/tg/ we need to learn how to get real nuts again. We need to

Antagonist race of literal muscleman meatheads

>>53917170
Their war has been going on for a thousand years.

>>53917111
Skeleton society propagates itself how? Liberating new Skellies from bodies or by rattling each others bones to make little baby Skellies?

>>53917322
Both. They take skeletons from the living, freeing them from their meat prisoners, and also reproduce through intense bone rattling. The skeleton kingdom is overpopulated and it is doing harm to them, but they just can't stop their quest for bones.

>>53917353
And so they create space craft, to propagate bones through the stars
FTL yay or nay?

>>53917322
They reproduce by budding, sometimes skeletons will grow a literal boner on their pelvis and it will detach itself from the skeleton when it grows to 5-7 inches in lenght.
Then the boner will take the shape of a skull and become conscious and intelligent (that's why you have many immature animated skulls in fiction, they are mentally mature but still very young skeletons children)
They will grow the rest of their skeletons in decade and half but are mainly active before adulthood as skulls and when they get arms to crawl on the ground.

>>53917435
I would say nay. The skeletons have plenty of time to wait. They probably pull a Necrons thing and just hang out in space coffins or tombs until they land on a new planet to bone. FTL is for the meatheads who's weak flesh can't handle the dangers of time.

>>53917478
Does good calcium increase the budding rates of skeletons?

>>53917111

The skeleton god is a matrioska brain made out of trillions of interlinked lich skulls placed in orbit around the sun and siphoning its magical energy.

>>53917532
Of course!
>>53917557
METAL

There is a faction of skeletons who enhance their skelebodies with genetically altered bones or through use of cybernetics. How would wide skeletonry view them?
Cyborg skeletons probably reproduce through CLANGCLANGCLANGCLANG instead of RATTLERATTLE

>>53917557
The greatest honor a leader of skeletons can receive is to have their skull taken off and fired into space to join the matrioshka skull.

There's never a short supply of bones but skeletons have to find and gather them. They send bone hunters and bone merchants to acquire any and all bones. Dead animals are defleshed and harvested for their bones. There are grave robbers who specifically take the bones of the dead to trade with skeletons on a bone black market.

The more bone mass a bone construct has the greater its magic power. However, skeletons also know that power can neuter itself when it loses form and function. Furthermore, bones only animate when they are properly connected. A pile of bones is still nothing more than a pile of bones.

>>53917599
The cyberskellies are disliked by many pure boned skeletons because they see their use of metal as an insult towards the power of traditional skeletal structure. The skeleton kingdom accepts them though, as they still lead to the creation and further development of skeletonkind.

>>53917634
>Most non-skeleton empires fear and hate the skeletons for obvious reasons
>But the skeletons are such a huge force in thiss galaxy that are constantly looking for bones and are willing to pay top dollar for them if need be
>The Bone Trade is a major part of the economy

>>53917478
>>53917634
>>53917665
Skeletons can recover from all injuries short of too much skull damage, they will even regrow lost bones (and even reject too damaged one) but it can take years for the biggest ones so mutilating yourself or other skeletons is not a viable way to get bones even if forced mutilation and slavers "farmers" exist.

Skeletons are like dwarves in that many of them live in underground cities and mines. As they build out their cities, they intentionally try to get under the graves of the dead to steal their skeletons right from under them.

The skeletons retain some of the memories of the bones previous owners. As such, bones of skilled warriors, archwizards, or master thieves are worth their weight in gold.

The skeletons, whether taken from the living or produced, are their own beings separate from any soul. The ghosts of those former living people still exist, and they don't like their skeletons walking around on their own.

Skeleton animals are just as sentient as humanoid skeletons. In fact, one of the lichmind's most trusted lieutenants is a skeleton crocodile

>>53917755
Some kingdoms systematically grind bones into a fine powder as disposal. Bone grinder is a trade, a guilded trade at that.

Necromancers are valued for their abilities to enslave, dispel, or even properly communicate with skeletons. They are not considered evil on general principle. You don't have a real kingdom unless you have a court necromancer on your council.

Did meatmen form around skeletons or were skeletons freed from the meat?

>>53918149
That's the question they've been waring over for a thousand years.

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>>53918133
>A photo of Finn Skellibones, the first ambassador between the Skeleton Kingdom and the Merman Kingdom.

Both meatmen and skeletons fear the terrifying skinwraith, a humanoid monster that's thin enough to slide under a door or through a cracked window. They envelop their prey and puppet it around in some horrible attempt at normalcy. Both sides blame the other for the existence of skinwraiths.

Skeletons are bones that refuse to die.
Zombies are flesh that refuses to die.
Ghosts are souls that refuse to die.
Vampires are blood that refuses to die.

>>53917599
WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?

>>53918294
Meatmen, obsessed with growing their muscles, try to wrestle the skinwraiths into submission. The skeletons, however, pick select warriors to file their bones down to points in order to slice through skinwraiths if captured.

Each skeleton decides on its own job, based on a list prepared for it by the Skeleton Kore Under Legal Lawmakers. Some even deign to be modified to make their job easier. As such, Public Transport in Necro York is mostly via SkeleVehicles.

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>>53918434
>S.K.U.L.L.

>>53918434
>skelevehicles

Such as the bone train. Would you like to ride the bone train?

