The Knox Event: A Real-Time Retelling

[dull turret]

but we can fill in the blanks here

"flooding Amsterdam to attempt to slow down the Knox Infection/infected"

[nova shore]

movie logic

AKA they barely tried/were nearly blind/were nearly deaf/entirely composed of buffoons

[strong warren]

dang did not think this would happen I guess I won't vote for President next election

[azure breach]

Im voting president joey

[raw kernel]

Because 90% of the military fell to the airborne strain?

I think we keep forgetting their airborne strain exists, and that once a zombie's loose in a country, 90% of the people around it will get infected, and 90% of the people around them will also get infected, and so on.

[azure breach]

But what about far out islands

[blazing vortex]

Wind travels across the whole world so it would probably carry the airborne strand as well

[full crown]

I think we aren't gonna get any more updayes

[odd grail]

either the airbone strain didnt reach europe but did get infected with the knox event somehow or it did reach and the europeans are using gas masks agaisnt it

because wouldnt the airbone strain simply kill all the living humans in europe? wouldnt let them a chance to even fight agaisnt them

my theory is that the airbone strain has just infected north america

but the way it infected europe and other parts of the world is because the US military is in there

it could be possible that some infected US army soldiers went there and infected the people from other countries without them knowing

[next fox]

It spreads extremely fast but the world is a big place

[royal plaza]

Wait does the world recover from the virus?!?!

[gentle grove]

I don't think it canonically does

Like, the whole #knoxevent is a real-time retelling of what happened 30 years ago (in the game's timeline), but it could well be just some lore for us to enjoy

If it'd end in a global recovery I think it'd take quite a few months

Since well... There are millions if not billions of the infected roaming around

[next fox]

Months? Like, centuries

[worn mural]

Wouldn’t it just take 1 winter to wipe out zombies

Cause they would all freeze to death right

[uneven hearth]

In game they don't freeze do they

[cobalt bobcat]

You can't apply real world principles to zombies becase they are not in fact real world

[next fox]

No

Their body temperature is already 0 presumably

[odd walrus]

It wouldn’t be 0, it’d be ambient

[subtle flare]

Hypothetically, is NK practically safe for the Knox event

Theyre already isolated and fortified

What if reanimation isnt 100%
What if this transmission is referring to millions of zomboids and not the billions dead?
https://twitter.com/TheKnoxEvent/status/1683141419098095617?t=0-MXKb7he2bcdGyQaelgIg&s=19

The Knox Event in Real Time (@TheKnoxEvent)

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<fzzt> ... millions of... <bzzt>

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Twitter · Jul 23, 2023, 3:46 PM

[raw kernel]

Pat already told me that #knoxevent is not in-universe.

[next fox]

In this case, the medium is not the message

[pseudo sequoia]

What difficulty does the lore play on?

Do they have fast zombies enabled do u think?

[gentle grove]

It's likely on Apocalypse/all defaults

Though in the end it's up to us to decide the details

[gentle grove]

It's actually pretty easy to test:
Step 1: Get bitten
Step 2: Die
Step 3: See what happens

Basically if you're infected you'll always reanimate

[subtle flare]

Im just sayin
What if theres different strains of the virus that reached the world that dont have 100% reanimation rates

Let me cook

[gentle grove]

The lore is pretty vague so could well be the case

In my head it'll remain at 100% reanimation rate though

[pseudo sequoia]

Step 3 is impossible because I can't check what happens after u die

[pseudo sequoia]

Noo I agree if it is a virus it can easily mutate

Look at covid for example

Viruses tend to get weaker when they mutate (most of the time)

[cobalt bobcat]

Fortifications won't stop airborne diseases

[pseudo sequoia]

Depends how far the disease can go airborne tho

Does it have a distance limit?

It's not gonna survive indefinitely in the air

[cobalt bobcat]

North Koreas not some island in the middle of nowhere thougj

[pseudo sequoia]

Hawai is 🙂

[cobalt bobcat]

Hawaii also isn't north korea

[pseudo sequoia]

It can be 🙂

I remember when reading WWZ, Cuba became a world superpower just because its a big island country that didn't get infected and acted early

[long valve]

I am sure the people on north sentinelese island are simply chillin

[full crown]

The earth exploded

The end

[subtle flint]

they just advanded to the most modern society

[cobalt bobcat]

Wonder who is broadcasting this

[azure breach]

Us

[next fox]

Me

[azure breach]

[rustic flint]

I’m sorry if I’m going off-topic, but… I don’t think that’s the case with certain viruses. Although not sure if I too want to mull over a topic I’m struggling to let go of.

“Majority of the earth’s population is infected with the Knox Event Infection”, as far as I can decipher

[cobalt bobcat]

How did you figure out the majority of the world is infected 🤔

[pseudo sequoia]

He has connections

[full crown]

He knows everyonr

[strong warren]

hes the cameraman

[cobalt bobcat]

Helicopter event incarnate

[rustic flint]

What if he's the mastermind?

[rustic flint]

Air Activity Detected.

[strong warren]

its so sad that the jority on earth has popped :(

[long valve]

they used a powerful radio tower and via some scifi genius powers made it switch from detecting radio waves to detecting zombie waves, giving them a 100% accurate number of zombies on the planet

[visual vapor]

Majority of the earth's pop has gone flat

[karmic egret]

majority of earths pop music only listenable using mods

[uneven hearth]

We found the guy! Get him!

Get him before he ruins any more runs

[visual vapor]

Earth's popcorn gone stale

[pseudo sequoia]

Earth got popped like bubble wrap

[visual vapor]

Vibe checked

[odd grail]

last survivors of earth are gonna be in some doomsday bunkers probably

[visual vapor]

Better be airtight

[odd grail]

wait now that I think about it

this actually really possible

[visual vapor]

Live in a sub

[odd grail]

it was mentioned that the russian goverment moved to mount yamantau

which has a bunker

[visual vapor]

Not that one

[odd grail]

as mentioned in wikipedia

and also the us goverment probably in bunkers too

and some other countries with bunkers might be able to survive the knox event?

thats the only way I see it for them to survive

[pseudo sequoia]

Or live on an island

That also works

[odd grail]

eh

but if the knox event is airbone it might reach the island too

although we dont know how much it can reach

[pseudo sequoia]

I think the airborne bit has a limit tho

[odd grail]

bunkers are the safest area

[pseudo sequoia]

I don't think it is infinite, surely the virus will die in air at some pojnt

[odd grail]

yeah but

[pseudo sequoia]

I bet its less than a mile for example

[odd grail]

I think the only survivors of the world are gonna be those in the doomsday bunkers

[pseudo sequoia]

Some people are immune to the airborne strain as well which will help

[odd grail]

yeah

maybe not everything is gone at the end

those in the bunkers might be able to survive for years

they have all the resources to do so

although I dont know if they could even have the force to fight the zombies though

maybe the are stuck in the doomsday bunkers

with no return

and those immune might be the only hope for humanity left

[pseudo sequoia]

Are their children immune?

[odd grail]

who knows

[pseudo sequoia]

Also remember according to endgame its supposed to slowly fill back up with NPCs, so in the end the zombies don't win in the end, humanity does

[visual vapor]

The ones susceptible to airborne variant better get used to an airtight suit for the rest of their life.. which will probably be short

[pseudo sequoia]

Not really, if the zombies die out then hopefully they will be able to reemerge

[odd grail]

yeah although I guess the goverments with doomsday bunkers plan to be there for years

just like what they had prepared in case of a nuclear war

[pseudo sequoia]

I would say 10 years then u should be safe

If u had the supplies for that tho...

