What is the ideal weapon for fighting a skeleton?

>>31455106
Drumsticks and a trumpet

>>31455106

Mace, morning star, turn undead

>>31455106
Probably something with a lot of blunt force, maybe a large club or mace.

>>31455106
A mace.
/thread

Osteoporosis.

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>Hydrofluoric acid
>Chainsaw
>sticky bombs
>giant sword (wear a fedora for max effectiveness)

>>31455106
Dogs.

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>>31455106
A lack of calcium

Boners.

Two treetrunks swinging in opposite directions, a-la the battle of Endor. Or a belt-fed shotgun firing chain-shot.

>>31455106
Shotgun. Maximum bone destruction.

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>>31455106
Divine club +5.

A paladin wielding a holy scepter with +4 to exorcism

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Determination.

2 handed mace and turn undead

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>>31455106

Osteoperosis

>>31455287
>this

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Any sort of weapon with magical powers, either demonic or holy. Blunt weapons are also good at smashing bones.

>>31455216

>if you see this jpeg file while scroling
>is .png

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How can the skeleton move?

What power could it even muster with a swing?

What is a skeleton's physical training regimen?

This confuses me. Why would you employ a skeleton as a force augment or in a security role?

>>31455650
It seems most likely skellingtons would be deployed as a forward vanguard to wear out the enemy before getting to the main force

>>31455179
>not using 16M HCl (aq)

>>31455775
No, that'd be zombies. Skeletons are the next rank.

>>31455650
>How can the skeleton move?
It's motivated by necromantic energies

>What power could it even muster with a swing?
Presumably it would depend on the amount of magical energy infused into the skeleton, and the care taken with binding the magic to the bones. I would assume that, for an average grunt type skeleton, it would be roughly equivalent in physical capability to an average adult human male.

>What is a skeleton's physical training regimen?
Since it's motivated by magic power, I assume it would be mostly combat practice. However, the skeletons are probably kept dormant in non-combat situations (aside from a small number of guard / sentry skeletons) to conserve magical energy and avoid wear and tear.


>This confuses me. Why would you employ a skeleton as a force augment or in a security role?
It is a weapon of terror (especially if you can summon new skeletons from the bodies of living humans and have them violently escape the host body), they have a very small area that can actually be damaged and are immune to bleeding out, they have no muscles so they cannot grow physically exhausted...

The only reason not to deploy skeletons would be their lack of intelligence (I am assuming that unless under direct "puppet" type control by a necromancer, which would require almost all of their concentration, that the skeleton would only be capable of obeying simple orders such as "stay close to this checkpoint and kill any human who comes into range"), but it works well enough with marines so it's not a big deal.

bolo shotgun shells

Not /k/ related. Go away.

Car with helicopter rotor attached to drive belt

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>>31456050
>asking what would be a good weapon
>not /k/ related

>>31455139
This. Do you even dnd

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>>31455106
osteoporosis

or chain shot

>>31455106
A war hammer

>>31456170
Honestly disagree with this. A mace would be superior. The skeleton has much less area to actually hit, and a warhammer has a small head so it can concentrate all its force into one location. You'd need to get a solid hit on a VERY small moving object. Which is all rounded. Something with a bigger striking surface would be better.

heh go ask ask /tg/

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>>31455106
>that guy dual-wielding candles
Not sure how effective that is unless he's a caster or somethin'

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>trying to fight a skeleton
This is just a clever skeleruse to get you idiots to fight them, do not attempt it. Run and do not look back, pray in whatever God you believe in and run.

>>31455106
The pitcfork is actually probably pretty good.

Assuming you outnumber, just pitchfork the ribcage, pull it down and have someone hit it with a baseball bat until it is dust.

>>31455148
a simple club would be better. All you have to do is shatter bone.

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I was going to say a massive club but dooting the skeleton to death would be even more efficient.

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>>31455939
>but it works well enough with marines so it's not a big deal.

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>>31456297
Seriously op, if the skelly knows what it's doing, you're fucking dead kiddo.

