Day 9.5: The Fungus is Among Us (ZF/CC)

The post I put up last night apparently didn't save (it could have happened why I fell asleep on my keyboard) so I'm gonna try and put it up now, although an abridged version. What I'm doing here is setting the ground work for my 'bible'.  By 'Bible' I mean a reference work that I can refer back too when writing that sets the tone and way the world I'm creating works.  It's a technique that television uses, and people that create monthly comics really should adopt as well.  Generally it has notes on themes, story arcs, characters and their backgrounds, etc. It helps to have these to avoid plot holes, characters working against their motivation, etc.  Now doing a whole bible for a one-shot comic about Zombie Dinosaurs. . . a little redundant.  So my focus before writing the outline is as follows:

• Virus-in this case based on the real life 'zombie' fungus. Need to know how it infects, spreads, etc.
• 4 survivors-basic personality notes. I mentioned in a previous post in zombie fiction characters are more oft defined by their actions not their backstory
• Tone and Mood; typically bleak and oppressive in a zombie film, especially as I'm playing this 'straight' but I need to break it up with humor that comes from the absurdity of talking, tie wearing dinosaurs.

This post is going to deal with the fungus.  I want to keep some of this based on the real life fungus, but still keep the zombie standard of infection through biting.  So now it's getting nasty: The infection can spread by fluids (saliva, blood = biting) or airborne spores.  The quick sketch I have below show some of the more fungal dinosaur zombies:

I know it's not how it looks in real life, but I want the fungus to kinda look like the stuff when you discover that leftover meatloaf that's in the back of the fridge for two years.  This way the read already has a natural aversion to it due to instinct.  It should promote a greater reaction.

Having it be capable of being transmitted in two different ways explains the quick spread of the infection better.  In real life the fungus tries to get the host eaten or to move to a location where it can better spread.  In this case we're going to say that the natural instincts of the dinosaurs interferes with 'programing' of the fungus and they tried to devore their kin. They stop attacking once the fungus reaches the nervous center, because it'd be like the fungus attacking it's young.

Again these are prelim notes. I'll go more into depth later.