[odd grail]

both russian and american goverments are underground

USA I guess in the white house underground section

and russia in mount yamantau

where they supposedly have a ´´nuclear bunker´´

[visual vapor]

If the airborne variant just lingers then they can't really leave

[odd grail]

yeah

but they probably have resources for decades

thats what a doomsday bunker is for

maybe the airbone strain of the virus goes away at some point

and they are finally able to leave the bunkers

with the help of the immune survivors maybe somehow humanity stands

or maybe not

[visual vapor]

I like to think it just shoots out of the zone at an insane speed to every corner of the world after the camp is breached

[odd grail]

considering how fast europe is falling to the virus

well and the world itself

maybe theres no hope for humanity after all

if all immune survivors die in one way or another

the last surviving humans will be those in the doomsday bunkers

stuck there for decades till they run out resources

[visual vapor]

If there's any chance it's with the airborne immune

[odd grail]

yeah I guess

[visual vapor]

Maybe if we bite the zombies they'll turn back to humans /j

[odd grail]

you are a genius

[pseudo sequoia]

But Ingame the npcs get more numerous after the decline (according to blog posts)

[odd grail]

I see

actually maybe the immune survivors stand a chance agaisnt the zeds

since the us army collapsed due to the airbone strain

[pseudo sequoia]

I hope in the future the radio would pick back up

[odd grail]

and wasnt able to do much agaisnt it since they all died in an instant

the immune survivors have all that equipment to fight them

[pseudo sequoia]

With little snippets of hope and reclamation

[odd grail]

and lots of guns too

[pseudo sequoia]

Not in the UK or places that ban them

Scotland is gonna do what scotland does best, axes and kilts

[odd grail]

yeah

[pseudo sequoia]

Also idk if guns would work or have ammo after 5 years or if someone gets a small factory up and running

[odd grail]

I mean

USA has literally thousands of guns

the whole military has left its equipment behind

because they all became zombies

with all of that the immune survivors stand quite a chance

if they learn how to fight them

[visual vapor]

The post-infection generation will be minmaxxed wakeful speed demon crowbar wielders

[odd grail]

but yeah the survivors will have it rough

literally 90% of us citizens have become zombies

[visual vapor]

The lucky humans in PZ are the ones that died in protests before the zomboid sweep

[visual vapor]

I'm placing my bets on Chad

[visual vapor]

If the Knox Event is such a popular topic, how come there isn't a Knox Event 2?

[odd grail]

the humanity finally killing all the zombies just to find out theres another knox event:

[visual vapor]

Knox Event +

[vital vector]

Everybody in antarctica would be alive

[barren sluice]

Assuming the immune can isolate well enough and long enough, no zombie apocalypse is permanent. They just need to outlive the time it takes for the zombies to decay. Of course, this makes for un-fun lore and TIS would not go this route.

[vital vector]

That is assuming the zombies would decay

[barren sluice]

The ones in PZ are canonically dead bodies that move (as opposed to other zombie media where they're living people who are violently insane), so they should decay

[visual vapor]

PZ has that doomer vibe

We should talk about the good the Event brought, like no more taxes /j

Paint your house any color without a HOA telling you not to

[vital vector]

In terms of project zomboid survival. If you want to live even if you arent immune to the air disease, always have a boat ready. You have a chance to live even if it is small

[barren sluice]

the garbage truck is taking forever to come through, though :/

[visual vapor]

The world is your garbage dump

[raw kernel]

Statements like this make me realize why the devs don't bother to implement pooping/peeing. What's the point? The world is your toilet. You don't need a porcelain throne to do your business, just go out in the street and dump it!

[barren sluice]

I think they don't do it just because it feels gross (not that smashing the brains of shambling corpses is a squeaky clean activity).
Avoiding smells that attract zeds and illnesses caused by contaminating your own environment with your waste could be game mechanics.

[visual vapor]

One day humanity will rediscover the manufacturing process of the sledgehammer

[heavy marsh]

Anyone want to fester these wonderful onions with me? I also have horse radish

[cobalt bobcat]

They fully decay when you kill them, but not until then

[cobalt bobcat]

Where food

[hexed barn]

That's not how that works
It isn't The Last of Us cordyceps spores

[hexed barn]

Wait...
Is this some sort of indicative of the zomboids reliance to time? (how long they could keep functioning before fully rotting)
Or just a statement of how long it'd take for humanity to go back to a state similar to the late 1900's?

[nova shore]

honestly because all the technology still exists id be a lot easier to skip ahead through civilization and get back up to speed after the zombies are dealt with in a large enough area

espescially since almost everyone left is immune to the airborne strain

and you can just like... outwalk them.

[uneven hearth]

Yeah but the majority of the specialists and scientists will be dead and there will be noone to teach the new generations and since the majority of humanity is dead the people will be needed to do things required to survive before they can start thinking about rebuilding society to it's previous state

[next fox]

Just re. rebuilding

[pseudo sequoia]

Penguins

[strong warren]

Ah yes the delicacy of raw penguin

[pseudo sequoia]

Have u ever heard of the fabulous world of books

Those that haven't decayed that it

[uneven hearth]

Yeah but it's still gonna take ages

They'd have to get all the machinery running again and most of it is probably broken beyond repair or has no spare parts just easily available

[pseudo sequoia]

I wouldnt say most of it is broken

[strong warren]

Oh yea how are people supposed to uh have children like this

Babies are loud

[pseudo sequoia]

I think the apocolypse has a life span of 10 years

I doubt more than 50% of machinery would have broken in this time, they probably would have been turned off before the factory closed

Also did any nuclear reactors blow up, never heard that in the news

[strong warren]

You talking about reactor explosions reminded me of Night of the mini dead

[gentle grove]

Better question, why did no military use nukes?

[pseudo sequoia]

Maybe death is better....

[gentle grove]

Lol

Who would choose own death over mass death of others

[pseudo sequoia]

Other nations may get jumpy + u don't want to go down in history as the nation who used their own nukes first

[gentle grove]

Hmm
Honestly, both are bad

[pseudo sequoia]

I wonder if they had nuclear subs back then

[gentle grove]

They did

[pseudo sequoia]

What did they do?

[gentle grove]

We'll never know

[pseudo sequoia]

I swear there is a protocol in real life from back then where if they couldn't hear the BBC radio (because it can be heard everywhere) they were to initiate an attack on Soviet countries

Apparently they couldn't get a hold of the BBC once however they decided not to nuke luckily

[gentle grove]

I think Soviets weren't a thing at this point

[pseudo sequoia]

Cold war was tho

I thonk anyway

I'm not a hissssstorian

[gentle grove]

I thought it ended after the Soviets ceased to exist...?

Which was in like '91

[next fox]

Latest one inspired by this Discord

[pseudo sequoia]

BOATS

I knew it! We need to return to the sea

[plush rain]

Just live on island

Zomboids cant swim

[raw kernel]

We should commemorate this with a song!
https://youtu.be/43BV6Us-Deo

[full crown]

We so skart

Smart

[pseudo sequoia]

Maybe the Russian iss can be saved!

[full crown]

Thats gonna starve to destu

[worn mural]

I mean there has to be people that survive

like some random fisherman island in scandenavia

[pseudo sequoia]

We are gonna need a bigger boat

[next fox]

The boat thing is not very relevant

If anyone mentions Antarctica again, I'm going to send them there with a kick up the botty

[nova shore]

Honestly it would make sense if we're picking up transmissions from an Antarctic research station listening in on whats happening

It would explain the radio being so spotty

[next fox]

It isn't, there's no lore reason behind the tweets themselves

I also think you're vastly underestimating how inhospitable Antarctica is

Even without zombies

[nova shore]

oh no im aware

You cant even go outside during the winter

Youd die very quickly

Extreme winds and insane temperatures

A frozen hurricane

A frozen white hell of a continent

[long valve]

horror....

