Death banned in French town

[grimslade]

Maybe the hamlets local bone yard is full. All deceased persons must be laid to rest in hallowed ground or rise again to harry the living. The hamlets last priest took the last plot in the bone yard. There is no one that can bless a new graveyard. The village elders pass a law banning death. A god of chaos makes it enforced. No one dies for hundreds of years. They continue to age, however. I suppose that the effect of the Undying town would only extend to the towns borders. The magic slowly fades as you leave the town, leaving a ring around the edge of town of mostly-dead townsfolk pleading for release to the afterlife. Enter the adventurers. Cleric can hallow some earth and the village elders can recind their law. The whole town dies.

Why do graveyards have fences around them?
Because people are dying to get in.

 

[GILGAMESH]

Posted this in the plot forum earlier this week...

Here is a fix for what to do with their dead.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/797323.asp?0dm=C21DT

So I guess that we are all potential, diamonds in the ruff.

 

[Nightfall]

"it's almost Bergmanesque"

Or Kafkaesque.

 

[radferth]

One of the Lord Dunsany's Pegana stories includes a priest who preaches on how evil and horrible death is. Death decides to ignore him... forever. After a few centuries he is instead preaching about how kind and wonderful death is, if you can find him the ruins of his former temple.

 

[Bihor]

Bill and ted's bogus jurney

Maybe the reaper or the god of death a lost a bet or a contest and he fowloing some NPCs. Just like in ''Bill and ted bogus jurney''

To restor balance the PC must find them. Or a nasty villan can't be execute for is crimes.


sorry for the spelling

 

[Avatar]

There's actually a film out there, "Death Takes a Holiday" I believe it's called, where Death goes on vacation and nobody dies......perhaps that could be the plot. The PCs have to find death and convince him/her to come back to work....

just a thought,

Alan

 

[hong]

Re: Re: Death banned in French town

Who are you and how did you get Hong's login?

Sorry, that's another one of Piratecat's alternate personalities. We fight sometimes over who gets to control the keyboard.

 

[Green Knight]

Hm, can't say I've heard of it. Jean Reno was also the guy in _The Usual Suspects_ and that offbeat French comedy about a couple of time-travelling medieval guys, wasn't he? He's good.

He was in The Usual Suspects? I've seen that movie several times, and I'm pretty sure he's not. Though he HAS been in The Professional and Mission Impossible.

Hmm. Could this be used as a plot for a Ravenloft adventure? I liked someone's idea of a cursed town where no one dies, but rather gets older and older and older.

Another idea I like is one in which everyone who dies automatically rises as undead.

 

[hong]

He was in The Usual Suspects? I've seen that movie several times, and I'm pretty sure he's not. Though he HAS been in The Professional and Mission Impossible.

IMDB.com is my friend!

http://us.imdb.com/Name?Reno,+Jean

You're right, he wasn't in The Usual Suspects. Don't know who I was thinking of there. But he was indeed in those movies you mention, plus the French comedy, which was called The Visitors.

Hmm. Could this be used as a plot for a Ravenloft adventure? I liked someone's idea of a cursed town where no one dies, but rather gets older and older and older.

I was actually thinking of Planescape, but yeah, RL could work too. Heck, it's generic enough to fit in any fantasy setting, I'd imagine.

 

[Buttercup]

Re: Re: Law breakers...

Actually I picture the Grim Reaper standing outside the town saying "No, really, I just have to use the bathroom. I'll only be a minute."

Damn you! I spit coffee all over my monitor!