• Lvxferre@mander.xyz
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    I’m going to be a lich.

    I get the keep my mind and memories, so I’m not some dumb zombie going babbling “brrrrlll” here and there, seeking brains. I’m fairly powerful so I can pull out my own weight, enough to become the necromancer’s right arm. And if it comes to the worst I can always backstab the necromancer and become the boss, as typically lichs have their own necromancy.

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      Objectively the best answer. Plus, as long as you hide your phylactery well, there’s not much the necromancer can do to keep you in line.

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        I’d expect my phylactery to be with the necromancer at the start, for exactly this reason. So I think that a lot of my job in my first days [years?] as an undead is to get their trust so I can: replace my phylactery with a copy, hide the original, and proclaim my independence.

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      23 days ago

      Can liches shape-shift, if so I want to become one so I can swap my bodies sex

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        Probably, given that they’re good spell casters. You could for example cast “alter self”, and look like your desired sex. The main problem is that those spells are typically short-lived, they last minute~hours, so after the time ends you’re again a skeleton or decaying corpse.

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    So any animal is fair game? In which case, dodo. You MFs ate us into oblivion, I’m gonna come back with species worth of pent up rage and an undead thirst for blood.

    Edit: in retrospect I now realise a dodo would be super easy to send back to the underworld :-(. I’m gonna be… checks deadliest thing notes, a car.

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      But that is what the Good News™ is all about for the evangelicals! He is already HERE! Parts of him are probably fossilized or petrified by now. And the rest of him is just dust. And dust never goes away. Why, I might even have a particle of Jesus dust in my yogurt right now! Halleluhah.

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    I’ll be that guy, and say abomination. The more twisted the better. Like a mouth in my belly, extra arm on my back kind of twisted. I’ll learn to enjoy striking terror in my victims’ hearts. Afterlife will be dope.

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    I’d come back as a wraith, preferably shadow of mordor / war style with domination powers.

    Otherwise, a lich assuming I could have lich magic and evolve

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    A capybara in a remote location that won’t see human development within my new lifetime. Just chillin’ with my interspecies homies.

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        An undead capybara in a remote location that won’t see human development within my new lifetime. Just chillin’ with my interspecies undead homies.

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        @Vanth@reddthat.com: E.g. zombie capybara, vampiric capybara, spectral capybara, skeletal capybara, etc.

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    If you disregard supernatural powers of undead, it’s different depending on who you ask anyway, I’d go with a skeleton.