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[Tomcost]

No point drawing this out. Have the skeleton kill him quick, loot the house, then burn the roof. Head back to your cave. We can check back at nightfall to see if any goats got poisoned.

Wait, why don't we enslave the sould of the poor soul, and make him actually keep taking care of his goats to don't arouse suspicions?

[Cain12]

Tease him by asking if you can borrow some... I dunno, sugar or something.

Yesh.

+1

Then bow him to death. Let his barrier be his bane.

Arrows also don't break bones, giving better bodies

+1, practice will be useful.

No point drawing this out. Have the skeleton kill him quick, loot the house, then burn the roof. Head back to your cave. We can check back at nightfall to see if any goats got poisoned.

Wait, why don't we enslave the sould of the poor soul, and make him actually keep taking care of his goats to don't arouse suspicions?

Well people may visit him, he must sell the goats or their produce so people may notice if he stops/appears more undead than usual. But I do like the idea if we could.

[Worldmaster27]

Tease him by asking if you can borrow some... I dunno, sugar or something.

Yesh.

+1

Then bow him to death. Let his barrier be his bane.

Arrows also don't break bones, giving better bodies

+1, practice will be useful.

+1 for the lulz

No point drawing this out. Have the skeleton kill him quick, loot the house, then burn the roof. Head back to your cave. We can check back at nightfall to see if any goats got poisoned.

Wait, why don't we enslave the soul of the poor guy, and make him actually keep taking care of his goats to don't arouse suspicions?

While that would be funny, it isn't very practical. We came here for a Goat Horde, remember?

[Mr. Strange]

Tease him by asking if you can borrow some... I dunno, sugar or something.

Yesh.

+1

Then bow him to death. Let his barrier be his bane.

Arrows also don't break bones, giving better bodies

+1, practice will be useful.

+1 for the lulz

No point drawing this out. Have the skeleton kill him quick, loot the house, then burn the roof. Head back to your cave. We can check back at nightfall to see if any goats got poisoned.

Wait, why don't we enslave the soul of the poor guy, and make him actually keep taking care of his goats to don't arouse suspicions?

While that would be funny, it isn't very practical. We came here for a Goat Horde, remember?

+1. Also ask him his name and what this place is called. Try to get a better look at him. See if you can light a fire from those embers to the house after killing that guy and his goats, looting everything valuable and securing the body outside the house. No evidence, no problems.

[Tomcost]

Don't kill the goats yet! We don't even have enough mana to raise them all! I support my ghostly goatkeeper suggestion.

[Cain12]

Killing all the goats would be sort of pointless and impractical the now, I mean we want it to look like an accident so we don't get caught, we can't take them all and them going missing/being slaughtered would look weird.

-1 to goat killing, at least not all of them the now, like Tomcost said we can't raise them all.

[~Neri]

We could herd them all back to the cave and kill them there, and revive them as mana permits.

[Tomcost]

We could herd them all back to the cave and kill them there, and revive them as mana permits.

That's why I suggested ghostly goatkeeper

[escaped lurker]

The Plains of Grating, Fifth Age
The Age of Death, Year 625
Day 7, Early Morning

Your arrow strikes true, into his chest. Or rather, into his lungs, as he starts to gurgle and coughs up blood thereafter. Plenty of blood, as you note. While you enter his house for careful inspection, he even tries to crawl away, leaving a smear of blood in his wake. To your surprise he even makes it to the door before his strength ultimately leaves him. What a hardy fellow he was!

Shifting your concentration back to the room, you find the following. It is – as implied by the house itself – rather functional, with a small altar being the only thing that seems to have no practical use. At least not for the sod that formerly lived here, seeing as the only trace to be had in the air, is the thick stench of iron. Still unsure if you really want to burn down the place, you feed the embers a bit of straw and a few twiggs, before continuing in earnest.

