Question about a word to use when talking about liches

SlickRCBD · Tue, 18th Oct '11, 7:41am

This was a cause of many a debate many years ago with my D&D group.

Say the party encounters a lich, defeats it, but fails to find the it's phylactery. Then they encounter it again looking for revenge, and again defeat it.
And they encounter it a third time.

In exasperation, one of the party members asks "Why won't you stay _____?!?"
What is the correct word here? Normally "dead" would be the correct word, but the lich is already dead. Would it be "destroyed", "vanquished"? I'm not sure. Those were the most popular choices with my group, but I'm wondering what the proper word would be?

8people · Tue, 18th Oct '11, 10:06am

Dead is still applicable

As the lich is UNdead when attacking them

Destroyed, defeated, away, fabulous, vanquished, conquered, dessicated, decapitated, dismantled, no more, with the choir invisible, pushing up daisies

All acceptable alternatives.

Paracelsi · Tue, 18th Oct '11, 10:13am

"Why won't you stay... fabulous?"

While we're at it I guess one could also try: DIVINE, fantastic, fantastical, GLORIOUS, MARVELOUS, sensational, splendid, SUPERB, terrific, wonderful, DANDY, DREAMY, great, RIPPING, super, swell, tremendous, COOL, groovy, HOT, keen, neat, nifty, OUT OF THIS WORLD!?

Early morning rant, but oh the perspectives that can be gleaned from this here thread.

Tue, 18th Oct '11, 7:41am	#1
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Tue, 18th Oct '11, 10:13am	#3
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Tue, 18th Oct '11, 10:06am	#2
8people SPS Account Holder 8 is just another way of looking at infinite Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Chirofen Posts: 7,140 Blog Entries: 252 Like: 65 Liked 17 Times in 15 Posts vBActivity - Stats XP: 19,568 Level: 39 vBActivity - Bars Level Completion: 44.81% Daily Activity 2.21% Weekly Activity 0.95% Monthly Activity 1.4% Achievements	Dead is still applicable As the lich is UNdead when attacking them Destroyed, defeated, away, fabulous, vanquished, conquered, dessicated, decapitated, dismantled, no more, with the choir invisible, pushing up daisies All acceptable alternatives.