[nova shore]

...horror

[visual vapor]

The horror

[nova shore]

we just need a final, "god help us all" as the signal goes out

[pseudo sequoia]

I see morbius released early in this alternate timeline due to the radios reaction

[visual vapor]

Spiffo's new menu item has been a smashing success

[pseudo sequoia]

Do u think any corporations adapted to this new world?

"Welcome to Nestle, with all your zombie hunting needs!"

[nova shore]

Colt and Remington are making a killing for sure

[pseudo sequoia]

In more ways than one

Bet all the ammo companies made a fortune in the couple of days they had before this virus spread

Hey! Do u think this zombie apocolypse had any connection to the knox exclusion zone?

[worn mural]

im still convinced there has to be some small coastal town where like 4-10 people are immune and are able to clear the town out

[pseudo sequoia]

There is a good chance that an entire village is immune

[worn mural]

what is the percent immune

[pseudo sequoia]

Feel bad for the amazon rainforest tribes

[pseudo sequoia]

10%

Higher than u think

[worn mural]

yeah so 100%

like a town of 500 people 50 of them could easily clear out the rest

[pseudo sequoia]

1/10 world leaders are immune, and a decent chance that a higher up from each government should be able to take control even if the leader is infected

[pseudo sequoia]

Depends if some get bitten however

U have to factor in surprise, hesitation to kill loved ones, not being able to band together straight away, getting bitten, etc

[hexed barn]

That's it
Frostpunk is canon in the Project Zomboid Universe

...
Just send me to Greenland, at least I'll have a chance

[pseudo sequoia]

I think Iceland would have a fair chance actually

Or become zombie hell

[nova shore]

its 10%???

thats crazy where is it stated

[pseudo sequoia]

Pretty sure it is

[visual vapor]

Stonks until the currencies they're swimming in loses value because the country they're from falls

[pseudo sequoia]

Nah they bought out the market in caps

[visual vapor]

They shoulda invested in spiffo merch

[pseudo sequoia]

Spiffo burgers make u immune for a day

[visual vapor]

Praise spiffo

If more people stopped worrying about where their next meal is and started praying to Spiffo for a good harvest and protection humanity after the event would be doing better

[raw kernel]

Is the #knoxevent account ending soon?

[untold glen]

Post knox event humans saw the spiffo statues and plushies and said
" We can make a religion out of this "

[full crown]

100%

[visual vapor]

When the last radio is at 0 battery

[strong warren]

It’s over

[visual vapor]

When the next institute of virology opens they should teach how the Knox Virus is the peak S tier virus

[next fox]

It will taper out soon

[uneven hearth]

"And this kids is why we should have put more money in disease research"

[next fox]

Only the funniest, and most banterific, world leaders survive

None of the boring ones

[visual vapor]

Malaria and Polio fans btfo

Being in the Iron lung (polio) here would be fucking terrifying

[pseudo sequoia]

Does Gandi survive? @next fox

[next fox]

Gandhi unfortunately died in like 1950

[pseudo sequoia]

Not surprised

[next fox]

1948 actually

[visual vapor]

Is reagen infected

[pseudo sequoia]

Ghandi discovered the US government's first attempts at creating the virus and got taken out

[next fox]

No Abraham Lincoln zombie either unfortunately

Gandhi would launch the nukes, if he's like he is in Civilization

[pseudo sequoia]

Did Adam and eve survive at least?

[next fox]

Adam and Eve are fine and smiling

[pseudo sequoia]

Same thoughts

The knox event is nature's way to return us to monke

[next fox]

Assuming it's nature

[pseudo sequoia]

Well it’s certainly not aliens

Right…..

Talking about aliens, full disclosure tomorrow at congress according to r/UFOs 😛

[visual vapor]

Why not mix all the theories

[pseudo sequoia]

https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-implications-on-national-security-public-safety-and-government-transparency/

We find out about aliens just as the radio dies 😛

[blazing vortex]

And then as soon as that broadcast ends, the real life Knox event begins

[visual vapor]

The virus is just cough particles from some distant lovecraftian being

[pseudo sequoia]

It’s like when the British travelled to the americas and got everyone killed there with the common cold, but instead it’s aliens

https://tenor.com/view/coincidence-i-think-not-coincidence-i-think-not-the-incredibles-gif-5096707

[visual vapor]

The Kentucky governor has some explaining to do when this all blows over

[pseudo sequoia]

Wdym?

He is the only competent one

The knox event is contained

Unlike this one

I'm calling it "The American (r)Evolution"

[visual vapor]

Contained on earth

[next fox]

I am certainly a big fan of UFOs and aliens

[pseudo sequoia]

U will never fine m.. them

[U]n[f]airer[o]rb76

[visual vapor]

Will anyone survive to 2000

[pseudo sequoia]

I did 🙂

[visual vapor]

Fr? Based

[uneven hearth]

Yeah I would say it is pretty safe to say noone would be spreading it beyond Earth any time soon

[visual vapor]

McGrew didn't lie when he said it was always contained

[pseudo sequoia]

Just depends on perspective

[visual vapor]

What a trustworthy figure

[pseudo sequoia]

It's contained to the land

[visual vapor]

And the sky

But not in space

[pseudo sequoia]

What's worse, becoming a zombie or dieing in space

[visual vapor]

One is less painful

I'd say zombie

[pseudo sequoia]

I would say zombie is pretty long death tho

If u get bitten, u have to go through the long torture of fever and such knowing the end result

[gentle grove]

Bleach exists for a reason

[visual vapor]

Ah, I was thinking of becoming one via a horde chowing down on you

Not the one bite kind

[pseudo sequoia]

The slow terror of zombie bite or quick but painful death in space

I would still go with the zombie bite

[uneven hearth]

Wouldn't death in space be quite quick if you just de pressurise your suit/ship

[visual vapor]

Are the messages from in-universe local radio stations or just some folks in isolated cabin recalling what they saw

[pliant mauve]

Bro thats fucking savage .. have respect

[pseudo sequoia]

Fzzzt

https://tenor.com/view/brooklyn99-brooklyn-nine-nine-b99-terry-crews-terry-jeffords-gif-13703698

[nova shore]

<fzzt>

[rustic flint]

I think the communications are failing like the power grid

[visual vapor]

No one remembers how to fix the radio

[rustic flint]

Unless they find a “How To Use Radios Magazine”

[untold glen]

<fzzt>

broadcast system integrity

Fatal system wide failure

<fzzt>

[azure breach]

You hear them folks they nuked the world

[untold glen]

damn

[strong warren]

<fzzt>

[next fox]

Fabulous Zombies Zoom Together

[untold glen]

I love acronyms

[full crown]

I keep the fabulous ones

I thought it was fat zambian zombies teach

[hexed barn]

<fzzt>

[subtle flint]

<bzzt>

sad zomboid music playing, loneliness at its maximum

[pseudo sequoia]

Wait until the zombies start talking down the radio

[elfin crypt]

That sounded like "Don't Starve" for a sec

[full crown]

It would be so cool if someone made project zomboid looked like don't starve

[subtle flint]

Zombies from the Cranberries ?

[uneven hearth]

They gonna start leaving notes like in PvZ soon

[subtle flare]

is the vatican still standing?

or what

[pseudo sequoia]

Is Elton John still standing?

[nova shore]

Zombies have won in China

very cool

[pseudo sequoia]

I think we can all agree that Asia is screwed by the populatilms of China and India combined

[nova shore]

near 2 billion zombies alone

hopefully the president uses the funny sun bombs on that

[pseudo sequoia]

They are not alone tho?

They have each other

/j

[nova shore]

https://tenor.com/view/evil-laugh-the-matrix-agent-smith-gif-4145137

[pseudo sequoia]

https://tenor.com/view/suits-harvey-specter-nothing-more-important-family-gif-7746646

Except zombies

Zombies are clearly stronger than family

[raw kernel]

Forbidden City?
Is that a real thing?

