Bodies, Corpses, and Skeletons
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Bodies, Corpses, and Skeletons
I was thinking (I know, it's a bad thing to do ) and I thought it would be novel to spice up the way the game deals with dead people.
I thought that when a person first dies they are pretty intact, and can still individually identified. You could name them if you wished (character idea: slightly deranged char who drags a body around with them and talks to it? gives body a name?) at this stage of decomposition you would see "Body of a man in his twenties", and you could change the man in his twneties part if you wanted.
Then after some time (about 5 days I think is a good time period in Cantr's time system) the body would decompose to the point where it is no longer indiviually identifiable. You would no longer see their name instead you would see "A Man's Corpse", or "A Woman's Corpse". You wouldn't be able to change the names or tell them apart except for gender.
The final stage of decomposition would be "skeleton" it would be the same as the "corpse" stage, except you can no longer tell the genders apart. You would see "A Skeleton". I think this would occur 10 days after the body decomposed into a corpse, so the entire cycle of fresh body to skeleton would take 15 days.
What does everyone think?
I thought that when a person first dies they are pretty intact, and can still individually identified. You could name them if you wished (character idea: slightly deranged char who drags a body around with them and talks to it? gives body a name?) at this stage of decomposition you would see "Body of a man in his twenties", and you could change the man in his twneties part if you wanted.
Then after some time (about 5 days I think is a good time period in Cantr's time system) the body would decompose to the point where it is no longer indiviually identifiable. You would no longer see their name instead you would see "A Man's Corpse", or "A Woman's Corpse". You wouldn't be able to change the names or tell them apart except for gender.
The final stage of decomposition would be "skeleton" it would be the same as the "corpse" stage, except you can no longer tell the genders apart. You would see "A Skeleton". I think this would occur 10 days after the body decomposed into a corpse, so the entire cycle of fresh body to skeleton would take 15 days.
What does everyone think?
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A grand idea! Sure would teach people a lesson not to do something if they saw a bunch of skeletons lying around. If anyone knows Nathan Holm, he left dead bodies out as a lesson not to speak against him. And then it would be possible for primitive tribes that collect skulls of their enemies! Awesome!
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Now thats a whole new idea that: looting corpses for skull and stuff.
Here's another idea that comes under this topic:
Burying people: perhaps we could pre-dig holes for corpses so we only have to put the body in and fill the hole, and perhaps when you dig a hole for a body you could make a marker for it, and if a grave has a marker you could dig it back up.
Hey, while we're at it maybe we could make everything buriable? Then you could bury people with their favourite posessions, or have a viking funeral or something like it.
Here's another idea that comes under this topic:
Burying people: perhaps we could pre-dig holes for corpses so we only have to put the body in and fill the hole, and perhaps when you dig a hole for a body you could make a marker for it, and if a grave has a marker you could dig it back up.
Hey, while we're at it maybe we could make everything buriable? Then you could bury people with their favourite posessions, or have a viking funeral or something like it.
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I like this idea too. Bones could eventually be used for jewlrey and tools etc! Think of the possibilities....they are endless. After all...bones have been used in real life in the past for such things. Since cantr has a weird way of advancing as it is...I see no reason why people cant learn how to use bones for something ...even though we already have iron/wood hammers n' such. LOL
I like it.
I like it.
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