Re: [HoE] Undead Syker Rebellion

[Allan Seyberth <darious@darious.com>]

>>Well -- after two hundred years of supernatural activity, including the
>>dead rising up outta the grave - wouldn't you make cremation a regular
>>practise?  :-)
>
>
>    Y'know...that's a spooky practice to add to a town in my Deadlands game.
>If the players are looking for it, it's a sure sign of what's going on.  But
>because they're new to the game....

Well - my thought was that both the Pinkertons and Rangers would encourage
the practise of cremation in a social context.  After awhile, it will have
hopefully caught on.  Maybe that's why embalming caught on here....

Though - that was a great thought by toadpooka that the majority of the
harrowed would come from places and people who did not have the proper
funeral procedures/rites performed.

>    As far as that applies to HoE, I imagine cremation is really popular.
>Not just for occult reasons, but I figure they were doing a lot of it after
>the Last war to cut down on disease from the mass number of corpses.  Or is
>it better to create mass graves?

Depends on the availability of resources.  For a one time situation,
burying would be easier.  Unless you just happen to have a LOT of
flammables around.

It's quite likely that any major settlement would have crematoriums setup -
to handle the dead.  (disease and all that).
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