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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 6382338" data-attributes="member: 63"><p>There's always the, "Because of the circumstances of your death" excuse. </p><p></p><p>The party might call in a cleric who explains that normally a soul would pass through the Bleak Gate and on to the afterlife (through Nem, if you ask a skyseer), but because the body went to the Bleak Gate too, the soul stayed with the body and can be retrieved. There is a ritual, kept secure in the Grand Librarium of Alais Primos, but so rare are opportunities to restore the dead properly to life that the Clergy would be willing to take it out of its vault and use it once.</p><p></p><p>A whole procession of priests from the Clergy come to Risur to witness the once in a lifetime event. Cue one 500 gp Raise Dead ritual.</p><p></p><p>After that, the PC is a celebrity. He's frikkin' Harry Potter, the "spirit medium who lived." Everyone in Flint knows him. Various religious sects pester him every few weeks to ask if he has any wisdom from the afterlife. Have that PC <em>constantly</em> watched by members of the Family, who see him as a semi-divine figure, the first person to be resurrected in a century without, y'know, turning into a wretched monster. (And they're prepared to put him down in case he <em>does</em> become a wretched monster.)</p><p></p><p>Turn it into a story hook, I say. Certainly don't wait until 1/3 of the way into Digging for Lies, when the Voice of Rot shows up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 6382338, member: 63"] There's always the, "Because of the circumstances of your death" excuse. The party might call in a cleric who explains that normally a soul would pass through the Bleak Gate and on to the afterlife (through Nem, if you ask a skyseer), but because the body went to the Bleak Gate too, the soul stayed with the body and can be retrieved. There is a ritual, kept secure in the Grand Librarium of Alais Primos, but so rare are opportunities to restore the dead properly to life that the Clergy would be willing to take it out of its vault and use it once. A whole procession of priests from the Clergy come to Risur to witness the once in a lifetime event. Cue one 500 gp Raise Dead ritual. After that, the PC is a celebrity. He's frikkin' Harry Potter, the "spirit medium who lived." Everyone in Flint knows him. Various religious sects pester him every few weeks to ask if he has any wisdom from the afterlife. Have that PC [i]constantly[/i] watched by members of the Family, who see him as a semi-divine figure, the first person to be resurrected in a century without, y'know, turning into a wretched monster. (And they're prepared to put him down in case he [i]does[/i] become a wretched monster.) Turn it into a story hook, I say. Certainly don't wait until 1/3 of the way into Digging for Lies, when the Voice of Rot shows up. [/QUOTE]
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