A multitude of tools, eatery and crafts are adorning the shelves on the  walls. A press, a spindle, a mallet, some nails... From the looks of it he mainly lived from his goats, making cheese and yarn. Surprising is the fact that he has bundled up at least a dozen of different herbs – seems he knew a fair deal about natural medicine.

Spoiler: All the Loot (click to show/hide)

5 Silver – Crudely minted
34 Copper – Crudely minted
1 Quarterstaff
2 Pairs of Linen Clothing
2 Daggers
1 Cheese-press
1 Spindle
1 Rough Brush
4 Goat-hides
1 Mallet
14 Crude Nails
2 Sets of Cutlery
5 Small Cheese
1 Stringed Ham
1 Small Sack of Flour
1 Small Sack of Millet
4 Handful of dried Fruits
1 Piece of Honeycomb
3 Jugs of Mead
1 Big Jug of Water
Multiple Bundles of Herbs
Multiple Pieces of Furniture
Altar to some Deity

Currently:
188/205 HP
12/175 MP
50 MP Stored

Status:
Well-Fed - Doubled HP-Regeneration
Sentient Nourishment - +3 Agility and Intelligence for Skill- and Combat-checks
Slight Cut - 3 - What once was a deep cut, has healed nicely
Bite - 8 - Left shoulder. Bleeds a fair bit, but nothing dangerous.
Scratches - 6 - All over the place. Unimportant.

Spoiler: Character (click to show/hide)

Ghoulish Vessel
Strength: 11
Endurance: 11
Agility: 8
Intelligence: 15
Wisdom: 15
Charisma: 5

~10 HPD
~40 MPD

Inventory:
Medium Band of Gathering 20/20 MP
Leather Jerkin
Woolen Pants
Leather Shin-boots
Twohander
Shortbow w. Iron tipped Arrows

Resources:
1 Deer Skeleton
1 Human Corpse - 4/4 Rations of Human Flesh
1 Amethyst Geode - 30/30 MP

Items:
1 Saddlebag
1 Shortbow
2 Quivers
12 Wooden Arrows
15 Iron tipped Arrows
1 Dagger
1 Rope – Thin, 4 Meters
1 Tinderbox
1 Hatchet
1 Knapsack
1 Rusty Horseshoe

Skills:
Adept of the School of Necromancy
Adept of the School of Transmutation
Beginner in Feral Combat
Beginner in Archery

Spoiler:  Spells (click to show/hide)

School of Necromancy - Adept
Branches: Mysticism, Occultism

Animate Skeleton – 50 MP
Raise a temporary Skeleton to do your bidding. Lasts 1 Day, extendible by 3 MP per day.
Can be made permanent by spending additional 30 MP on it.

Turn Lesser Undead – 30 MP
Allows you to destroy, render harmless or straightly take over an undead creature.

Soulspeaker – 20 MP
Allows you to contact the souls of the dead, and to communicate with them. Duration 1 Hour.

Enslave Lesser Souls - 25 MP
Allows the enslavement of lesser, or rather “newly dead” souls.
A soul may be placed into a construct, resulting in an autonomous undead.
A souls essence may be devoured, restoring half of the souls previously held maximum mana.
Devouring a Soul or failing this spell has the chance to transform the affected into a wraith, which will be hostile towards the caster.


School of Transmutation - Adept
Branches: Enchanting, Alteration

Drain Energy – 20MP +50% of the drained Energy must be paid in MP
Allows you to drain a prone or enslaved creature of its mana or vitality.

Change Object – 30 MP, Duration 1 Hour
Allows you to temporary change the properties or shape of an object.

Store Mana – 25MP + Desired Amount
Allows you to store mana into gemstones.

Spoiler: Followers (click to show/hide)

	Skeletal Horse Permanent Slightly Damaged
	Skeletal Human Permanent

Spoiler: Mind Map (click to show/hide)

Purple Dot: Location of our Cave

" A~h. That was refreshing. About the goats though, they are all still alive and well - seems our presence kept them from eating... "


As a side note - we can only enslave un/dead souls, not the living. Well then, what do you plan to do with the house, corpse, goats and goods? 