<fzzt> ... -bidden City confirmed over-... <bzzt>

[pseudo sequoia]

It could be that it was confirmed to be overwhelmed

It may be why they cannot get into contact with China now as that was their last official holdout

[odd grail]

I think radios will be gone anytime soon

[subtle flint]

Forbidden City in Beijing

The old emperors palace

[uneven hearth]

they really be playing on Insane zombie pop settings fr

with 4x peak population

[slim phoenix]

Greenland is fucked

[pseudo sequoia]

No homo (sapiens)

[visual vapor]

They took over Biden City

[blazing vortex]

No not Biden!

[uneven hearth]

SODA!!!

[strong warren]

40bottles of soda to whoever finds Joe’s zombie

[azure breach]

REALLY

I refuse to believe that all of humanity has fallen

[next fox]

More zombies also means more survivors so it works out about the same

[visual vapor]

Does this mean the zombies won the Yugoslav war

[next fox]

Every human conflict has ended as everyone teams up against the zombies

[full crown]

is there even enough humans to cause a conflict

[visual vapor]

As long as there are two people alive, someone is gonna want the other one dead

[visual vapor]

Zombie killing industrial complex is booming

[long valve]

generally in all zombie stories people will adapt, and zombies will just become a fact of life that is planned for, and civilization will reform

[full crown]

What if they r married

Check

[long valve]

you fool, this doubles the odds of them killing eachother,

[full crown]

Happily married

Checkmate

[long valve]

I have been checkmated

[full crown]

I should join the debate team frfr

[visual vapor]

What if the marriage isn't working out

[full crown]

That’s why I said happily married

also I just realized if there were only 2 ppl left on the world

The world would become alabama

[visual vapor]

Post event weddings would be silent and awkward as hell

Don't want to alert any zombos with celebration

[dull turret]

oh no, <fzzt>

[full crown]

FAT ZAMBIAN ZOMBIES TEACHING???

[visual vapor]

When the last human dies the zombies should sing My Way

[full crown]

Amen

[visual vapor]

So a worldwide war against Zombies?

[rustic flint]

Yes.

[visual vapor]

No way

[untold glen]

Yes way!

[visual vapor]

North and South Koreans teaming up like the tf2 mercs in MvM

[crimson prawn]

Isn't like most zombie films humans fight against each other?

https://twitter.com/TheKnoxEvent/status/1681997387143979008?s=20

The Knox Event in Real Time (@TheKnoxEvent)

<fzzt> ... Seikan Tun-... <bzzt> -royed by... <bzzt>

... thousand trap- <fzzt>

<bzzt>

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Twitter · Jul 20, 2023, 12:00 PM

What happened in Japan?

[visual vapor]

Maybe they set up a thousand traps

[pseudo sequoia]

They fell onto their own traps

[next fox]

NO

[next fox]

Yes but they're too cynical. PZ isn't cynical. There'll still be evil stuff though

[strong warren]

the cannibals

[azure breach]

they ated tainted meat

[crimson prawn]

World War Z

[pseudo sequoia]

We could call it WWZ

[next fox]

NO

[uneven hearth]

A large scale retaliation against zombies spread across the entirety of the globe

[full crown]

There should be a volcanic explosion in california

Just for the hell of it

[pseudo sequoia]

That's racist against them

Is zombies a race? A species?

Do they still count as human?

I guess they are still a mammal

[uneven hearth]

No I don't think they do

[subtle flare]

https://twitter.com/TheKnoxEvent/status/1684541720615165952/photo/1

The Knox Event in Real Time (@TheKnoxEvent)

https://t.co/uCdHQmE2Wl

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Twitter · Jul 27, 2023, 12:30 PM

humanity is fucking gone

[raw kernel]

Oi, only about 90% of it!

[wide estuary]

as long as there is North Sentinel Island there is hope

[nova shore]

realistically zombies arent a real threat if you can formulate and ennact a plan before a complete command collapse

Retaking island nations one by one is a logical starting point and completely manageable

Hawaii being the obvious one of the US

Alaska's coast is also covered in island with little to no chance of anyone ever getting infected so they're probably fine

Infact Id say most villages and towns in alaska are perfectly fine because theyre all isolated with hundreds of miles between them

some you can only realistically get to via aircraft

[gentle grove]

It doesn't seem like our beloved General John McGrew came to the rescue at the end of it

[nova shore]

I think hes busy collecting military remnants for whatever his plans are

He has to find enough troops that are immune to be able to realistically take the fight to the infected

as we know from our gameplay if you have the ammo one person can take on quite substantially sized hordes

which is fine for small towns like muldraugh but for cities where the hordes are in the size of thousands and bigger

youre gonna need more dudes and a lot more ammo

[rustic flint]

We had a good run

[uneven hearth]

I mean they could maybe find some bigger artillery maybe?

The logistics for this would be difficult but some cannons/artillery could be good at taking out lots of zombies condensed in one area quickly and from far away enough to not attract anyone

We just need to invent fat boy and mini nukes in real world and this whole process would be much easier and faster

[nova shore]

the Davy Crockett nuclear device already exists

Just gotta hope they have some in storage

[uneven hearth]

or buy some a few thousand caps

[next fox]

Yes, you really want a bunch of radioactive zombies running around the place

[nova shore]

i mean it'd make their skin and stuff fall off

eventually leading to zombies dying

i strongly do not recommend looking up what happens to people exposed to fatal radiation levels

[uneven hearth]

they cant be running around if they dont have limbs

[nova shore]

but your body literally does fall apart

it would work pretty well at sterilizing zombies

something like a neutron bomb could clean entire cities without damaging inferstructure

[next fox]

They already have no skin

[nova shore]

i mean that just makes it easier for the juicy stuff to come out

[next fox]

Delicious

[nova shore]

very

once enough of the muscle falls off they shouldnt be able to move anymore even if the zombie doesnt "die"

itd be a lot harder for them to scratch or bite you for sure

[next fox]

I wouldn't think too hard about zombie biology, it's a road that leads nowhere good

[nova shore]

real

[rustic flint]

I guess we are now on our own with a world that ended in just 20 days.

[pseudo sequoia]

Doubt this as the whole thong with artillery and cannons is about shrapnel but a zombie doesn't care if its filled with glass as long as the brain is fine

[nova shore]

pressure wave could just obliterate the brain

shrapnel is just bonus range

[uneven hearth]

also fire can kill them

[nova shore]

white phos time!

[uneven hearth]

hell yeah

remember, rules of war don't apply to zombies since they are no longer human

[nova shore]

i love spec ops the line!

[visual vapor]

So it was all just a long looney tunes cartoon?

[pseudo sequoia]

"Could" being the key word here

I would rather something definite, like a good axe to the skull

I would rather have 20 rounds of ammunition than one artillery shell

[nova shore]

you do you fam

Me I trust 155m more than 5.56

[pseudo sequoia]

Have you ever read WWZ?

And I mean the book not the the movie

Search up https://zombie.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_Yonkers

[visual vapor]

I like the more war vibe than the everyone just dying at once vibe when the broadcast ends that the game gives off

[slim phoenix]

1994 gonna be lit

[pseudo sequoia]

I wish the radio was on forever

[karmic egret]

yea

mods i guess

[nova shore]

ACROSS!!!

