Create Undead (Audience)

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Create Undead Audience

Art: Aether

Availability: Avatars, Mages

Base Casting/Item Creation Time: 1 hour/XX

Cost:

Drain: -2

Required Components: None

Suggested Components: Cater dons a napkin and picks up a fork and a spoon

Range: See below

Duration: Permanent

Resilliance Skill: Mind Resilliance

Create Undead (Audience)

This spell was created by the travelling bard show known as Swords & Daisies, who, perhaps because they couldn’t sing or play their instruments, never seemed to be able to land a gig. Then one day, as they were being booed out of a town square, a heckler (who shouted that their bad playing could raise the dead) gave them an idea that changed their careers forever. The bards had always dabbled a bit in the necromantic arts. Now they studied them intensely until they had designed the spell that would later bring them fame and fortune.

Create Undead Audience raises a number of corpses from the dead to serve as an audience for whatever event to which the caster wishes to subject them. These undead do not acquire individual volition exactly, and the scope of their abilities is fairly limited, although they seem to function with a sort of primitive group mind, and individual undead may behave quite intruigingly similar to a groupie or audience member. When raised, they will climb from their graves and report to any position which the caster designates as the “theatre.” Once there, they will follow any simple set of instructions consistent with the behavior of an audience. They will stand up, sit down, throw things (preferably rotten fruit if they have it), clap, cheer, boo, or wait in awed silence for the performance to begin (sometimes instructions are printed on cue cards and held up). If not specifically instructed, they will do whatever seems like the sort of thing an audience would be doing. The undead can speak only to the extent to which their vocal apparatuses have not yet decayed, which can sometimes result in some

If the performance ends before the spell terminates, the undead will tend to behave like groupies, doing their best to make camp from whatever is available near the performers and following them around to subsequent shows as best they can. After the spell’s duration expires, the undead will return to the place they were raised from and attempt to put themselves back the way they were before they were raised. If attacked, the undead respond like groupies, scattering and avoiding their attackers rather than fighting back.

This spell does not affect the appearance of the undead audience, but if they are able to find it, the audience will don gear of a type appropriate to the performance they are witnessing.

Drain

-3