>>53917111
whats the general consensus on skeletons that are actually human shaped arthropods that stalk graveyards eating the decaying bodies and preying on foolish adventurers by disguising them selves as bodies?

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>>53918506
they could be akin to the vampires of this setting. evolved/transmutated from detrivores and other pests, that slip seamlessly into society just to break open the bones of their victims and eat the marrow. they don't like the sunlight because in broad daylight the fact that they ere actually bugs becomes easier to spot.

The skeletons worship the giant collection of lich skulls in space, but legend says that heretic skeletons (or skeretics) in the darkest, deepest parts of the skeleton cities attempted to create their own skeleton god by collecting as many normal bones as they could of all shapes and sizes and tying them together, forming a nightmarish skeleton spider monster. Mother skeletons tell their skeletonlings to behave or the Skider will steal their bones for its collection.

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>>53917322
I got you lad.

>>53918506
>>53918565
I've been working on this idea for a while, I'm giving it to the community freely. but it's hard to give up my baby.

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What does the world think of love between fleshies and skeletons?

Can Half-Skeletons be accepted in any society?

>>53918625
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u_v9H24PfY

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many monster such as cyclops exist but they a formed from elephant skeletons, similarly dragons are ancient beasts form from dinosaur bones

>>53918744
How valuable are skeleton eyes on the Bone Market?

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>>53918762
sea serpents are actually whale skeles

>Be human.
>Skeletons invade my country and create a city under it.
>Stealing every bone they can get their hands on.
>The government, instead of fending them off, opens trade with them and sells our dead to them.
>The ocean is now filled with bone monsters
>The sky is filled with giant pterodactyl fossils
>The mountains are infested with elephant headed cyclopses
>In desperation me and a small group of freedom fighters contact that meatmen for help
>Country is now in constant war
>The skeletons want our bones and the meatmen want our muscles
>When we die there's a good chance our remaining skin will turn into skinwraiths
Everything is terrible.

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>>53918813
rhino skeles are unicorns

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>>53918941
spiders are loved and kept as pets by skeles because they eat pesky decomposers and poison meatbags while being completely harmless to skeletons, they also use and trade their silk

milk is considered a delicacy in the underworld so necromancers often trade them for it.

>>53919006
Milk is like fine wine for skeletons.
Skeletons can get addicted to it.

since they have no pesky organs skeletons often carry their young in their ribcages to keep them protected.

>>53918864
During the Human-Skeleton Guerrilla wars, the #1 used warbeast by man were hyenas, due to their natural, bone-crushing instincts.

Skeletons can fuse together in times of danger, creating GIANT SKELETONS that are the combined strength of all of their parts.
These get almost nowhere, because of the squabbling of the legs and arms (and other parts) on where to go.
But in times of danger, when entire skeleton nations combine, these are very powerful indeed.

>>53919053
the hyenas were unable to be tamed and after killing many skeletons as well as humans they formed an independent gnoll faction

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>>53919091

>>53917435
Nay. Dont want to make this too complicated.

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>>53917111
Ashlands.

Skeletons have a natural fear of creatures without bones.

Jellyfish are like the boogyman.

What about other races? I say we have the biggest enemy to Skeletons being Dogs.

>>53919169
I was about to post this, they consider them deathless because their bones don't appera in the afterlife

bearded vulture are also common warbeasts because they are scavengers that eat ONLY bones and skeletons fear them

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>>53919235
forgot pic

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>>53918864
mummies are considered skeleton/skin wraith hybrids

>>53919178
So far I've seen.
>Skeletons
>Meatmen
>Skinwraiths
>Humans

And some other potential ones being ghosts, gnolls, and
>>53918565
whatever this is.

>>53919268
BONE AND SKIN? MATING?
IT IS FORBIDDEN BY SKELETON LAW!

>>53919254
Wasn't there some Tumblr post about them? What if they're actually the world's Dragons, too?

As long as we're taking potential animals/races the skeletons fear, we could have a mindflayer/squidman type race. No bones.

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instead of tattoos skeletons carve the'r bones
>pic rleated
>>53919308
I like this idea but what if they were hyena/bearded vulture griffins? the true skeleton enemy

>>53917111
I was trying to come up with an idea for a vidya that involved this. I was thinking about it like an MMO with skeltals vs fuccbois in a World of Warcraft fashion. And another as a DayZ ripoff but instead the skeletons just chase after you with trumpets shouting "get back here fuccboi" or something else over the top and ridiculous.

>>53917353
>Skeleton war vs muscleheads
>Capture prisoners
>work them to death in the calcium mines
>raise bones into new skeletons, potentially slave race
>thank mr skeltal doot doot

>>53919378
>hyena/bearded vulture griffins
created by insane meatman wizards as anti-skeleton mounts. Sadly, they also eat meat due to the hyena part, and they're now a huge menace

Skeleton hierarchy is determined by individual bones; the equivalent of being knighted could mean swapping tibia's with a noble. Expect to hear stories of my grandfather's father's phalange passed through skelerations

We've received mixes on how Skeletons reproduce. Have we reached a consensus on how?

Also, maybe Skeletons & Meatmen can be the equivalent of Elves and Dwarves?

Both pairs typically dislike themselves, and fight for years on ridiculous reasons.

Skeletons would be like elves because they are thin and agile. They also have liches who are great at magic, much like Elven Wizards. Meatmen are like dwarves because they are bulkier.

