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[Cain12]

We should make the goat permanent. Because we can and will use it. Maybe even as our symbol.

+1. Then rest and try to come up with spell to make our skeletons stronger, wights sound cool and we run on rule of cool smart investment. Do not try any experimental spells before we have few more goat minions to serve as meat shields bone shields.

Actually, yeah, all our experiments can be done on the goats.

+1.

[Worldmaster27]

Make the goat permanent. Smoke the meat at night. Spend time resting and trying to learn Ritualism on regular goat skeletons, preferably a spell to make our skeletons better in combat.

Fixed to be less dangerous.

Sounds good to me. +1

[escaped lurker]

The Plains of Grating, Fifth Age
The Age of Death, Year 625
Day 10, After Midnight

Deciding on a plan of action, you drain the ring of its mana and afterwards make the goat a permanent.  An easy task, or so you find, and soon enough you devote the daytime hours to eagerly research ritualism. It is a somewhat daunting task, but over the course of the full day you feel to have made progress with understanding the basics of this school.

It is also in the later daytime hours, that you hear the horns once again. The whole mountain is drowning in the sounds, and you wonder about the reason. You do hear some repeating sequences, but without any further information their sense eludes you. Sparing a few glances towards the city, you think to see some movement near it, but are uncertain into which direction it went. As you originally planned to stay inside during the day there is no problem with your schedule.

It takes you a good deal of that night to gather enough firewood, and you decide to smoke the meat the coming one. Instead you raise two of the goats, and also make them permanent. While doing so, you have a bit of an eureka moment.

You have gained two new Servants

-80 MP

You spend most of the day pondering theory, but your success is limited. Even trying to grasp the basics is hard enough – you actually doubt that you will get something too useful any time soon. Either way, you take a break from all that straining thinking, and set up a smoking rack in the deeper parts of the cave. This task is far more straightforward, and the only problem you have is the lack of firewood – even searching the night before held not enough to smoke more than the flesh of three goats. By the time you have finished the first batch of meat, it is around midnight.

After nine full days in this body, you actually are quite comfortable in it. Enough that you almost could forget what you were before. Still, having secured your own safety somewhat, you feel a nagging unrest tugging at you ever so often. Either way, having spent the last days in concealment, you revise your plans.

You have strengthend your necromantic knowledge.
You have rediscovered a new spell.
Animate Zombie – 80 MP
Raise a temporary Zombie to do your bidding. Lasts 1 Day, extendible by 5 MP per day.
Can be made permanent by spending additional 40 MP on it.

Whereas a skeleton is held together by weaving mana around the bones, a zombies flesh is drenched in it, enabling it to move once more on its own. The result is that a Zombie is more enduring, but cutting its muscles makes them easy to cripple. Their strength is not that much different from a skeleton though, with some necromancers favouring to raise en mass the later instead. Necromantic works actually have often enough a whole section addressing which one would be a better investment, but with no real conclusion it may just be matter of taste.
Currently:
205/205 HP
105/175 MP
30 MP Stored

Status:
Well-Fed - Doubled HP-Regeneration
Sentient Nourishment - +3 Agility and Intelligence for Skill- and Combat-checks

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 0/20 MP
Leather Jerkin
Woolen Pants
Leather Shin-boots
Twohander
Shortbow w. Iron tipped Arrows

Resources:
1 Deer Skeleton
2 Human Corpses - 5/8 Rations of Human Flesh
1 Amethyst Geode - 30/30 MP
1 Canine Corpse
6 Goats Corpses- 1 Buck, 5 Does 10+/10+ Rations of Flesh

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
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
A few Bundles of Herbs

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.

Animate Zombie – 80 MP
Raise a temporary Zombie to do your bidding. Lasts 1 Day, extendible by 5 MP per day.
Can be made permanent by spending additional 40 MP on it.


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
	3 Skeletal Goats Permanent

Spoiler: Mind Map (click to show/hide)

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

" While I think to be at least halfway there, I am positively exhausted by all that thinking. "

[Lyeos]

Throw a party with your skeletal companions.

[Tomcost]

It says that teh goats are temporary. Shouldn't it say that they are permanent now?

[Cain12]

Could practice archery in the cave, or actually practice wielding that twohander we are carrying about. Or just rest.

Also the update says we made them permanent but the followers list still says temporary Edit:Someone beat me to it.

[escaped lurker]

Also the update says we made them permanent but the followers list still says temporary Edit:Someone beat me to it.

It says that teh goats are temporary. Shouldn't it say that they are permanent now?

" You have seen nothing."

".. I trust that we have an understanding, yes?"

" ... Good "

[~Neri]

Also the update says we made them permanent but the followers list still says temporary Edit:Someone beat me to it.

It says that teh goats are temporary. Shouldn't it say that they are permanent now?

" You have seen nothing."

".. I trust that we have an understanding, yes?"

" ... Good "

That made me giggle.

[Eotyrannus]

Throw a party with your skeletal companions.

...+1.

[~Neri]

Throw a party with your skeletal companions.

...+1.

*Throws a +1 and runs*

[Worldmaster27]

Throw a party with your skeletal companions.

...+1.

*Throws a +1 and runs*

+1 Get out the fruit flesh punch!

[Tomcost]

You know what? Against my instincts, I'm not going to -1 that silly suggestion. Not giving it a +1 either.

Anyway, we should think about moving to another place soon. I don't like the sound of those horns. How abour if we use the deer skeleton as another packmule?

[Worldmaster27]

Finding a backup location to live in would be a good idea. +1 to finding another location. And a packdeer would probably work.

[GiglameshDespair]

-1 to the party. Friends don't let friends drink and necromance.

So there's not much point to zombies, then. An extra 40mana to make a perm.zombie instead of a perm.skeleton, and we also gain the meat of a skeleton. Also the ability to use our skeletal minions as impromptu xylophones, should the need arise.

We should experiment - try combining two goat skeletons together to make a supergoat skeleton. Probably easier to try with still-dead goats rather than undead goats.

[~Neri]

-1 to the party. Friends don't let friends drink and necromance.

So there's not much point to zombies, then. An extra 40mana to make a perm.zombie instead of a perm.skeleton, and we also gain the meat of a skeleton. Also the ability to use our skeletal minions as impromptu xylophones, should the need arise.

We should experiment - try combining two goat skeletons together to make a supergoat skeleton. Probably easier to try with still-dead goats rather than undead goats.

+1