[celest iris]

cant believr its over

[azure breach]

Its not over yet snake

[celest iris]

its over

the news is at least

[celest iris]

i still think people in groups put up arms against the undead its just not as documented as we thought it might be since we’re only getting it from a radio broadcast

tbh i’d like to see an in depth in one part of the broadcast about the mont-saint-michel and the flooding of amsterdam one

[uneven hearth]

I don't mean this as like the main way of killing zombies, you just bomb a large city with all you got and it should take care of a lot of zombies and heavily immobilise even more

a 155mm shell is no joke even if shrapnel doesnt do much

also some shrapnel can always just hit the brain with some chance

[nova shore]

WWZ, while an excellent book and entertaining read for sure isnt the most accurate depiction of military tactics or weapon effectiveness

suspension of disbelief not withstanding

The pentagon literally has war plans for different variations of zombie outbreaks for shits and giggles

[visual vapor]

Across da world

[visual vapor]

Maybe the PZ pentagon didn't?

Oh wait talking about WWZ, nvm

[nova shore]

I meant IRL

The pentagon has plans for everything

Invading Canada ✅ Invading Mexico ✅ Defending against an invasion from Greenland ✅ etc... etc...

Their whole job is to plan everything for the worlds most powerful army afterall

[visual vapor]

The one entity that legit has a plan to kill everything it meets

[nova shore]

https://tenor.com/view/tf2-sniper-pro-gaming-standards-gif-16546673

itd be funny if the General was completely successful but they decide to not bother with kentucky and other north eastern states because population density

[strong warren]

The general takes Hawaii and makes it a safe haven

[strange cedar]

And then like every time, someone pretends not to be infected and ruins it all for everyone

[visual vapor]

Zomboid among us

[pseudo sequoia]

wait there is more radio?!

[somber summit]

This guy will save us. not the general

[pseudo sequoia]

@next fox is trolling on twitter

[subtle flint]

'still waiting for McGrew to rescue me

[visual vapor]

Ain't no way the radio making it to August

I'll eat my hat

[rustic flint]

It won’t be, once the power goes out

[dull turret]

me on my way to create the most comprehensive lore doc:

[dull turret]

man, thank god for declassified CIA documents about how the US would react to a biochemical attack

[visual vapor]

Power shutoff but worldwide

[dull turret]

doubt the entire world's power grid would shut down all at once

it would be major grids first, the ones that need a lot of people to run

then the minor grids, the ones that can be left unsupervised for a bit

then down to gas-fueled generators

[visual vapor]

Ik, just making a funne

[rustic flint]

It'll be like Life After People but with Zombies anyway

[visual vapor]

Flies and vultures gonna be eating good forever

[rustic flint]

Also if the power grids are dependent on people, it's only a matter of time before they are overrun with zombies or had to be abandoned for the safety of the employees there

[dull turret]

yo fellow lore crusaders, need y'all to fact check me on this

[visual vapor]

It was Cal all along?

[dull turret]

I dunno, July 7 at 1200 EDT he claims he's in the dark like everyone else

I'm just listing the existing lore as is and trying to tie it all into one doc

As far as I got, there was testing 30 years ago, there was or currently is toxins in the forests and fields, and there is a foul smell that was in the air weeks before the Event

also, the response is jarringly quick and doesn't resemble the usual US response to a civil emergency, which this resembles

it's more akin to a response to a biochemical attack

I'm taking this way too seriously I'm looking through declassified CIA documents

[long valve]

something you miss is how the military were particularly targetting dogs

[pseudo sequoia]

This why there are no dogs in PZ?

I'm surprised no nation just nuked knox after everything fell apart out of resentment

[dull turret]

I dont think they were particularly targetting dogs, just anything that can carry a disease in general

[dull turret]

They would be nuking the United States, whose government is likely still functioning (more or less)

And since the US did not publicly state that Knox is not US territory anymore...

You're nuking the US

[pseudo sequoia]

So the US could do it....

[dull turret]

Yes, but its likely that they wouldnt

Fear of mutating the virus I suppose

I mean in the Earth PZ is set in basically Romero's concept of zombies never existed, so most common knowledge about zombies wouldnt exist

At least I think thats it

[long valve]

There were 3 mentions I believe of military specifically taking families pets while they were fleeing, shooting a families dogs, as well as military hunting dogs in particular

will send the examples I can find

[dull turret]

Oh yeah I've read those bits before

Its a bit strange actually

But I have no idea how to explain why they're targetting dogs apart from that dogs can carry and possibly spread the Knox Infection

Or they're simply following protocol for dealing with contaminated areas and eliminating carriers of any contaminants

Only real-world example that comes to my mind of this is Chernobyl, where the Soviets killed a bunch of dogs to prevent radiation from spreading out of the irradiated areas

[subtle flare]

I was so fucking wrong

https://twitter.com/TheKnoxEvent/status/1684621421165830144

The Knox Event in Real Time (@TheKnoxEvent)

<bzzt> ... across... <fzzt>

<fzzt>

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Twitter · Jul 27, 2023, 5:47 PM

[dull turret]

across...

[pseudo sequoia]

Those are the zombies learning to talk

Across the spiderverse released really early in this timeline

Lucky

Same story but it's toy story graphics 😛

[crimson prawn]

https://www.reddit.com/r/projectzomboid/comments/15ad3ae/the_knox_event_in_real_time_tweets_deciphered_as/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

doing God's work

pretty sure Zomboid's world the military is more competent compare to WWZ

[pseudo sequoia]

Zomboids infection is more deadly tho

[next fox]

Zomboids world definitely has it worse

[pseudo sequoia]

Airborne disease, no matter how capable u are u still have a very high chance of death before even meeting the zombie

Being a black belt in karate and a gold star boy scout won't help in that situation

[pseudo sequoia]

I bet if this was modern day all of twitter or something would be saying that only the "alpha males" are immune

[uneven hearth]

radio still going

[untold glen]

maybe the radio operator is immune, and holed up in some safehouse while transmitting all they can

[pseudo sequoia]

"Small groups of immune survivors remain"

[untold glen]

yep

[pseudo sequoia]

The radio operator is our imaginary friend that gives us hope as we are so so alone in this apocolypse

[untold glen]

also true

[subtle flare]

https://twitter.com/TheKnoxEvent/status/1684956892404310016?t=zM9xyWEoj1m5gfZrmbt0qg&s=19

The Knox Event in Real Time (@TheKnoxEvent)

<fzzt> ... -most every-... <bzzt> ... to the Knox... <fzzt>

<bzzt> Small gr-... <bzzt> ... immune survivors rem-... <fzzt>

<bzzt>

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Twitter · Jul 28, 2023, 4:00 PM

We are so fucking back

[pseudo sequoia]

ITS CLOBBERING TIME

First signs of actual organisation post knox

Everything else was just retreating or loss, now we have some sorta bases getting set up, even if it's a singular farm house

Humanity is adapting...```

I wonder why we got the "that's all folks" message

[subtle flare]

Trying my best to understand this radio transmission

(Al)most every(one succumbed) to the Knox (Event/infection)

(Confirmed reports of) small gr(oups of) immune survivors rem(aining)

[pseudo sequoia]

I wonder if that's the dev team trolling or whag

[pseudo sequoia]

I had trouble with the first bit but that sounds right

I assume they are calling it the knox infection instead of event

[visual vapor]

Maybe it means that's the last of the news regarding zombies overruning certain areas or countries

[pseudo sequoia]

They baited us thinking that humanity lost

[full crown]

guys

[pseudo sequoia]

Or gals

[full crown]

we are always looking at what its trying to say

but never WHO sent it

bc it cant be humans since all radio and news stations died

[pseudo sequoia]

It's just our player making up voices

[full crown]

this could all js be a simulation if the knox event were to happen

[full crown]

ok player makes radio static

[karmic egret]

<bzzt> ..'s all folk... <bzzt>

[pseudo sequoia]

Yes

[next fox]

There was a slight mixup but I prefer to let the That's All Folks be a conspiracy

[next fox]

It me

[uneven hearth]

the real question is how we sent an image through radio

just plop that image into the general channel

[visual vapor]

The image was willed into the radio

[strong warren]

Morse code that slowly spells out a png link

[odd walrus]

I thought you gave us riddles and ideas 😉

[crimson prawn]

Wait I thought it was Will Porter writing the lore

[odd walrus]

Pat’s also a writer on the team, and he’s responsible for the tweets 🙂

[pseudo sequoia]

Ur imaginary!