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>>31455106
Healing or holy magic. Also if skeletons have rpgs we're fucked

>>31455216
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>>31455139
3rd this.

you need a bludgeon force to bypass that 5-point damage reduction

>>31455216
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What if I'm a weak numale who cant handle melee combat (lol just kidding, thats everyone on /k/), whats the best ranged weapon to remove calcium? A old style sling?

Requesting pic of mace that says, fuck your armor and fuck your bones too.

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>>31456297
Color version

>>31456158

...is this an actual movie?

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>>31455148
this, specifically a Flanged Mace

at range a Sling "may" work.


>>31455939

It also gains another damaging quality that being around due to the necro energies probably sickens opponents - and if enough necro is bound to the skeleton it could channel that energy into its weapons or strikes.

> Gains toxic necromantic touch quality, adding damage to strikes or harming those foolish enough to hit them with natural attacks.

> Sickens animals and other natural critters, they will not Bite them, they will run for the hills.

So if necromancer spends more time juicing up his skeletons he may have the equivalent of toxic zombies or even poppers (maybe the skeleton explodes sending bone shrapnel everywhere when it dies).

>>31455775
>>31455840
this

but really zombies is what you leave after you defeat the enemy, you leave these behind to damage morale of anybody else and also because they eat things so they'll destroy the local ecosystem (cattle and grazing animals) and pose an ambient hazard for anybody traveling through such as scouts.

> you cant sleep when so many zombies are around roaming the countryside

Skeletons is what you send in to wear down defenses. They're capable enough to use weapons and even shoot arrows.

You also set them for special purpose action, if you know somebody has Cavalry you send them up against the cavalry using anti-mount weapons to see if you can thin those bastards out. Cavalry is usually the military unit that wins th

You also send Skeletons in situations where you expect guys to get shot. Like operating the battering ram to knock down the door of the Keep.

> Or carry a special "Package" up to the door, such as cauldron after cauldron of blasting powders, and skeletons set on fire to go light the spark.

> Arrows may eventually embed into the skeletons so badly that it inhibits their movement, but Flaming Oil wont do shit to them or it might destroy a few of them at a time. Skeletons have no morale.

>>31456053
The fuck? You have no idea how cars work do you?

>>31458526

It's from here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwQpdeVsjrA

>>31455216
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It has occured to me that while the portayal of skeletons in media has rendered them comical at best, if i actually encounted an animated skeleton and it was trying to do me harm id be terrified.

An osteotome.

Vials of hydroflouric acid will render the hostile skeleton into a pile of calcium flouride.

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Napalm. It burns at 1200 degrees C, about how hot bones melt

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>>31455287
>not divine club +10

what are you, casul?

>>31455939
>they have no muscles so they cannot grow physically exhausted...
it also means they can't stay together in the shape of a skeleton or move at all

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>>31460039
The necromantic Energies do this, did you even read the thread?

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skeletons would weigh what, 50 pounds? I imagine it's a lot light fighting a somalian

you could pick them up and throw them at a wall

>>31460415
apparently a 200 man would have a 30 pound skeleton. Unless infused with a great deal of magical energy I don't see a single skeleton being much of a threat after you get over the shock value

You'd need a few heavily armed skeletons to take down one man. Casting the hips in lead would increase the weight of the skeleton while lowering the center of gravity. Filling the head with some kind of sturdy material would make the skeleton less vulnerable to a caved in skull if that was ever a thing that skeletons needed to be concerned about.

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>>31455106
W A R H A M M E R

>>31460533
I don't think the skeletons need to be concerned about a caved in skull as I presume it would be empty anyways, I imagine there would be a few wandering around with a few backs missing etc, what they do need to be worried about is the loss of / damage to limbs especially legs which ties into what you were saying about the weight, perhaps the skelies could just wear plate armour?

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>>31460602
I think fundamentally we just don't know enough about the strenghs and weaknesses of your average animated skeleton. What are the properties of the necromantic energies holding them together? Are they strong enough to make up for their incredibly light weight? Or is it an advantage, despite their lack of strength? Consider the advantages of having soldiers that are 30ish pounds and never need to eat or sleep or rest at all.

