- a shiny rock
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there should be a clan of ninjas. but instead of asian they are white
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- Nigmaetcetera
- Nov 17, 2004
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borkborkborkmorkmorkmork-gabbalooins
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The world is set in a vast underground complex of tombs and is populated entirely by intelligent undead. They are not any more inherently violent than humans are (though they are highly political and war between factions is pretty common), and have a number of ethnic groups, including skeletons, wet zombies, dry zombies, mummies, ghosts, vampires, and any other undead I steal from the D&D monster manual invent. New members of this society are added when people on the overworld die, and are dumped down conveniently located chutes along with their grave goods. After 10 years, they awaken with no memories of their previous lives, but the same personalities. Grave goods are included with all corpses in order to give them something to barter with after they wake up but before they get a real job. Because grave goods are so important to new citizens, robbing an unawakened corpse is one of the most severe crimes on the books, punishable by no less than 1000 years in prison.
Dead babies are held in special esteem, because they died with no grave goods, putting them at disadvantage. Dead babies are viewed similarly to how Americans view veterans, and have their own parade annually in all major cities, and even some smaller towns. Unfortunately, racism exists in the underworld. Vampires and mummies make up over 50% of politicians and large business owners are vampires or mummies, while making up only 10% of the population. It's really more a matter of lookism, though. Think about it this way, who would you rather vote for for president, a handsome dracula looking dude and his mummy vp with a totally awesome gold death mask, or a stinky old zombie with a skeleton running mate? I thought so. Because of these two attitudes, vampire babies especially have a disproportionate level of influence.
The biggest threats to peace are raids by overworld adventurers paid by wizards to procure spell components, which typically involves hacking up as many poor undead as they can before the cops show up. The second largest is mind flayers expanding their territory. The undead, lacking functioning brains, are of course inedible for mind flayers, so these incursions typically just involve robbery and expulsion. The mind flayers are similar to Israeli settlers, you see? Also human brains are an addictive drug for wet zombies, and are typically sold by mind flayer dealers on the black market. The vampires survive on the blood of rats and other creaters that can be found underground. Those creatures feed on fungus and zombie toes. The world is called something like Necropolis, only cooler.
Recently some nations of the overworld have started making overtures at normalizing relations with Necropolis, who they previously treated as anathema. Whether they should go forward with diplomacy is the great political question of the age. Also everyone is a horny bisexual with one weird kink shared by the author, I mean, this is a fantasy setting after all.
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- Applewhite
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by vyelkin
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The world is set in a vast underground complex of tombs and is populated entirely by intelligent undead. They are not any more inherently violent than humans are (though they are highly political and war between factions is pretty common), and have a number of ethnic groups, including skeletons, wet zombies, dry zombies, mummies, ghosts, vampires, and any other undead I steal from the D&D monster manual invent. New members of this society are added when people on the overworld die, and are dumped down conveniently located chutes along with their grave goods. After 10 years, they awaken with no memories of their previous lives, but the same personalities. Grave goods are included with all corpses in order to give them something to barter with after they wake up but before they get a real job. Because grave goods are so important to new citizens, robbing an unawakened corpse is one of the most severe crimes on the books, punishable by no less than 1000 years in prison.
Dead babies are held in special esteem, because they died with no grave goods, putting them at disadvantage. Dead babies are viewed similarly to how Americans view veterans, and have their own parade annually in all major cities, and even some smaller towns. Unfortunately, racism exists in the underworld. Vampires and mummies make up over 50% of politicians and large business owners are vampires or mummies, while making up only 10% of the population. It's really more a matter of lookism, though. Think about it this way, who would you rather vote for for president, a handsome dracula looking dude and his mummy vp with a totally awesome gold death mask, or a stinky old zombie with a skeleton running mate? I thought so. Because of these two attitudes, vampire babies especially have a disproportionate level of influence.