Obviously, humanity thinks that they came first, and all the meat and bone based life forms either evolved from them or were created by dark magic. However, the skeletons believe that they were always the first beings, and that dark magic resulted in them being cursed with flesh and muscle. The meatheads think that skin and bone are punishments for not getting enough gains.

how does one join into this game

>>53919169
>>53919206
I just made a discovery lads
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osedax

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>>53919517

>>53919488
Do Skeletons actually require Magic to function? If theyre hit by some Dispel Magic, would they just fall apart? What about Skeleton Souls? Would Dispel Magic destroy their souls too?. Do Skeletons even have souls? What would stop other races from annihilating skeletons through just making armies of Wizards?

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>>53919378
>hyena/bearded vulture griffins
Yessssss

>>53919455
I'd like them to come from eggs (unless they were once living) for no reason other than I think the idea of a skeleton laying an egg is funny

>>53919488
Skinwraiths know the truth, but since nobody but skinwraiths can understand them, the mystery goes unsolved.

>>53919541
maybe the skeleton IS the soul, ever see some one with a personality without a skeleton, didn't think so

>>53919577
the skeleton is the heart of the soul

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I propose a smaller faction, a multi race cult who belive that life is suffering and true happiness can only come from true death, the plot to destroy the world and create doomsday devices

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>>53917111
>/tg/ we need to learn how to get real nuts again.

Dude just go to a grocery store and buy some nuts if you're so worried about it.

I don't know why you people are talking about skeletons and campaign settings. That won't get you any nuts.

>>53919333
yeah how about some kind of transformative active camouflage ooze (sentient of course) that can take over teh skellies of any creature and CONTROL their minds

>>53919649
a skull is sort of like a nut

>>53919622
The only problem is that each of the races has slightly different interpretations of what death actually means. This leads to infighting within the cult.

>>53919668
they are mind control parasite that live inside the skeletons and use their bones like an exoskeleton.
they are also allied with the skinwraiths

>>53919699
>>53919668
They push out the marrow and fill the bones with their ooze bodies, so you might detect an invasion by bits of marrow just lying around.

>>53919699
>they are also allied with the skinwraiths
Seems like an uneasy alliance at best, since both sides want all of the hardbodies for themselves.

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>>53919674
>a skull is sort of like a nut

>jar full of tiny skulls
>eating them like candy

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>>53919691
YES

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>>53919668

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guys I love this setting so much, once this thread is gone I promise there WILL BE ANOTHER. Never gonna let this gem disappear

>>53917322

Male skeletons headbutt female skeletons, then build a tiny baby skeleton out of the small bones before rebuilding the female. This is called getting knocked up. Somehow the skeletons don't lose bones from this, but the skeletons only say 'well why don't you lose flesh when YOU make a baby?'

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>>53919796
sexual dimorphism?

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>>53919825
Gotta get into the bone zone somehow.

>>53918294
Legitimately horrifying.

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little bit of architectural inspiration

>>53919790
Same. This is a fun setting and it either needs to be played or expanded on in future threads.

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>>53918294
>skinwraiths
Truly disgusting

>>53919884
The real question is whether this is considered a horror show for the skeletons, some kind of interactive art piece, or a hive mind of skulls that really wants to be a decoration?

>>53919915
I love the hivemind idea, skeletons inhabit living, thinking cities that help upkeep themselves and defend themselves from invaders

>>53919454
How does one determine truly genuine royal bones?

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do skelekids have to molt their skin like an insect to grow?

>>53920021
No, they just need to drink lots of milk.

>>53920021
At the very least they need to drink their milk and believe in themselves.

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>>53920016
just like in real life there is nothing actually special about royalty, they are just a distinguished bloodline, however sacred bones often have carvings or are bejewled to show status

>>53919796
>well why don't you lose flesh when YOU make a baby
But human mothers' bones actually do become weaker if they don't get enough calcium during pregnancy. In that case, the unborn child's skeleton is formed out of calcium drawn from it's mothers' bones. That can result in serious health problems.

Humans don't know how skeletons do it, however. That's calcified information.

okay are zombies just considered young zombies that haven't grown out of their flesh?

>>53920016
>How does one determine truly genuine royal bones?
There's no way to know for sure, only supposition based on the extremely precise records of exact dimensions of the bones of recorded nobility.

Still, this hasn't stopped many famous and noble skelehouses from feuding over who has the real royal bones and who has clever fakes.

Naturally, asking a royalton to submit to the humiliation of a bone inspection in order to prove their lineage is the highest breach of protocol and decency, so they just go to war instead. After all, nobody has to know if you took the femur off of Lord Ribleyshire after the battle.

>>53920083
Perhaps zombies are a result of humans with so much hatred in their hearts for skeletons that their bodies refuse to fully decay and release the skeleton trapped inside?

The zombie walks as a mindless prison, just to keep the skeleton trapped as long as possible, turning others into zombies so those skeletons can't be freed either.

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skeletons that become addicted to milk/milk products may develop debilitating bone growths

>>53920129
this is great idea anon, humans with extreme willpower and/or who magically enchanted their bodies before death just to prevent becoming a skeleton

>>53920129
Genius

>>53920108
>>53920054
There are still talks of the legendary warlord Skinghis Gone, conquering fellow skeleton lands and taking royal bones for himself and his skeleton army.

>>53920129
I really like this.