>>31461532
>Consider the advantages of having soldiers that are 30ish pounds and never need to eat or sleep or rest at all.
I guess transportation would be easier on the skeletal horse drawn carts

>>31461588
You could move a huge army a very long distance very easily

>>31461532
>and never need to eat or sleep or rest at all.
This is honestly the biggest deal. Now, the only thing which limits army size is the strength of the necromancy that binds them. They do not need to be supplied. They can fight all night and day and wear out their human opponents over days or weeks time.

>>31457276
Kebab lives on even through death

>>31455216
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A bonesaw

>>31461755
I don't see why you couldn't turn the process into an assembly line.

>Teach workers separate segments of the revival spell
>They can pump in more energy per skeleton than just one guy
>Skeletons are stronger on average and take less time to make
>Have an experienced necromancer do QC for each batch
>Ship them off in crates with their weapons stored in the ribcage
>Rinse and repeat

>>31460533
With that light weight, skeletons probably wouldn't be able to swing around weapons very effectively.
But what if you used them as archers or riflemen?
They'd be invulnerable at a distance.

>>31455216
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>>31462530
FUCK

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>>31455216
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>>31455106
Greatsword, billhook, naginata, nodachi.

>>31455106
Assuming you don't have white phosphorus or thermite, anything with many projectiles like a shrapnel bomb or a 10 gauge shotgun with 000 buckshot. Flechettes are too small to slit bone effectively.

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>>31455216
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Flamethrower. Bones burn.

Weapons like maces, warhammers, police batons and crowbars.

Number 4 buckshot for something more modern

>>31455106
>Let me tell you why this is bullshit

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>>31456297
You're not fooling anybody Mr Skelington!

>>31458526
>The fuck? You have no idea how cars work do you?
Jesus Christ. GTF off k until you see all the evil dead movies.

For fucks sake.

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>>31455106
Faith in the Emperor, faith in the Emperor

>>31455216
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>>31463356
>the Emperor is a skeleton
Get fucked, Imperium fag!

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>>31458949
>Vials of hydroflouric acid will render the hostile skeleton into a pile of calcium flouride.

you fool, other skellington's will feed off that calcium

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>>31455106
4lb hammer from HF.

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>>31463385
DELET THIS

>>31463405
> You are tearing me apart Horus! Oh hi, sanguinus.

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>>31463405
Stay mad

>>31463462
Why are you posting that armless failure?

>>31455216
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>>31455216
I hate these pictures. They just remind me how horrible MySpace was and all the other horrible sites

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>>31463485

>>31455106
What would be the ideal shotgun shell for skeltal defense?

Preferably existing, but can be fictional as long as it isn't mary sue "holy shotgun shell that instakills skellies" (if skellingtons did real, I'm sure those would exist, but let's exclude them and see some creative answers)

>>31460039
It's fucking magic

>>31463555
>Joe Flacco
>Trips

No wonder the Ravens are undefeated

>>31455650
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4HE4Ucsg1I

>>31462215
okay
what if
the skeletons could be trained to be necromancers
and then they all participate as parts of the assembly line
and they also smith weapons

oh fuck now they're self sufficient
great
you just fucked everyone over with that assembly line bullshit

>>31463790
>Not being smart enough to have non-skelly supervisors
>Not having multiple backdoors and killspells at the ready
>Not creating a smart skelly and befriending it to ensure peace and cooperation
It's not my fault you're too stupid to prepare for, and embrace, the future.

>>31455139
>not +5 Holy, undead bane, disruptive heavy flail

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>>31455186
underrated something something

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THE SKELETONS
THEY GROW STRONGER

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>>31455119
underrated post

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>>31455216
>jpeg file
>is png
really making me think here bud

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>>31455106
A four course meal.

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>>31459475
>He doesn't know how to get Occult club

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>>31455106
Sticks and stones will break those bones.

>>31455106
Doot the fuck out of Mr. Bones with this bad boy: tshirtgun.com/deafleopard.html

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>>31465300
well whats inside a skeleton?

>>31465493
The marrow.
Evil, evil marrow.

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>What is the ideal weapon for fighting a skeleton?
Lye, everything lye!

