44255500
Actual robots, or techno zombies?
Neal Stephenson had "Sumerian Neurolinguistic Meme" Zombies in Snow Crash.
And don't you fucking start. A lot of you weren't even born when he wrote that. Moot was like, 4 years old.
The idea was quite fresh at the time.
Of course, now, your dumbass players would get all balky or joke about it.
>>44256006
Reminds me of the Junji Ito comic with the shark.
>>44255500
Like this http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Y-17_trauma_override_harness
>>44276593
We're all meme zombies here, anon.
>>44268695
>the elf on the left realizes she's stumbled into one of /tg/'s many fetish threads
>>44277257
>the one on the right is the same, but likes it
>>44255871
>SAVAGE
jesus fucking christ you retard
>>44257361
Kinda reminds me of those things from Dead Space, but with more actual attaching.
Also reminds me of that picture of the dead astronaught with that weird ghost thing attached to it
>>44268591
Stolen.
>>44271530
I love this. That'd be pretty awesome for ingame banter
>I see 4..no 5 of them. They're mulling in the old freeway exit
>what do they look like?
>huh? Y'know like zo-
>No! What. Do. They. Look. Like. Details girl
>uhhh 3 are really old, like almost rusted and bits are flaking off them as they move
>and the other two?
>well one looks like the other 3 but not rusted. The last one is all sleek and weird. Like a sports car.
>a what?
>Y'know, like sleek lines and stuff. Holy shit, it's eyes a like neon lights. These things really are like sports cars haha
>...how are you seeing the eyes?
>what? Oh it's staring this way. Weird, it doesn't seem to be moving anymore
>Lisa...run.