>>53920162
>>53920208
>>53920225
Thank you, thank you, you're too kind.

Updating the list.
So our current collectively agreed upon races so far seem to be.
>Skeletons
>Meatheads
>Skinwraiths
>Ooze Parasites
>Zombies
>Humans

Anything else people want to fight for/anything I'm missing?

>>53920270
Im going to assume all this stuff means skeletons don't just poof into existence once someone dies, the body has to be found by a faction and then reanimated

>>53920343
The hyenafolk

>>53920343
besides elephant Cyclopes and similar minor skeles I think we got the main races down

>>53920346
>Im going to assume all this stuff means skeletons don't just poof into existence once someone dies, the body has to be found by a faction and then reanimated
Yeah, see

>>53917634
>There's never a short supply of bones but skeletons have to find and gather them. They send bone hunters and bone merchants to acquire any and all bones. Dead animals are defleshed and harvested for their bones. There are grave robbers who specifically take the bones of the dead to trade with skeletons on a bone black market.

>>53920343
>>53920376
o yeah the gnolls
>when you were the one who suggested gnolls but you forget your own suggestion
im such a dumbass

>>53920376
Fair enough. I like me some gnolls to add life based races in there.

>>53920381
Yeah, things like the skeleton animals and cyclopses are all considered subspecies of skeleton.

So now
>Skeletons
>Meatheads
>Skinwraiths
>Ooze Parasites
>Zombies
>Humans
>Gnolls

>>53918506
There was a coolish movie I saw once where a species of bug was hunting some geologists for their bones, it made its nest using the skeleton and they would work together to move it about.
They kept "killing" the thing, rendering its old nest unusable, so it would have to hunt down a new target.
Movie itself wasnt great but the concept for the monster was 10/10 and cohesive throughout.

Are the zombies sentient, or are they completely mindless monsters?

>>53920448
They won't harm children, but whether that's because they understand the value of human life or because the skeletons inside aren't large enough to trigger them yet is a matter for the philosophers.

>>53920448
maybe their mental health deteriorates as their brain rots

Speaking of the zombies, if the meatheads and the skeletons are constant enemies, and the skeletons can free their skeleton kind from the meathead bodies, why don't the meatheads all turn into zombies out of their hate for the skeletons too?

>>53920498
Skeletons come from humans.

Meatheads don't have any bones. They're all meat.

>>53920498
all muscle no bones, their muscular system strangles and crushes the bones

>>53920519
Oh.

That makes perfect sense actually.

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>Boneless sacks of meat

I kinda did this a while back.

Technically zombies were the main race but skeletons were a close second. Due to a lack of vocal cords they used two languages at once, a standard sign language (which everyone in the setting could do to some degree) and something that everyone else had taken to calling "chattering" which was a clacking or grinding of the teeth (or sometimes offsetting of the jaw) which indicated emotion or intent. For instance, shifting your lower jaw far to the side and holding it shut implied sarcasm.

Basically, a skeleton could sign "That's a great idea" at you and if you didn't understand how chattering worked you got a completely different understanding from someone else.

It was a fun setting.

How long do skeletons naturally live after they're "born?"

What do they do to skeletons who die, in battle or otherwise?

>>53920731
also on this note can you ressurect fossils even though there not bone anymore

>>53920731
>How long do skeletons naturally live after they're "born?"
Potentially forever, unless

>What do they do to skeletons who die, in battle or otherwise?
The wisest ones are fired at the sun where they join the immense matrioska brain >>53917557

The others, if their skulls are destroyed, collapse into inanimate tangles of bone.

Otherwise, a skeleton can choose to voluntarily give up his life and have his skull ritually destroyed, ending his existence and allowing his bones to be spread amongst his friends and family. As >>53917872 pointed out, the bones themselves retain some skill of their former owner from a lifetime spent with them. Obviously a skeleton can also give up individual bones to others.

have we decided if this is set in modern times or if this is high fantasy?

>>53920807
So far I've been getting a high fantasy vibe with minor sci-fi elements (specifically the matrioska brain and skeletons traveling through space).

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>>53920904
so sort of a dwemer from the elderscrolls deal mayhaps?

>>53920904
I'm imagining a bunch of habitable (by human standard) worlds all in the same local area that are all populated by the same core races and a variety of Earthish animals and skelemals.

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>>53919333
Possessing neither vocal cords to vibrate nor bones to rattle, the silent nerveflayers wield dread magics toward inscrutable ends.

>>53920937
Yeah, something like that. There are occasional drops of sci-fi stuff in the lore, but for the most part the games would take place on the same world doing general fantasy stuff with a skeleton flair.

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>>53920948
>nerveflayers

>>53920939
Multiple worlds could be used as a general excuse for different people's campaigns. Each one takes place on a different world in the same area of space, where all these core races live and deal with similar problems.

>>53920950
can't go wrong with references to one of the coolest races in fiction

>>53920948
that pic makes me so uncomfortable, it's great

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>>53920962
They hold sight to be their rightful, exclusive domain, and frequently attempt to steal the eyes of races they view as lesser.

>>53917111
>No other rules, go.
A real bare-bones setting eh?

>>53921052
ayyyyy

>>53921052
>Pic of skeleton King and court making bone puns

All skeletons speak in Puns. They aren't intentionally doing it, and when asked about it they say it's just their Accent like how French speaking people sound different than English speaking people.

