The changes to the raising system mechanics with UNLINK make the ultimate ability of this society now completely obsolete. I would like for that same ability to be reevaluated so that it does not duplicate existing mechanics available to everyone through a verb that has zero cost and zero requirement to use.

Personally I'd love for it to simply cause a character to drop dead on the spot by severing the spirit from the body and ideally with lots of hellfire and brimstone fanfare. Even so, I would be happy with just about anything that doesn't duplicate something already in place. To prevent abuse of mechanics for experience farming, that same dead character could yield no experience to any cleric raising them. And, yes, I'd also be fine with it causing spirit death and automatic decay. The preference for simply a death and not a spirit death is because there's a LOT more roleplay potential for everyone involved.

Hopefully this post is circumspect enough in not referencing actual in-game puzzles. If not, I'll try to figure out how to rewrite it.

- Overlord EK, who also would like to see actual updated and relevant lore associated with the Council

>You now regard Eorgina with a warm demeanor.

Scribes had said he kept trying to get approval to revamp (I guess it would have to be retcon?) the Council, but I haven't seen his presence in about a year.

Their backstory was actually an absurdly well-kept secret. It helped that so many people erroneously thought it was Bandur Etrevion's cult.

- Xorus' player

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>You see Lord Xorus Kul'shin the Atlas Obscura of Elanthia.
>He appears to be an Insufferable Know-It-All.

The funny thing is that relatively speaking it isn't even that hard to figure out. You just have to read the I.C.E. source books relevant to the Landing.

There's an Unlife cult that works in this region. One branch is evil priests who pretend to be the good guys, the other branch are evil assassins.

- Xorus' player

"original(1988) Battletech source books" -- Hapenlok

Wait, what?

I'm virtually positive I have the first boxed printing, (i.e. "before they fixed the whole "you may NOT have more Jump Jet movement than you have land movement" rule [I mis-remember whether it's 'walking' or 'running', though]).
My first 100-ton design had a 100-rating engine, which gave me walking speed of 1 (for 1 heat), running speed of 2 (for 2 heat)...
...and it had 10 jump jets, so for moving 3-10 hexes (and as much altitude change as desired, and free facing change) it was possible.
And jumping costs 1 heat per hex, so "as far as you move, that's how much heat you generate".

"Oh, look, you're close [defined as "a third of the map away"]. I jump. I land behind you. I alpha strike. [Star Fleet Battles term, "fire everything".] You die. I win."

Great mech. Shame they changed the rules. :(

Those source books scatter the relevant lore all over the place, so you end up having to do a lot of cross-referencing to make sense of things.

The upside is a lot of stuff in the room descriptions that looks like window dressing turns out to be meaningful.

- Xorus' player

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