: Actually.. I cary my trusty powerbook to make all my
: notes on various types of undead *recieves large wad
: of cash from apple*
I...don't...think that's the kind of publicity Apple's looking for right now. Try something with bunnies.
: One would think that if armor made that much of a
: difference (admit it, the difference between thrall
: and ghasts is considerable) then warriors would be
: über-tuff.
They *are*, compared to Thrall and to almost all humanoid units with less armor. The only armorless humanoids who can match warriors' toughness are the berserks, and that's just because they're fast and they're psycho. (On average warriors are hardier even than berserks, since they can block with their shields.)
: No, Ghasts and Thrall are completely different, Thrall
: are held together with magic which takes quite a
: beating before the spell fails (I'm not pulling this
: out of thin air, it's in the manual), while Ghasts are
: pre-white forms and relatively fresh corpses which are
: probably fresh enough to hold together, since they're
: not already sown up like a wight I concluded that they
: were sown up once they started to bloat up.
If Ghasts are fresh enough to hold together on their own (and I doubt that they really are very fresh--they've decayed long enough to produce wight toxins, and bits of them come off when they hit you), unlike then why would they be less tough than Thrall? I'm aware of the manual sentence about Thrall "withstanding a great deal of damage before the foul sorceries which are holding their bodies upright fail,"
but you can't conclude from that that the sorceries are what make them resistant to damage. All it says is, *something* makes them tough and when it's overcome, the magic animating them fails as well. I still think it's armor.
: -Milk Man
: P.S. Soulless are just souls ripped from victims, as you
: never find "sleeping" people who's souls
: have been turned to souless, I asume that captives
: have thier souls ripped out and die in the process,
: and they could not be pre-killed since the souls are
: "stolen" not just picked out of soul land or
: wherever the souls go (mb to the other side of the
: disk?)
Damn straight they die in the process--that's their skeleton floating around in that cloud! Remember, they're "soulless," not "souls." I mean that they're not souls without bodies; they're bodies without souls. Take a person, rip out his soul, do something weird to turn his flesh into purple gas, and you've got a Soulless.
BTW, it's often forgotten that Soulless are also agents of disease, just as Wights and Ghasts are. Though apparently the diseases and poisons they carry cause pain and slow wastage rather than paralysis.
: Shades a spirits brought back (prehaps through
: tramists mirror) and put into corpses,
You think they were brought back from a disembodied state? I always figured they were just reanimated in their own bodies as soon as they were killed. Are you basing your statement on their resemblance to Shiver's reanimated form?
Dirigibles are
: big fat ugly guys who smell.
No argument here.
--SiliconDream
