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How Shall We Honor Our Dead?

When we come across a headstone, I think we should place something there in remembrance. What else can we do to honor our dead?

Posted 17 months ago by Widdershins Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • placing flowers from herb gardens seems obvious, even if the headstones already come with some flowers.
    Posted 17 months ago by striatic Subscriber! | Permalink
  • We can just wait it out, since the players come back, and the headstones disappear. :)
    Posted 17 months ago by glum pudding Subscriber! | Permalink
  • A note with a prayer to one's favorite giant? :) Or some kind of random item, like a piece of fruit or a rock.

    BTW, I REALLY like this idea.
    Posted 17 months ago by Arii Subscriber! | Permalink
  • make ourselves dead out of respect.
    Posted 17 months ago by Nanookie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks, Arii. Our culture is in its infancy, and some things should become traditions. Btw, I've been alive to see my own headstone, so it must stick around awhile.
    Posted 17 months ago by Widdershins Subscriber! | Permalink
  • ...Wouldn't it be cool if you could pick up headstones and move them? Then we could have an graveyard, or maybe one in each region, that players could move headstones to, and then whenever a player came back to life, they'd be wherever their headstone had ended up. XD
    Posted 17 months ago by Arii Subscriber! | Permalink
  • ...aaaaand now our EOTW party is gonna be a bunch of Glitchen hanging around singing to butterflies whilst standing in an orderly line, so as to enter Hell leaving tidy rows of gravestones behind. ;)

    Cue everyone crabbing about how the EOT party was in another "exclusive" area....lol!
    Posted 17 months ago by Jennyanydots Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thank you for using the word "whilst". I'm going to friend you, just for that.
    Posted 17 months ago by Arii Subscriber! | Permalink
  • And I shall friend you back, for approving of my oddball verbiage.
    Posted 17 months ago by Jennyanydots Subscriber! | Permalink
  • i always try to leave some food so they can replenish when they return.
    Posted 17 months ago by emdot Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I honestly believe one should leave pork.  Here is why.

    Pork comes from pigs.  Pigs come from eggs.  Eggs come from trees.  Trees come from beans.  Beans come from ... wait, trees again?  Okay, fine, but THOSE trees (just work with me here) come from the ground.

    Now, hell is ALSO in the ground, right?

    And, so, do we not wish for our dead to rise from the ground like pork?  It's as touching as it is deeply symbolic.

    Who's with me?
    Posted 17 months ago by Kipple Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I like it. And there's pigs nearly everywhere, so even if you're caught without a pocketful of meat, you should be able to nibble a bit pretty easily.
    Posted 17 months ago by Arii Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I like the idea of meat and not just for that reason ;) .Then we should make it known that the meat is there for the waking dead, not for passers-by to take for their own use.

    Meditation would also be a nice touch.
    Posted 17 months ago by Widdershins Subscriber! | Permalink
  • kipple is smart. kipple for mayor.
    Posted 17 months ago by emdot Subscriber! | Permalink
  • We should do a DIA DE LOS MUERTOS PARTY! When you think about it, it makes perfect sense, the dead need a lot of food and drinks when they come back from hell.
    Posted 17 months ago by Tofu Casserole Subscriber! | Permalink
  • A whole party every time we see a headstone? XD It seems a little impractical.
    Posted 17 months ago by Arii Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Nonsense!
    Posted 17 months ago by Tofu Casserole Subscriber! | Permalink
  • We may need a "crocodile tears" emote.
    Posted 17 months ago by Widdershins Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Kipple! I have seen the light!
    Posted 17 months ago by Lilypad Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I do think it would be cool to have an emote especially for gravestones. "Mourn" or "Offer pork" or "Water the plants" or "Graverob"...Okay, maybe not the last two, but you get the idea. And the dearly departed could see it from hell, but could only shake their fist impotently as their grave was defiled.

    I suppose a graverobbing ability that allowed you to sell zombie chunks to NPCs would be too much to ask?
    Posted 17 months ago by Queen Blork Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The thing about traditions is that when they start out--y'know, before they become actual traditions--they do actually serve a useful and practical purpose.

    For example, Jewish kosher has a lot of seemingly "random" rules about what you are and are not allowed to eat. If you look at it from a modern perspective, yeah, the particular restrictions seem unusual. Why the ban on pork and shellfish, for example? What's wrong with delicious bacon? If you look at it from the perspective of people wandering around in the desert 2000 years ago, on the other hand, it makes a LOT of sense--pork spoils *really* quickly in heat; so does shellfish. In addition, there's no way to transport shellfish into the middle of the desert without then serving up a death sentence to whoever eats it. If you look at it that way, the kosher rules are suddenly Useful Guidelines For Not Being A Dumbass and Accidentally Killing Yourself By Food Poisoning.

    I'm not saying that the party idea isn't a great one--it is. It sounds really fun, actually. But if we want to develop a culture and traditions that people will keep practicing, they need to be ones that serve a specific purpose, and preferably aren't a huge hassle to follow. One of the lovely things about the leaving of food (specifically, meat) is that is both 'symbolic' (at least, if you follow Kipple's reasoning ;D) and functional--it'll be a nice thing for the Glitch to have when s/he comes back from Hell and needs those boosts.
    Posted 17 months ago by Arii Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Then we need a superstition too. If you pick up the meat of the dead, you will be cursed with something bad.
    Posted 17 months ago by Widdershins Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Some of us have a funeral :)
    Posted 17 months ago by kevbob Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh, pooh.  How come I never have funerals?  :(

    I want my funeral and I want it now!

    Wait, what am I saying?

    Actually, yeah, there should probably be a sort of ceremonial note left at any be-snack'ed grave admonishing would-be graverobbers of the bad juju they could incur.

    I also like the meditation idea.  Especially if those meditating possess the transcendental radiation skill.  I see graveside vigils staged by priests and priestesses of Cosma (with catering by Potian monks).
    Posted 17 months ago by Kipple Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 to Kipple's meat idea.

    (Maybe you could click on the gravestone to place an offering, and if the meat is taken by anyone other than the returnee from hell, there is a foo% chance of a negative effect, such as a juju bandit appearing.)
    Posted 17 months ago by Ama Gafr Subscriber! | Permalink
  • An 11 gun salute. Oh wait, we don't have guns, never mind :)
    Posted 17 months ago by PittyPat is sad Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Well, I put an offering of meat down by a headstone in northwest passage, and dropped a note on top of it, explaining why it was there and asking people to leave it alone.

    It lasted less than five minutes.

    I think an honour guard might be necessary...
    Posted 17 months ago by Ama Gafr Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I actually "died" twice today.   I thought it was hilarious!   :-D
    Posted 17 months ago by Tybee Subscriber! | Permalink