They forbid it? [this is so wild to her] That's all we do. Bones and dead guys and attaching your expired immortal soul to a body for a second so you can ask it what it had for breakfast.
[He glances over and also raises an eyebrow. Doing what with souls...?]
Yeah... A lot of people don't like when their local gravesites get desecrated. Or when mad sorcerers try to raise skeleton armies. Or when stray zombies roam the countryside, terrorizing villages.
Honestly, that sounds so much more chaotic than what I'm trying to describe. None of it happens against people's wills, mostly, it's a fuckin' honor to be the Lord and Lady's new sexy unflesh maid.
[i mean, clearly, she doesn't think so, but in a "that's lame" way and not a "that's horrifying" way.]
[he's not the only one who has a hard time with the things that come out of gideon's mouth if it makes him feel better.]
Nothing as formal as all that, but they do get repurposed. It's just the way things are on the Ninth. I never really thought about it being different somewhere else.
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hardrocklife) wrote2023-02-06 04:41 pm
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[He opens a vial so he can smell it -- but not from too close; he's not about to burn his nostrils out if it's something dangerous.]
You have magic where you're from?
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[she tenses just a little when he opens the vial - and when he doesn't immediately die, she eases.]
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Is it any surprise that it's so controversial? I think it may be one of the few schools of magic that the sorcerer's guilds actually forbid.
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They forbid it? [this is so wild to her] That's all we do. Bones and dead guys and attaching your expired immortal soul to a body for a second so you can ask it what it had for breakfast.
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Yeah... A lot of people don't like when their local gravesites get desecrated. Or when mad sorcerers try to raise skeleton armies. Or when stray zombies roam the countryside, terrorizing villages.
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Honestly, that sounds so much more chaotic than what I'm trying to describe. None of it happens against people's wills, mostly, it's a fuckin' honor to be the Lord and Lady's new sexy unflesh maid.
[i mean, clearly, she doesn't think so, but in a "that's lame" way and not a "that's horrifying" way.]
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[It takes a moment for him to get past that absolutely poetic wording.]
So people actually sign up to be used for necromancy...?
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Nothing as formal as all that, but they do get repurposed. It's just the way things are on the Ninth. I never really thought about it being different somewhere else.
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No, but it's not like I have a choice. What am I going to do, pull myself out of hell and reclaim my bones?