>French speaking skeletons still make puns.

>>53921076
>they are intentionally doing it just because they know the other races hate it
>they get along surprisingly well with human dads when they aren't battling eachother

>>53919122
BEHOLD THE PEAK PERFORMANCE

>>53919149
Without FTL, skellies would probably rattle enough to form small planets of bones travelling from star to star...

>>53920433
Nerve flayers

>>53920807
Space magic
Stellar empires with court necromancers to commune with skellies is raddest thing

Who conceived the weapon of true terror, the bone hurting juice?

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>>53922852
don't you start with me

anyway this fish has concave eyeballs is this how skeles see?

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a blog is currently in the works to document and organize this info at https://tiredspiderd.tumblr.com
suggestions are welcome

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I refuse to visualise this setting in any other stylistic.

>>53923389
not official obviously but it's there if you wanna check it out

>>53923609
I'm in full support of a bright cartoony style

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>>53917322
The dead are brought to Pluto by the Psychopomps, through the magnetic field of Jupiter, which strips their bones of flesh.

>>53923389
Neat!

>>53923609
I support it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r76_Vnvca-Y&t=95s

Halloween is the highest holiday.

Only the most holy of sklerics can use their holy item, the trumpet. They consider the meatman jazz bands highly offensive due to the large amount of trumpets.

>>53925210
the holy doot

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>>53925185
well, not so different from our world then?

Meatmen have a love for fine cigars, whiskey, and tailored suits.

>>53925282
this is a bit random, is it a reference to something?
from what has been established meatmen seem more like orcs then cultured gentlemen

the stuff curently on the tumble is a rough draft, I'm improving it as we speak.

>>53925378
They like jazz, evidently. Anyone who likes jazz can't be as brutish as an orc.

>>53925421
that's fair, but the suits may be pushing it

>>53919488
>>53919569

All three - humans, skeletons and meatmen - are right. However, it goes a bit deeper than that. Humans and skeletons were indeed both first, as some bones were imbued with life spilled over from the imbuing of humans, becoming skeletons. A few centuries later, mankind and bonekind had advanced their science to a level where they could replicate other mythical beasts in physical form...which backfired, as many of the mythical beasts rebelled against their creators and threatened to bring an apocalypse. In desperation, the scientists began to separate humans into three component creatures - skeletons, meatmen and skinwraiths - in order to eradicate their own creations. A few more centuries later, the three new races kill the last mythical replicant, but not without cost - killing the electricity-consuming Ramuh necessitated a return to the dark ages, before electrical engineering when steam was king. the long battle had taken it's toll on all the races, and only the skinwraiths remember anymore, trying to get their amnesiac fragments to reunite by showing them the skinwraith's role in this. A skeleton inserted into a meatman results in a demicreature - the wight - and inserting this into a skinwraith results in reunion of a given human converted to the three species in the first place. Of course, the disfusion technology which created the three races wasn't perfect, and fusing three fragments of different humans results in an unstable individual called a patchwork. Even if the fragments are of the same human, the skeleton or the meatman may not remember everything from their human life leaving the resultant human amnesiac, or worse, a patchwork, and born meatmen are useless in fusion other than as filler to patch up where the original isn't enough.

Are horse skeletons considered an important part of society due to the travel services they provide, or are they treated as second class skeletons because they can only do horse things?

I'm writing up the sexual reproduction stuff right now, obviously it's wip but if I can get some consensus that would make it go much quicker
firstly are we going with the budding idea
>>53917478
because I'm personally a big fan of it, or are we going another direction
Secondly; I'm guessing we're all good with having skeletons of both genders but since they don't have genetalia I'm thinking the should be functionally hermaphroditic, I'm not saying all skeletons are gay but it makes sense to me that two lady skeletons can have a child together

>>53925488
since bones can be switched it seems that they wouldn't be locked into certain professions, they can take a human body and keep the horse head, while a human skull could attach to a horse and fulfill that duty

>>53925462
>the skinwraiths are just trying to return everyone back to humanity
>because of the ravages of time on memory and the different beliefs the skeletons and meatmen have, the skinwraiths are just seen as monsters trying to keep them in fleshy prisons.

Good shit.

>>53925529
The skeletons can reproduce with any skeleton of any gender, but since memory fragments are kept in their bones, they still consider themselves men or women depending on who they were (or who they wanted to be) when alive.

Skeletons are the only remainder of the post-post-apocalypse Undead Necromancer god. Earth is completely lifeless, they wander on Earth, only held there by gravity, and new skellingtons are made (well, discovered) by systematic digging for bones.

Several hundred years ago, no one really knows how long, the greatest necromancer of all time used the MacGuffin to kill all living things, and to reanimate all dead things, for a purpose everyone has forgotten.

Beside for the holy trumpet, skeletons are also fond of the xylophone. Or more specifically, playing themselves like xylophones.

Cow skeletons often rise through the skeleton ranks due to their position as deliverers of calcium while still alive.

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>>53925553

Thanks.

I was thinking about adding a side note about vampires being a failed fourth prong of the disfusion process, being intended for aquatic or aerial combat, but turning to vampires as written about in >>53918341 with an obsession of extending their own body with the blood of others when something went wrong, and being the offspring of the four who were created before the vampire prong was shut down as a failure.

But i reasoned it'd go over the character limit and sap too much of the setting space. Oh well...

