Well, this time I'm NOT talking about making sure there are enough coffins and memorial slabs mucking about do deal with the loss of Fisherdwarves and Milkers when the Were-Carp come a-calling.
Today, I'm thinking about how I'd put things into my own funeral that would add a DF touch, from subtle to not quite so subtle. I'm also very curious to see what the community has to say about these things, either suggestions, or plans you've made for yourselves. So far, my search-fu hasn't turned up a thread of this sort, at least in recent memory, while there are any number of ones listing delightful ways to memorialize your DF comrades.
I'm thinking of this a bit today since I've got a surgery coming up that could have some unpleasant side effects. Death is one of them. And, you know what, if my days are up, just as the number of hairs in my beard are finite, I'd like it to go down like a Boss!
So, here goes; I'm going to compile a list of ideas for a Dwarfy funeral. I'll begin a numbering sequence, and I'll periodically update the OP with the number of suggestions up to a given time/date.
I'll also reserve a second post for ideas I would like to have in MY OWN funeral, collected from the thread as a whole. Not everyone's tastes are the same, after all. I prefer to consume potatoes and Mike's Hard Lemonade, but I absolutely detest cranberries.
Here follows a list of Dwarfy Funeral Concepts:
1. Coffin, in addition to being as high of a base value as possible, must also have at least one decoration/improvement. The handles don't count. Think, +<=Oaken Casket=>+. This is an exceptional Oaken Casket. It has silk sewn into it. It menaces with spikes of Olivine. It is studded with Black Bronze. On it is an image of cheese in Burnt Umber.
2. My state requires that coffins, even when burried, must be sealed in a vault. These are NORMALLY a concrete box with a lid. I'll have to see about getting mine made of Obsidian. I would literally be encased in Obsidian!
3. Pipers. Because Bagpipes. Don't judge me.
4. Invitations will be planned ahead of time to the wake/dinner/whatever afterward. It will state that I have posthumously organized a party at the Maple Table (substituting type of table I'll have had in my house at that time).
5. The wake/dinner/whatever should have as many high quality booze and prepared meals as possible, in addition to fine chairs and tables to maximize the happy thoughts gained from observing them.
6. An artist will be commisioned to do a statue after I die. If it is of me striking any kind of menacing pose, he'll get a bonus of some very fine =Socks=. If it's a statue of a triangle, he gets smashed under a drawbridge. Fucking art majors.
7. Play Toady's background music. Subtle. Classy.
8. My will shall state that all of my belongings are forbidden upon death, thus avoiding a Sock Stampede. Only the executor of the will overseer will have authority to distribute things and adjudicate any issues of probate.
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