Wake the Dead

Vast OnumNecromancy

Root Effect • Routine • Practice


Ah, well, they stopped moving, so I put a little life back in their step.


Activation

Top of the Full Round Effect
This Action may be activated immediately after re:Cycle, outside of the caster’s Active Phase.

Celerity: 1 Full Round
Spiritual Stress: Accumulate 1 Spiritual Stress or spend 1 Bones
Range: 30 Tiles

Effect: Reanimate dead target. It immediately becomes a hostile Mindless Onum who attacks the nearest moving target. This Onum persists until destroyed. Mindless Onum is not under the control of the player and may attack anyone who triggers their Ravenous Feasting.

Mindless Onum

Hit Points: 50
Action Point: 1

Ravenous Feasting

The first time any creature moves within 10 Tiles of a Mindless Onum during each Full Round the Mindless Onum spends their 1 Action Point immediately.

They move to the creature and Feast. The Target is considered Latched. A 1 Action Slot or 1 Action Point Clash Ends Latch from Ravenous Feasting on a check of 3 or higher.

Effect: (v:6)

  1. Ravenous Feasting deals half the Level or Difficulty Rating of the Creature to their Target.

  2. Ravenous Feasting deals half the Level or Difficulty Rating of the Creature to their Target.

  3. Ravenous Feasting deals damage equal to the Level or Difficulty Rating of the Creature to their Target.

  4. Ravenous Feasting deals damage equal to the Level or Difficulty Rating of the Creature to their Target.

  5. Ravenous Feasting deals damage equal to the Level or Difficulty Rating of the Creature to their Target.

  6. Ravenous Feasting deals damage equal to twice the Level or Difficulty Rating of the Creature to their Target.

Mindless Onum who are not destroyed decay after a hundred years unless otherwise preserved.


Vital Statistics Adjustment

Spiritual Endurance: +1

Unlocking Wake the Dead

Potential Cost: 10
Requirements
Minimum Level: 1


Wake the Dead is one of the few Actions which scales infinitely. If you cast it on a creature with 5000 Difficulty, or a party member who died who was level 11,932. You get the point.


Wake the Dead Branch Effects

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Ah, well, they stopped moving, so I put a little life back in their step!
— Last words of Locimene Ett, Necromancer


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