[~Neri]

Herd all the goats back to the cave before killing them, loot everything in multiple trips if needed, take the dog corpse and the man corpse.

Take everything of value.

Burn the shack.

[Tomcost]

Herd all the goats back to the cave before killing them, loot everything in multiple trips if needed, take the dog corpse and the man corpse.

Take everything of value.

Burn the shack.

No burning. You know what? Have the skeleton clean it. Sudden disappearances are creepier and less suspicious.

[~Neri]

Herd all the goats back to the cave before killing them, loot everything in multiple trips if needed, take the dog corpse and the man corpse.

Take everything of value.

Burn the shack.

No burning. You know what? Have the skeleton clean it. Sudden disappearances are creepier and less suspicious.

Sure, lets get rid of any traces of blood. Remove the broken bits of the door also.

Just a missing door, a missing person, missing goats, and a missing dog.

[Worldmaster27]

Herd all the goats back to the cave before killing them, loot everything in multiple trips if needed, take the dog corpse and the man corpse.

Take everything of value.

Burn the shack.

No burning. You know what? Have the skeleton clean it. Sudden disappearances are creepier and less suspicious.

Sure, lets get rid of any traces of blood. Remove the broken bits of the door also.

Just a missing door, a missing person, missing goats, and a missing dog.

+1 to cleaning up. No one has ever lived here. Ever. Just a random shack.

Okay! Loot:
5 Silver – Crudely minted
34 Copper – Crudely minted
1 Quarterstaff
2 Pairs of Linen Clothing
2 Daggers
4 Goat-hides
5 Small Cheese
1 Stringed Ham
4 Handful of dried Fruits
3 Jugs of Mead
1 Big Jug of Water
A few Bundles of Herbs

I think we should take all this stuff, and leave/hide the rest. (Hide if we want to comeback for it later)

[Cain12]

Herd all the goats back to the cave before killing them, loot everything in multiple trips if needed, take the dog corpse and the man corpse.

Take everything of value.

Burn the shack.

No burning. You know what? Have the skeleton clean it. Sudden disappearances are creepier and less suspicious.

Sure, lets get rid of any traces of blood. Remove the broken bits of the door also.

Just a missing door, a missing person, missing goats, and a missing dog.

+1 to cleaning up. No one has ever lived here. Ever. Just a random shack.

Okay! Loot:
5 Silver – Crudely minted
34 Copper – Crudely minted
1 Quarterstaff
2 Pairs of Linen Clothing
2 Daggers
4 Goat-hides
5 Small Cheese
1 Stringed Ham
4 Handful of dried Fruits
3 Jugs of Mead
1 Big Jug of Water
A few Bundles of Herbs

I think we should take all this stuff, and leave/hide the rest. (Hide if we want to comeback for it later)

+1, after all, maybe the guy just up and left for greener pastures. Hope this guy was a loner or something no one will miss/look for.

[escaped lurker]

The Plains of Grating, Fifth Age
The Age of Death, Year 625
Day 7, Late Morning

You decide that making it look like he just up and left, might be in your best interest. Truly, at least it wont alert any onlookers, like a fire would. Either way, you start to hoard up what you want to take with you, leaving the skeleton to cleaning and its own devices. Since this is the first time that you will not order one of your undead directly, you also might have thought about giving it an order on what to do, in the unlikely event that it stumbles upon the living – or the other way around.

While the original plan included to herd the goats back to the cave, you realize that this won't be easily possible – they not only shy away from you and the other undead, it is more akin to panicking. Maybe the rope you have back in the cave might help, but for now you only take with you what you and the horse can carry.

Spoiler: Your Luggage (click to show/hide)

1 Human corpse
1 Canine corpse

5 Silver – Crudely minted
34 Copper – Crudely minted
1 Quarterstaff
2 Pairs of Linen Clothing
2 Daggers
4 Goat-hides
5 Small Cheese
1 Stringed Ham
4 Handful of dried Fruits

With the  horse being weighed down, the sun has long since dawned by the time that you reach the cave. Besides the occasional birds, you did not encounter anything worth mentioning.

