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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8222582" data-attributes="member: 29398">I've honestly no idea - we've just played it that way since forever. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Yes, most of the time the corpse is compelled to answer.&nbsp; On rare occasions one won't, usually meaning that corpse/spirit is getting some divine help from somewhere.&nbsp; Caster and corpse have to have shared a language (not everyone speaks Common!), failing that the caster also has to cast Tongues or - if double-classed with MU - Comprehend Language.The one thing I keep having to remind people, though, is this: the dead corpse can't tell you things that the live corpse didn't know.Edit to add: there's one other rare circumstance where a corpse won't answer, that being if destruction of the spirit/soul was the cause of death; because I've always had SWD as communicating with the spirit/soul which just &quot;borrows&quot; the corpse to speak through.&nbsp; If there's no spirit left then there's nothing there to talk to.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8222582, member: 29398"] I've honestly no idea - we've just played it that way since forever. :) Yes, most of the time the corpse is compelled to answer. On rare occasions one won't, usually meaning that corpse/spirit is getting some divine help from somewhere. Caster and corpse have to have shared a language (not everyone speaks Common!), failing that the caster also has to cast [I]Tongues[/I] or - if double-classed with MU - [I]Comprehend Language[/I]. The one thing I keep having to remind people, though, is this: the dead corpse can't tell you things that the live corpse didn't know. Edit to add: there's one other rare circumstance where a corpse won't answer, that being if destruction of the spirit/soul was the cause of death; because I've always had SWD as communicating with the spirit/soul which just "borrows" the corpse to speak through. If there's no spirit left then there's nothing there to talk to. [/QUOTE]

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