LE DIsripecting the Dead

[adwath]

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***Oh, noes...I misspelled the title! "Disrespecting the Dead" it should read. Anyway to fix that? So sad...***

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***Oh, wait, that almost looks like a pun. Never mind, I meant to do that...***

//roleplay on//

How dare this fool try to take me down!

Though he be dead, he lies before me in quite clean repose after I took my due.

Nay, say I! I shall now make a warning to all those who come upon my work! Cross me and not even your loved ones will recognize your remains.

//roleplay off//

 

Ok, here's the thought. Just because you've killed the guy doesn't mean that's it. And rapid crouching while standing over a corpse is kind of lame.

Sure we can now take a few swipes at a corpse and get a blood decal to splash, but it feels as if the collision is flawed and you can't even take the head off after the fact.

 

No, for me this is what I would do:

1. "Rend" a corpse into it's component parts by slashing away at the body until is falls apart into; bloody bones, bloody rags and (if you are a cannibal) lootable body parts.

2. Incinerate a body with fire. (smoke wafting off the body).

3. Cause the hands and feet to pop off with lightning. (with smoke wafting from the stumps and mouth)

4. Freeze a corpse then shatter it with a blow.

5. Take the head off a body.(Possibly, even make it something you can place in the inventory) Maybe start a collection, or at the very least something to kick around the house when there is nothing to do.

6. "Shout" someone apart. Come on, town guards in game even said that it was doable.

7. Throw a corpse hard enough at a hard object will cause spray the local area with blood. Like throwing a wet sponge at a wall with red dye in it.)

 

These resources are already in game.

Bloody remains; assorted bloody bones (I haven't seen a full set of bloody bones lying about, but I'm sure all the bones are accounted for)

Burnt corpses (can this texture be transferred to people?)

"Living enemy" turned into "headless enemy." (what? I take the head off someone that's fighting but I lack the coordination to do the same to something that isn't moving?)

 

Maybe add some flavor to it as well. Like make it a crime to do some of the things on the list. Somehow I think guards wouldn't look to kindly to "Rending" anyone. Cannibal or not.

Also, once these were made, they could be used for some awesome finishing moves on a, not-quite-dead-yet foe.

 

A few of these thing couldn't be too hard to to build up right?

Edited February 8, 2012 by adwath