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[RAM]

No, I mean protagonists, they may have their own journeys to undertake. In a narrative-based temporal mechanic, time only happens if the protagonist is involved, so there is a decent chance that we could get away with goofing-off for a few months provided that we didn't comment on how peaceful things were or how happy we were in our quaint little village... But for all we know there could be a strict time-line that is already plotted out that could do bad things to us...

[RulerOfNothing]

I say that we refrain from telling Eko that we are a necromancer, but we spend a few days learning some general magic or very discreetly performing some experiments. Oh, and probably examine some of the wards to see if we can figure out how they work.

[LordBucket]

Do not tell the priest we are a necromancer. Very bad idea.

Agreed. Don't tell him.

Not only would it be dangerous, there's no real benefit to us even if he's ok with it. If we just want to investigate under the temple we can easily justify that without risking having him tell the entire village and the local military patrols that the probably only two elves travelling together in this part of the world are necromancers.

If we really want to tell him about the necromantci source beneath his temple, say something like "Excuse me Me Priest. Last night we were examining the wards to try to determine why the undeda were able to penetrate them, and during our efforts we happened to notice something peculiar beneath the temple. But we're not completely certain what it is. Do you have any ideas?"

Problem solved.

As has been discussed a couple times, if anybody thinks it suspicious that we can or can't do any particular thing, all we have to do is shrug and say "elf magic."

we should take this opportunity to learn what we can about souls

I proposed some experiements but there was a philosophical outcry that such magic might be a bad idea.

We have important things to do

Yes. Sidequests are fine, but let's remember there's a main quest too.

we should take this opportunity to learn what we can about souls

there is a decent chance that we could get away with goofing-off

spend a few days learning some general magic or very discreetly performing some experiments

Actually, I'm inclined to agree, and that's my vote.

Stay in the village a couple days and knock out a bunch of the pending experiments we've had on the to do list for the past 6+ months of real-life time.

Among those, also do the soul experiments and try to help the children. But if we can't, then don't waste the next week stressing over it. We have a world to save and a couple presumably high level necromancers out there that we're going to have to face someday.

I propose we grind some levels and answer all those unanswered questions we've had for basically ever.

[bombzero]

Stay in the village a couple days and knock out a bunch of the pending experiments we've had on the to do list for the past 6+ months of real-life time.

Actually this sounds fine, we seem to be safe enough here and the major players on the world stage are taking their sweet time doing anything, so a few days to recollect ourselves, cut down the list of experiments, and see about gaining any additional aid or giving any additional aid would be nice.

[racnor]

Stay in the village a couple days and knock out a bunch of the pending experiments we've had on the to do list for the past 6+ months of real-life time.

Actually this sounds fine, we seem to be safe enough here and the major players on the world stage are taking their sweet time doing anything, so a few days to recollect ourselves, cut down the list of experiments, and see about gaining any additional aid or giving any additional aid would be nice.

+1 to this

[Angle]

Well, first we should try and figure out what that thing in the basement of the temple is, and see if we can help the kids. Maybe go and tackle the thing in the forest if we feel up to it. Although we can probably find some time for experimentation somewhere along the way.

[Corruptor]

I just finished catching up to the end of the story thus far, fantastic writing!

Regarding the Necromantic presence in the basement, the priest seems legitimately good - though it's possible that the wards have been failing because he sabotaged them out of some deal with Nightroar.

More likely though, the presence is an artifact he's been keeping sealed away. To find out for sure, we could animate a pidgeon or some other small bird, and send it below to scout for it. If it's discovered, it'll probably just be written off as a spy of Nightroar.

On the subject of experiments, other Necromancers are apparently able to send minions far afield without them being nearby - we should practice long-range control. Additionally we could experiment with spells that sense or affect the soul. Oh, and did that experiment to try to make a healing potion by doing the mana potion creation process but infusing with vitality instead of mana ever happen?

[Parisbre56]

On the subject of experiments, other Necromancers are apparently able to send minions far afield without them being nearby - we should practice long-range control.

I don't believe it's long range control. They were more likely ordered something along the lines of: "Keep going forward and kill everyone you meet." If it was long range control we probably wouldn't be able to command the undead at the farm ourselves and the undead would have reacted more intelligently.
Although that doesn't mean we shouldn't test the limits of our necromantic control. For example take a dead pigeon or some other flying animal and command-undead it and start flying away. How far away can the animal go before we lose control of it?

[Angle]

That seems a little risky- some other necromancer might catch the pigeon and either use it as a magical link to us, or use it to physically trace us down.

[RoaryStar]

That seems a little risky- some other necromancer might catch the pigeon and either use it as a magical link to us, or use it to physically trace us down.

Everything we do is risky, from swimming across a river being chased by rangers, to tracking down the kids. Anything can go wrong.

[Angle]

Yes, but that's a little too risky. We should try the same experiment, but with a way to recover the zombie.

[Descan]

Tell it to come back after half an hour. If we can control it throughout, then an hour. Then 2 hours. Etc, etc.

[Corruptor]

Tell it to come back after half an hour. If we can control it throughout, then an hour. Then 2 hours. Etc, etc.

+1

[Leonon]

We may want to test undeads' ability to figure out time and distance before we start an experiment that requires it to judge time or distance.

[Descan]

Well okay. Tell a pigeon to circle around for 5 minutes then fly down onto the ground.

Then time how long a pigeon takes to travel a kilometer/how far a pigeon can get in 5 minutes. Then do the math after the "Fly for x amount of minutes and return" experiment.