10-29-2018, 11:44 PM | #91 | |
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Re: Kindly Necromancers
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I mean unless zombification is contagious and causes rampant brain eating. Then yeah, they need to stay down, but that's a health and safety issue. |
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10-30-2018, 12:01 AM | #92 |
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
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Re: Kindly Necromancers
Yes, the details of the necromancy do kind of matter.
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10-30-2018, 02:00 AM | #93 |
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Re: Kindly Necromancers
Whether it cares or lot, that body retains memories of the person it was because it still has skills of the person it was. There's a bit of that person left. Long before the zombie plague movies there was another kind of zombie horror movie, one that wasn't about the fear of being reduced to a feral animal but rather into an automaton that exists only to take orders. And it looks like the deceased but...isn't.
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10-30-2018, 02:21 AM | #94 |
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Re: Kindly Necromancers
How much of a black market is there, really, in organs?
It's also much easier to extract useful work from a zombified body than it is to match an organ donation victim to a customer and do the transplant. The latter needs substantial medical skills and equipment. Edit: The Chinese issue is due to an unethical government, not an underground market.
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10-30-2018, 05:45 AM | #97 |
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Bioshells are still alive though, which just increases the associated horror of the THS setting, as anyone you meet could be just a meat puppet for nonhuman beings with alien motives. The fact that you can be hollowed out from your own body and have it turned into a bioshell by anyone just adds another scoop of horror that the setting. The fact that the people you love can also suffer such a fate just makes it even more horrific.
Imagine a scenario where you go on a month long trip into space. Your significant other greats you passionately when you get back, but there is something off. They laugh at different jokes and they respond differently during sex. Eventually, you start to suspect that you significant other is someone else and, when you confront them with the evidence, they admit the terrible truth that they are not the same person. They are someone who obsessed about you and, when you were off on your trip, they had your significant other kidnapped, turned into a bioshell, and became a ghost so that they could enter the body and become your lover. |
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