>tfw you keep writing skinwalker when you meant to write skinwraith

Due to their lack of comprehensible STRONG BONES, arthropods who keep their skeletons on the outside are seen as Uncanney Valley monsters. They took the first steps in the right path by keeping their skeletons on the outside, but they messed up the skull, the ribs, the bone-rattling. Even worse, they filled their skeleton with meat, which is even more blasphemous than having meat on the outside of a skeleton.

While a fleshy prison is horrible to a skelly, it's far worse to carry that prison around inside oneself. This has led to many metaphors and symbols in literature- someone who cannot escape their past, whose past limits and artificially restricts them bringing suffering, is referred to as a crab or a spider. Warlike skeletons who wish to use their STRONG BONES to spread their own internal suffering to others are likewise tied to scorpions.

>>53917170
>>53917188
Every human that dies feeds both sides of the war machine

just a reminder to read the thread first please and not try to overwrite the so far cohesive setting just because most the original anons are taking a break. that's a bit rude

>>53925856
>>53925856
I would love to learn more about skeleton culture and arts/literature.

>>53925943
Ancient human artwork featuring skulls are interpreted by the skeletons as prophecies of the glory to come, and use them as evidence that even the ancients understood Skellyman supremacy. Practically all Death symbolism that didn't get spelled out directly is liable and likely to be seen as the predecessor to Skelly culture, a subconscious desire of those old skeletons to free themselves, or even coded messages between the imprisoned skeletons of that era.

>>53921127
Legends tell of a Skeleton Dad who will move the universe into its next era by creating the Ultimate Pun.

>>53921076
Fyi, the skeleton equivalent of "hon hon hon" is "ratteule ratteule ratteule"

A classic (and racially insensitive) practice in skeleton theater is to put on human plays with the Skelton actors wearing poorly made fake skin costumes, usually made from rags or cloth. They go through the play, mocking the plights of the living through their over the top acting. All dead characters are played as normal skeletons lying on stage, with added dialogue where the skeleton will directly talk to the audience to mock the events.

>>53925943
The famous Baron Fémur de Pelvisse is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest poets of skeletondom
Among his acclaimed works, one can find "wind in the hollow eye sockets", a heartwarming tale of camaraderie and adventure, "for whom the mandible closes" a chilling gothic poem, and his most praised love ballad : "ma bone amie"

So we know there are meatmen, but are there meatwomen?

>>53923389
> Death
What if Death is like their creator god?

>>53923389
I can't get to the site. Come on m8 I wanna see this stuff saved.

>>53925282
>>53925421
we could add the jazz thing. perhaps the meatmen always take a full jazz ensemble on their raids, playing magically amplified avantgarde / free jazz to terrify and confuse their victims?

jazz can be pretty hellish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57hfP5Gz1Og
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfAm8NeguFs

>>53929016
NOW YOU MUST AQUIRE A TASTE FOR

FREE FORM JAZZ
-Excerpt from ancient meatmen prayer scroll

>>53919825
You know, there ARE some notable differences between human male and female skeletons.

>female hips are wider and have a bigger gap in the middle to allow birth
>females have longer femur bones
>females have an extra pair of Ribas

And some others i don't remember right now

>>53931054
*extra pair of ribs

>>53920726
Chattering has two sublanguages
Common Chatter is what most non skeles see and know, and what skeles use to communicate in public or with strangers, friends, associates, etc. This version typically uses only the head and shoulders to show meaning.
Intimate chatters, also called Royal or Family chatters, is only used among family, very close friends, royalty (Its expected lower nobles use it when speaking to higher ones), and loved ones. This version uses the entire boney body and generally can give more emphasis to certain phrases.
For example: I love you in common chatter means they're good friends, but in royal chatter it means intimate love when said by rattling the ribcage or an extreme show of loyalty when the knees are involved.

Skeles can take well into adolescence to fully grasp royal chattering. It is considered to be the pinnacle of skele language as it is impossible for any fleshy creatures to communicate with it.

Since each bone in a skeleton's body contains specific memories and traits, in theory if a skeleton slowly replaced every one of his bones (excluding his skull), he would become a different person.

>>53931054
>>53931054
Would that mean that the desirable parts of a female skeleton would be the extra ribs, their femurs and their hips ?
>skeledude staring at a girl's femurs
>"my sockets are up here, buster"

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>>53933197
>"my sockets are up here, buster"

On milk: we need fuckhuge farms where cows (living cows, with flesh and all) eat (and that implies pastures and/or crops), reproduce (no calves, no milk) and shit. Once a cow has run its useful life, it's killed, flayed and deboned. The bones can be repurposed, as we know. What do we do with the flesh and the skin?

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>>53933906
>What do we do with the flesh

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>>53933906
>What do we do with the skin?

>>53934013
>>53934067
Because of all the burgers and the leather jackets derived from cows, an inordinate amount of skeletons adopt a "greaser" style
They even make ducktail wigs with the tail hairs of the cows

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>>53934309
>a skeleton child runs around the house late at night
>the greaser skeleton father with huge respect for cows and their products lets out an exasperated clatter of his mandible
>"come on dad, I want to keep playing my new XBone 1 game!"
>"no child, you need to brush your teeth, drink your milk, and go your catacomb"
>"but daaaad!"
>"son I'm not going to argue. it's Pasteur bedtime."

>>53934762
Making cow puns in addition to skeleton puns is the equivalent to a southern accent.

