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In the Dead Reign books "Dead Rats, the Dead Rats & Dead Rats live" is written on walls usually with a cartoon rat drawn nearby. Who or what might they be?

I always assumed it was an indy band you liked/knew/or were a part of.

After I posted this I did a quick Google search and found a myspace page for a band by the name, so I'm going to add.....

It's an indy punk band

Did I get it right?

That's a good guess, but no it has nothing to do with an indy band. I got asked what it meant and didn't know myself. So I figured maybe the Dead Reign fans could share an idea.

lol, aren't you the one that draws it? I swear there's a bunch of your art in DR Core and DR 1 that has it in the Pic.

Naaa in the DR setting they go out of their way to repeatedly state that Zombie+Animal= nothing but a dead animal.

In Palladiums DR, even getten bit by a zombie doesn't equate into Zombification. The --only-- way to become a zombie is to be killed by one. That being said in DR getting bitten often leads to infection which may lead to death, but there's no direct correlation.

So the rats wouldn't some how be zombie vectors.

You walk in to a room with many freshly deceased rats. Guess you have to ask yourself, what caused all the rats to die in the first place? Does it really have anything to do with the walking dead? Could the water in the area be infected with some other disease? Where they intentionally poisoned? .......................................................

I like the punk band idea best. Or perhaps it's gang graffiti? It could have nothing to do with the apocalypse.

Oberoth wrote:You walk in to a room with many freshly deceased rats. Guess you have to ask yourself, what caused all the rats to die in the first place? Does it really have anything to do with the walking dead? Could the water in the area be infected with some other disease? Where they intentionally poisoned? .......................................................

I like the punk band idea best. Or perhaps it's gang graffiti? It could have nothing to do with the apocalypse.

Lol the Coolest part is the Dead Rats are a french Punk band!

Who knew the french could be punk stars?

dead rats is in endless dead on pg. 15 on the metal plate on the spare parts zed and on pg.38 on the tale gate of the pick up truck.

I'd say the more dead rats you find, the more undead are likely to be around (zombie+animal=dead animal)=rats chew into dead (undead) body and die leaving "dead rat." Hence, dead rats being painted on walls to warn others to be on the lookout for dead rat bodies as a warning of zeds nearby.

Do I win?

Beatmeclever wrote:I'd say the more dead rats you find, the more undead are likely to be around (zombie+animal=dead animal)=rats chew into dead (undead) body and die leaving "dead rat." Hence, dead rats being painted on walls to warn others to be on the lookout for dead rat bodies as a warning of zeds nearby.

Do I win?

Beat you to it.

I guess you did. That will teach me not to read all the in-between posts.