Pitfalls of these mountaintop communities:
They live in constant fear of rockfalls turning a cliff into a slope.
They build a lot of fences on their land, just in case.
No-one enters someone elses property without knocking and receiving a reply.
Metal is precious. communities that can mine it are very rich, but undermining your own plateau for metals is very dangerous, and disposing of the slag is problematic.

The Dangers of sailing the Sea of the Dead:
I imagine the ships have a crude safety cage for the crew, but a full capsize would be instantly fatal. Only an master mariner and crew have the
skill to trim the meat "sails" that steer and propel the boat without sucking the supports out from under it. Larger vessels have emergency wheels that can be dropped at a moments notice to support the vessel in "rough seas"
Becoming "becalmed" - if you run out of meat, you've got to find some somewhere. No-one chooses to make a long voyage by choice. There is an intricate network of short-haul trade routes.

Scary.

The world is tropical, and it rarely gets cold enough for the zombies to freeze. When it does, they soon thaw out and heal back up.

There are real sailors on the real sea too, but the big islands are covered in zombies and only deep-water islands are safe, and that's generally not where the game takes place. Maybe there's civilisation underground, hiding from the horror of the surface. Maybe there are Morlocks underground. No-one knows.

and that's pretty much everything so far.

Anyone inspired to "flesh" out the world? I've run out of ideas, I think...

>crowd surfing on top of a wave of zombies, steering with meat

ok that's pretty fucked up.

>>10302114
>>10302114
>several people
>or one samefag

>>10302288
>or just lies.

No it's on suptg; go look for yourself.

I can only give my word I wasn't samefagging it all though.

I am intrigued.

Proceed.

>christopherwalken.jpg

Sounds very cool, OP. I'd play it.

OH HEY GUYS, ARE WE DOING IMMORTAL PIRATES IN THIS THREAD?

eternal youth not true immortality, and with a much darker twist than endless isles,

Also, the players don't have to be pirates.

>>10302469
>did not read OPs post

>>10302570
just to clear it up, EI isn't exactly immortal either
nor do they have to be pirates, but it's probably the best route to go. to be honest, I feel this setting is just a bit too absurd to be taken seriously.

So anyone who dies becomes a zombie? An immortal zombie?

>>10302750
everyone seems to be immortal, but if you recive a "mortal" wound or injury you will die. for a bit at least, then you will heal and become a zombie.

SO FUCKING COOL

>>10302114
What would the technology be like? I imagine there'd be fuckloads of bone and wood weapons, but I doubt there'd be much - if any - metal.

Has anybody got the Suptg link?

>>10303403
Here it is, but OP really did summarise everything, as far as I can see:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/10277178

I wonder if firebombing with something akin to both napalm and thermite would kill the zombies...

>>10303555
maybe for a while...but as long as people keep having babies, and having accidents, they'll keep making more zombies

Adding additional possible fluff for the lols...

The closer a civilisation gets to destruction, the more totalitarian the government gets as the population turn to it for support.

Look at Nazi Germany during it's final few months, for example. Hitler never had more power than he did then.

Perhaps in this Sea of the Dead, large amounts of the land are owned by people with control over the last few factories, mines, and lumber mills. They find it their duty to ensure that some weaponry and resources make their way into circulation in the trade routes. This ensures that their workers stay alive, although they make sure that nobody else gets enough power overtake them.

Eg, nearly everybody has basic weapons training, nearly everybody is forced to work for whoever owns the island they live on, nearly everybody has to work a term on a trade ship.

>>10303555
it would take a lot of fire like a nuke or a volcano to make much of an impact on the zombies. as for tec level i would guess somewhare between steampunk and modern. though it would varry greatly depending on the places location and resorses.

there would be sea monsters for certian, both in the water and zombie sea.

SEA MONSTERS?! ZOMBIES?!

DECK-MOUNTED MACHINE GUN!

>>10302228
SUBMARINES DIVING INTO A ZOMBIE OCEAN TO CLAIM RESOURCES AT THE BOTTOM

I WOULD PLAY THE SHIT OUT OF THIS SETTING

>>10304272
my god sir, you are a double-genius.

>>10304272
more like wooden antizombie caissons.

I imagine them as high-sided flat-bottomed boats, rather like barges. the sides would have a series of small, sturdy wheels which are normally suspended in the air. They are primarily to support the boat when it crosses rough terrain, so that it doesn't get stuck on slight ridges or particularly well-built semi-submerged ruins

What the hell happen to aircraft?

The sea churned, as it always did.

