Burial by Sea (and cremation)

[Archiplex]

Or, a norse funeral by some other names.

The idea is as simple as introducing a special way to modify dugouts (or perhaps just a new boat entirely) with special materials to make it 'fancy'. Then, a corpse would be placed in the boat (which should be on a non-river coast, of which leads into ocean water), with the option of sending a few other items alongside the dead corpse (perhaps the items could impact recovery of stats somehow, i.e requiring gold sacrifices to bury a corpse without a skull and still get the 'skull' lp gain).

Afterwards, a person should be able to interact with the boat, sending it off into the horizon and seas, and having it catch fire as it disappears.

Functions as a way to bury bodies without needing a 'graveyard' persay, and for a bit of larpyness.


Another idea was a sort of 'cremation' burial; where you could take a (non-decayed) corpse and place it upon a bonfire, and set the bonfire aflame to have the corpse slowly burn into ashes. Feasting while the fire is lit might even provide a much larger bonus to FEPS as people eat, depending on the total LP/stats of the person being burned. After the fire dies, ashes would be left in the bonfire pit which could be collected in an urn- considering the body as buried. Cremated ashes might have some other hearth-magicy uses in the future too, although this suggestion is just for the burial aspect.

Cremation was a common form of burial in ye olde times, and while real burial by sea wasn't that common (at least, not the 'send the ship into the seas' type), it still fits the fantasy, I think.

Ultimately, I think having various burial types that each provide their own separate inheritance benefits would be cool overall.

Or, according to history.com, we could also implement this:
And according to a report based on accounts from the Middle Ages-traveler Ahmad ibn Fadlan, one instance of the funeral of a Viking chieftain included a sacrificial female slave who was forced to drink copious amounts of alcohol, with large amounts of alcohol, then raped by every man in the village as a tribute to the deceased. From there, she was strangled with a rope, stabbed by a matriarch of the village (known as the Angel of Death), then placed in the boat with her master and set on fire

[Granger]

Feasting while the fire is lit might even provide a much larger bonus to FEPS as people eat, depending on the total LP/stats of the person being burned.

Let me fire up some AWS instances to run additional alt farms.

Apart from that I like the boat funeral - as long as we can set it on fire, as it should be done.

[Aceb]

I don't mind it being opposite to burial and at best, give 1% will/charisma bonus to first person attending that, +1% for every other person, up to +5% max for an half-hour or hour.