[HJ]

Originally posted by Graeme Dice:

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Originally posted by HJ:
My understanding from reading the descriptions is that it's not an acid that would eat away just any matter, it's a thing that affects the flesh/lifeforce, but it doesn;t work as such.

It causes things to decay. Bone certainly does that, as does rotting or dried flesh, even metal will rust, which covers the golems.

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That's what acid would do, IMHO, and we already have acid spells in the game. All the descriptions specifically mention flesh and lifeforce, which skeletons and golems lack. For the decay to be in tune with its descriptions, IMO it shouldn't work on lifeless things, which have no lifeforce or flesh, or undead, which are already decaying all the time but never decay completely. A fire from the Underworld that destroys the living shouldn't affect the servants of the Underworld - in my understanding, it's not an all-consuming force like acid, but a *life*-consuming force, which are two different things.