It was a wet early morning, having just rained the night before. Captain Johnathan Gabriel, of the good ship "Endless Endurance", walked the streets of the little plateau. In the dim light he heard the sleepy atoll's residences stir from behind their fences, collecting the water from the barrels and buckets they had set out, and saw a few of the more well-off folk from the windows in the upper stories of their homes.

There was a small mint to be made here, with its need for food, and the skill of its craftsmen. The Captain had made such a trade, bringing in a haul of wheat and fruit, in return for metal tools. They would fetch a fair price at their next stop.

>>10304737
Technology backslid quite a lot after the apocalypse, and a lot of the basic knowledge as well as all the practical knowledge has been lost.

Balloons are too risky, given the terrain and difficulty of controlling the direction, and require precious fuel-oil to fire the burners.
Powered aircraft require far more fuel, far too much of the precious metals everyone desperately needs, and reliable landing strips.

I like to imagine the bottoms of the ships would be fashioned like giant cheese graters.

>>10304836
...And what happen to tanks and APC?

>>10304848

Now they're called submarines.

>>10304739
Johnathan saw a familiar face waiting for him at the end of the street. It was Smith, his First Mate, a young lad, barely two hundred, but just as capable as any veteran of the moaning seas. "Mornin' Captain", said he. "How fair the men?" inquired the Captain, his seamen had been on leave for the past night while he had closed the final details of the trade, and only a fool doesnt know how a sailor on leave can get.

"Very little rough housing, sir. Except for the Barnaby twins, but you know how they are. The crew stand ready to unload the shipment, if need be."

"Oh, the need certainly be, Smith, a fine deal was cut, I believe a small celebration is in order."

"Excellent, sir."

It sounds like the fluff should be that the immortality [whatever] is able to perfectly regenerate everything except for grey matter - which is going to be in pretty poor shape after a week dead with no oxygen.

>>10304848
zombies are prone to getting caught in the treads/weels and immobilizeing them

What happened to the GLORIOUS AIRSHIPS UNIMPEDED BY NATURE.

DOES THIS SETTING BRINGS A NEW AGE OF AIR PIRACY?

>>10304881
subzombines?

With a thud, the merchantman slammed into the mooring posts, and the crew scurried to secure the vessel. Kirklees rang his bell three times while he kept a watchful eye, mindful of the need to suspend his vessel before the lures were withdrawn. He'd never had a ship sink at it's moorings, but the locals sure as hell wouldn't help them raise it up and clear the deck.

A reply of "lookout below!" came down, followed immediately by cables hurled from the dockside cranes. That was sloppy, Kirklees thought, aware of the danger of a swinging cargo cable knocking a precious crewman overboard. He determined to take that up with the harbormaster as soon he was back on land.

"She's secure, sir" cried the bosun.
"Very good, lets hook up the basket then, and see what we can get out of these savages." A night away from the constant roar of the sea would be enough.

>>10304836
Would there be pirates? Muskets? Cutlasses? 18th and 17th century style?

Or perhaps something closer to the seafaring you see in Ulysses, where everybody has a spear and they have to find a port every night.

>>10304920
The two walked onwards to the docks, where the Endurance waited at anchor. She was a fine ship, the Endurance, five hundred years old, the wooden planks and such might rot, break, and be replaced, but the ship itself never let Johnathan down.

His crew loitered near the mooring line, playing at dice and cards. The Barnaby twins had their arms about each others shoulders, both sporting black eyes. "What made them fight this time?" asked the Captain. "A serving girl brought them wine, and George asked her which one was more handsome, things broke down from there."

One of the crew looked toward the duo approaching. "Oi! Wake up lads!" cried a voice in back "Its the Captain!"

>>10305079
I see - without the lures to keep the zombies under the boat, they'd drift away, and it would sink. I think maybe boats would have sinkable jackup legs as anchors, and bigger docks would be capable of hoisting vessels up onto the dockside once they unloaded...

>>10304971
no or at least very little inferstructre for air craft. there may be fuel or suplies on one island but none on another. then the airship is screwed.

they could be used for the highly important transports between extremly large or rich citys but would be extremly rare

>>10305230
Hot-air balloons only really need natural gas to keep airborne, and that could probably be gotten hold of easily enough. Isnt the gas given off by decomposition flammable?

>>10305152
The men scurried about, hiding half empty wine bottles, their dice and cards, a girl darted out of the crowd and out of sight into an alley. The sea howled and cried behind them, but was ignored, as any sailor can tune out the endless yowling.

"Alright men! Lets get to work, we've a full day ahead of us and I'd like to set off to our next destination by noon at the latest!"

"You heard the man, get to unloading!" cried Smith, as the cargo cranes was brought to bear. Wheat by the bale, and crates of fruit! Always a fine product to bring to the table.

