Network - Text post backdated to August 15

[easilyamused]

Who: Methos
Username: pierson
Warnings: discussion of death, necromancy, desecration of corpses, mind control

I'm sure we're all aware by now of the shambling corpses down on the beach. And probably aware that pulling the hooks out will make them settle down again.

If you are planning to go down and play with the dead things, whatever you do, don't stick yourself with the hooks. They won't just make corpses get up and start wandering around trying to drown people, they'll compel any living thing they get lodged in to do the same. As far as I can tell, the effect doesn't linger in the living any more than in the dead, but it would still be damned inconvenient to go mad and start trying to drown your partner.

To say nothing of the infection risk.

Comments

[graveyounglady]

This is such a strange world at times. My own has magic for wicked things, but it is something for the living. People would be afraid to anger the gods of earth and soil and death if they tried to pervert the meaning of the end of things. There would be such a famine come upon those and the lands they held.

[easilyamused]

[Superstition is his immediate thought. That doesn't mean it isn't interesting.]

Do your other gods take a more liberal view of black magic? Or would they only take offense if it interfered directly with their domains as well?

[graveyounglady]

I am not a scholar of such things, but I have heard legends of heroes who usurped the domains of gods. They tend to prevail in some goal, but they are struck down after for their hubris. To consider yourself above the gods is a blasphemous thing. It would take your own god shielding you to keep you safe. Some would. Others would not.