Bring out your dead, bring out your dead.

[hanez]

I'm thinking about starting the campaign with a Monte python homage.

Intro scene, characters all work for berline. They are pushing a kart through a poorer area, ringing a bell, saying bring out your dead. Bring out your dead. When someone brings out a body that is not quite dead yet.

I'm thinking that berline reanimates anyone who dies in the city as a mindless zombie. It also got me to thinking.

Is there some item that ensures you reanimate as a better undead? With more willpower memories etc. It would be something a living person would like to have a blessing or something. If I ever come back, I'm not going to be a mindless zombie type of thing.

[keftiu]

LO:IL states that by Gebbite law, all those who die in the country are raised as mindless undead - the trick is to find some way to become intelligent undead before that happens.

The state is not gonna be giving anyone immortality for free.

[Leon Aquilla]

Berline is herself somewhat of a sarcastic taskmaster. It is of course your right as GM to inject as much or as little levity as you see fit, but I used her as a way to inject humor into a pretty grim country without making things seem like a Saturday morning cartoon.

Oftentimes she appeared when the AP didn't actually call for it (good example - Book 4, Chapter 1 after you get settled in , bearing housewarming gifts). Most of the time she would be chewing on something and smacking rather obnoxiously, and speak through mouthfuls of brownies or other sugary treats. And always reminding you that she was somebody and you weren't through sarcastic commentary or left-handed compliments.

Some of her highlights:

- Bidding on getting the rights to re-animate the groups corpses in the event they died in book 4 at a thunderdome

- Constant fashion snark thrown at the well-dressed Urgathoan in the group

- Eyes darting back and forth like ping pong balls between both sides while she loudly smacked and chewed on food during a tense exchange between the group and a cadre of Blood Lord's flunkies

- Having the blood pressure of Darla Dimple from Cats Don't Dance

[Perpdepog]

I suppose if you could find a necromancer you trusted enough, or paid well enough, you could have them reanimate you as something better with the Create Undead ritual, but I imagine it'd be very expensive. You'd have to pay for the materials to reanimate you as your undead of choice, pay the necromancer for their time, probably pay more to third parties to make sure the necromancer can't simply force your corpse to tell them where their payment is and leave you in some zombie grist mill somewhere, etc.

There's also the possibility of hanging around sites of terrible tragedy, impending war, or places prone to magical mishap in hopes that you'll get warped and twisted into something that isn't a mindless, shambling husk, but that's a pretty long shot to aim for.