>>10305288
not a great form of transport where inaccurate steering means you die. you'd probably want to use hot air balloons rather than lighter-than-air balloons, as the steering method is basically to change air currents by going up or down. if your balloon is filled with gas, once you go down, you need a source of gas to go back up.

>>10305418
also, you can fuel a hot-air balloon with alchohol, which doesn't require a pressure-vessel.

>>10305338
As mid-day neared and the streets dried, the mayor arrived with several carts to haul in his half of the trade, crates of tools, but not just any tools.

Metal tools.

Saws, hammers, nails. All needed to build ships. They'll fetch a fine price indeed.

"Twas a pleasure, sir mayor, I'll be sure to come around again on my next run." The Captain and the mayor exchanged pleasantries as the trade was finished.

"Alright lads, pack it up! S'time to go!" yelled Smith to the crew. A full week of sailing awaited them, and no one was looking forward to it, but the sooner started, the sooner finished.

Okay guys

Okay

Wait guys wait

Okay

So if the trillions of zombies are moaning

That means trillions of zombies are exhaling

That means it's gonna be pretty damn windy

You could create boats with a combination of balloons and parachute-sail dealios to sail through the air

>>10305548

That's... Why didn't I think of that? It's just as crazy awesome as the rest of this shit...

>>10305545
The meat was hung from the back of the ship, as it had been thousands of times before, and the craven dead beneath them clawed, stretched and strained towards it, lurching the ship forward.

"Where to now, sir?" asked Smith, as the crew scurried about.

"Bring her about to the south east, there's a town there with a proper ship yard, our haul should sell well there. Then I think we should go west from there, theres a chain of villages that would be having festivals around that time, a good place to make a little profit, eh?"

"Very good, sir"

The ship and it sailed on, and the sea churned, as it always did.

>>10305548

Gliders, too, but a crash is a horrific death.

I wish there was someone in here who was willing to draw some of this crazy crap.

Gets on /tg/ sees the continuation of "The Sea of the Dead" campaign.

Never change /tg/, never change.

What about explosive damage and dismemberment? Can the dead regrow limbs or even the head?

My first reaction would be to bomb the shit out of the sea.

>>10304506
No, they would need to be actual submarines. Human bodies float so beneath those seas of zombies there would be pockets of water, much like pockets of oil trapped by rock.

Furthermore those pockets of water would have pressures equivalent to deep water IRL due to the pressure of the billions of zombies pressing down on them.

>>10304921

That would be a good idea, it would leave open the possibility of Zombies that due to circumstances of death (freezing, severe head wounds, borderline death wounds, ect) that still had intelligence.

>>10306095
Refine them. Put them in a cauldron, render their body fat for fuel in engines, evaporate their body water and break down the remaining glucose and proteins into fertilizer..

Rendering the body fat should be a energy positive cycle, also removing the water beforehand would be useful. To make it energy efficient you should leave them in a holding pen for a few months to evaporate all the water in their bodies before rendering them. This would also render them immobile and keep them from harming workers.

Rendering the fat/Lipids from the zombies will pretty much leave nothing but a nitrogen rich carbon husk, basically nitrogen rich charcoal ready to be burned or used in food production. Nitrogen rich charcoal is a SUPERB growth additive for food crops.

Yeah, can you tell that someone is taking biology and nutrition science for his summer classes?

Someone with photoshop shoop the barge onto the crowd of zombies.

Paint will not allow me to, and I'm too lazy to dl photoshop.

>>10305904
The Guild of Windreaders. Brave and talented men who take to the skies in finely crafted gliders, catapulted from land using special elastic rope and then use nothing but the natural winds to find their way across land and The Sea.

Windreaders are invaluable to their kingdoms as messengers, couriers and scouts and even more so when passage through The Sea is controlled by enemies or pirates.

Their task is not without peril, they know that should the fortunes of the wind fail to smile upon them, then their every ounce of cargo, or apprentice or passenger will bring them to their grim fate all the more quicker.

Okay. How am I the only one to ask this?

Bite = Infection?

Probably because you wouldn't live long enough to be saved.

>>10307644

From my understanding of the fluff, Everyone is infected, every living and tormented soul alike.

The 'zombie' status come into effect once one's gray matter is sufficiently damaged as to bring about the zombie status from the (virus, organism?) rebuilding the brain in an incorrect or incomplete manner.

>>10308676

Rebuilding, of course, coming from the brain being sufficiently damaged, either through oxygen-starvation brought on by a 'death', an injury the body and organism was not able to repair or deal with before the body shut down, or through severe damage to the brain brought on by other forces.