Reanimate and You

[Shades]

The following details came up in a Slack conversation, and I thought I’d share for everyone else’s knowledge.

Reanimate:

• Can you talk? No.
• Do you remember what happened while reanimated? Your call - the meta-knowledge rule exists, so you can make these kind of calls yourself.
• You can only follow Simple orders
  • “and it’s hard to express “you can be told ‘go over there’ and ‘stab that person’ and that is about the upper level of complexity possible as a shambling reanimated ~corpse” in a quick sound bite” - Haley
    https://boston-larp.slack.com/archives/CDN7GB71P/p1571757664359500?thread_ts=1571753073.292700&cid=CDN7GB71P

Also, for those who haven’t had the “pleasure” of hearing the call first hand:

The call, as I’ve heard it and as Haley has stated on Slack, is:

“I animate your body, you have 5 vit, no skills, and can follow simple commands. your critical timer is paused and starts again when you fall to 0 vitality.”

“I command you to…” blah

[hbrandte]

additional point of clarification: if you were previously under the impression that you could speak while reanimated, and did so, don’t worry - the call is ambiguous and I didn’t tell NPCs one way or another because I didn’t think about it when writing the stats. I will likely update the call to include something like “you cannot speak” when doing a rules and stats revision over the winter.