philj@tekig.UUCP (Phil Jansen) (03/03/84)
Well, if you want an unusual use of a spell, I have a character who is using an Animate Dead spell to build The First Self-Replicating Zombie Computer. While only a few Zombies can be created at one time with the spell, there seems to be no limit to the number of times the spell can be cast. Zombies can remember commands of up to 10 words. Each can actually hold much more than one bit of information. For example, you can tell one Zombie (station it on the highest tower in your castle) "Watch for intruders. If you see any, ring the gong." Then you tell 80 others, "If the gong rings, go out and kill all intruders". Zombies can capture clerics and torture them until they animate more zombies for the Computer. Sure, Zombies can be turned away, but only so many can be turned at one time. If necessary, they will smother the cleric with their bodies. Raw material for replication is easy to find. After every battle, they win. Lucretia has written a thesis about the operation of the Computer, and is now making big bucks on the lecture circuit. While her own system is not quite self replicating yet, DMs will be pleased to find many clerics and mages are now working on their own versions. (For burglar alarms, balancing checkbooks, reading netnews, games, etc.) Loki's Lama, Lucretia Borgia (aka Phil Jansen) Ps D&D, AD&D, and the Powers of Your Imagination are trademarks of TSR Hobbies, Inc. I bet you didn't know that they could trademark your imagination. PPs Eunuchs *are* a trademark of Bell Labs.