>>53935306
"Moove over bonehead."

>>53934013
Examples of skeleton cuisine include:
Burgers with excessive amounts of cheese, typically several varieties matching the volume of the meat patty, with the patty being braised in milk before being fried. Served with fried cheese curds or cheese sticks.
Milk braised steaks, typically cooked for long periods similar to barbeque.
Skeletons are master cheese makers, milk not storing well for long periods on the rare occasions there is surplus made them develop many techniques for cheese making. As such skeleton rations are dry cheeses with hard rinds. Also made for the populous in the form of crackers.
Ice cream is a common summer treat, the skeletons have created over 1 million different flavors. Ranging from pure cream, to vanilla, to roasted beef.
Yogurts are popular, and serves as baby food as its higher in calcium then regular milk. Seen being given to baby skeles, and to wounded skeletons to replenish bone mass.
Powdered milk is another ration food, however the skeletons have found a way to make powdered yogurt and cheese as well.

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>>53934762

>>53931054
>females have an extra pair of Ribas

No they don't, that's just a myth from the Bible.

Both men and women have 12 pair of ribs.

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>>53919091

If a skeleton falls in love with a human, does it truly love the human, or just the skeleton inside them?

These are the questions that haut radical philosophers of skeleton and human lands alike.

>>53928599
sorry I realized this made more sense as a sideblog so other could contrbute, its being remade

>we need to learn to get real nuts again
>so here's what we're gonna do, let's make a setting
>b-but don't go nuts with it or anything, okay?
Can't tell if this was meant to be reverse psychology or if you're just a faggot.

>>53936393
He was clearly talking about albums by country singer Reba McEntire.

>>53931054
>>53936393
>>53938303
all in favor of giving females an extra pair of ribs and figuring out the lore reason later?

>>53936021
So... America.

>>53938269
where does he say not to go nuts? It's gotten pretty nuts dude

>>53938403
Pretty much. Their pope figure to the matrioska skull is actually a bald eagle skeleton.

>>53938269
This setting's all over the place dude, what are you talking about?

>>53938400
Female skeletons attach an extra pair of ribs to themselves as a stylistic choice to attract male skeletons. More bones = more boners.

>>53939366
Some male skeletons really like the obviously fake, "bolted-on" plastic bones, some want natural extra ribs, some prefer the standard 12 pair.

There's an ongoing and vociferous debate on skeleton imageboards over whether it's gay to be into cartoon male skeletons with 13 pairs of ribs and uncommonly wide hips.

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How does the Matrioshka Brain function in the hierarchy of the skellies? Obviously being so huge and made of so many important skulls, it must be incredibly smart, but does it directly influence the actions of the skeleton governments? Is it simply a voice that most skeletons should listen to, but don't necessarily need to, like a giant parental figure? Or perhaps the brain just floats there in space, doing nothing but inspiring the skeletons to collect more bones and advance skellington kind.

>>53940000
It's a superintelligence, and it knows exactly what it needs to do to create the best outcome for skeletonkind. It does not necessarily hold any formal position of power, and its actions are often incomprehensible, but when it speaks, you listen. Though few aside the highest of priests and liches truly understand it, all skeletons find great comfort in its existence.

>>53940000
It's also worth noting that the Matrioshka Brain is shaped like a giant skull. It's not the most efficient configuration, but it's the only one acceptable.

Do skeletons dream of calcium sheep?

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The blog has been recreated at skelesetting.tumblr.com but is still a wip so keep that in mind, it's a side blog so over time major contributors can become mods.

>>53942700
This is about having fun and going nuts! go away with your officialness and modding and boring gay stuff. I know you are desperate for a little social interaction and acceptance :( but /tg/ is no place to find it! So shoo, go, I say with a heavy heart

>>53943293
i never said it was official, and I thought some people would appreciate a record. All I wanted to do was make a little something for the community that wanted to expand upon the setting after the thread is gone.

>>53943445
Just put it in a pastebin buddy! That way you are nice and keeping it good and you are a good record keeper.

>>53943293
actually head back to whatever shitty containment board you stumbled in from. just others are having fun and expanding on a setting doesn't mean you have to slither on in and passive aggressively shitpost after the thread has died down. I've contributed a fair bit to this setting and ended up liking it so I will work on it with others as I please.

>>53943681
You are being pretty rude because I am only directly aggressive if I want to be aggressive and I don't want to be aggressive at all! If I wanted to he aggressive you'd know it buster ;)

>>53919517
FUCK

>>53942700
gj anon

>>53942700
>>53943293
>>53943445
>>53943468
>>53943681
>>53944735
>>53945948

>ITT: anons discover why so many /tg/ homebrews crash and burn after the first thread

>>53939903
Fucking lovin' it

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do skeletons retain the cultures of ones they once belonged to?

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>>53946470
So as to make it a perfect blend of different societies getting along well in pursuit of flesh? or do they forget and get molded into skele culture?

>>53946013
Are you saying that people making "communities" ruin it, or shitposters calling them out ruins it?

>>53946470
Because most skeletons are generally different than the people they were when they were alive, they more often than not wind up adopting the greater skeleton culture rather. However, since memory is still a factor hidden deep in their bones, the skeletons will subconsciously gravitate towards activities and situations that appealed to them in life. So if a skeleton was a samurai while alive, and they found samurai armor while scavenging for bones, they'd have an impulse to wear it.

