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Edited by Hooligantuan:
3/1/2015 8:05:19 PM
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I Just Noticed, in Ishtar Academy... [Hey, Look - No Hands! Thread]
So, the mission, "The Archive" - when you have to go into the Ishtar academy to secure data and Grayliks infiltrates, leading to a fight.
You pass some skeletons when you initially enter the doors - the ones locked with the Radial A encryption, remember?
Well, years of Fallout have taught me to pay attention to the objects, particularly skeletons, that are placed in a scene, because they often tell a story. The particular story here I wasn't sure about - there are some skeletons strewn about, one looks like the decedent was sitting at the time, another couple are entwined on the floor, another lies clean, facing upward to the ceiling.
I figured they might be research crew or engineers or some such, locked in there when The Golden Age collapsed suddenly around them.
But then I noticed [i]none of them have hands or feet[/i].
That would paint a far more grisly picture, but I'm having trouble putting together a plausible narrative. If the archive were infiltrated, why not just kill them? Clearly they had time to themselves after being maimed, left to bleed out. It's unlikely they did this to themselves, since one would expect a tool nearby and at least one hand among them.
Or, ya know, someone was a little sloppy with the geometry assets and just forgot to toss some hands and feet in there. But I like to think this was intentional.
Any ideas?
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2 RepliesWell one thing we would need to know is exactly how they died. But without that information there are a few plausible ways the hands and feet are missing. Just some fun theories! 1. Hands and feet can actually literally 'fall off' of the body first as it decays. This is why often bodies found after major disasters like tsunamis often are missing their hands and feet. 2. Also because hands and feet will separate first with decay, they make easy pickings for scavengers who will take them away to chew on. 3 If the fallen were involved they may have taken the hands right after death or as they found the skeletons. The hands could make good trophies. 4. Fallen may have taken them for their bones to fashion some of that bone jewelry they seem to have on them (I am pretty sure I saw that on some of the concept art). Points 3 and 4 can be seen today in some cultures with a tribal nature (for better lack of a term). I can go into more since I study bones and bone tools but if I were to make a story I like the thought that the fallen took the hands and feet either as trophies or to make decorative jewelry.
