Challenge: what to do with all these dead legs

[wordman]

As you know, a spine chain is a nectrotech monstrosity created by cutting bodies in half, and connecting all the chests end to end in a long chain of evil. Ever since hearing of this idea, it's bugged me that this is sort of wasteful. What about the legs? What happens to them?


In my Forgotten Suns adventure, I just threw a pile of the legs into the jungle for the PCs to find. You, however, can do better.


So, Necromancy McEvilpants just built a 20 section spine chain, leaving his assistant to "clean up the mess". As his assistant, you are an ambitious necromancer yourself. You have 20 lower body halves, from the waist down. What do you build with them?


Entries must have a name at least as good as "spine chain", detailed description and full stats. Bonus points for providing details of all the necromantic crunch needed for constructing the thing.

 

[Aasharu]

Spider Leg Throne (Coil Rank 3)


Attributes: Strength 3, Dexterity 4, Stamina 2, Charisma 0, Manipulation 0, Appearance 1, Perception 2, Intelligence 1, Wits 3


Abilities: Athletics 3, Dodge 3, Martial Arts 3, Stealth 3


Join Battle: 3


Attack: Leg Claws: Speed 7, Accuracy 7, Damage 3L, Parry DV 4, Rate 1


Special Abilities: Terrifying


Soak: 0L/2B


Health Levels: -0/-1/-1/-2/-2/-4/Incap


Dodge DV: 2 Willpower 10


Essence: 1


Augmentations: Undead Strength (1), Undead Dexterity x3 (6), Extra Legs (1), Lethal Attack (1), Climbing Articulation (2), Big (2), Transport (2), Only Mildly Unpleasant (0), Sanitized (0), Attunement (0)


A Spider Leg Throne is a swift, agile mount for battlefield commanders. It consists of four lower torsos, frequently left over from spine chain construction, stitched together at the top, creating a sort of fleshy platform. The eight legs extend out, creating a creature that, at first glance, looks something like a spider. Steel spikes are grafted over the feet, allowing the throne to attack and, more usefully, allows it to easily climb by sinking its spikes into the surface. To use, any being capable of attuning to it merely kneels upon the top and spends three motes. Immediately upon doing so, a mass of tendons coils out and wraps around the user's legs and lower torso, anchoring them to the Throne. The tendons are relatively weak, so that one might leap off the throne into battle, and so provide no special bonuses to ride checks to stay on the Throne. If the Throne has no rider, it immediately attempts to come to a stop. It will not move or attack unless attacked first, and then, only to defend itself. It will remain in place until its rider returns.


How's that?

 

[Brickwall]

The Sexy Train: It's a giant train of nothing but animated lower bodies. It attempts to have sex with everything near it, but since it can't see, it's pretty bad at its job. Obviously, most necromancers just leave the bodies instead of wasting necrotech resources.

 

[Thanqol]

Stick them on the bottom of your battleship to give it land attack capabilities! (The Cybran Fatal Error)


Replace the arms of zombies with more legs, giving you more useful arms and giving the zombies an extra set of kick attacks! (The Kickboxers)


Put them on the bottom of your Luggage!


Undead soccer team!


Give them spiked boots and send them into battle!


Put legs on things that should not have legs - giant octopuses, whales, houses, battering rams, artillery pieces - and have them provide their own locomotion!

 

[Arrghus]

Reaper's Palanquin (Coil Rank 1)


Attributes: Strength: 1, Dexterity 1, Stamina 1, Charisma 0, Manipulation 0, Appearance 1, Perception 2, Intelligence 1, Wits 3


Abilities: Athletics 1, Awareness 1, Dodge 1, Stealth 1


Join Battle: 3


Attack: Kick: Speed 7, Accuracy 2, Damage 1B, Parry DV 0, Rate 1


Special Abilities: Infection, Stench, Terrifying, Disease Carrier


Soak: 0L/1B


Health Levels: -0/-1/-4/Incap


Dodge DV: 2 Willpower: 10


Essence: 1


Augmentations: Small (2), Extra Legs (1), Disease Carrier (1), Silent Processes (1)

Spoiler

A Reaper's Palanquin is a common project for beginner necrosurgeons. Two lower torsos with legs, a common leftover from the creation of Spine Chains, are joined with an iron bar, on which is attached a basked filled with the corpses of plague rats. The resulting monstrosity vaguely resembles a deranged midget necromancer's idea of a palanquin, hence the name. In combat, Reaper's Palanquins dash about enemy ranks, combining speed, stealth, and the clamor of combat to get close enogh to deliver their deadly quarry. Once they are close enough, the bad airs of the rats spread into enemy soldiers, sentencing them to a death as certain as that of a sword, and far more painful.


Reaper's Palanquins are useful additions to most undead armies for three reasons. First, they are surprisingly deadly. Disease spreads incredibly fast in army camps, and helping it along even just a bit can easily decimate enemy armies. Second, their speed, size, and lack of apparent armaments means they are rarely attacked by enemy units, often making them surprisingly long-lived. Third, they are, of course, incredibly cheap and expendable, meaning the only limit to their numbers is the number of torsos left over from other constructions.


Had ideas about acrobatic (un)living ladders or clubs made by sewing the legs together and adding spikes and stuff, but I can't quite figure out a way to make that work and make sense, and I need to go to bed now anyway, so let's call it a day.

 

[Ekorren]

I think I used 12-14 legs (with metal hooks for wall climbing) for my corpse centipede mount. I attached the legs to four sewn together torsos, made a scorpid tail of some left-over spines and a head and made two sets of double jointed arms (from four sets of arms) to easily grapple targets and bring them up for me to suck essence from. Was all good fun. However, was a rushed project in an abandoned factory in some town so couldn't reinforce its structure. Rather fragile but very fast.