Re: [DL] Re: Chinese Mummies

["c m hylton" <cmhylton@earthlink.net>]

What about the guy in the Huxter Book, that was trying to spread "culture"
to the uneducated masses.  Its in the "marshall's section."  Maybe he didn't
learn his lesson and found a dealer who could send on over seas.  Kang gets
wind and knows that its an ancestor.  Someone just wants the "jade
sarcaphagus (sp?)" just cause its shiny and worth a fortune.  Hiliarity
ensues as a desperate fight to find this item before its opened.  Thus
releasing the trapped soul of someone very old, very powerful, and very
irked that they died without taking over the world.


Or
Maybe not.

C M Hylton

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Robert Blair" <pellinoire@yahoo.com>
To: <deadlands@gamerz.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 12:56 AM
Subject: [DL] Re: Chinese Mummies


> I wondered what you were about with these Chinese
> mummies as I could not think of any, the best I could
> do was the imperial corpses totally encased in jade
> 'armour'. Then when someone mentioned desert it
> clicked. The mummies of the Taklamakan desert. These
> are not proper ritually mummified bodies but
> dehydrated corpses preserved in the dry desert sands.
> Interstingly some of them seem to be quite western in
> appearance (shades of Kennewick Man and in turn
> Piper's Aryan-Transpacific stories) but this place has
> seen a lot of traffic over the centuries and has
> several known ruined cites which died as the water
> failed.
>
> I am not really sure how to connect this to Deadlnads
> unless one makes a trip to the Middle Kingdom though
> the idea of a Jade encased royal zombie is quite fun.
>
> Michael
>
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