What adventures could PCs have in a city built around a sacred tree of rebirth and reanimation?Ships have been faster than ever before in this setting, bolstering trade. Yet one city has always stood out as the axis of the world: that built around a colossal plum blossom tree whose every inch is indestructible, and whose leaves and ever-blooming flowers never wither, fall, or prove willing to be plucked away. Many have tried to propagate the tree, and all have failed, surrounding it with dozens of lesser brethren.The tree is willing to accept any corpse that has been dead for no more than a year and a day. Any such cadaver or carcass laid upon its massive trunk is limned in effulgence incarnadine. After around four minutes, one of several things happen; the blossom keepers allege that their prayers tilt the odds more favorably.• Most frequently by far, nothing occurs. The tree will never accept the body again.• The subject is resurrected in good health, albeit no younger than they were before.• The subject's body shifts and twists. They are reincarnated, on the spot, as a young adult of a random race/species and a random sex. Sophonts reincarnate into sophonts, and beasts into beasts.• The subject becomes some form of intelligent undead: most commonly an intelligent zombie, but ghosts are also possible, and even vampires beyond sunset.• The subject reanimates as mindless undead, usually a zombie or a skeleton. They are loyal to whoever brought the corpse to the tree, but the blossom keepers know necropathic rituals with which to recalibrate the undead's loyalty.The blossom keepers are accepting of and willing to house undead. The city has a non-negligible population of undead, whether intelligent or mindless; some even serve the keepers.The queue is always packed, even if the trunk is wide enough to support multiple bodies. Donations to the blossom keepers can accelerate the process.What adventures could PCs have revolving around the tree?
>>92569512The tree is a living thing, and its life has been going on longer than any man to an absurd degree. So what does it want?You claim it accepts dead bodies, and resurrects them. So how does this factor into the tree's life cycle. Trees tend to just spring up and drink sun and eat eat water, convert CO2 into O2, store the carbon inside itself, and convert energy into some kind of fruit that is designed to start a new tree.Could these resurrected people be carrying the genetics to start a new tree? Having been resurrected once, perhaps if they died and weren't moved back to the tree they would then sprout roots and grow into a tree.So surely this great tree isn't the first one, I wonder who's body it was before it became a tree. Does this long dead person exhibit any will over the tree now?
>>92569649Very fascinating idea. Thank you.It could be that the tree somehow "feeds" off all the bodies that it seemingly "rejects," nourishing it for the millennia to come. Those who are resurrected, reincarnated, or reanimated are, in some way, "fruits" intended to spread and propagate the tree. But why have none of these "fruits" successfully cloned the tree thus far? Could it be that the tree is trying, again and again and again, to find the right "fruit" with just the right spiritual quiddity necessary for the tree to reproduce itself?
>>92569716Perhaps the resurrected only carry one half of the nessiciary genetics for the tree, and there's some element of "Fate" guiding those resurrected to the other half, their nemesis or other, and once they have slay their enemy the genetics in their body will spring to life with the newly deceased one and a tree will come about then.Perhaps no other tree has started because everyone has yet to find their other half.Or maybe instead of a fruit to grow a tree, perhaps those resurrected are actually carrying roots inside them for the tree. Instead of reproducing it simply wishes to grow. A tree is stuck somewhere for longer than any man, whom aren't actually stuck anywhere and have agency.The tree might wish to explore the world or adventure too, and it can only do it through the resurrected appendages of the people who are brought to it deceased.
Thread thread crossposted to reddit four times.Do not feed this cunt, he just wants you to come up with ideas for him since he always gets booted from games for being so painfully autistic GMs hate him.
>>92572152I like your first idea very much. Thank you.Those brought back, whether as living or as undead, are subtly impelled to journey across the world to find their "other half," yet some third party has prevented all such meetings thus far. Perhaps a god or some other entity is deliberately trying to prevent the germination of a second tree? And if so, why?One PC in the party could have been resurrected by the tree. They may be the first to successfully meet their "other half": and who knows what will happen then? Will the third party responsible for stopping all prior meetings show themselves and intervene more forcibly?
>>92572365sounds based to me
>>92572545Maybe the tree was originally a deity too, and maybe that third party is trying to prevent something holy from transpiring
>>92574240A deity reduced from a sapient being to a (seemingly?) unthinking plant sounds like a good basis for a cosmic-level adventure. PCs could research and unearth the identity of this balefully transmogrified god, and find a way to restore the tree to its original, divine form.This is a good idea. Thank you.
>>92572365It seems a lot more autistic to me to e-stalk someone this obsessively. Also who gives a shit if he's shotgunning posts out for ideas? Why is this inherently wrong?
Elsewhere, someone suggested a rather creative plot hook of taking bees to the sacred tree, getting them to gather pollen from the ever-blooming flowers, and having those bees create mystical honey.