The biggest threats to peace are raids by overworld adventurers paid by wizards to procure spell components, which typically involves hacking up as many poor undead as they can before the cops show up. The second largest is mind flayers expanding their territory. The undead, lacking functioning brains, are of course inedible for mind flayers, so these incursions typically just involve robbery and expulsion. The mind flayers are similar to Israeli settlers, you see? Also human brains are an addictive drug for wet zombies, and are typically sold by mind flayer dealers on the black market. The vampires survive on the blood of rats and other creaters that can be found underground. Those creatures feed on fungus and zombie toes. The world is called something like Necropolis, only cooler.
Recently some nations of the overworld have started making overtures at normalizing relations with Necropolis, who they previously treated as anathema. Whether they should go forward with diplomacy is the great political question of the age. Also everyone is a horny bisexual with one weird kink shared by the author, I mean, this is a fantasy setting after all.
Considering the population of necropolis must be many times that of the entire live population of the planet, what stops the dead from overwhelming the living?
Also, when they're killed by adventurers are they dead permanently?
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- Nigmaetcetera
- Nov 17, 2004
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borkborkborkmorkmorkmork-gabbalooins
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Considering the population of necropolis must be many times that of the entire live population of the planet, what stops the dead from overwhelming the living?
Also, when they're killed by adventurers are they dead permanently?
They just dig deeper if they need more room. It's not like they need food or water or air. Individuals killed by adventurers are permanently dead because wizards grind them into powder, which they mostly sell as bogus hard-on pills to the world's equivalent of Chinese people.
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- Angela Lansburial
- Feb 9, 2005
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Nothing to see here.
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The world is set in a vast underground complex of tombs and is populated entirely by intelligent undead. They are not any more inherently violent than humans are (though they are highly political and war between factions is pretty common), and have a number of ethnic groups, including skeletons, wet zombies, dry zombies, mummies, ghosts, vampires, and any other undead I steal from the D&D monster manual invent. New members of this society are added when people on the overworld die, and are dumped down conveniently located chutes along with their grave goods. After 10 years, they awaken with no memories of their previous lives, but the same personalities. Grave goods are included with all corpses in order to give them something to barter with after they wake up but before they get a real job. Because grave goods are so important to new citizens, robbing an unawakened corpse is one of the most severe crimes on the books, punishable by no less than 1000 years in prison.
Dead babies are held in special esteem, because they died with no grave goods, putting them at disadvantage. Dead babies are viewed similarly to how Americans view veterans, and have their own parade annually in all major cities, and even some smaller towns. Unfortunately, racism exists in the underworld. Vampires and mummies make up over 50% of politicians and large business owners are vampires or mummies, while making up only 10% of the population. It's really more a matter of lookism, though. Think about it this way, who would you rather vote for for president, a handsome dracula looking dude and his mummy vp with a totally awesome gold death mask, or a stinky old zombie with a skeleton running mate? I thought so. Because of these two attitudes, vampire babies especially have a disproportionate level of influence.
The biggest threats to peace are raids by overworld adventurers paid by wizards to procure spell components, which typically involves hacking up as many poor undead as they can before the cops show up. The second largest is mind flayers expanding their territory. The undead, lacking functioning brains, are of course inedible for mind flayers, so these incursions typically just involve robbery and expulsion. The mind flayers are similar to Israeli settlers, you see? Also human brains are an addictive drug for wet zombies, and are typically sold by mind flayer dealers on the black market. The vampires survive on the blood of rats and other creaters that can be found underground. Those creatures feed on fungus and zombie toes. The world is called something like Necropolis, only cooler.
Recently some nations of the overworld have started making overtures at normalizing relations with Necropolis, who they previously treated as anathema. Whether they should go forward with diplomacy is the great political question of the age. Also everyone is a horny bisexual with one weird kink shared by the author, I mean, this is a fantasy setting after all.
What about the undead who died in fires. They could be called something humorous like "The Crispies" (you can have that one for free)
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- Zzulu
- May 15, 2009
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in this realm, all skeletons have skeletons of their own
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- snuggle baby luvs hugs
- Aug 30, 2005
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in this realm, all skeletons have skeletons of their own
Um skeletons have marrow men inside them
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