>A well-dressed necromancer has been offering to buy the corpses

>>48779666
Quit ripping off the Dustmen, faggot.

>>48779666

You're not fooling me, Satan. He's going to fuck those bodies, isn't he?

Health insurance scam gtfo.

>>48779666
We will sell him whole orphanage.

>>48779666
Appropriate trips.

>His actions, while actually fairly benign, fuel a rumour mill that allows witch hunters and Luddites sway in the city. Mages begin to suffer oppression, angry peasants are immolated in self-defence by frightened sorcerers, violence sparks in the streets. The working class turn against the educated and in turn are met with privation when complex problems assail them.

>>48779687
>Quit ripping off the Dustmen
Who is this dustman?

>>48779693
>He's going to fuck those bodies, isn't he?
Would it change anything if he did?

>well-dressed necromancer
>poorly-dressed necromancer

I'd be more scared of the latter to be honest senpai.

I actually had a necromancer run "Life Insurance" company. They wanted bodies for government sanctioned necromancy and anatomical research, and thus you would purchase from their company. For a small payment you receive a much larger sum upon your death (more if the death is untimely).

>The gold coin he pays you with is cursed and causes you to lust after death.

zimboobwa

>>48779666
>Seems like a good deal.

not for the corpses, especially if the poor and hungry don't wait around for people to die the natural way

>>48779786
I think the idea is that the necromancer offers money to living people to get their corpse after they are dead.
In other words he preorders their corpse.

>>48779731
Dustmen from Planescape.

Depends how proactive he is about getting the bodies at the end

>>48779883
What is the day one DLC of necromancy?

>>48779666
Does that mean he doesn't buy corpses of the dead now? Dammit guys, turn the cart to the butcher.

>>48779943
legs, head, arms with organs intact.

>>48779666
>Local paladin pays 2 coins per body just to put this idiot out of business

Two can play at this game motherfucker.

>>48779731

>Would it change anything if he did?

I'm not that cheap. Call it two gold coins and I'm in.

>>48779781

What if you die in a way that's unrecoverable, leaves a damaged corpse behind, or doesn't even leave a body?

Like if you jump off a cliff into the ocean and are torn apart by sharp rocks and sea critters, or are immolated into ash, or get fucking torn apart by a farming combine or something?

>>48779666
>corpses of the still living
wut?

>>48780067
Then the necromancer lost his investment.

>>48780067
>cliff into the ocean and are torn apart by sharp rocks and sea critters
Deep one.

>immolated into ash
Ash Zombie.

>get fucking torn apart by a farming combine
Pick up that can... Now, put it in the trash can.

>>48779666
Sounds like an old PC of mine. She'd cut you a deal for agreeing to donate your body when you croak. Those who agree got a tattoo of five circles and could later choose not to pay taxes in a given year, instead getting a circle filled in. Lower classes tended to use them for really bad years when they couldn't afford their taxes, while merchants used the tats for good years when they wanted to keep all the profit for themselves. Bodies would end up as skeletons to do simpler jobs or add troops to the armies.

>>48780181
What if you got hit with a Disintegrate spell?

>>48780181
ash zombie sounds like someone's name

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>>48780181
>Pick up that can... Now, put it in the trash can.
tfw you read it in his voice...

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>>48780213
What have you done!?

>>48780212
What happened when all the circles were filled in? What happened if you died without all the circles filled in?

>>48779729
>angry peasants are immolated in self-defence
"Hahaha, I'm on fire. Your attacks hardly hurt as much as this."

Fire that makeup artist, it's the worst scar I've seen!

>>48780323
Honestly the idea of zombies with say, artificial or just ordinary-but-enchanted eyes that store spells is a pretty good one. Gonna throw them on as some minions/traps for my next necromancer. They can pretend to be a normal corpse until they have line of sight on the PC.

I guess I'll make the spell burn out the eye so they're one-use and then the zombie staggers around blind.

>>48780627
>eyes that store spells
Three words:

Delayed, Blast, Fireball.

...By the gods that be a dick move though. Maybe for a high level campaign, "Oh, meh, they're just zomb - WHY IS EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE!?"

>>48780949
Sure. Zombies are more low-level opponents generally so I was thinking more stun or impediment spells that slow a PC down to be grabbed by the horde.

>>48780492
I assume it just marked them as having sold their corpse, and they just need to pay their taxes normally after that.

Fucking Giovanni

>>48781227
But then you just have to use it up to 4 times and you've avoided all taxes for 4 years for nothing.

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>>48781287
What? Like you get the tattoo that means you sold your corpse. In return you get 5 years of no tax.

What are you even talking about nigga?

>>48781371
What's to stop me from cutting off the skin from my back?

>>48781394
I assume the Necromancer keeps records etc. Maybe you are magically marked.

Also what do you care what happens to your corpse after you are dead? You are dead bruh.

>>48781371
What if I only use 3 years of no tax? Can I keep some of my body? I mean, I think my descendants should also be compensated if I keep my body in good condition so you get a lot of labour out of it.

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>>48781441
I assume you give up your right to the corpse when you accept the deal. If someone gives you something, and you don't use it, its not their fault you are a mongoloid.

>>48781419
So I can sell it to another necromancer, duh.

It's like you don't even scam wizards.

>>48779666
Where is the guarantee he won't take my soul as well?

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>>48780492
>>48781227
>>48781287
>>48781371
>>48781419
>>48781441
>>48781667
Yes, getting marked in the first place meant your corpse was sold. Records were kept. Failure to use all the tax free years actually meant the remaining years passed to your next of kin with no need for them to sign up. Or if they did then hey bonus years with no taxes. You could

>>48779687
first post was the best post

>>48782983
*You could also also specify who got them in your will.

>>48782983
>>48783177
>blackmail people to force them to give you their tax free years
>kill them
>never have to pay taxes

>>48783924
>Merchants buy up all the tax free years of peasants and use them to never pay tax

>>48779666
You're not fooling me, Dominator! You'll never escape your bonds.

>>48780212
>>48782983

I don't think you're remembering how short-sighted people are. Especially in a medieval era where lifestyles are much shorter nobody would bother to save their tax-free years.

>Almost everybody takes her up on her offer
>Year one, most people get one circle colored in and doesn't have to pay their taxes
>Kingdom's economy crumbles
>This continues for three more years
>Kingdom completely collapses because hardly anybody is paying taxes
>Goblin tribe invades and conquers kingdom because kingdom can't afford to have a standing army

>>48779666
That certainly is an unconventional means of thwarting the cloaked fellows at the black castle. The Lady appreciates his aid against the Dominator, but he still likely end up as one of the Taken.