On the subject of corpses.

[Shiro]

Now that we have the awesome and mighty Shikon no Tama.....I mean Shikon no jutsu we need some abilities or items to compliment it.

Idea 1: Kuyoudzuka being a two way gate. In this we could not only use Kuyoudzuka to summon corpses but we could also use it to save corpses for use later by "sending them to some preperation area" which would actually just be a screen which would let us save up to 10 corpses for later summoning.

Idea 2: We can use the skills of the corpse we revive but how do we know which skills those are ? We need some command that will tell us which skills our clones have access to.

Idea 3: If idea one doesn't work then we could purchase coffins in which we would be able to put a corpse to keep it from decaying. Of course lugging a around a coffin with a body in it will weigh quite a bit so the player would need to be strong. Or maybe even coffins could be buried and protected and saved against copy overs and crashes. Then when needed you could summon the entire coffin out of the ground and then use Shikon on the corpse inside.

Idea 4: The ability to return raised corpses back to regular corpses without them vanishing and being gone.

The main purpose of saving corpses would be if lets say I find some high rank mob that most of the time will run away when defeated but on rare occasions will die and drop plentiful loot, and I spend a while and quite a bit of effort killing it then finally am able to raise it to life as a no life king, but wait what's this ? It appears that something has come up and for some reason I have to log off. Now I can have the "fun" (read as frustration) of killing this beast numerous times more till I once again get it and raise it for the limited amount of time as being my ghoul, or I can use the one of the corpses preservation features that the kind, handsome, ever intelligent, witty and insightful Gatz has provided to save the corpse for next time.

P.s. Oh yeah and we should totally be able to teach our newly risen friends the skills thunderbolt, surf, and cut.
P.s.s. Rabbits should know the moves tackle and swift.

[Gatz]

I like your ideas, and some of them expose interesting new ways to interact with stuff. I'm not sure I'd like to let shikon bunshin return to being a regular corpse, I sort of like the idea that once you charge it up, it sort of 'burns out'. It might be interesting to just save clones to your pfile, so when you logged back in, they'd be waiting for you...that might make things pretty convient.

[Shiro]

bump

[Ichiro]

So...saving corpses to pfiles....good idea? yes?

[Gatz]

I like the coffin idea...that is sort of how Orochimaru rolled....I might just be lame and let you hold corpses in your inventory too...but let them still rot away.

[Ichiro]

....You can already hold corpses in your inventory and they still rot away.....and actually, they rot away really fast....and weight like 100 pounds or something.

[Gatz]

Hrm... I could dig Kuyoudzuka being used to store corpses then...that might not be too bad and it might add more value to that skill. I don't see many folks using it these days.

[Ichiro]

I think that would be pretty cool.

[Yamashita]

Hrm... I could dig Kuyoudzuka being used to store corpses then...that might not be too bad and it might add more value to that skill. I don't see many folks using it these days.

I agree. There seems to be very little benefit from having Kuyoudzuka unless you or someone you group with dies frequently, which most players try to avoid as much as possible. Using it to store NPC corpses would add some value to it, especially when paired with Shikon.