#ghostbusters. and lucanis. who I guess is sort of half a ghost by some reckonings

[vaguely-concerned]

hhhhhhhhhhhh praise that I did it etc. and just before midnight struck too, I somehow managed to kill the possessed (taxidermied as we learn later lmao) dragon corpse in the necropolis! man that was. so hard and so much fun haha (I was woefully underleveled, I suspect, but it made the ol' stubborn fromsoftware game instincts kick in and forced me to learn how the enchantment system works to make up for it. sidenote: do not sleep on the enchantments they're incredibly powerful when kitted out right holy moly). I probably could have left it for later, but in-character there's no WAY rye would just jog merrily along after discovering that haha. 'NO no flying taxidermied alligator is going to wreak havoc in MY city we are doing this, watcher's duty!!! ' and so I kept running face first into the wall until the wall gave up. anything for you babyboy

it came together so neatly on a characterization/emergent headcanon narrative level too, because part of what helped me win the fight was speccing completely into deathcaller -- a type of magic which rye has been avoiding using right up until this moment, ever since they were sent away from home. so probably not two days in-story after emmrich welcomes them home and they have tea down in the memorial gardens, after probably a year of barely doing any necromancy at all, rye saw the grand necropolis under threat and fully turned into an avenging angel of death cyclone on the spot, none of the old arts forgotten only slumbering until called on once more. *chef's kiss* couldn't have asked for better payoff for that idea I've had in the back of my head since the start of the game. emmrich you're a hero you're doing the exact opposite of the 'you ruined a perfectly good necromancer is what you did look at him he has anxiety' thing

btw I think the dragon is the highland ravager that went down in a mutual kill to the last heir of the house that emmrich mentions during 'walking the graves', which is so neat and pleasing! that was schröedinger's dead highland ravager all along haha