The "Mind Map" has been updated to show places where you have attacked.
Necropedium

Revenant
Class: Natural Undead
Repossessing their own dead body, the generic revenant – albeit a rather rare occurrence – is the most occurring of the corporeal natural undead. Not unlike a wraith, most of them seek vengeance or retribution of some kind. They retain all of their memories prior to their demise, but their immense grudge warps their character in favour of completing their goal. Some of them may be swayed into servitude, but a necromancer is actually more likely to produce one by not taking the souls of the fallen into possession. While a newly risen revenant is not a worthy challenge for most necromancers, their souls grow stronger in undeath - one should only anger the more ancient ones at their own peril.

Currently:
188/205 HP
12/175 MP
50 MP Stored

Status:
Well-Fed - Doubled HP-Regeneration
Sentient Nourishment - +3 Agility and Intelligence for Skill- and Combat-checks
Slight Cut - 3 - What once was a deep cut, has healed nicely
Bite - 8 - Left shoulder. Bleeds a fair bit, but nothing dangerous.
Scratches - 6 - All over the place. Unimportant.

Spoiler: Character (click to show/hide)

Ghoulish Vessel
Strength: 11
Endurance: 11
Agility: 8
Intelligence: 15
Wisdom: 15
Charisma: 5

~10 HPD
~40 MPD

Inventory:
Medium Band of Gathering 20/20 MP
Leather Jerkin
Woolen Pants
Leather Shin-boots
Twohander
Shortbow w. Iron tipped Arrows

Resources:
1 Deer Skeleton
1 Human Corpse - 4/4 Rations of Human Flesh
1 Amethyst Geode - 30/30 MP

Items:
1 Saddlebag
1 Shortbow
2 Quivers
12 Wooden Arrows
15 Iron tipped Arrows
1 Dagger
1 Rope – Thin, 4 Meters
1 Tinderbox
1 Hatchet
1 Knapsack
1 Rusty Horseshoe

Skills:
Adept of the School of Necromancy
Adept of the School of Transmutation
Beginner in Feral Combat
Beginner in Archery

Spoiler:  Spells (click to show/hide)

School of Necromancy - Adept
Branches: Mysticism, Occultism

Animate Skeleton – 50 MP
Raise a temporary Skeleton to do your bidding. Lasts 1 Day, extendible by 3 MP per day.
Can be made permanent by spending additional 30 MP on it.

Turn Lesser Undead – 30 MP
Allows you to destroy, render harmless or straightly take over an undead creature.

Soulspeaker – 20 MP
Allows you to contact the souls of the dead, and to communicate with them. Duration 1 Hour.

Enslave Lesser Souls - 25 MP
Allows the enslavement of lesser, or rather “newly dead” souls.
A soul may be placed into a construct, resulting in an autonomous undead.
A souls essence may be devoured, restoring half of the souls previously held maximum mana.
Devouring a Soul or failing this spell has the chance to transform the affected into a wraith, which will be hostile towards the caster.


School of Transmutation - Adept
Branches: Enchanting, Alteration

Drain Energy – 20MP +50% of the drained Energy must be paid in MP
Allows you to drain a prone or enslaved creature of its mana or vitality.

Change Object – 30 MP, Duration 1 Hour
Allows you to temporary change the properties or shape of an object.

Store Mana – 25MP + Desired Amount
Allows you to store mana into gemstones.

Spoiler: Followers (click to show/hide)

	Skeletal Horse Permanent Slightly Damaged
	Skeletal Human Permanent

Spoiler: Mind Map (click to show/hide)

Purple Dot: Location of our Cave Red Dots: Attacked Places

" About the goats - given their size they only ought to need about half of the usual cost to animate... Still need to get them dead and here. Though the order really does not matter. "