So random question:  Since you have to burn bodies to prevent ghosts.

So random question:  Since you have to burn bodies to prevent ghosts.

So random question:  Since you have to burn bodies to prevent ghosts… What happens in the case of cannibalism?  Ghosts, no ghosts, weird powers? 

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  4. I believe you have to burn them with electroplasm to destroy the spirit. So I’d say any body not destroyed with electroplasm causes a ghost to arise within 3 days. This means any instance where there is no body (house fires, cannibalism, drowning at sea etc) results in a ghost. These things have to happen one assumes, there are always going to be some cases where the body isn’t destroyed with electroplasm.

  5. But yeah, I think it’s totally cool to imagine that the circumstances surrounding the loss of the body would have an impact on what kind of ghost is created! 😀

  8. I suppose it depends on 2 things. What is the connection between a body and a ghost? And, what’s the coolest, weirdest outcome you can think of?

    For me, the body presses a pattern in the Ghost Field that can fill up with energy enough to make a shape, which is a ghost. So the dead body is like pressing a bucket in the sand at the beach , so it holds water. It takes 3 days to make a “hole” that can become a ghost.

    In that case, wiping out the form that can fill with energy negates the possibility of the ghost.

    How can we get weird with it? The corpse makes the depression, but not necessarily in the same shape. So ground up hamburger remains of a corpse could create a form, and when filled with energy, the form would remember both how it once looked and how it ended up, and be able to switch back and forth between them.

    If the form is absorbed into another living energy form, then it loses its ability to fill with energy, it is no longer negative space. (Why rogues often feed corpses to hagfish in my game.)

    Whispers have energy AND space in their forms, so they can collect energy without allowing it to form an independent ghost–unless things go very wrong. And what if a ghost of a whisper retained a whisper’s ability to draw energy into that hollow brokenness that once lay beside a core of life energy? That’s a potent ghost indeed, and one that might make other ghosts, if the sanity holds. Doskvol’s saving grace is that whispers have might, but lack the iron grip on sanity that allows a ghost to continue to act at all rationally when it rises.

    The scientific types might try to make drugs or devices to partition their living energy, burning some out to create the capacity to manipulate the energy of the Ghost Field while alive. But that risks infection with impure energy, which can lead to medical vampirism. And there’s the risk of possession, intensified by putting a foothold for the spirit next to your wavering life force. Still, if your interest is more powerful possessed corpses or super-charged ghosts, those might not be deterrents.

    Just playing with the ideas a bit. You get the idea.

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