I think it would be pretty cool if you could mount heads of creatures on your ship, in your home etc. If you got the corpse you can buy a mounting thing that you put on the wlal and MOUNT (bear/pixie/Ugrach) ON WALL on a house or on a ship. Can only be done in ships or houses. Just for a bit of flavour.

With reasonable limits and decay times anyway. No sense in making thousands and thousand of new objects and ridiculously spammy rooms?

And limited to animal only type creatures.

I love the idea.

make it so you can only have up to oneor two in a room

This. I don't see why a Mhaldorian can't mount a Mhun knight's dead body in the trophy room of his evil tower of malevolence, though.

I'd kill Orophin's (damn veil) adder and mount it in my house. So, yes, please

-Firey-

Lol, I first thought this was going to be about young husbands/wives you would wed and leave in your home to do the second word in the title.

Hmmm....

Though disallow the stuffing and mounting of unique denizens.

Person A: Come over to my place, I recently defeated the ever powerful Lord Ugrach and mounted his head over my bed in triumph.
Person B: Impossible! His head serves as a foot rest in my study!
Person A: Liar!
Person B: Scoundrel!
- cue sissy slap fight -

Here you go
http://nigoro.jp/game/rosecamellia/rosecamellia.php
And a screenshot

Fun as hell.

EDIT: For like 15 minutes.

They already have trophy mounts... they are called Sirens

Boom boom.

That's the sound that's made as their giant knockers smash against one another...

Edit: Metzger did you get to the sequel?

Well with unique denizens the heads could decay when someone else slays them.

The way and frequency people kill Ugrach/Yudhi those trophies won't last longer than a day or two.

That's fine by me Ugrach is not worth getting then

Why does noone know Basil Brush?

Seriously...

Basil Brush is so 2001.

Also stop going off topic

Basil Brush still rocks my socks. But your request shall be accepted and I will cease going along this tangent.

Would this be a player skill?
If yes:
Which skillset would it belong in?
Would there be mandatory requirements? (rope, cloth, wood etc.)
Would there be a chance of screwing up the taxidermy process?

If No:
Would you need to supply a body ( or perhaps five?) to the taxidermist to stuff or will they have a stash of pre-made ones you can purchase much like Wares?
Cost any gold ( if you supply the body)?


Note for future: If this is implemented and I see a wall-mounted head mysteriously hanging on a invisible wall in the forest I will be sad you didn't heed my warning and then be sad.

My suggestion is the following:

Would not be a player skill.
Would require a single corpse (why would a taxidermist require five Gnolls to make a mounted Gnoll head? "Hmm... I think I'll take these eyes, that nose, that mouth, and let's go for those teeth and those ears".
Would cost gold relative to the level of the corpse (how much is debatable, but from 5000 gold for Minia-Lodi-Gheladan stuff to a couple hundred thousands for the big stuff).

To further expand:

Would only be able to be hung in Urban environment and player homes (in the case of cities/househalls, only leaders/secs/ministers would be able to hang it).
Would have a lifetime of 30'ish months, with the possibility of making permanent via customisation.

Anything with a vertical surface could theoretically have mounted heads. Forests have trees. Personally, though, I think only rooms in player housing should be able to hold mounted heads/bodies.

Also:



Things like this make me want to learn how to code a MUD so I can make a MUD that parodies MUDs.

Nobody is perfect. Back ups incase of - ups.

Please not on trees. We are already bombarded with blankets and those annoying -ing statues.
It is a forest. Not your personal -ing garden. We can see the crap we toss around your groves.

Mushroom sigils exist for a reason.

SlyViolin please read my post before requesting not to have things I always did not request for

Isn't there a taxidermist in Jaru? Take the corpse to him, let him do the work for a fee, then make it droppable in your own house only.

Why not just set it up like furniture?
-Insanely long decay time
-Can only be dropped in private houses, or in certain orgs properties.
-Only a couple in the room
You sometimes see a dozen of the same head piked in one, so that obviously isn't a big deal to continuity, but only one of each head or body on the same property.

And an indoor room only. What idiot would mount a trophy head outside to get eaten up by the elements?

I do like the charging more for bigger mobs.

Maybe let them do a whole body for 10x the cost. The probed desc would probably just end up being something like "Unaturally frozen <thing's> <head/body><stands/is mounted> here."

I would love to be able to return to my house after a hard day bashing to pet a stuffed Jaruvian terrier, and talk to it like it is not only alive but would give a darn about a crazy woman's ramblings.

Could we do it with the heads of all NPCs? Like mounts, and pets too?

No, terrible idea. It would just increase people killing other people mounts and pets.

Edit: Wtf, i made it to 1000 posts already?! I thought i had 2 more!

in any case, Yay for glorious 1000 posts!

I like this idea.

I'd stick with one or two per room and a long decay time.

Honours denizens should be fine for exactly the same reason you can do adventurers..they, in most cases, come back exactly the same way that adventurers do. If you've got something everyone else has, then everyone just ignores it.

House and Ship only, I think

Wyd

Would we be able to choose different finishes and types of wood? I like the idea of using the same choices we have at the furniture shop; although wicker would be a bit silly.

Just give the skill to Shaman, I mean, they do it with everything else.

Well, we need a new class, let's call it Shaman. I can't think of any skills. Well, we have puppetry, let's rename that vodun and give it to Shamans. Hmm, what else. We could massively nerf deadeyes and then give that to them. Could work. I can't think of a third skill though. We could give them..runelore..well, it couldn't hurt too much, right?

You mean aside from the fact that Shamans came before both Jesters and Apostates, and probably Runewardens, right?

This makes me want to make up the most ridiculous skillset possible without skills which contradict one another's RP. Chivalry, concoctions, and domination, perhaps?

Actually, shamans had vodun before jesters existed, shamans had curses before apostates existed, and shamans were released around the same time as runewardens, but shamans were at least a few days earlier. So really, everything was copied from shamans.

Wow, I completely missed the fact that there was another page.

The same principle applies. It doesn't matter which came first.

Look! It is a tangent!

That was meant to get us back on the subject...
I mean we already decided against it being a player skill, and we all know shamans have a weird set of skills as is.

So mount heads/bodies of NPCs, what about adventurers though?

Would it have the regular description for the body, but with a precursor of "Glassy eyed, the body of the pixie queen stands here. <regular desc>"

Could I mount a record winning fish on the wall too?