What to do with the dead (Split from Cemeteries in T2K)

[weswood]

Shoot 'em in the head and burn the bodies. Oh, wait that's the UNdead, wrong thread, sorry.

[Cdnwolf]

Nom nom nom....

[WallShadow]

Originally Posted by Cdnwolf

Nom nom nom....

Don't forget the second jar of relish...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...1144716AAm0NMl

[pmulcahy11b]

I'd like to say cremation (it has the virtue of the bodies not taking up room and putting a stop to most diseases), it's too labor-intensive and takes up too many resources. So mass graves will probably become the rule, unless you resort to dumping bodies in whatever body of water is near (then the GM can have an epidemic pop up!).

Spread out the bodies enough (or if you really have a lot of them), and you will, after 3 years or so, have rich farmland!

[Targan]

In my last campaign when Major Po's "Target Zero" doctrine was in full swing the PC party was adding bodies to the corpse population generously and regularly. Both burial and cremation tended to be problematic options in T2K New York City so quite often Po would get creative and mix corpse management with psy ops. He'd often have his men string up, pose, and/or mutilate the recently dead with the aim of demoralizing his enemies, spreading terror and letting the people know that someone or something dark and wicked had arrived in the domain.

Unfortunately these behaviors had some fairly negative consequences for the morale of some of his own, less de-humanised personnel but no one spoke up against it. I guess due to varying degrees of fear of Po, Stockholm syndrome and the ingrained tendency of many soldiers to follow orders, even distasteful and immoral ones. Hey, one man's atrocity is another's avant garde street art, right?

[rcaf_777]

Originally Posted by kalos72

A creative idea for mass graves...

Why not use them to mark your outer perimeter...a 20 foot wide ditch filled with decaying bodies is sure to make the average refugee or marauder question is this is such a good idea.

My group came up with this last night....they will use a ditch line across parts of Jersey to keep people from crossing and on any bridge they dont want access to.

Walking across a 1000m bridge stacked 3 deep with bodies will have a similar effect.

Of course, smell is an issue. How far can you smell a pile of dead bodies?

Why not build a wall out of them, work for the 300

[Legbreaker]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

Spread out the bodies enough (or if you really have a lot of them), and you will, after 3 years or so, have rich farmland!

Originally Posted by rcaf_777

Why not build a wall out of them, work for the 300

I was thinking once the bodies had decayed down to the bones, they could be used as field boundaries and walls....

[headquarters]

Originally Posted by Targan

In my last campaign when Major Po's "Target Zero" doctrine was in full swing the PC party was adding bodies to the corpse population generously and regularly. Both burial and cremation tended to be problematic options in T2K New York City so quite often Po would get creative and mix corpse management with psy ops. He'd often have his men string up, pose, and/or mutilate the recently dead with the aim of demoralizing his enemies, spreading terror and letting the people know that someone or something dark and wicked had arrived in the domain.

Unfortunately these behaviors had some fairly negative consequences for the morale of some of his own, less de-humanised personnel but no one spoke up against it. I guess due to varying degrees of fear of Po, Stockholm syndrome and the ingrained tendency of many soldiers to follow orders, even distasteful and immoral ones. Hey, one man's atrocity is another's avant garde street art, right?

that major Po was a real sicko wasnt he?
Still - gMing a campaign where the opfor are the "heroes" and the PCs are the "villains" is fun and helps creativity. General Pain ( the character) used corpses to spread illness in watersources etc - old style germ warfare if you will. Other uses can be mentioned also - som e involving a makeshift refurbished vcannery - but another time...

[headquarters]

Originally Posted by Targan

In my last campaign when Major Po's "Target Zero" doctrine was in full swing the PC party was adding bodies to the corpse population generously and regularly. Both burial and cremation tended to be problematic options in T2K New York City so quite often Po would get creative and mix corpse management with psy ops. He'd often have his men string up, pose, and/or mutilate the recently dead with the aim of demoralizing his enemies, spreading terror and letting the people know that someone or something dark and wicked had arrived in the domain.

Unfortunately these behaviors had some fairly negative consequences for the morale of some of his own, less de-humanised personnel but no one spoke up against it. I guess due to varying degrees of fear of Po, Stockholm syndrome and the ingrained tendency of many soldiers to follow orders, even distasteful and immoral ones. Hey, one man's atrocity is another's avant garde street art, right?

that major Po was a real sicko wasnt he?
Still - gMing a campaign where the opfor are the "heroes" and the PCs are the "villains" is fun and helps creativity. General Pain ( the character) used corpses to spread illness in watersources etc - old style germ warfare if you will. Other uses can be mentioned also - som e involving a makeshift refurbished vcannery - but another time...

[Greylond]

In the book The Green Beretshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gre...ets_%28book%29 there's a story of a raid undertaken by a A-Team and some of their native troops that they were leading in country. One of the objectives was blowing a bridge but the Team Leadership was having a problem planning loads to be carried. They didn't have enough troops to carry all their equipment, including enough explosives to blow the bridge and carry full sandbags to pack the explosives on the bridge. They didn't want to carry empty sandbags and fill them on site because that would have taken too long. Then one of their native troops suggested that they use the dead bodies of the bridge guard force that they had already planned on killing before they could blow the bridge.

So, they did it. They shot the guard company and then used the bodies to pack the three lines of explosives they laid across the top of the bridge. Compared to other methods of blowing it, it was fairly quick to lay out and it worked. Also, the enemy never really figured out where their entire company of guards went to...

[pmulcahy11b]

Then again, you could go with the Donner Party solution...yumm...

[WallShadow]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

Then again, you could go with the Donner Party solution...yumm...

Ship the bodies to the University of Colorado Alferd Packer Memorial Dining Hall, where no one ever asks questions about the "mystery meat"

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by WallShadow

Ship the bodies to the University of Colorado Alferd Packer Memorial Dining Hall, where no one ever asks questions about the "mystery meat"

Mess hall food is people!


But what the hell are those new MREs?

[Bullet Magnet]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

Mess hall food is people!


But what the hell are those new MREs?

Men, Recruited for Eating?