Skelepathy
Free me from this flesh, brother
In DnD it’s because most undead are damned and tortured souls enslaved by dark magic to the bidding of their twisted masters.
The skellingtons are looking at you, the real you, the core of your very existence with their soul eyeballs. And they hate you, because you are alive, and they aren’t just dead, they’re being tortured every moment of their existence.
But, hey, tell me more about your perfect medieval civilization built on raising zombie field hands.
/Jokekilling
It’s a very simple matter 2 and maybe mind 3 effect, for simple commands and routines. No ghosts involved!
I’m not familiar with the modern rules. Can mages still go insane from levitating a Kleenex in front of normies?
You know how their jumble of bones pulls together when you get close? Their bones wanna do that with your bones, and the osteonetic attraction that pulls their bones together let’s them know where your bones are, too.
So all you would have to do to avoid this fate would be to pull out your own bones from your body, interesting…
And that’s how you get slimes
“Whoopsie, ah… I mean… success?”
Their bones are actually inert. Your bones just want to join their bones doing fuck all all day long. Their bones are doing your bones’ bidding.
The same way they’re able to take human shape and move instead of sitting in a pile…
Shit, some of them talk
It’s wet in you. They have to rescue your skeleton from drowning.
“Your bones are wet in you.”
Unpleasant. Mmh. No, no thank you.
So the ultimate counter to skeletons are octopuses.
Octopuses have beaks. Are beaks considered part of a skeleton?
Afaik beaks are more like nails, hoofs and antlers in composition.
Nails, hooves, and rhino horn are all made of keratin; antlers are a little more complicated: https://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/news-posts/horns-and-antlers-what-s-the-difference
I could swear some movie or video game taught me re-animated deer skeletons can have antlers.
In video game logic it needs antlers to be a deer.
Isn’t the proper plural term octopi?
Octopodes, actually.
Technically they’re all “correct”, just that octopodes is the most correct and coolest sounding
Skelekenesis
Your skeleton is bragging so much about its cool meatsuit they want to destroy it.
Nah your skeleton is held prisoner by your meatsuit. The other skeletons are just trying to liberate it.
ExtraSkeletalPerception
A dungeon suddenly becomes the corridors of the Nostromo. No matter where you hide, the skeletons can sense your BONES!
Betrayel always comes from within.
snotelek to snotelek communication
I keep my skeleton in line by occasionally breaking bones. Gotta make sure it knows who’s boss.
