Speak With Dead #34: Meat Drive
Coming to you from across the cosmos tonight, our in house advice columnist, the Necromancer with the Answer, has collected a few letters from folks with death related problems. Tonight, Maxillae
Dirge Singer is a prestige class from 3.5 D&D found in Libris Mortis: The Book of Undead. Very fun and cool.
the Mad draws out two questions and offers her sage counsel.
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Dear Maxillae,
My sister is about to cause trouble of some fairly epic proportions. Where I come from, dragon bones are special, loaded with magic, and able to battery pack some pretty serious spellwork. She wasn’t just planning on using the magic inside of them to power another spell, she was going to use them as a self-sustaining system for a massive undead thrall.
She’s since changed her mind, but a lot of us are concerned for the possibility of that changing. The idea probably would have worked, right? I’m more concerned about her accidentally hurting herself than anything else but terrorizing the countryside isn’t much better. It paints a target on us all.
Blinded Star
Dear Blinded Star,
I would not worry for your sister. What you are discussing her planning to do would have been a glory of necromancy. It’s okay that she isn’t ready to do it yet, but with that resourcefulness she will be one of the best of us. I know you like as not have your reasons not to do so, but I would urge you to support her gifts and interests. Offer her presents in the form of rare bones and cadavers.
If you will not, please at least show her this missive. Let her know old Maxillae believes in her.
Maxillae the Mad
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My Dear Maxillae,
I’m writing with a personal request for a favor. There’s been a terrible fleshblight in my lands and as a result many of my thralls have been badly damaged! I require meat!
They can see to their own repairs for the most part but that will not be true for much longer as limbs begin to deteriorate. If you can spare any raw materials, anything that might kill off fleshblight, or even spare limbs, it would be deeply appreciated.
Let me know what I can do in return of course, I would never ask you for aid for free.
Katabasis
Dear Katabasis,
I’ll send out the word to the necromantic community and start a meat drive. I’m sure if we put up a paltry bounty we’ll be able to get some low level adventurers to bring in some goblin carcasses that 
we can then repurpose.
As far as this fleshblight, it depends on the strain but we may be able to give some aid with that as well. It might involve a slow replacement of all of the flesh currently on your thralls, of course. You may have to bury some of the meat for a time to leech the blight out of it, but all will come right.
Fret not,
Maxillae the Mad
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