Zombie meat just ain't fresh

From: James Frusetta <gerakkag_at_wam.umd.edu>
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 22:22:11 -0400 (EDT)

Sandy said:
>>> Trolls even consider undead primarily in terms of food
I objected:
>>I thought trolls didn't like to eat undead -- the non ZZ
>>models were icky, and the ZZ creations were sacred.
Simon Hibbs wrote:
>icky? Excuse me? How much do you know about troll food?

Sigh. Just to prove I'm not pulling this out of my trollish posterior...

Trollpak, p. 10 (2nd Edition): "Trolls do not dislike dead or rotten meat, considering the maggots or other carrion eaters to be part of the delicacy. [BUT!:] Trolls do not like to eat undead things, even if they have been killed again. This is because they consider undead an abomination, except for the Zorak Zoran disreputables, and then they consider it sacred."

Considering that trolls gleefully gulp down chaos (also an abomination, I'd think), I maintain that undead is just plain icky food for trolls. An effect of the animating magic, no doubt, rather than of the mundane ickiness of the corpse.

>Remmeber, most ZZ undead are actualy reanimated trolls, and we all know
>what their funeral rites involve!

Good point -- IMO, trolls believe that the entire corpse must be destroyed for the spirit of the dead uz to travel on to Wonderhome. Granted, the Zorak Zorani are theologically weird on the subject of the afterlife (from a trollish POV), but I wonder what they do with the leftover zombie bits. Burn 'em? Eat 'em? Throw 'em at trollkin?

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