Knew it!

This entire discord thread is a fever dream of mine

It's happened before...

[next fox]

I am a riddle, and an enigma

Will did all the original lore, the new international stuff is mine

[pseudo sequoia]

I think the real problem is that the writers got ai to make the script but now the ai is now become self aware and is writing lore past its parameters

[next fox]

No AI ever

[pseudo sequoia]

That's what an ai would say

However I concur

Get the zombies onto the writing team instead, untapped potential

[gentle grove]

That sounds about right

[mighty orchid]

the twitter was used as if it was in universe, commemerating the 30 years SINCE the knox event, and since pat has confirmed that twitter does not exist in the zomboid universe this can be a tv broadcast containing a survivors recording of all the broadcasts he wanted which explains the static and the lack of, unprofessional broadcasts

[mighty orchid]

my guess is that its just a survivros recording since the first message is https://twitter.com/TheKnoxEvent/status/1676865718288097282
which seems to be in universe

The Knox Event in Real Time (@TheKnoxEvent)

Exactly 30 years ago, in July 1993, the Knox Event changed the world forever.

This account commemorates that moment in history, in real time.

God save us all.

@theindiestone

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Twitter · Jul 6, 2023, 8:08 AM

[pseudo sequoia]

o7

[mighty orchid]

Maybe the end of humanity was the friends we killed along the way

[pseudo sequoia]

I never began the apocolypse with any friends (/j btw)

But I am now proud to call everyone is this thread comrades

[mighty orchid]

Yeah but you never went that zombie is my friend

[pseudo sequoia]

?

[mighty orchid]

Don't you ever just see a zombie and kidnap it?

[pseudo sequoia]

Ur scaring me

[mighty orchid]

Nuh uh john is my best friend

[full crown]

I like my theory of aliens

[long valve]

My theory is that the Knox infection is the outcome of biological weapons testing on dogs in the secret research facility, this biological weapon broke containment and began spreading through the local dog population before mutating and jumping to humans through a dog bite, then we go from there

The military was shown to be aware of something really bad going on, so it could make sense that they were already militarily active because they were trying to contain the infection in dogs

[cobalt bobcat]

It's in the spiffo meat

[visual vapor]

No twitter? Zomboid world is already so much better due to that

[odd grail]

imagine if the radio operator is the US goverment in their doomsday bunker

[long valve]

The only thing disproving my theory is that there aren't mention of zombie dogs, but the virus could result just have none of the zombification effects in dogs

[full crown]

Go back to the 90s ig

[worn mural]

I mean they could realistically last for a while

Barring that nobody in there was infected to start

[mighty orchid]

well humanity still lives on then

[mighty orchid]

yeah but this either implies this was on tv or social media is somehow still created

[hexed barn]

So... Ronald Reagan was right

“Perhaps we need some outside universal threat to make us recognize [our] common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing a threat from outside this world.”

[crimson prawn]

meanwhile in the walking dead

[pseudo sequoia]

ALIENS MORTY

[crimson prawn]

well humans in their evolution history has been known to cooperate

[hexed barn]

We must come together

[visual vapor]

Apes together strong

[next fox]

I will give him his one and only W for this

[subtle flare]

RR was cooking with that quote

[next fox]

I loathe the Walking Dead and how it thinks of human beings as disposable piles of organs to be ripped out. That doesn't mean PZ won't have severe cruelty or evil but it won't take glee in depicting it in close up HD.

If the messages were in-universe (and they might not be), they'd be radio. Even 30 years after the apocalypse I think a tv system would be a waste of limited electricity.

[subtle flare]

might

https://tenor.com/view/dumb-and-dumber-lloyd-theres-a-chance-jim-carrey-gif-11098164

[dapper merlin]

Is there any place in the discord where the individual tweets are posted to view? I don't have a twitter account

[gentle grove]

#knoxevent

[dapper merlin]

Thank you very much

[crimson prawn]

I don't think you need an account to view anymore

[pseudo sequoia]

Did we win?

[uneven hearth]

are you winning, son?

[pseudo sequoia]

So far

These are my solution to the knox event

Turn the zombies into superweapon cyborgs

[leaden hornet]

Then what?

[pseudo sequoia]

I've not thought that far

[hexed barn]

Uh... profit?

[leaden hornet]

From who?

What government is there to buy your machines good sir?

[hexed barn]

That's not the question you should be making
What government is there to stop me from using them?

[drowsy elm]

We all haven't heard a transmission today....

[vapid coyote]

Are there any unscrambled versions of the later tweets? Perhaps samples provided by the lead writer?

Would make editing the wiki page for the Knox Event easier.

Part of the reason is that someone from this thread has tried their best at reconstructing them, but the dates are slightly off and I can’t cite any in good faith if they’re unofficial.

https://alternate-timelines.com/thread/4989/project-zomboid-knox-event-1993?page=6

Actually, I may as well @next fox.

Won’t push further if the answer is “no” on account of the mystery element. but it would be helpful to have the timeline archived in some official capacity before it’s lost in the depths of the internet.

[dull turret]

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP

[next fox]

Only the tweet timeline is official, I can't comment on anyone else's opinions on them

Also it's my birthday today

Thanks for the thread link, interesting

[strange cedar]

merry birthdaysmas

[uneven hearth]

Happy birthdoid

[dull turret]

happy birthday yo, mine was just yesterday, have a good one

[subtle flare]

Happy Birthday😨

https://twitter.com/TheKnoxEvent/status/1685584768845361152

The Knox Event in Real Time (@TheKnoxEvent)

long droning beep

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Twitter · Jul 30, 2023, 9:35 AM

what do they mean by this

[split prawn]

beep

[dull turret]

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP

I imagine it's the tone from the Emergency Broadcast System

BEEP. BEEP. BEEP. BEEP.

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP.

[next fox]

Thank you!! Sorry for "stealing your thunder"

[dull turret]

oh you haven't done that at all

[pale pawn]

Now all that's left is the astronauts in the ISS

What happens to them

[blazing vortex]

Jaba the hutt got a hold of them

[pseudo sequoia]

So either the zombiod real life event has started

Or I have run out of mobile data

https://tenor.com/view/star-wars-r2d2-beeps-provocatively-annoying-gif-4059356

[drowsy elm]

Don't think the ISS was even made yet

[pseudo sequoia]

^ the Russian version is

[pale pawn]

Ah yea

Still, I want to listen to some astronauts panic and stuff

[pseudo sequoia]

Read WWZ

Trust me, its nothing like the movie (in a good way)

[blazing vortex]

But brad Pitt

[vapid coyote]

Ah, so no “unscrambled” version exists. Alright then. Thank you for your time and please enjoy the rest of your birthday!

[wide estuary]

There were no astronauts in Low Earth Orbit whatsoever on July 6, 1993 from any country

wait my mistake

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_TM-17

These three are on Mir

TM-16 is also on orbit at this time

[visual vapor]

The most lucky and unlucky folks in the PZ world

[hexed barn]

Hey, Feliz Cumpleaños

[strong warren]

Today is my mothers birthday too

Happy birthday

[true cairn]

bon anniversaire

[nova shore]

196 days of food and water in space

could be a worse way to go out i guess

[wide estuary]

they would likely die unconsciously as they slowly suffocate to death from the buildup of CO2

unless they aborted and landed in Hawaii

but that risks them all dying to the Knox Infection

(they would probably be able to tell where the best place to abort to in Mir's orbit is considering that irl plumes from the September 11th attacks were visible from the ISS, places where zeds are would likely have fires in the region around them)

[next fox]

Thanks!! And happy birthday mom!!

