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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LurkAway" data-source="post: 5756148" data-attributes="member: 6685059">I know magic is magic, but if one explanation is as good as any other then...Three skeletons risen from the dead, their bones knit together with arcane weaving, their hollow skulls lit with dim artificial intelligence. They are commanded to attack any intruders. Their weakly arcane-powered minds understand just enough to fulfill their directive. Creator = master. Creator's apprentices and pests like mice = ignore. Everything else = attack.One day, after their creator has long died, among rat dung, decayed furnishing, moth-eaten tapestry, the three skeletons -- now covered in an inch layer of dust -- still stand there, lacking the sentience and common sense to just leave.And then the door bursts open and 4 men enter. The skeletons animate. Combat ensues. And the bard summons magic to viciously cry out "Ni! You stupid bag of bones -- you're dead! You don't deserve the spark of life!"[pause]Although everyone in the room hears the cry, the spell only affects 1 target. So...The other PCs hear it, but they're unaffected. Fortunately, this insult was not directed at them, so they're safe.The first skeleton is unaffected because his hearing isn't so good and the warlord was also shouting at the same time. "What do you say? That I'm in bed? What's a bed? Hey warlord, can you stop shouting whatever that is, I can't hear the other guy!"The second skeleton hears the mockery and thinks "OMG, he's right, I AM dead. What am I doing here? Oh wait.. were you talking to THAT skeleton? You weren't talking to me? Oh phew, I thought I you were talking to me. OK, never mind, carry on."The third skeleton thinks with his dim intelligence "Man = bad, must attack. OTOH, alas, I have no purpose in life. Good bye cruel world, good bye!" and dramatically throws up a skeletal hand to his forehead and keels over.[unpause]DM: OK, the skeleton is dead.Next player: Cool! I'm going to poison the next skeleton...</blockquote>

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