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Post by Bartelby on Apr 19, 2010 0:13:47 GMT -8
Power Name: Zombification
Power Description: The ability to reanimate expired people and animals.
Manifestation Level: A nearly complete, deceased body may move around after being touched by someone with this ability. The zombie can't be controlled and will act on instinct, but it will not purposefully harm its creator.
Newly Powered Level: Zombies can be created from bodies with severe wounds as long as the most important parts are still in tact. They now follow extremely simple orders.
Apprentice Level: Zombies can use simple tools and can follow straightforward instructions.
Professional Level: Zombies can be created from old or severely damaged bodies. They can't talk, but you can get a feeling for what they are trying to 'say' to you.
Expert Level: Zombies retain most of the abilities they had in life (corpse willing) and can follow moderately detailed orders.
Master Level: Even bare skeletons can be reanimated. They will follow detailed instructions as long as they are well specified. Someone with this ability may even become a zombie after their own death.
Relevant Limitations: You must physically touch a body in order to zombify it. Reanimated corpses are not alive and do not retain their memories from life, although they may have instincts. Over time, the bodies will still rot and do not heal (although physically mending them may be possible).
Suggested Restriction: The number of zombies that can exist at any one time is equal to your post count divided by ten (rounded up).
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Post by Kaden on Apr 19, 2010 14:13:01 GMT -8
I suppose as admins we have to make the final call on stuff like this but feel free to comment everyone.
So I have two concerns:
1) How will this interact with the power of Mediumship if at all? I know two people can't have the same power but what if the Mediumship guy (who is Leo Clarke) and someone who claims this power get together? Can their powers work on the same corpse?
2) How long does it last? Can you bring someone back indefinitely? If so do they learn or are they always a zombie version of themselves? Can they speak ever?
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Post by Bartelby on Apr 20, 2010 0:26:46 GMT -8
I suppose as admins we have to make the final call on stuff like this but feel free to comment everyone. So I have two concerns: 1) How will this interact with the power of Mediumship if at all? I know two people can't have the same power but what if the Mediumship guy (who is Leo Clarke) and someone who claims this power get together? Can their powers work on the same corpse? I was actually thinking about this when I typed up the power. I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think Mediumship would really be affected at all by having its target be a zombie. You know, other than the fact that the body of the person you are trying to contact won't stop squirming... 2) How long does it last? Can you bring someone back indefinitely? If so do they learn or are they always a zombie version of themselves? Can they speak ever? I figure a zombie would last about as long as a non-zombified body would last. So in other words, it varies greatly. If you order a zombie to walk through a burning building, it probably won't last too long. If you order it to be sealed up in a sarcophagus and buried in the desert, it could last for thousands of years. As for learning, probably not. You could probably train a zombie as well as you can train a goldfish. They have no real will of their own, just basic instincts like "walls are solid" and "biting things is effective." Although someone with the ability may be able to make smarter zombies as they get into the higher power levels. Those were my thoughts on the matters anyway. But there is still plenty of wiggle room. |
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Post by Kaden on May 24, 2010 18:57:33 GMT -8
Ok, just to clarify my question, how do Zombification and Mediumship interact with the same dead body? Basically, does the "soul" stay attached to the body or not? So take this situation, you want to send someone out scouting in a dangerous area. Can you reanimate someone, send them out, and then have them report back and use mediumship on them to ask what they saw? Was the consciousness of the deceased still attached to the body and aware of all of its doings? Or is the soul gone the moment the person dies? You can use mediumship on them and find out what happened to them before their death but not after. What I'm worried about is a dead person becoming a character. If the combination of zombification and mediumship can basically bring someone back to life then no one would ever die, they'd just go around mumbling and being unable to communicate until the mediumship person came.
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Post by Bartelby on May 24, 2010 23:04:38 GMT -8
Ok, just to clarify my question, how do Zombification and Mediumship interact with the same dead body? Basically, does the "soul" stay attached to the body or not? So take this situation, you want to send someone out scouting in a dangerous area. Can you reanimate someone, send them out, and then have them report back and use mediumship on them to ask what they saw? Was the consciousness of the deceased still attached to the body and aware of all of its doings? Or is the soul gone the moment the person dies? You can use mediumship on them and find out what happened to them before their death but not after. What I'm worried about is a dead person becoming a character. If the combination of zombification and mediumship can basically bring someone back to life then no one would ever die, they'd just go around mumbling and being unable to communicate until the mediumship person came. Ah, I think I see what you were asking now, and I'm not sure I know how to properly answer it. So I'll try an analogy. Imagine that a person's body is a bus. When they are alive, their soul is the owner and bus driver. The soul decides where the bus goes. When a person dies, they get out of the driver's seat and go sit in the back, and that is usually the end of it. But with zombification, a new bus driver appears and the person's soul is just along for the ride. They can still talk to people outside of the bus, but they don't control the bus. Basically their soul would be there, just as it would if they had never been animated. Their soul wouldn't know any more after being a zombie than it would if it were put into a robotic shell that forcefully made the body march around. Did that help? Because I really can't tell.  |
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Post by Kaden on May 25, 2010 11:41:09 GMT -8
So even though the soul is there and can be reached by Mediumship, it would not know anything about what was going on with its body after death? It could tell you everything about its life but it doesn't perceive the living world anymore after death. Still attached to the body, but not in control. A zombiefied version of the body would be under the control of the Zombie person?
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Post by Bartelby on May 25, 2010 13:23:46 GMT -8
So even though the soul is there and can be reached by Mediumship, it would not know anything about what was going on with its body after death? It could tell you everything about its life but it doesn't perceive the living world anymore after death. Still attached to the body, but not in control. A zombiefied version of the body would be under the control of the Zombie person? That sounds about right. And since some of the guidelines for mediumship are still pretty vague, I would say there is still quite a bit of wiggle room if it turns out something doesn't match up right. But overall, I don't think the most important aspects of the abilities overlap much. |
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Post by Kaden on May 26, 2010 15:37:12 GMT -8
Looks good then.
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