[untold glen]

Merry birthdoid!! :]

[nova shore]

honestly dying from O2 deprivation is that bad

as long as there is still air to breathe

you just get sleepy and dont wake up

[wide estuary]

yeah

[odd walrus]

Unless they run out of co2 filters, that’s not a pleasant way to go

[nova shore]

Honestly considering what deathtrap the MIR was theyll probably just die from some random shit breaking

[wide estuary]

LMAO fair point

[plush rain]

happy birthday, dude!

[tiny mantle]

I'm looking through the timeline right now, and I see several events doing the outbreak such as lightning storms, meteor strikes and earthquakes. Is there anything within the game that ties the outbreak to natural disasters, or are we certain the infections stems from somewhere else?

[pseudo sequoia]

It's from the military complex very outh west on the map

[tiny mantle]

How do you know? Is it implied anywhere?

[rapid dagger]

How do you know?
They don't 🙂

[tiny mantle]

Exciting! Looks like we got a real mystery on our hands then 😄

[rapid dagger]

It'll remain one, too. We're not going to confirm the origin ever, so everything anyone ever says will only be based on their own theory based on implications, indications, and circumstantial evidence

[gentle grove]

What even is the point of the secret military base then

If not to make zombies

[rapid dagger]

Yeah, in the history of humanity there was no other reason ever

[strong warren]

Create love not war :)

[subtle flare]

Ok so
Your not going to confirm it
But a definite answer does exist?

[rapid dagger]

Yeah

[tiny mantle]

Brace yourself. I was Scooby Doo's personal trainer. I'll have this solved by noon.

[crimson prawn]

Ah yes baiting the game theory folks on youtube to make content

like the FNAF fandom finding out the lore of Bite of 87

[uneven hearth]

WAS THAT THE BITE OF 93???

[tiny mantle]

It's working

I feel baited

[raw kernel]

Might've been relevant to make such a video a few years ago, but unless the game's popularity super-boosts again after Build 42 drops, I doubt there will be mainstream theory channels discussing it.

[blazing vortex]

I’ll just make a mainstream theory channel and discuss it

[pseudo sequoia]

In and out, 10 minute adventure

[long valve]

These are implied to be carpet bombings done by the military

[uneven hearth]

Why would they do that, it was a nice carpet

[leaden hornet]

three days later

[tiny mantle]

Wasn't the earthquake in Tokyo?

Or somewhere in Japan at least?

[long valve]

Lightningstrike is implied to be carpet bombings

Earthquake is just flavor text, it was a real event that would've occurred regardless, meteor strikes is a red herring I suppose

[true cairn]

metor strikes brought spiffo virus zombie to earth

[drowsy elm]

Guess no more radio?

[rustic flint]

This month usually means the electricity and water shuts off in normal gameplay, as far as I know

Maybe that’s applied to the radio, too? I dunno, if communications would’ve been shut off too

[karmic egret]

hey majortelt, I really enjoyed your rec. I'm going on a long hike thursday, any other recommendations? They don't have to be zombie related. I'm going alone on a 20 hour hike so I'll listen to any book you recommend.

[dull turret]

well if you enjoy sci-fi, I recommend The Martian by Andy Weir

The name might be misleading, but it isnt about aliens at all

I'm not gonna spoil it though

You've got the Percy Jackson series or any of the series by Rick Riordan for a modern take on either Greek, Egyptian, or Norse mythology

Lemme rack my brains and see if I got any more book recs

[karmic egret]

hmm i think ive read the martian

but ill have to check

[subtle flare]

https://twitter.com/TheKnoxEvent/status/1685584768845361152

The Knox Event in Real Time (@TheKnoxEvent)

long droning beep

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Twitter · Jul 30, 2023, 9:35 AM

Day 3 of no transmissions

[long valve]

tweet today

[subtle flare]

30/7/1993

The day, the music, died.

[long valve]

<fzzt> vine boom... <bzzt>

[uneven hearth]

<bzzt> ligma... <fzzt>

[true cairn]

<fzzt> Joe.. <bzzt>

[pale pawn]

<bzzt> <bzzt> ..Mama <fzzt>

[strong warren]

That’s <fzzt> folks

[strange cedar]

<bzzt> ...all your fault Ky..e...<fzzt>

[subtle flare]

Day 4 no trans

[crimson prawn]

trans what?

[drowsy elm]

mission

[pseudo sequoia]

That could have gone wrong easily

[mild helm]

is this how we died

[drowsy elm]

Yea

[strong warren]

Well I guess the Knox event is contained

On earth

[subtle flare]

Day 5 no trans

[raw kernel]

Take some more HRT drugs, I guess?

[mild helm]

MORE ESTROGEN

[dull turret]

The Knox Event is contained

It has always been contained

...

Until it wasn't

[mild helm]

cap

its still contained

[pseudo sequoia]

Until the general says so it is contained

[nova shore]

The Knox event is cotained to Earth

[long valve]

isn't it sus that the general was immune to the airborne varient

[pseudo sequoia]

1/10 chance

Not that bad tbf, how many generals does the US have?

Surely more than 10

[long valve]

but it just so happened to be the dude who was leading the response

hmmmmm.....

[pseudo sequoia]

Let's be honest, he was probably in an airtight bunker when he was giving the orders and such

[nova shore]

He was at the exclusion zone border

There was a press stage with camera

[pseudo sequoia]

Fair

[nova shore]

Im a staunch General McGrew supporter

He did nothing wrong

Maybe he was too kind which is why people thought they could protest

[vital vector]

imma be 100%. If I was president and I heard zombies started appearing in lousiville

https://tenor.com/view/explosion-mushroom-cloud-atomic-bomb-bomb-boom-gif-4464831

[nova shore]

yea i would've been finger over the button for 3 days

they were live broadcasting the fence getting breached

as soon as it was breached it was glassing time in my personal opinion

https://tenor.com/view/live-nuclear-reaction-live-tucker-reaction-live-reaction-gif-25285499

https://tenor.com/view/doompaul-ron-paul-nuke-gif-19185035

POV: You are scavenging in West Point when the fence gets breached

[vital vector]

https://tenor.com/view/rick-gumball-skip-to-the-end-gif-15453179

[long valve]

possible they feared the illness would use the fallout to spread via airborne particulates

I doubt its grounded in much science but I also don't know if science was at a point where they could adequately say that it was a safe bet to do such a thing when the virus arrived

[wet lily]

A week of silence now

Are we done yet?

Is everybody gone?

[pseudo sequoia]

For real for real

[raw kernel]

*frfr

[nova shore]

I have faith the surface of the sun brought to the earth for a few seconds is enough to make anything sterile

Also nukes dont create fallout unless they impact the ground really

and airbursting is much more effective

especially if your goal is to have less fallout, such as nuking yourself like cauterizing a wound.

[long valve]

You fool, I have one final zinger of a counter argument

The game does not let us eat zombies, why is that? It is obviously because we would still get infected if we ate cooked zombies, they would not make a system like that because it'd be redundant, if zombie flesh when exposed to heat is till unsafe, this proves the zombie virus must be immune to heat, making it immune to NUCLEAR BOMBS

This concludes the greatest theory in the project zomboid community

[leaden hornet]

What is one supposed to say back to that

[royal plaza]

In 30 years a new transmission willl cone

[uneven hearth]

I think the temperature of a nuclear explosion is a little higher than the temperature you'd cook your meat st

[nova shore]

https://tenor.com/view/dust-ashes-thanos-gone-avengers-endgame-gif-14825403

POV the picosecond after a nuke goes off

[pseudo sequoia]

for real for real!

