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[monstersdownthepath]

Why are undead inherently evil? Wouldn't animating a skeleton be about the same as animating a golem?

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I'm glad you asked! I've actually covered this before (and here as well), but it's a fun topic I like discussing, so:

Negative energy is anti-creation. For a living creature, positive energy is the default; their bodies are built to reflect this, as all bodies have the capacity to grow, change, mutate, etc. If you suddenly swap out positive for negative energy, you're essentially taking a hydraulic system and swapping all the water out for syrup.

That's not a very good metaphor, but that's why even using Animate Dead to raise a mindless skeleton or zombie is seen as inherently Evil, since you're forcing two anomalies into existence: you're twisting negative energy into performing a function it isn't meant for, inside of a system that's actively damaged by its presence. Personally, in my own games, mindless Undead are morally neutral to raise, but if you start instilling intelligence into them things start getting messy.

A sapient mind isn't meant to handle negative energy. The mind can only interpret stimulus in so many ways before it defaults into discomfort, fear, or pain because it doesn't know how else to translate the sensation of, essentially, "you are an ice cube in the middle of a wildfire." The mind is suddenly deluged from all sides by an agony they can only relieve by causing ruin, fostering stagnation, and snuffing out nearby "fires" (sources of positive energy (living creatures)).

If you ever wonder why so many Undead are universally hostile to the living, it's because life literally hurts them to be around.

[cantsaythetword]

As a totally not ticklish bean, what's your favorite way to get tickled? - 🎤

(from this ask meme)

BOLD OF YOU TO ASSUME I HAVE A FAVOURITE

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[awkweirdtato]

I don't think we've seen a Tato selfie for quite some time. Maybe you should fix that...

Oo you're left! This one was when someone thought I was looking good 😝

[toadallytickles]

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Ladies and gentlemen.. this is Enamel No. 5 !!

💘: Got any tickle fantasies?

UM YES. TOO MANY. UNFULFILLED

Be gang tickled~

I WANT TO BE PUT IN STOCKS SO BAD!!

Kinda wanna be kidnapped too~

Gang up on someone with Clay~

Gang up on Clay with someone~

I think tickling a girl would be super cute~

I mean... tickling any new friend would be super cute~

I haven’t played with a lot of people (〃^▽^〃)ゞ

Not to be NSFW and nasty but my biggest tickle fantasies are literal clit tickling/focused ones omg like David Mack and Spiffy-styled sessions uuughh idk it drives me crazy 😩

💝: Do you like restraints? What kinds?

I love restraints! I love being restrained and helpless and made to take it! And I love restraining a little lee~ I want them more helpless and stuck than me~ :]c

I like anything that has me spread eagle, under-the-bed is fun too! And I’m a big fan of stocks and toeties, but I haven’t been in those two together before! And I love any restrains that just.. immobilize lees just for me to have at ‘em~ (¬‿¬)

Thank you for asking, Sam!! 💕 | Heart Asks ♡

[monstersdownthepath]

About behimirons: Once they've gotten to a material plane world, what is there that can stop them from completely drowning the entire world in their swarm? Anything that dies (including their own and their victims) is quickly turned into more behimirons.

(the beasts in question)

Adventurers, of course! A swarm of such powerful qlippoth building to such dramatic size would get the attention of numerous powerful entities who'd want to put a stop to it, either with their own hands or by getting some adventuring parties into the mix. Even without adventurers in play, there's few Good-aligned gods who would see such a horror playing out and not try and send down some assistance to slow them down.

Stopping the Behemiron from spreading would make for an interesting side objective in a qlippoth-focused campaign, methinks. Players knowing Behemiron are around may take precautions they otherwise might never consider, taking the extra time to chop up, burn, dissolve, or otherwise be rid of corpses they leave in their wake to stop the infestation from spreading further.

[monstersdownthepath]

Do aberrations have souls in the same way humanoids do? It's hard to picture the things the dominion of the black creates being judged by pharasma and becoming humanoid looking demons

Aberrations in general? Yes.

The ones created by the Dominion? [wibbly-wobbly hand}

It's hard to know if their biomechanical creations have souls like a natural born creature does, given how the Cycle of Souls works. Technically, any creature capable of changing and growing should have a soul, even if it's just an animalistic soul. Given the Dominion's general disdain for the existing gods as they are, they may offer their souls up to entirely different forces, perhaps even their own enigmatic leaders. ... hmm... this gives me ideas...

Speaking of, typing out the words "animal soul" sent me on a quick search to answer a separate question, and I found that the answer is "no one seems to know where animal souls go when they die." They're certainly not judged.

The Boneyard is big, though. There's Ushers we haven't seen or heard of and reaches of the Courts of Purgatory no creature from Golarion has ever been allowed in. There may be halls dedicated specifically to the Dominion's conquered worlds, Yamaraj judges who oversee their alien sins, and Ushers who specialize in keeping the peace when one of them inevitably tries stirring chaos.

[monstersdownthepath]

What happens to the soul of a person who avoids their ultimate fate by creating a shabti? If they go to the plane matching their alignment, it seems like they don't actually escape their fates at all.

This may come as a surprise, but many mortals of a particular alignment sometimes don't end up going to the afterlife matching that alignment, especially if their actions fall in line more with Law or Chaos while their own alignment is the opposite (or Neutral). Rather than simply being mindlessly sorted by their alignment, many mortals--especially the rich, influential, and powerful mortals who'd be able to make a Shabti in the first place--are actually judged in an actual court where their deeds are brought to light before a proper audience. Depending on what they've done in life, they may not end up going where you'd think they were going!

TN, LN, and CN people can famously swing either up or down depending on their actions in life, and some CN souls might not want to take the chance of ending up in the Abyss when they could frolic around in the Maelstrom, instead. More famously, Hell doesn't care what your alignment is, only that you've made a bargain with its denizens and thus your soul is forfeit to it. I assume many Shabti were created specifically to avoid the fires while the deal-maker got to reap the benefits of the infernal contract. There's also the more hilarious edge case that occurs when the paranoid creator of a Shabti ends up being judged to go to one of the Upper Planes: the Shabti goes to Axis instead, while the soul is still shunted into whatever plane matches its alignment, potentially screwing them out of their eternal reward.

More fittingly though, there's a small but important sentence hidden in the Sovereign Shabti item entry: "If the soul was condemned to torment or labor, the shabti goes in its place—the bound individual’s spirit traveling to some favorable corner of a plane matching her alignment."

Emphasis mine. The victim doesn't necessarily have to end up in one of the traditional afterlife planes; they may very well end up in an Elemental Plane, the Dimension of Dreams, one of the energy planes, or the Astral Plane. Even if they do end up going to Hell, or the Abyss, or Abaddon, they end up in a 'favorable corner,' presumably somewhere safe where they can begin to use their former powers and connections to try and carve out a niche for themselves... or at least avoid torment for a time. It doesn't seem like much but delaying the inevitable though, doesn't it? Especially since Psychopomps are constantly on the lookout for Shabti who've been wrongly sorted, freeing the poor souls from their situation and then hunting down the actual escapee and put them where they needed to go.

There are terrible prices all around involved in the process. Spending 130,000gp on a Sovereign Shabti to earn yourself maybe another decade of relative peace after death... And you know once Pharasma's forces find you, your judgment will be all the worse due to the new evidence against you (”condemning an innocent in your place”). It can even backfire if you turned out to be an alright person in the end!

It hardly seems worth it at all, doesn't it?

But that's the inherent danger in trying to fight fate.

[monstersdownthepath]

What alignment are you?

Neutral Hungry