03-29-2004, 10:03 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-29-2004, 10:11 PM by Rhydderch Hael.)
As to the 20-year old girl whacking skellies with a stick, I'd say it'd work, and work easy. May even work better if she used a staff.
One way to go around explaining skeletons (and the 'killing' of them) is that they are actually spirits or ghosts that require a physical body to manipulate in order to do things in the material world. They make use of dessicated skeletons because human bones resonate with a spiritual energy that binds easily to the evil spirit's force. The bones of a person long dead, after all, were bathed in the presence of a human sould for the duration of that person's life, so the bones are "soaked" in spiritual energy that still remains. that's why these evil ghosts cannot take the form of, say, the rocks or tiles of the dungeon floor. They need to bind to the bones of a person in order to do anything, like a grotesque puppet.
Subsequently, if you damage or destroy the human semblence (by smashing the face or overall form of the skeleton with something big), the evil spirit loses bond to the bones, and the skeleton falls as if it were nothing more than a bunch of sticks.
In addition, this logic applies to how a Necromancer from D2 recruits his army.
Zombies are another deal completely, this form of Undead working in a different manner than skeletons. Zombies are the re-animated bodies of the deceased. Brought back to air of life, but trapped in a body of decay, fueled by hatred.
Most importantly, and I hope I've illustrated to you: the need for some hard-and-fast rules of the story's world is not as important as carrying out your own personal style of writing. Sometimes, I feel, it would be much better if one made up their own elements to the Diablo story rather than sticking hard to the 'rules' already set down by another person. Don't be timid and afraid that you'll step on some peoples' toes if you make your story a little different than how plays in the gameâ more people may appreciate the stylized difference rather than have a story that is a play-for-play copy of what they get when they boot up the game.
One way to go around explaining skeletons (and the 'killing' of them) is that they are actually spirits or ghosts that require a physical body to manipulate in order to do things in the material world. They make use of dessicated skeletons because human bones resonate with a spiritual energy that binds easily to the evil spirit's force. The bones of a person long dead, after all, were bathed in the presence of a human sould for the duration of that person's life, so the bones are "soaked" in spiritual energy that still remains. that's why these evil ghosts cannot take the form of, say, the rocks or tiles of the dungeon floor. They need to bind to the bones of a person in order to do anything, like a grotesque puppet.
Subsequently, if you damage or destroy the human semblence (by smashing the face or overall form of the skeleton with something big), the evil spirit loses bond to the bones, and the skeleton falls as if it were nothing more than a bunch of sticks.
In addition, this logic applies to how a Necromancer from D2 recruits his army.
Zombies are another deal completely, this form of Undead working in a different manner than skeletons. Zombies are the re-animated bodies of the deceased. Brought back to air of life, but trapped in a body of decay, fueled by hatred.
Most importantly, and I hope I've illustrated to you: the need for some hard-and-fast rules of the story's world is not as important as carrying out your own personal style of writing. Sometimes, I feel, it would be much better if one made up their own elements to the Diablo story rather than sticking hard to the 'rules' already set down by another person. Don't be timid and afraid that you'll step on some peoples' toes if you make your story a little different than how plays in the gameâ more people may appreciate the stylized difference rather than have a story that is a play-for-play copy of what they get when they boot up the game.
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