Question for folks here. I recently saw a necromancer perform what I believe was spiteful rebirth three times in a very short period of time (within minutes of each other). It looked like this:

NECROMANCER's corpse begins to shake violently, its roiling flesh sealing up gaping wounds. The convulsions reach a fevered pitch and then abruptly stop when NECROMANCER's eyes snap open! [IT] drags himself upright, wracked with pain and gasping for air, but clearly alive.

I was under the impression that this could only be done once in a certain period of time, and I was under the impression that spirit deaths prevented this from happening.

Is this a new.. ability? Troubling if it is. Necromancers could go virtually unaffected by death if it is.

Do functions which clear death's sting impact being able to re-use this ability?

Like the...thing...that was from the spider-fest a few years ago (I think I had one that was a torus) could strip DS from you (as well as cast halo, divine radiance, and...something else)

>First, it can't be used while under the effects of death's sting.

My necromancer has definitely SRE'd quite rapidly in the face of screwing up going back for a weapon... I'm didn't realize deaths' sting was part of the timer.

Did he have the Gift from HE 2013? That can remove death's stings instantly. A cleric (?mule) can also cast remove curse (if their DO is low enough)

Log reviewed. Necromancer in question SREed within about 20 seconds. The only thing that happened between deaths was the time it took to cast a spell.

Does death's sting even apply when you are (re)dead? Always thought that it was your charisma that affected your ability to use multiple SREs. Mind you, I haven't used SRE but once long ago due to trying to hold off forsaken status, so my memory could be wrong from the distant past post.

I wouldn't object to depart, MF, and SRE having a sort of 'grace' period that applies to the newly standing PC. Something like a 8-10s no interact, they can't be cast at, attacked, advanced on, affected by AoEs, anything, and in turn, can only pick up items (can't drop something, like, say, a glass orb). It could be short enough to prevent some kind of exploit, but long enough for the necromancer to pick up their dropped weapon(s), make a Scoobie Do villain claim, and get out of there.

Well, I know...

ASGM Ricinus
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