Hello, and welcome to NVLB's biting directory! We aim to infect anybody who comes through our doors! We leave nobody uninfected!
❤️ You need to sign up with Voluntary Infection Program before anyone can bite you. You can choose the Free option to save sP, but you may get the wrong strain from other, unaffiliated zombies. Getting bites helps to speed up the infection to stage one, from possibly days into just minutes.
❤️ If you want to volunteer and get pings, just join the ping groups that you can bite for. A link to every group is provided in the spoilers. Likewise, if you want to stop getting pinged or can no longer continue as a volunteer for any reason, you can leave or mute the ping groups as you please without saying a word.
❤️ Please do not ping the groups more than once. If your name is on our list, we will get to you eventually. Please be patient while we process requests.
❤️ You're not required to join the ping groups. If you want to hang out and be a casual biter, that's fine too!
❤️ If you are infected, we cannot help you progress faster. Biting gets you stage 1 (infected) faster, but after that, we can't provide anymore bites. You can visit the healer to see your progress (it will not show up in the wardrobe).
❤️ New threads are to be made by NVLB admins or experienced post wranglers. This is to be keep everything moving smoothly as we jump from thread to thread.
Once you're infected, it would be helpful if you could update us with ping #nvlbmenu! Our volunteer Post Wranglers will try to keep an updated link list of who to bite and who's infected, to make sure that everyone gets the strain they want.
2009
Join the Boobitis (Pale, Heartbroken) group or summon the biters here with ping #boobbites
Join the Foot Rash (Furious, Torn) group or summon the biters here with ping #footbites
Join the Love Bug (Romantic, Flushed) group or summon the biters here with ping #luvbugbite
Join the Virus (Classic) group or summon the biters here with ping #virusbites
Join the vial strain group or summon the biters here with ping #wastedvial
You can also drink the corresponding vials to get these strains. If you do this, you get the first stage immediately and you do not need any bites!
2020
Join the Cryomorph (Ice) group or summon the biters here with ping #cryobites
Join the Death Roe (Lake) group or summon the biters here with ping #roebites
Join the Eau de Ceased (Smoke) group or summon the biters here with ping #eaudebite
Join the Metalmorphosis (Metal) group or summon the biters here with ping #mtlmorbite
2021
Join the Crystalitis (Pointy) group or summon the biters here with ping #crystlbite
Join the Queasea (Grainy) group or summon the biters here with ping #queseabite
Join the Sickura (Delicate) group or summon the biters here with ping #sikurabite
Join the Yggdrakill (Magical) group or summon the biters here with ping #yggdrabite
2022
Join the Airhead (Happy) group or summon the biters here with ping #airhedbite
Join the Escargloom (Unclog) group or summon the biters here with ping #escarbites
Join the Gummy Squirm (Hyper) group or summon the biters here with ping #gummybites
Join the Wrapture (Parched) group or summon the biters here with ping #wraptbite
2023
Join the Befowled (Wild) group or summon the biters here with ping #bfowlbites
Join the Ikupox (Grounded) group or summon the biters here with ping #ikupoxbite
Join the Jolly Rotter (Salty) group or summon the biters here with ping #jollybites
Join the Snack o Lantern (Jacked) group or summon the biters here with ping #snackbites
2024
Join the Threadful (Hook) group or summon the biters here with ping #threadbite
Join the Transmewtation (Vein) group or summon the biters here with ping #tmewbites
Join the Mistery Meat (Fog) group or summon the biters here with ping #mistybites
Join the Deathgrip (Strech) group or summon the biters here with ping #dgripbites
2025
Join the Clamorous (Flourishing) group or summon the biters here with ping #clambites
Join the Stalacbite (Focused) group or summon the biters here with ping #stalabite
Join the Biodoominescence (Moisturized) group or summon the biters here with ping #bioescbite
Join the Batnip (Unbothered) group or summon the biters here with ping #batnipbite
2026
Join the Half Baked (Cozy) group or summon the biters here with ping #bakedbites
Join the Slashimi (Fresh) group or summon the biters here with ping #shimibites
Join the Ragùmortis (Hearty) group or summon the biters here with ping #ragubites
Join the Cakewalk (Pleasure) group or summon the biters here with ping #cakebites
To use (since the code for the spoilers are a little wonky when I try to put in the code thing), just quote this post and cut out this bottom part when you stuff this into a new thread. This is assuming that I'm not going to be around to make it myself - which could very well be the case if I have to work late.
