Think about it though, that makes every necromancer have to hunt a single chain of stuff(to train Than anyway). One of the best things about hunting is the variety of areas and creatures.

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"I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening." ~ Alister Crowley

>>Think about it though, that makes every necromancer have to hunt a single chain of stuff(to train Than anyway).

It's not about hunting at all. The original thought that sparked this is having a milestone requirement to practice Thanatology on a member of the Eleven races. This might be a single creature before circling.

There was no plan to require thanatology to be trained on the Eleven exclusively. Just a single symbolic carve on one of the races every circle or so to keep progressing.

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You wave your hand through the mist of the fountain and rub the wetness between your fingertips.
Rivalin says, "Yep, it's water."

I am more speaking to Armifer's thought which was that it could only be trained on humanoids (can't remember if he said humanoid or the Eleven, actually).

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"I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening." ~ Alister Crowley

>> Aren't there slavers up in muspar'i?

Yeah. There are a lot of them in the upper ranks. I was just taking the lowbie/newbie range from 0-150 for my list. Stuff that would be at issue for newer players.


>> I read it as, it could only be trained on the Eleven.

Hrm. Reading it again, yeah. Besides the bit where he said it wasn't likely, heh; it does say for every rank. Hrm...

If we were required to cut up one of the Eleven each rank, the easiest time would still be from 1st to about 12th circle. After that-ish in ranks, then Madman flesh might stop teaching Thanatology. You can easily pick up from about 25rd circle on with Swains or Marauders, I'd think, all they way up the scale after that.

It's that area from about 15th to 25th circle range in skills (60s-100s) where even a single case of carving flesh from one of the eleven might be difficult. DP Fanatics in Shard have low spawn IIRC, and a very small hunting area.

Ruffians might pick up, but it'd be dangerous to hunt them with only 80 ranks in something.

If it were Eleven only for Thanatology, then I'd be bracing myself for a ton of backtraining and circling once I was able to work up to Swains.

Yeah, there just isn't much in game that exists. Every necro would be on a linear progression, at least through about 100 ranks.

Of course, this also discounts other ways of learning thanatology, so it's all pretty much just academic anyways, heh. Never really thought much about hunting any of the eleven before. Interesting to look at.

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You wave your hand through the mist of the fountain and rub the wetness between your fingertips.
Rivalin says, "Yep, it's water."

>>There was no plan to require thanatology to be trained on the Eleven exclusively. Just a single symbolic carve on one of the races every circle or so to keep progressing.

This is a correct reading of the comment.

-Armifer
"In our days truth is taken to result from the effacing of the living man behind the mathematical structures that think themselves out in him, rather than he be thinking them." - Emmanuel Levinas

> What? You thought Elven Leather was because it was made by elves?

Don't get on that ship! "To Serve Man"--it's a cookbook!

>> Mutilating animals is kind of a bad sign too.

Yeah, but the people aspect of it is the one that people hang up on.

My necro had no qualms about joining the guild and was more than happy to dispatch louts, but there was nevertheless a distinct apprehension that accompanied carving a block of their skin off and shoving it into my pack.

I carried around that skin for several days until the thought of the act just sort of got numb. Then I spent quite a lot of time with the madmen. It felt a lot easier hacking up guys that were totally out of their minds. Especially when the stuff in there drives you out of your mind too.

Skinning people is just something you don't do. It's a nice little character aspect that I think would be nice to mandate, at least to a certain degree. I'm guessing the compulsion to carve up, or at the least prepare, people will be the gateway for doubt and will show up later in RP when redemption is released.

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You wave your hand through the mist of the fountain and rub the wetness between your fingertips.
Rivalin says, "Yep, it's water."

<<Found the message:

<<A cacophonic dissonance spreads through your being, a crack in the edge of your mundane sight widening. Oozing darkness pours through it and floods your senses, as you sense wrongness, something calling to you. With a detached sense of dread, you realize that you're feeling a terrible Hunger, something that was always lurking at the edge of your sight but now making its presence actively known. Though the Hunger dims somewhat, it remains present, as if constantly watching and waiting for you to slip up.


Do you recall what circle that was?

<<Do you recall what circle that was?

5th Circle at that time.

I recall getting it very soon after joining.

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"I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening." ~ Alister Crowley

<<It'd be cool to get a quest every once in a while, even if it was just like, "Go bring me some lout material.">>

I have to say I'd like to see some further use of the material harvested (which I'm sure is planned), in particular the Necromancers version of FA compendiums. harvesting material from all creatures, preserving it and keeping it in a library of sorts for further study. Perhaps for future use with grafting (if it's still in the plans) or some other Alchemy of the Flesh themed application.

The cliffs answer to this thread is: Yes, you have to be a deranged serial killer.

>>But you can be more Hannibal Lecter, less Charles Manson.

We were sadly all out of fava beans and chianti when Sinstra's heart was eaten.

Okay, that made me laugh.


"By Idon's hairy hangnails!"
~Tsinlee