22.7.09

Resurrect or Reanimate? A concourse on the Benefits and Detriments of Raising the Dead

I collected my first few corpses (don't worry, they were willing subjects!) and I'm ready to Execute my Plans. But there's a very important question to be answered, and I'm leaving it up to you, dear readers.
Shall I reanimate or resurrect the corpses? Both present problems and advantages. For instance, Reanimated don't talk back, but they also don't do anything unless they're explicitly ordered and even then they probably won't do it right. Resurrected can look after themselves and don't need to be reminded how to walk every 5 minutes, but can sometimes come to the absurd conclusion that what their Master is doing is Evil and Must be Thrown Into the Pits of Hell (or something else dreadful)
So what shall I do? Vote in comments section!

3 comments:

Unknown said...

1. how can a corpse really be "willing"
2. How many corpses are we talking about
3. Reanimation means they might still be degrading, and decomposing bodies do not smell good
4. Resurrection would only be the way to go if you could also have mind control over your new minions
5. When did you get into necromancy?

Opal said...

1. I asked them and they didn't say no.
2. Um...Do you really want to know the answer to that?
d. That is one of the many problems, yes.
VII. That is one of those things that worries me. My thought was that they would be so weakened by being shuffled back and forth from their mortal coils influence would be easily won.
Blue. Um, at around 9:00 this evening.

scrubhugger said...

you both have it all wrong!