[edit]Welcome to the second post! Here's an example of a Post 2 infodump! ❤️ krae
Post wrangling instructions should probably still be in the second post. I want people to realize that we will still have a presence on the thread like last year to make sure everybody is getting their bites.
Post Wranglers
These are the people who keep running lists of people who still need to be infected and post every couple of pages or so. All posts should contain the following basic information:
If somebody is infected, please ping the post wrangler (check the latest couple of pages to figure out who it is) to help them out.
[edit]Here's an alternate version I've been sticking in the infodump - ❤️ krae
[box=#feeeed]Do we need a menu?
You can help!
Join the triage volunteers at #nvlbmenu
then grab the current Menu template:
Post Wrangling Template & Guide
Hey ! Are you tired of pings yet?
This is a draft of the first post for a thread using ping groups, rather than the list (but the list is still around just in case everything goes horribly wrong). If any problems with the way I've presented anything, then please tell me.
Ooh looks lovely! Very easy to find what we need to find :) My one little suggestion might be to have the url link to the groups just on the first part of the sentence, finishing after the strain names, and maybe the second part worded something like "summon the biters to this thread by..." instead of "here" only because any newbies to the thread might get confused and think they have to go to the ping group to ping us? Anyway, very handy to have it written out and ready to roll out though, thanks!
lovely art by
"grey would be the colour if i had a heart" ~nin ❤️
That looks so good : thank you for making it! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
I would un-spoiler the "give me anything" section. Breaks to the post a tiny bit and makes it obvious that the call4nlvb is a thing.
An alternative idea, would be to scrap the spoilers entirely. Break it up by year, ordering the same as the zombie alliance official. Have a spoiler only as a break between years, titled "201x". Because if there's only going to be that one line of text in each spoiler, it's a bit over kill, while also appearing much more daunting than it should be
The spoilers make the twixt-link buffers like four or five times as large. I have no good ideas how to optimize compatibility for both, though.
I agree about splitting the spoilers by year, having all those spoiler headings is a bit much to look at.
I was going to have some names into the list - we might not get too many though so the spoilers could probably go.
maybe have them sorted like this
2009 STRAINS
Weren't we putting the achievers in a second post? I definitely don't think we should use the ping group as a header for the biter list, it won't even be read.
2009 STRAINS
I'm working on something super close to that!
Achievement Seekers: Names
I have to fiddle with something. Let me have the achievement seekers.
2009
Achievement Seekers:
Achievement Seekers:
2010
This is a testing post for the achievement seekers. Do people like 2010 or 2009 better? I think 2009 is clearer on why the names are there, but I'm also don't want to make the first post too long.
Is the font too big in general?
I also think I might the note regarding being specific with the vial strains note to 2014 in general since all of the vial strains are there but maybe all the notes should stay in one place?
: surely if we're breaking it up by year, one general note under 2014 about the shared ping group and then just listing the strains below would be sufficient?
In general my preference for information formatting like this is to make it as easy as possible to use quickly for both volunteers and victims: ❤️ least words possible ❤️ clear data divisions (like the spoiler headers... or ❤️ bullet points) ❤️ compact design (but not so compact you can't tap it on a mobile)
As a victim, I want to be able to see how it works at a glance, be able to find the one I want without a lot of clicks, and be able to clearly see which ping or biter list to cut&paste.
As a volunteer, I would prefer it was alphabetical by skin to make it easy to sign up for your skins en masse (in theory, as of course I am already in all of them...)
Sounds good. I'll add the note under the generic one too (I'm not sure if a header is required?) and then we can just eliminate that point in the notes.
i think 2009 looks better but i would put them in the spoiler not underneath. it would make the 1st post shorter as well