Drop dead gorgeous

[CrashBlizz]

I'd like the last description a character has to stay visable when they die. It be good for RP if you could see what corpses looks like - Rather than just when it was they died.


Man A: 'A dead body?'
Man B: ' Yeah, a blonde girl, roundish face. She looked quiet young.' etc etc

[Snickie]

+1

[RedQueen.exe]

+2

[Addicted]

Yes, nice.

[Indigo]

I like the idea. I have always wondered why you can know if it was a heart attack, starvation or violent death, and not how the guy/girl looked like. You are seeing the corpse, right?

[MelloYell]

ive often thought this.
good idea!

[Sunni Daez]

Man A: 'A dead body?'
Man B: ' Yeah, a blonde girl, roundish face. She looked quiet young.' etc etc

With a crossbolt sticking from her chest?????

[madfish]

Bodies decompose and would be anything but "drop dead gorgeous" after being dead for a few days or even hours.

Not to mention a lot of people describe mannerisms and such in their character description. For example: 'he walks with a swagger. always looks cheerfull etc' wouldn't look too good on a dead man.

[Indigo]

I haven't seen decomposition in Cantr corpses though I've roleplayed it. But even if that decomposition existed, you could still see if the body has dark or blonde hair, if it was tall or small. About the mannerisms, you could just ignore them as you read them. Well, the body isn't moving, it can't be walking with a swagger. It would be the same as if you were looking at that character while being alive, but just sitting around. You would only know that mannerism if you saw the action itself.

[Snickie]

Perhaps a third box, then, for the player to use: a box to write their character's chardesc in death.

[insert notes here, skills, whatever]

She has curly black hair, with a cheery countenance. Sparkling green eyes. Dances when she walks. Tanned skin.

She had matted black hair. Even in death her face is marked with a hidden peace. Her once-green eyes are now clouded, fixed, and glassy. Her skin is ghastly pale.

The text in the third box would replace the text from the second box whenever the character died, and would have to be approved by PD and/or that chardesc monitor department I suggested in a different thread however long again before it could go into effect. (It'd have to be approved for things like consistency with current description, exclusion of mannerisms, etc. Can't have her going from black hair to red over the course of however long it takes her to die.)

[EchoMan]

I haven't seen decomposition in Cantr corpses though I've roleplayed it. But even if that decomposition existed, you could still see if the body has dark or blonde hair, if it was tall or small. About the mannerisms, you could just ignore them as you read them. Well, the body isn't moving, it can't be walking with a swagger. It would be the same as if you were looking at that character while being alive, but just sitting around. You would only know that mannerism if you saw the action itself.

There is decomposition, since dead bodies lose weight over time.

[joo]

I haven't seen decomposition in Cantr corpses though I've roleplayed it. But even if that decomposition existed, you could still see if the body has dark or blonde hair, if it was tall or small. About the mannerisms, you could just ignore them as you read them. Well, the body isn't moving, it can't be walking with a swagger. It would be the same as if you were looking at that character while being alive, but just sitting around. You would only know that mannerism if you saw the action itself.

There is decomposition, since dead bodies lose weight over time.

Or they are losing mass relativistically.

[EchoMan]

There is no mass (or gravity) in Cantr, only weight. But this is going off topic.

[Doug R.]

Maybe the CD could be "degraded" in proportion to the body's mass, with characters randomly being lost. Way too complicated and confusing, I know. I support a death description. and I know it's been suggested elsewhere.

[Armulus Satchula]

I was just thinking about how much I wanted dead bodies to retain descriptions.