Lady Sapho Byron
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12/3/2016
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Playing through early-game content with my alt, I came across this snippet from the Loquacious Vicar:
"From what you gather, it's possible for a soul to be removed and then re-attached to a living body. As to a dead one, nobody wants to talk about it. Even the spirifer blanches and heads away when you mention it."
So what does happen when you try to attach a soul to a dead body?
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malthaussen
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12/6/2016
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If a soul were attached to a body that already had it, I'd guess it would have extra protection from the sun.
Because it would be a pair-a-soul.
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Lamia Lawless
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12/4/2016
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My immediate thought when I read that was "zombies," really.
Or a situation in Dead Like Me where the soul is trapped and able to sense everything as the dead body goes through things dead bodies go through.
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Lamia Lawless
Posts: 604
12/6/2016
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Oh, I had some more thoughts about this.
I was thinking about the Tomb Colonists and how some of them
[spoiler] choose Emergence over death. I've heard people refer to this as being "extremely illegal," as in, if the Judgements found out they would be furious about it.[/spoiler]
So it may be the reason spirifers don't talk about it is because it blatantly transgresses Law, which is something even some devils feel hesitant about.
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suinicide
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12/6/2016
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Pentecost apes can already host dozens, if not hundreds, of souls at once. Of course, no guarantee it effects humans the same way.
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A gentleman seeking the liberation of knowledge, with a penchant for violence.
RIP suinicide, stuck in a well. Still has it under control.
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Teaspoon
Posts: 866
12/3/2016
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Given what the Neath is like, in that being dead tends to be more of an inconvenience than anything else, I should imagine that when the original owner revives then you have the horrifying spectacle of a two-souled body.
Now I wonder what happens if the person coming back from the dead is soulless...
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Truth lies at the bottom of a well.
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Estelle Knoht
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12/4/2016
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Don't forget the soul swapping the Campaigner did in Sunless Sea was relatively harmless but resulted in a change of personality.
In a way, souls seem pretty similar to amber and vital essence - like sponges. Attaching souls to dead body might be frowned upon because the soul would have a very abrupt transition between memories and not savory for the Judgments. Two souls in a body would probably make both of them too watered down to be, errr, of good quality, not to mention the weird personality split or some such disorder that can manifest.
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suinicide
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12/6/2016
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Booo. (Thumbs up)
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A gentleman seeking the liberation of knowledge, with a penchant for violence.
RIP suinicide, stuck in a well. Still has it under control.
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PJ
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12/7/2016
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The First Emperor was said to have had a hundred souls, which were buried with him. You find considerably less than that when you raid the tomb.
Someone in The Pentecost Predicament says that Pentecost apes have found a way to put multiple souls in one body "without the usual unpleasantness". No elaboration on what that is.
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suinicide
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12/9/2016
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The dead-dead bodies question has been answered. To become closest to the church you need to watch a dead dead body for three days to make sure it is dead. So the bodies don't go anywhere.
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A gentleman seeking the liberation of knowledge, with a penchant for violence.
RIP suinicide, stuck in a well. Still has it under control.
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suinicide
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12/9/2016
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Only, you can see the boatman even if you're soulless. Maybe there's a connection between what your soul is experiencing and your body? Otherwise, well, death is a mystery.
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A gentleman seeking the liberation of knowledge, with a penchant for violence.
RIP suinicide, stuck in a well. Still has it under control.
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The Atumian Sputum
Posts: 137
12/4/2016
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Lamia Lawless wrote:
My immediate thought when I read that was "zombies," really.
This. Pretty certain this was just intended as a joke about zombies, similar to the 'spidery sort of man' joke in Spite and the Batman reference in one of the info snippets. They might build some lore on it later, but for now I think we're reading too much into it.
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