- Nov 8, 2020
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I was thinking a bit about the player hubs and the writer prompts list I put together I had some notions swirling in my head about undead culture and how it might look like in a world of deadhaus.
It seemed best to start with feeding since "the hunger" (of some kind) is generally what most share (whether they feed on blood, fear, souls, essence, etc.).
It seems kind clear that if certain areas are controlled by the undead, they would still want a healthy population of humans to feed on of course...
But isn't feeding in the streets just so pedestrian?
Why not come to a local restaurant, particularly if you're having a meeting with another undead.
Not something that warrants a giant celebtration feast, but like a night out at a pub or similar, perhaps discussing some skullduggery or coups and such.
While I imagine a concept like pits is lovely for ghouls, I don't imagine most undead are interested and satisfied by the concept of tearing flesh from bone and swallowing it raw... that's just so uncouth.
I imagine most restaurants would be run by an undead with mind control powers to keep the food mostly docile except in instances where maybe the goal is to invoke fear to feed off the suffering or something.
Service staff and orders imagine are handled mostly by ghouls as they can prepare the flesh as well as keep it organized (this one has low blood but plenty of soul, and this one is the opposite) and bring over orders from the various meats on display, which also ensures they also have plenty of flesh to chew at the end of the night when the various once living are now fully drained. Plus I imagine ghouls are more inclined to have an understanding of gourmet arts over most undead.
I imagine they might have a revenant as security, who also is able to enjoy pulverizing the left overs into stew before the ghouls consume it.
Entertainment of course would be necessary. I imagine some are even humans that are not allowed to be fully drained and instead are chef specialties that are kept on staff and perform in various ways (music, sword/aerial dancing [probably not fire] etc).
The establishments of course would be well kept and fancy enough for a lord, but likely have some various "private booths" below, where more torturous acts can occur without disturbing the meals of others.
Humans served at these establishments of course, are of good stock and not sullied by disease or drugs, if anything, an establishment is likely known for how delicious and pure their food choices are.
The whole system just makes it a nice, convenient and relaxing atmosphere to eat, rather than hunting down a random person in the street and who knows what kind of random thing you are getting. Hunting in the street is ewww.... it's for "the poors", the bestial, and the young. Get some culture!
It seemed best to start with feeding since "the hunger" (of some kind) is generally what most share (whether they feed on blood, fear, souls, essence, etc.).
It seems kind clear that if certain areas are controlled by the undead, they would still want a healthy population of humans to feed on of course...
But isn't feeding in the streets just so pedestrian?
Why not come to a local restaurant, particularly if you're having a meeting with another undead.
Not something that warrants a giant celebtration feast, but like a night out at a pub or similar, perhaps discussing some skullduggery or coups and such.
While I imagine a concept like pits is lovely for ghouls, I don't imagine most undead are interested and satisfied by the concept of tearing flesh from bone and swallowing it raw... that's just so uncouth.
I imagine most restaurants would be run by an undead with mind control powers to keep the food mostly docile except in instances where maybe the goal is to invoke fear to feed off the suffering or something.
Service staff and orders imagine are handled mostly by ghouls as they can prepare the flesh as well as keep it organized (this one has low blood but plenty of soul, and this one is the opposite) and bring over orders from the various meats on display, which also ensures they also have plenty of flesh to chew at the end of the night when the various once living are now fully drained. Plus I imagine ghouls are more inclined to have an understanding of gourmet arts over most undead.
I imagine they might have a revenant as security, who also is able to enjoy pulverizing the left overs into stew before the ghouls consume it.
Entertainment of course would be necessary. I imagine some are even humans that are not allowed to be fully drained and instead are chef specialties that are kept on staff and perform in various ways (music, sword/aerial dancing [probably not fire] etc).
The establishments of course would be well kept and fancy enough for a lord, but likely have some various "private booths" below, where more torturous acts can occur without disturbing the meals of others.
Humans served at these establishments of course, are of good stock and not sullied by disease or drugs, if anything, an establishment is likely known for how delicious and pure their food choices are.
The whole system just makes it a nice, convenient and relaxing atmosphere to eat, rather than hunting down a random person in the street and who knows what kind of random thing you are getting. Hunting in the street is ewww.... it's for "the poors", the bestial, and the young. Get some culture!