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"Story Game" Puzzle #1

[ariock]

I distract the ex-zombies by teaching them how to ROT-13 and how to use Base64, and then when that makes them REALLY enraged, I steg myself into the background image.

[Gregoriev]

Re: "Story Game" Puzzle #1

[TheIllustratedMan]

Well, zombies don't breathe, but can inhale and exhale normally (it just doesn't supply them any oxygen, since they are dead and their circulatory systems don't work). I'm assuming that the virus (anti-virus, whatever), attaches itself to the lung lining when inhaled, then revivifies the tissue, slowly spreading into the alveoli and out into the circulatory system, restoring life as they go. Eventually the entire circulatory system is functional, which carries the virus to the brain and other organs, reviving the whole system.
Taking that into consideration, there must still be zombies who have not inhaled the virus, or who are still only partially revivified. Those zombies would still carry the original virus, and could therefore still transmit it. I would send out parties to search any nearby bodies of water for submerged zombies. These individuals would have not yet inhaled the cure, and could be used for re-infection.
Once I had secured a living specimen, I would transport it back to the base in a secure manner, usher all those wishing to be re-infected inside, and let the zombie loose in the facility after I had secured it from the outside.
The newly revived humans might object to being locked into a warehouse (or whatever), but at least they would be allowed to be zombies. An alternative to the warehouse might be a barricaded island or some such secure outdoors location. Like the moon.
Meanwhile, the rest of humanity can get back to mating and blowing each other to bits.