Thanks! Congratulations on your corpse. As its possession will disintegrate abruptly, rather than gradually (as in the event of a regular death), Arche, Hendrik and/or Eleven might notice the cadaver looks instantly significantly more emaciated and crumbled down.
Unlike the chieftain's body in the lake, this corpse can be safely recovered for burial or cremation. It will retain no sense of cold, undeath or the supernatural.
OH BOY, EXCITING. So, Arche hasn't spent too much time around the thawing miners -- is there any point before the sudden death at which he'd be able to start sensing this guy in the Force? Or would they remain a blank the whole time?
No worries! Okay, so, way back when I apped I mentioned one of Arche's powers is he can sense the presence of people around him, like, if someone's walked into the room behind him or is hiding behind a tree or whatever he'll usually notice them without having to look. But this typically only works on living beings -- he can't sense corpses or droids or the like. You ruled at the time I apped that the Unhalad and Anurr undead forces were equivalent to Yuuzhan Vong from his canon, and those guys' whole deal is they're a blank to Force-users, they can be standing right in front of a Jedi but to the Jedi it feels like there's no one there. So basically I'm wondering if there would be any brief moment in this miner's "unthawing" where Arche might be able to perceive their presence, or will they remain a blank the whole time?
Yep, so it's as I thought — you mean, can he sense the miner as living.
Okay, so here's what happens, with regard to how Arche can feel it: the miner's life and the... REDACTED undisclosed possessive entity which might be obvious to you guys already, based on what Sizhui and Eleven learned from the culled miners are fused when the miners are possessed to become part of Unhalad's faction. The 'unthawing' is that fusion as it begins to gently unwind. The human miner cannot sustain life at any point without the fueling possession. The mirror will be severing that fusion much more abruptly, killing the miner because it's stripping away the possessive element. What Arche can further feel, if you want, is that there is now a secondary wannabe possessive element that was nipping at the heels of the established one, which is what triggered the original unthawing.
Unfortunately, the miner will never register as purely living, though, if you want — up to you if you'd like to have Arche register some elements of former life just as it disappears, when the fusion breaks. But it wouldn't be classical living, if that makes sense. It would still be very much a perverted sense of living, and it would be extinguished within seconds.
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Unlike the chieftain's body in the lake, this corpse can be safely recovered for burial or cremation. It will retain no sense of cold, undeath or the supernatural.
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Eleven: oh, so it just returns a body to its natural death state. mystery solved. why was everyone so worried.
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Okay, so here's what happens, with regard to how Arche can feel it: the miner's life and the... REDACTED undisclosed possessive entity
which might be obvious to you guys already, based on what Sizhui and Eleven learned from the culled minersare fused when the miners are possessed to become part of Unhalad's faction. The 'unthawing' is that fusion as it begins to gently unwind. The human miner cannot sustain life at any point without the fueling possession. The mirror will be severing that fusion much more abruptly, killing the miner because it's stripping away the possessive element. What Arche can further feel, if you want, is that there is now a secondary wannabe possessive element that was nipping at the heels of the established one, which is what triggered the original unthawing.Unfortunately, the miner will never register as purely living, though, if you want — up to you if you'd like to have Arche register some elements of former life just as it disappears, when the fusion breaks. But it wouldn't be classical living, if that makes sense. It would still be very much a perverted sense of living, and it would be extinguished within seconds.
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