Re: Resurrection/raise dead/souls in SJ

Time goes on and your consciousness and rage starts to fade. Eventually you
turn blue and merge back into the incarnum.

On 3/9/07, Adam Miller <night_druid3000@?????.com> wrote:
>
> Just thinking out loud :)
>
> Lets say people die in sphere w/out patron deity,
> their soul becomes trapped.  The soul wanders the
> sphere's ethereal/astral/something else for a time
> (1d10 days) until its picked up by a Soul Collector.
> A Soul Collector is more a generic term; it could be
> say PotC Davy Jones, or a fiend captaining a ship of
> soul-slaves to drag back to the pits of hell, or some
> monster that devours souls, or even a divine agent who
> leads said souls to the proper plane.
>
> Now lets say divine agents should only appear if a
> deity is established, but not strongly, in a sphere
> (such as a group of Zeus/Olympian clerics have set up
> a single temple on an asteroid city).
>
> If your deity (or a deity who is strongly allied with
> your deity) isn't present in a sphere, the fate of
> your soul comes into question...do you get lucky and
> get saved, or will your immortal soul be enslaved or
> devoured?
>
> I could definately see RP potential here.  It almost
> becomes imperiative for PCs, ALL PCs (not just
> clerics), to have an interest in spreading their
> patron god(s) churches as far as possible.  Afterall,
> Fighter Joe might not care who the cleric prays to, he
> would care if he can be raised from the dead or not!
> :)
>
> --- Steven <steven.james.1@??????????.??.uk> wrote:
>
> > Lol good point ;)
> > Especially in the Phlogiston where the Planar
> > contacts get screwy, eh?
> > I think that the Astral Plane reaches all D&D worlds
> > (usually anyway) and
> > thus contact cnabe established, BUT...
> >
> > Some places are...screwy..at the DMs option,
> > Ravenloft-like, or magic is
> > weak, planar connectiona weak, chance of a failure
> > etc.
>
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