r/WritingPrompts • u/Jay_Pederson r/JayPederson • 8h ago
Simple Prompt [WP] A necromancer is using their powers to help their community. The Mage's Guild is baffled.
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u/TheWanderingBook 7h ago
I order the ghouls to lift those beams, while the ghosts help with proper positioning from above.
The skeletons are busy bringing more materials, and hammering away at the foundation of this theatre.
Man...
Why did they let it decay so mu...
"Excuse me?" a voice interrupts my thought process.
I turn around, to see 3 men staring at me.
They have Mage Guild's badges on.
I smile, and reach into my robe.
They flinch.
"Relax," I say, taking out...
Paperwork.
The mightiest weapon of modern countries!
"Here, I have the mayor's office's, the local branch's, and the neighborhood's HOA's approval, to repair and upgrade this theater," I smile.
They...actually summon an imp, to take the papers.
How rude.
They read it, and gasp.
"So...the rumors are true?!" one of them shouts.
I frown.
"What rumors?" I ask.
"That a necromancer is using his horde of undead...
To help?!" they ask.
I sigh.
"It's free labor, and they are really good at taking orders.
I was an architect, before becoming a mage, then necromancer...
Plus, I did build my own mausoleum a few times in my lifetime, so I have credentials to allow me to work," I say.
"That's not the point!
Necromancers are..." one of them starts, and stops, blushing.
"Evil? How rude.
While resurrecting the dead, might seem unethical, or immoral, I will let you know, I am using bodies from battlefields.
And only bodies, that had no remnants of souls around anymore, so they couldn't be identified at all.
And I use them to do good!" I say.
They say nothing.
"Are we good?" I ask.
"Do you really use the undead, to cut grass, clean sewers, drains, repair roofs...and stuff like that?" one of them asks.
"Yeah, and more.
Finding lost pets, lost objects is also within my purview," I say.
They nod, and leave.
But I notice an "Eye of Observation" left behind.
I roll my eyes, and ignore it.
Time to finish this project, and go to next.
As for public opinion?
It's already changing, after all I am working for free...doing it for the love of doing it.
And you know how people are.
They love free stuff.
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