Weapon Number One in the Undead Arsenal: The Power Grip.
Opposable digits - in combination with an immunity to lactic acidosis and muscle fatigue - allows reanimants to maintain a vice-like grip upon prey indefinitely.
Dynamometer tests in our labs have shown that, with sufficient purchase, an undead female host weighing 50kg can sustain tolerances of up to 300kg in each hand before catastrophic bone and muscle failure occurs. When faced with such Olympian levels of strength, the message is clear:
DO NOT let them grab hold of you.
(Taken from an extract in the ‘Journal of Undead Biology’ - September 2012)
Neville Hunt over 6 years ago
A nice timely piece to scare the hell out of me. I’d better get a grip tomorrow evening.... or avoid one.