>>53946491
>>53946538
So I'd say it's a bit more of the former than the latter, though to a human or meatman onlooker the skeletons would appear to have a mostly homogenous society.

>>53946564
Just like chinks.

In response to skeletal buildings and living cities.

>older skeleton gets the less individual it gets. Only very strong will powered and royal stay free
>those who don't slowly join the city hive mind
>thus with age or injury skeletons do not die they simply join the unity of the city, their mind going to 'heaven' in the collective like eldar wraiths
>older cities have collectively more power processing as the hive acts like a physical neural network

>>53947666
Can you browse a sort of primitive internet or collection of data by connecting to the skeletal network of your city?

>>53947865
Yep. Just jam a bone into the wall and you'll be connected to the local necropolitan cyberspace known only as "the Bone Zone".

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>Their be legends of a mad, power hungry Lich that had taken over the body of an once great Meatman. Using his new found dark muscles and black magic to aid him in his quest to become master of the universe.

>>53931054
Dont forget the extra bone males have :^)

>>53947666
Good. But what about Matryoshka god-skull?

>>53949612
fake and gay meatman parody

>their Necromancer equivalents use flesh to create living beings

>>53949801
Call them Carnomancers. And unlike flesh golems, they literally mastered the act of creating living organisms by building them around a creature's skeleton, resulting in the regular version.

Such an art is obviously considered highly unethical and absolutely disgusting.

>>53949718
That too is a hive mind of the greatest skeletons, floating in space and acting in the best interests of all skeleton kind. I think this anon's breakdown was great. >>53940341

So, between the meatmen, ooze parasites, the zombies, gnolls, and skinwraiths, which race poses the greatest threat to the skeletons?

Humans might be a threat too but I imagine that in this setting with so many races determined to kill or transform them, humanity really gets the short end of the stick.

>>53949825
Carnomancy could be a really effective torture strategy on skeletons. Imagine making a skeleton come back to life, but their personality is still that of the skeleton. You've trapped them in meat and flesh again, and have taken away all of their perks of being skeletons.

>>53950042
Being trapped inside a prison of flesh sounds like a hilariously cruel way to punish the worst of the worst in their community.

>>53949893

Should be a canine race, it would be fucking hilarious.

>>53950135
The gnolls are acting as an answer to the "dogs like bones" race. Some other posts suggested that the humans used to use hyenas against enemy skeletons since they eat bones, but the hyenas turned against everyone, evolved into gnolls, and now go around chasing anything with bones to eat.

>>53950075
Speaking of the worst in their community, what crimes do skeletons commit against each other? Stealing people's bones is an obvious one, along with stealing milk/cows from the milk farms, but what crimes can skeletons really do?

>>53950389
Well, one thing that would be hard is stab someone.

Anything else a human can do, a skeleton can probably also do, not including anything involving bodily fluids, including rape.

Then again, as long as skeletons have a sex drive, there can probably be rape even without any fleshy bits.

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>>53917322

> Doin' it and doin' it and doin' it well!

>>53950389

Stealing bones that have fallen off their in body to repair themselves?

>>53946508
>Are you saying that people making "communities" ruin it, or shitposters calling them out ruins it?
"Communities", yeah.

The best games are made by a single dictator, who then farms out the playtesting to /tg/ but retains total control over the rules and fluff. Otherwise you get someone with good intentions who wants to collate everything to make it "official", which chafes other people because they view the collator as an interloper who came late to the party.

>>53917111
Are zombies just animated skeletons with ablative meat armor?

>>53951223
See
>>53920129

It seems to have the most support as how zombies work in the setting.

>>53918975
Skeletons are fond of insects and the likes in general due to them having their skeleton on the outside.

>>53951195
>I don't like this thing, its not the thing I like!
>Stop liking it!

>>53951679
Sorry mate >>53925856
Skeletons have a weird relationship with bugs.

>>53952621
>I don't like this thing, its not the thing I like!
>Stop liking it!
Yeah, that's exactly the thing I was talking about that causes so many /tg/ projects to collapse.

Sucks that you want to start an argument with me for some reason, but whatever.

I've made a doc for this
You can only comment, but if you want moderator access to approve and directly edit it, ask for it in the doc.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1otalPY5y2jX5eM0LogfjXnNiRQe4woI0k-seBx7lSlo/edit?usp=sharing

>>53952903
Do you plan on summarizing or just taking posts directly and plopping them into here? Not wondering out of a preference, just wanna know what you're thinking for this doc.

>>53952621
It could technically be both. The skeleton population is huge, and it's even bigger if you expand the setting to include the other planets the skeletons might be going to. Some skeletons might see exoskeletons are terrifying and symbols of abomination, and others might just be happy that the skeleton is on the outside for the world to see.

>>53917111
>/tg/ we need to learn how to get real nuts again.
yes
>We need to make a setting, but not one with some big complex backstory to start out with, no fancy shmancy philosophy. We just need one simple idea and to go wild with it.
YES YES YE-
>We need an overplayed meme as the setting.
Fuck you and everything you stand for, OP.

>>53953527
Sorry you can't enjoy the setting, anon. But if you agree with the sentiment, you can suggest a different simple idea and see what /tg/ can do with it.

>>53953292
I'm lazy as s***, so you just put it in, and I and the moderators approve the comments.