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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 1197022" data-attributes="member: 1656">Except that you're under a couple of limitations there:1. You have to whisper, and 2. You only get one try.  Watch any submarine movie, with orders, repetition of orders, confirmation of orders.  Tell your Boss Shadow to make sure they have it right.They can't speak intelligibly, but they are under control.If you get paranoid about it, every few generations pick a random sample, cast Rary's Telepathic Bond, and check they've got it straight.  As long as they get the "Obey the Wizard!" order, you can feed them anything else they need verbally.You can speak intelligibly.Why?The spell simply confirms your state of humanlike sentience, and then all the other effects of being an awakened animal take place.  Your type changes to Magical Beast, you gain Hit Dice, etc, etc... and then you Wildshape into an Animal again and repeat.Except Shapechange specifically says that anything you drop remains when you change.  If you Houserule Balors to allow them to drop their swords, the sword remains when you change back.Yup.  So every few generations, once you're sure the command to obey you has been passed on properly, you send the oldest active generation down into the middle of a mountain to wait.  They're incorporeal and undead, so they can hide forever.  There's still a chance someone will hunt them down and destroy them, but in the middle of a huge lump of solid rock, it's much harder...-Hyp.</blockquote>

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