Dreadsylvania/Skeletons

This describes how the Skeletons in Dreadsylvanian Castle are named.

• Cold skeleton
• Hot skeleton
• Sleaze skeleton
• Spooky skeleton
• Stench skeleton

Skeleton Identification

Prisoners are identified by three lines of data.

Prisoner: #<6-digit-id>: <Name>

Sentence: <Length> <Unit> <Optional Location>

Crime: <Elemental Evil>

The <6-digit-id> can be zero padded.

Skeleton Name Format

The format of <Name> is

• "<Skeletal Nickname>" <Last Name>

An <Skeletal Nickname> takes one of the two forms:

• General <Word> <Bone>
• Elemental <Word> <Bone>

Nickname <Word>s
General	Big Black Blue Brittle Broken Brown Busted Chipped Cracked Dusty Fat Green Grey Jagged Knobby Little Orange Purple Red Split Thick Thin Three Tiny Two White Yellow
Cold	Arctic Chill Chilly Cold Cool Freezin' Frigid Frosty Frozen Hyperborian Icy Shiverin' Sub-Zero
Hot	Ashy Blazing Boiling Broiling Burnin' Burnt Cajun-Style Charred Fiery Flaming Melting Parboiled Pipin' Hot Roasting Scorching Searing Sizzling Smokin' Smoking Blackened
Sleaze	Drippy Engorged Furtive Greasy Gropin' Lascivious Libertine Licentious Lusty Pokin' Prodding Slatternly Slick Slippery Throbbin' Torrid Turgid
Spooky	Bloodcurdlin' Dead Deadlight Eerie Eldritch Freaky Ghastly Hollow Howling Moanin' Moaning Nightmarish Shambling Uncanny Unnatural Wailing
Stench	Dank Fetid Filthy Foul Gamy Grody Gross Loathsome Malodorous Musty Noxious Pustulent Putrid Rancid Rank Rotten Smelly Stank Stinky Vile

Nickname <Bones>s
Armbone * Backbone * Bone * Bones * Carpal * Chinbone * Clavicle * Coccyx * Collarbone * Femur * Fibula * Humerus * Jaw * Jawbone * Kneecap * Knuckle * Knuckles * Legbone * Mandible * Metatarsus * Patella * Pelvis * Phalange * Radius * Rib * Ribs * Sacrum * Scapula * Shinbone * Skull * Socket * Sternum * Teeth * Tibia * Tooth * Ulna * Vertebrae

Skeleton Sentence Format

The <Length> of a sentence is always between 11 and 23 (inclusive) or one of 37 or 69. See Eleven, Twenty-three, and Thirty-seven for the significance of those numbers.

The <Unit> of time for the sentence is one of

• Minutes
• Hours
• Days
• Weeks
• Fortnights
• Months
• Years
• Decades
• Lifetimes
• Centuries

The <Optional Location> for the sentence is one of

• in Boiling Oil
• in Chains
• in Solitary Confinement
• in The Box
• in Thumbscrews
• in a Hanging Cage
• in a Vat of Acid
• in the Iron Maiden
• of Flaying
• of Sleep Deprivation
• of Tickle Torture
• of Water Torture
• on the Judas Chair
• on the Rack
• on the Wheel of Pain

Skeleton Evil Format

All of the <Evil>s committed by skeletons are tied to their elements, some with elemental substituted words, eg truck contents.

Cold <Evil>s	breaking and entering an igloo breaking into restaurants to sit in their walk-in freezers building an igloo without a permit causing an avalanche chilly larceny counterfeiting popsicles criminal coolness exhibiting lewd ice sculptures extremely cold-blooded murder hunting <Cold Animals> without a permit ice-climbing in a restricted area joyriding in a Zamboni leaving the fridge open, cooling down the whole neighborhood pelting <Target> with snowballs selling ice cream without a permit skiing in a restricted area skinny-dipping in a frozen lake snowboarding in a restricted area stabbing a man with an icicle stealing a crate of frozen dinners stealing a refrigerator stole a truck full of <Cold Truck> theft of ice trespassing in a freezer
Hot <Evil>s	aggravated arson aggravated immolation assault and battery and aggravated setting a guy on fire bonfire-related vanity burning down a <Hot Plant> plant. burning down the house! 365 degrees! burning garbage indoors causing third-degree burns with well-crafted insults double-arson grand theft <Hot Theft> juggling fire without a license selling coffee that was too hot serial arson setting a liar's pants on fire sleeping in a public fireplace smuggling red-hot coals out of the neighbors' grills spilling a five-gallon bottle of hot pepper sauce stealing a truck full of <Hot Truck> trespassing in an iron foundry wasting too much firewood
Sleaze <Evil>s	aggravated greasiness breaking into a <Sleaze Factory> factory contaminating a swimming pool with <Sleaze Pool> criminal skeeviness illegally squatting in a grease trap inappropriate dancing installing a camera in a <Sleaze Room> loudly telling lewd jokes in public lurking in the bushes by a high school lurking under the bleachers making obscene phone calls peepin' public grunting sexually explicit graffiti sitting on a park bench, etc. skinny-dipping in a wading pool at noon stealing a tanker truck of <Sleaze Truck> stealing magazines trying to get kids to help find a lost puppy wearing a trench coat with nothing on underneath and making sure everyone knew it
Spooky <Evil>s	aggravated soul theft binding a book with human skin calling from inside the house going "bump" in the night grand theft limb having spooky eyes hiding <Spooky Hideaway> human taxidermy illegally digging up bones under the gallows killing a man in curdled blood loitering in a mausoleum lurking in crypts lurking in the darkness robbing one too many graves shouting "BOO!" at pedestrians skulking in dark foggy alleyways terrorizing kids at Make-Out Point tingling one too many spines trespassing in a graveyard after midnight vandalizing cars at Make-Out Point with a hook hand
Stench <Evil>s	aggravated crop-dusting breaking into the sewage treatment plant breaking wind in a crowded theater, inciting a panic burning garbage eating nothing but garlic and eggs then riding an elevator all day going six months without bathing grand theft outhouse hanging out under the outhouse holding up a garbage truck loading squirt guns with garbage juice pelting <Target> with rotten eggs public rankness robbing a sewer robbing a skunk farm setting a warehouse full of sulfur and hair clippings on fire smuggling skunks in his pants stealing a tanker truck full of <Stench Truck> stinking up the place using a toilet as a salad bowl wiring all the restroom fans backwards

The <Cold Animals> are:

• arctic terns
• caribou
• penguins
• polar bears

The <Targets> are:

• children
• passers-by
• preschoolers
• pedestrians

The <Cold Truck>s are:

• ice cream
• popsicles
• tv dinners

The <Hot Plant>s are:

• Sri Racha processing
• ghost pepper
• jalapeño

The <Hot Theft>s are:

• boiler
• campfire
• furnace
• incinerator

The <Hot Truck>s are:

• baked potatoes
• ghost peppers
• hot pockets
• molten cheese

The <Sleaze Factory>s are:

• bacon grease
• fake butter
• hair oil
• lube

The <Sleaze Pool>s are:

• bacon grease
• hair oil
• lubricant

The <Sleaze Truck>s are:

• bacon grease
• hair oil
• lube

The <Sleaze Room>s are:

• changing room
• dressing room
• locker room
• restroom

The <Spooky Hideaway>s are:

• behind the bathroom mirror
• in a closet
• under the bed

The <Stench Truck>s are:

• corpse flowers
• decomposing broccoli
• garbage juice
• rancid meat
• sour milk