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<blockquote data-quote="Jeremy E Grenemyer" data-source="post: 7885119" data-attributes="member: 12388">From this list of <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/adventuring-company-names-and-what-they-are-up-to.473088/#post-6771762" target="_blank">40 adventuring company names</a> on page 1, I present:THE COMPANY OF THE DEAD SEMBIANA quintet of upland Sembians cursed early in their adventuring careers after slaying a murderous buyer of farmland and claimer of abandoned holds that hired mercenaries to butcher anyone that didn’t agree to her lower than market offers. Among the magic she had acquired from one of the Dales-edge keeps she’d plundered was a ring that drank the life force of anyone who struck her with physical blows, healing her instantly (this the means by which she dared operate with impunity). The adventurers tried to dispel her ring before striking her down, but plunged their blades before their magic had fully taken hold.Today, the Company of the Dead Sembian is six in number, the sixth member of their band not necessarily alive—she does not speak, move or talk—but not entirely dead, the state of her body depending on how close the other five members are to her (the further away she is, the sicker the five become). The Dead Sembians busy themselves with hunting for magic capable of reversing the magic that binds them to their former prey, and with finding ever more useful ways of transporting and posing a body incapable of moving itself.(Tip of the hat to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twdOp1QBunQ" target="_blank">Weekend at Bernie's</a>.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jeremy E Grenemyer, post: 7885119, member: 12388"] From this list of [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/adventuring-company-names-and-what-they-are-up-to.473088/#post-6771762']40 adventuring company names[/URL] on page 1, I present: THE COMPANY OF THE DEAD SEMBIAN A quintet of upland Sembians cursed early in their adventuring careers after slaying a murderous buyer of farmland and claimer of abandoned holds that hired mercenaries to butcher anyone that didn’t agree to her lower than market offers. Among the magic she had acquired from one of the Dales-edge keeps she’d plundered was a ring that drank the life force of anyone who struck her with physical blows, healing her instantly (this the means by which she dared operate with impunity). The adventurers tried to dispel her ring before striking her down, but plunged their blades before their magic had fully taken hold. Today, the Company of the Dead Sembian is six in number, the sixth member of their band not necessarily alive—she does not speak, move or talk—but not entirely dead, the state of her body depending on how close the other five members are to her (the further away she is, the sicker the five become). The Dead Sembians busy themselves with hunting for magic capable of reversing the magic that binds them to their former prey, and with finding ever more useful ways of transporting and posing a body incapable of moving itself. (Tip of the hat to [URL='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twdOp1QBunQ'][B]Weekend at Bernie's[/B][/URL].) [/QUOTE]

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