>>31462296
>equip skeletons with nuggets
>arms get ripped off from the recoil
>next skeleton lacks the upper body strength to work da bolt

>>31462296
>>31465691
You see, weight is not a factor that skeletons worry about. Whatever demonic crimes against god drive them to animation clearly overcomes these problems as historical records have skeletons using maces and other heavy weapons with little problems.

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>>31463555
Maybe shells that had little glass vials filled with acid or maybe holy water if that did anything to them.

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>>31457750
God I hope so.

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>>31460167
>>31463606
Okay I know I'm being a dick, it's cool to kill skellingtons in vidyas and stuff but it triggers me what fucking magic is doing this it's not necromantic it's like telekenesis hand puppet every single individual bone like how can the fucking thing have a spirit? Even if there was a spirit it's still is like hundreds of individual bones being arranged in a specific spot to move specifically like a skeleton would it just doesn't make any sense??!?!

>>31460415
skeletons are light and easy to take down but if conjured right they will put themselevs twogether over and over again
in large numbers they become a fight that does not end

>>31466198
It's simple necromancy, dude

You just bind the spirit of whatever originally inhabited the bones back into them. Or, worst case, you might be able to bind another humans soul into it - it probably won't work as well, but it should be good enough. Like aftermarket parts on a car.

Sure, the soul or whatever you manage to catch is probably going to be insane (being torn back from wherever souls go when they pass on and bound into decaying bones will do that to you), but it should still "remember" enough about being a human to have basic motor functions. And the bound spirit being insane is actually beneficial, since the necromancer can impose their control over the bones by inserting their own will using magic where the spirits higher intellect used to be.

That would have the unfortunate side effect of permanently damaging the bound soul (think standing out in the desert, and dropping a stone into a glass of water that's full to the brim - you're not going to be able to put the spilt water back in), but most necromancers aren't overly concerned with ethics.

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>>31455216
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Beige 1973 Oldsmobile delta.

>>31455216
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>>31455106
HCl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q72nsOFSj-0

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>>31457276

Source on comic/manga?

>>31455186
What happens when the atf employs the skeletons as field agents

>>31455216
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Depends, are they agitated?

Why is this stupid thread I made still up?

>listen here, you piece of fuck

>>31455216
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But can they move

>>31455106
you are now aware that a skeleton is living inside you

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>>31465273
spook club from mimic into divine+5 is easiest way to crunch through catacombs. but i always like to go for pinwheel as the first thing i do since hes so ridiculously easy.

>>31455216
t.m.s

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With my own trained band of anti-skellie skellies.

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>>31456158
I need this to be real.

>>31455106

a dang hammer

t. hank

>>31455216
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Funny shit mang

>>31455106
A 200lb sword

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>>31472470
Ops forgot pic

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>>31455106
christmas lights. once those fuckers get tangled in them, theyll never get out

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>>31460602
In what instance have you ever played a vidya game, read a book, saw a film etc that included animated skeletons that were not wearing plate armor? (Unless theyre archers). It is implied that all skeletons will be wearing full plate and carrying rusty swords.

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>>31455106
One of these would do the job.

Also this would help: >>31455139

>>31455106
Anti-skeleton legislation

>>31455106

Bludgeoning weapons do full damage, slashing and piercing weapons do half damage. But the correct answer is a holy symbol in the hands of a cleric.

>>31463790
>be a young lad of 12
>legal adult now, need to find a job
>all the entry level positions are staffed by skeletons
>skeleton ground beef flippers
>skeleton hay station attendants
>skeleton municipal waste workers
fuck.

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>>31468290
Underrated post

>>31471121
skeleton posters

>>31469219
holy fuck

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>>31455106

>>31455795
>16M
W E W
E
W

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>>31456857
Kek

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>>31463474
The better question is, why is he posting an average Californian?

Helicopters

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>>31455106
blunt weapons like fists and hammers. anyone who plays RPGs coulda told u that.

