10-08-2018, 11:17 AM | #11 |
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Re: Hiding the Bodies
Wood chippers are a terrible way to dispose of bodies. Every wood chipper is slightly different, so they leave unique marks on the bone. In addition, they are nearly impossible to clean.
For a proper disposal, professional criminals seem to prefer cutting up the body along the joints and then disposing of the bodies in several remote areas (or random dumpsters if they cannot get out to the city). Alternatively, they wrap the body in chicken wire, chain everything to a few cement blocks, and drop it in deep water so marine animals will consume the evidence. In either case, the body will not be easy to find, though incidental forensics evidence may allow for conviction even without a body. |
10-08-2018, 11:24 AM | #12 | |
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Disadvantages should only rarely enable behavior. Callous is one of the few exceptions, but even then, I'd say that an appropriate skill or will roll would also help things along. The 0-point gurps character is not an innocent civilian: they're a very pragmatic individual who is free to act in their best calculated interest: most of the time personality limitations are disadvantages, not missing advantages.
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10-08-2018, 11:41 AM | #13 | |
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In a gritty game, I might require a Fright Check for a character with most 20th/21st century Cultural Familiarities to push a body through a woodchipper/dump it in a pig pen/wrap it in chains and drop it off a small boat. Some mental disadvantages and skills involving dealing pragmatically with blood and viscera would give a bonus; I might even allow Acting to count as a supporting skill if a player has read Double Star.
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10-08-2018, 01:47 PM | #14 | |
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I'm told, however, that if you bury the output it quickly becomes almost unidentifiable. Apparently you clean them by following up with plenty of brushwood. |
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10-08-2018, 01:51 PM | #15 | |
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In general, though, the PCs are far less likely to try to hide a body than make it look like Someone Else With A Motive did it.
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10-08-2018, 02:09 PM | #16 | |
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10-08-2018, 02:52 PM | #17 |
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Re: Hiding the Bodies
Generally, we don't unlawfully kill people. We're often on the side of the law, and if not, killing people is a really bad idea.
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10-08-2018, 02:59 PM | #18 |
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Well, PCs in my modern games don't generally leave unlawfully killed bodies about, making it moot. In cyberpunkish games, where it's more likely, they tend to generate dead bodies on their opponent's turf, and their opponents usually have reason to not want police investigation.
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10-08-2018, 04:18 PM | #19 | ||
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10-08-2018, 05:05 PM | #20 | |
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I don't consider myself unusually squeamish but I wouldn't be so keen on doing the same thing with a human, even if the legal issues were put to one side. EDIT Maybe it's a guilt thing...I probably could willingly dissect a human body that was donated to a hospital for that purpose but I certainly wouldn't chop up and conceal a murder victim without coercion or other extreme motivation. |
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