[subtle flare]

Day 7 no trans

Hear me out
Insane lore theory
Instead of nuking the US before it collapsed from the zombie apocalypse they Instead nuked russia because they realised this could be their last chance to do something extremely dangerous

[pseudo sequoia]

Go out with a bang

[subtle flare]

CHAT

https://twitter.com/TheKnoxEvent/status/1688512814632353792?t=T_ReQEB-m2XbDSNxwBPpFw&s=19

[pseudo sequoia]

"<fzzt> ... been forgotten.

We will... <fzzt> ... come for you...

<bzzt>

<fzzt>

— The Knox Event in Real Time (@TheKnoxEvent)
Aug 7, 2023"

Idk what the first one is but the second I think is

"We will not come for you"

I assume this is the US government's last message to the people, that they are on their own

[pale pawn]

OH MY GOD ITS HAPPENING

CALM DOWN EVERYONE CALM DOWN

[nocturne slate]

I swear I have heard this somewhere before.

[cobalt bobcat]

McGrews message

#knoxevent message

[uneven hearth]

No 😡😡😡. It's McGrew and he says we will absolutely come for you! 😃

[pseudo sequoia]

Why a repeat of the message then?

And why a blank between "we will" and "come for you"

[uneven hearth]

Because uh uhmmm... he wanted to remind us

[pseudo sequoia]

One theory I have is some remenant of the government is repeating the broadcast in the hopes that people don't remember the specifics of the original one to make it seem like they are doing something and to give people hope

[gentle grove]

Day 1 of the General coming for us :)

Tbh I wonder how/if that'll be implemented in-game

[pseudo sequoia]

Plot twist: he wont

Pat has gone awfully silent

[uneven hearth]

blasts through the walls of your base in a tank

[pseudo sequoia]

He comes back after you survive 100 years in apocolypse settings

It's the secret ending

[uneven hearth]

and in the spirit of project zomboid he must kill your character in the dumbest way

either by running you over or shooting explosives at zombies you are fighting

[next fox]

I died

[pseudo sequoia]

Good riddance honestly

Didn't need him anyway /s

[uneven hearth]

where were you when Pat was kil

[raw kernel]

In bed shiddin an fardin

[cobalt bobcat]

In General McGrew we trust

[nova shore]

https://tenor.com/view/zhukov-gif-20082782

General McGrew preparing to liberate America from the undead hordes

[pseudo sequoia]

I can imagine Mcgrew in space marine gear crossing the country to liberate us

https://tenor.com/view/warhammer40k-space-marine-walk-warhammer40k-space-marine-warhammer40k-the-new-edition-warhammer40k-gif-26536581

[crimson prawn]

does that mean no gamer moment in 2001?

[nova shore]

its on hold

[crimson prawn]

some twin towers [redacted]

[nova shore]

the zombie apocalypse is entirely solved and over with in 2013

meaning it wouldnt happen till 2021

[crimson prawn]

I think the government probably survived the apocalypse under bunker or somewhere

[earnest raft]

As long as Automated Emergency Broadcast System (AEBS) radio is running there is probably still a goverment and it doesnt seem the channel will go down

[dull turret]

General McGrew on his way to liberate the United States:

[strong warren]

Thank you McGrew I knew I could count on you!

[pseudo sequoia]

Live McGrew coughing action in #knoxevent

[strong warren]

It’s just a cough right?

[pseudo sequoia]

It was the cough of the hero himself

It will go down in the history books

[subtle flare]

https://twitter.com/TheKnoxEvent/status/1688831395739672576

The Knox Event in Real Time (@TheKnoxEvent)

<cough>

Likes

114

Twitter · Aug 8, 2023, 8:35 AM

Fuck

Pat got the knox

@next fox did you bleach

[long valve]

this confirms that there is coughing in project zomboid

[next fox]

I'm fine <cough>

[pale pawn]

It's confirmed, pat bren is the voice on the radio

[odd walrus]

Time to dig a grave and ready a shotgun?

[pseudo sequoia]

Dig your own grave then drink bleach in it

Then set a timer on some explosives so the grave fills back up

See the problem with bleach is that you still reanimate, I don't want the uncertainty of being aware whilst undead

Better a bullet tbh

Quicker and safer with a no refund guarantee

[next fox]

[strong warren]

[placid wharf]

On my birthday we got a cough

[pseudo sequoia]

For Christmas santa gives out bleach now

[gentle grove]

Bleachmas confirmed

[placid wharf]

That's why snow is white

[mild helm]

cough

[untold glen]

this is depressing

[rough yarrow]

Unhappiness +99

[opal stag]

Don't worry guys General McGrew is "coming" for us

[pseudo sequoia]

*shambling

[opal stag]

https://tenor.com/view/milk-gif-19026572

coming

[raw kernel]

x10

[uneven hearth]

He just accidentally burnt his leg on his way that's why he is taking so long

[crimson prawn]

It is my kingdom come

[long valve]

NEW TWEET WITHIN THE NEXT 1000 HOURS

[pseudo sequoia]

Are we gonna get another "that's all folks" to actually mark the end

[next fox]

No

[royal plaza]

We will definitely get a tweet saying the world is cured and they got brainwashed to forget the virus

And add random shit that nobody cares about

Trust

[pseudo sequoia]

Literally 1984

[subtle flare]

Day 3 no trans

[gentle grove]

How will we know it's actually the end then?

First we got the "that's all folks", it wasn't the end at all, then there was the beep-thingy, still wasn't all, now we got a cough...

[pseudo sequoia]

First they told us it's all folks
But I did not listen, for the broadcast continued
Then they told us <beeep>
But I did not listen, for the broadcast continued
Then they told us <cough>
But by then the broadcast had stopped

And I was forced to listen

[pale pawn]

Just keep the Knox event channel silent until 30 years later and then continue the cycle

[royal plaza]

Give this man some estrogen

[subtle flare]

Day 4 no trans thanks for the ping

[hexed barn]

You must love the ending to "Return of The Living Dead"

[subtle flare]

Day 6 no trans

[neon thorn]

wsp yall

do we just tell stories about the lore here?

https://tenor.com/view/kermit-kermit-the-frog-bruh-smiling-drive-gif-15005835

guess ima post sumthing?

[gentle grove]

I say we stop sending messages at the 1993rd message mark

[neon thorn]

A light flickers, as the camera turns on, showing a man in his mid 40's, obviously troubled by something

"Mr. Jones, Can you tell us what you in the exclusion zone 30 years ago?"

"They were...eating each other. i don't know how to say it. the Jeffersons were having a barbecue, but my ma and pa didn't go. Turns out, that was a good thing. i woke up to the sounds of screams. i looked outside, seeing Mrs. Jefferson ripping open the corpse of they're dog, max. i was so shook i ran to my parents, crying, yelling that, "She's eating a dog!" My parents investigated, and after a bit, came back into the room, grabbing me, saying we need to leave. we saw the neighbors from our car while driving. it was horrible. blood and guts everywhere. looked like a heavy metal album cover. i...i can't do this. J-just, go."

The reporter is obviously sickened by the story, yet they keep a smile on they're pale face

"Well folks, that's all we have for today. good night, stay safe, tune in tomorrow for a sneak peek of a new movie!"

The broadcast ends

rip bozo

new post

[untold glen]

sick

[neon thorn]

ty

https://tenor.com/view/he-man-blink-handsome-prince-adam-gif-18971794

[next fox]

I won't torture anyone further, the Knox Event is now over. Who knows what the future will bring though. Perhaps nothing.

[drowsy elm]

Sadness

[pale pawn]

I don't believe u, what do u know? Your just some red name peerson

[subtle flare]

Yay the knox event is over humabity survives