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>>31465658
>lye in wait

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>>31461755
>skinny, weak
>low intelligence
>can use some weapons
>shipped to the battle
>will obey orders and be cannon fodder
holy shit, droids are skeletons

>>31455106
Probably something blunt, for example like a Mace, a Hammer or heavy sharp weapons. Maybe even explosives

>>31455106

hugs

>>31465273
>occult
>for skeletons

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>>31455106
Hexafluoride to weaken them bones

>>31471632
I always leave him for later because of how annoying catacombs are and because you'll need to run that shit again to get to the tomb anyway.
>>31475671
>He doesn't know the occult club can be turned into a divine club +5 basically for free

>>31467734
>simple necromancy
Okay zombies and vampires make sense on some level since vampires started out as ghouls like zombies it's just a corpse or whatever but at least there is some type of flesh holding the skeleton together it's not magically floating bones. No matter how much you remember being human remembering you had a muscle isn't going to keep your bones floating in an upright position or move your hand around into basic motor functions. At that point you might as well just enchant something to move around that makes sense like a golem or something because it's held together and not tons of tiny little bits of bone floating around, like how would hitting a skeleton even hurt it there is nothing holding the bones together most stuff hitting it would glance off and go through a joint or something. it's not like cutting through the joint is going to do anything because the bones arnt held together by anything their just bones like wtf

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>>31475609
It's not like they tried to hide it

BONE SAW IS REEEAAAADDDYYYYYYYY

>>31455106
mace,holy water,explosives

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>>31476485
tfw bone saws cant cut flesh

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>>31455170
Underrated post

>>31456282
gotta be able to see where you're going...

can't hit shit in the dark.

The smarter way to do it is cast light on a stone and throw the stone ahead. its a shitty 0-level spell so some caster's bound to have a few

>>31455216
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>>31457276
Absolutely wasteful, one would've done the trick, and 2 would've made absolutely sure nobody would make it.

>>31476473
Looks like someone wasn't paying attention during thaumaturgy 101, haha.

The magic holds the bones together, and provides a way to bind a spirit (which is being dominated by the necromancer) to them. Then the bound spirit would instincitvely manipulate the magical energies the necromancer invested them with, to organise the bones correctly (spatially) into the shape they held during their life, and provide the functionality that muscles, cartilege, meniscus, etc. would take in a living human.

So instead of a knee joint made of bones, meniscus, bursae, ligaments, etc. you'd have some vaguely defined magical field that does the same job.

>>31458883
I was terrified of skeletons as a child for unknown reasons. It would be very hard for me to function at all

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Quick firing artillery deployed on a ww1 scale.

Concussive blasts would sort them.

>>31476930
wtf i hate dnd now

>>31477179
It's just still not making sense to me. I mean if you got magic holding it together wouldn't you need like a silver weapon or something enchanted to break the magic bonds holding it together?>>31476930
Like why would you bother even trying to break the bone at all at that point it's like the magic doesn't even need bones to really do anything even a ghost would make more sense to me and that's completely incorporeal like this abomination of half corporeal with the major parts being incorporeal.... are you sure it's not just a ghost wearing a skeleton? That might almost make some sense

>>31477000
Why not just use napalm or air delivered ordinance? Also, fuckin checked.

>>31477214
>a ghost wearing a skeleton
Stop. Right fucking there. The horror of that statement alone is almost incomprehensible.

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>>31477326
Need the density of WW1 barrages to stop a skellie army.

Would naplam melt bone?

>>31477214
The thing is, the bindings that hold the trapped soul and magic reserves to the skeleton work on the principle of sympathetic resonance: the idea that if some things are kept together for a long period of time, and have similar physical properties, they will develop a magical bond.

That has various applications, such as harming people (voodoo doll type applications using a blood or hair sample), communications (taking a naturally occuring crystal and breaking it in half, then applying magic to produce a magical voice transciever), and so on...

This brings us to the subject of damaging the skeletons: You can either disperse or drain the magical field that provides the enchantments, banish the soul from the skeleton (after which the magical bindings will collapse), or damage the sympathetic entanglement of the skeleton.

Since it requires a lot more effort to raise a skeleton than to maintain it once it has been created, the simplest way to destroy the skeleton is to run down it's magical reserves through brute force attacks. Every time a skeleton takes a hit that would damage it's bones (battle-necromancers usually have magical protection cover the entire skeleton, since the bones are very brittle from age) or tear a limb from it's joints, it uses up some of the skeletons magic reserve. While it would be possible for the controlling necromancer to invest additional energy into the skeleton, they are usually too busy with other aspects of the battle.

>>31477633
Another possiblity is to attempt to overwhelm the skeleton's bindings by concentrating more damage at a single point on the skeleton than it is magically able to mitigate in a small amount of time - that is, dismember it. This has the bonus of rapidly depleting the skeletons energy reserves, as a removed limb takes a fraction of the energy proportionate to it's mass with it when it is servered. Contrary to common superstition, the magically maintained limbs are not capable of independent movement, since the controlling intelligence. It is, however, possible for a skeleton to re-attach a disconnected limb, so speed in destroying the skeleton before it can regain the limb and it's power is of the essence.

The act of dismembering the skeleton also has some interesting consequences - since it is disruptive to the self-identity of the bound soul, removing enough of the skeleton can effectively banish the soul from it, as it becomes less and less recognisable as a compatible human body.

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>>31477633
>>31477682
That makes some sense I guess.
Well if it's just a magical bond shouldn't holy water work? In theory it should be like throwing 'magic' liquid on the necromagic liquid should be able to get into every nook and cranny.

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>>31477846

My guess is holy water only works when you don't need it, because god protects righteous and innocent people anyways.

If the necromancer has a just cause against you I guess holy water won't work because your using it to avoid rightful wrath.

>>31477989
That sounds like fairly sound reasoning except if there is a spirit bound to it he had to take it from a place god wanted it to be and the holy water should send it back since it's not natural for it to be bound to the skelington I think the holy part would effect that more than any sort of righteous wrath since it's wrong to play with that sort of magic messing with souls and stuff.

>>31478055

You're assuming its a human skeleton and not a skeleton the necromancer created.

And what about animal skeletons? A necromancer could just raise ancient dinosaur fossils or literally anything because he's using his own power.

Kinda like sauron put much of his soul in the one ring.

>>31477846
>>31477989
>>31478055
I think the holy water might work, in the sense that it would damage the necromatic energies that bind the soul to the skeleton.

If it's like in >>31467734 and the soul is damaged by the act of binding it to the skeleton then I doubt it would get back to wherever it came from though. If it was corrupted enough the holy water might destroy it entirely.

>tfw the airforce will never operate uparmoured firefighting aircraft (the kind that water-bomb fires) filled with holy water and operated by chaplains to suppress undead outbreaks

>>31478220
>necromancer raising dinosaur fossils
Polka will never die

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>>31463555
is flacco elite?

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Fuck off Skeleposters!

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You faggots should know by now the greatest weapon is AUTISM!!!!!! SHIGGY DIGGY DO

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>>31455106
>What is the ideal weapon for fighting a skeleton?
Axe, sword, spear or halberd, chainsaw, an Oldsmobile fitted with a fucking windmill or some shit, black powder or just break them over your knee.

Personally I like using a 12 gauge, double barreled Remington, it's top of the line and retails for about $109.95. Comes with a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel and a hair trigger.

Shop smart. Got that?

Something with a nice heavy round for maximum impact, but also suppressed so you can sneak up on and take out the real threat, the Necromancer that summoned them.

AS VAL should do the trick.

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>>31455106
>>31480152
LE XD SKELETONS!!!1!!1!!1ONE XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Fuck off with this autistic meme.

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>>31480870
Assmad faggot detected

>>31480870
t. Skeleton

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>>31455106
Ideal? Airburst Artillery.

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>>31455106
shift+heal

>>31480779
Shop S-Mart

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>>31455106
Blunt dmg

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>>31464054
Spooped myself

>>31468384

good answer

>>31457276
Source?

Anyone have the webm of the skeleton escaping the guys body?

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>>31455229
Your wish is my command.

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>>31486814
/rummages

Nope. But here's a helpful publication for anyone worried about that sort of thing.

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Reverse calcium pill.

Buckshot or slugs for skeletons?

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>>31477622
>Bone
>Melting

No.

>>31455106
A hammer to crush their bones.

>>31455106
minigun

>>31455106
Steel bat