"The -foo- seems to be strangely weakened."

[Tiberius]

I consistently get this message when my necromancer tries to raise a slave from a corpse. The message's effect seems to be that the slave always starts at 1 HP. From some experimentation, it further seems that the source of this message is the fact that the corpse I'm trying to raise is cooked.

Can anyone confirm this? Are there any other consequences to this message aside from the slave starting at 1 HP (and therefor being afraid)?

[Per_Killer]

..haha, how evil.. First killing someone..then cooking their dead body.. Just to summon them as your undead slave!

[Tiberius]

I'm not evil, I'm L+.

[Tiberius]

Well, I went ahead and raised a cooked quickling corpse to make a ghul in the small cave (I'm level 26), and now I need to know:

What is the danger of my slave turning against me?

I ask because I am absolutely terrified of the monster I've given life to.

This is your loyal slave, a quickling ghul (Level: 74, DV: 57, PV: 15, 
Hits: 344(344), Attacks: 20, Damage: 24-27, Speed: 400).

[Epythic]

Well, I went ahead and raised a cooked quickling corpse to make a ghul in the small cave (I'm level 26), and now I need to know:

What is the danger of my slave turning against me?

I ask because I am absolutely terrified of the monster I've given life to.

This is your loyal slave, a quickling ghul (Level: 74, DV: 57, PV: 15, 
Hits: 344(344), Attacks: 20, Damage: 24-27, Speed: 400).

Wow, not bad.

I have no idea what the chance is. It depends on your PC (charisma level?)...

You might want to just get three more of them, so that if one turns against you...?

[mike]

That's hilariously powerful. 80 attacks w/ paralysis to your one. Well, I'm under the impression that necromancer pets never turn on you unless you damage them with something (might want to watch out for fireball traps).

[psy_wombats]

Yeah really. I was seriously annoyed after that happened with a L96 Quickling King Lich on the path to Mana Temple.

[vogonpoet]

Dude, I think if you are planning on dragging Quickling Lich Kings to the Mana Temple, you are meant to learn Disarm Traps. I mean, ow.

[Sadface]

Better idea...nevermind me

[Sradac]

I've played plenty of necros and I think one turned on me in allll my days, its was a hill giant vampire, but it was quickly dispatched by my 2 lich I had dunno what kind. He only turned after I got him down to critical HP and he decided to fight to death in a blind rage. Little experiment I did to see just how careless you got to be to get a slave to turn, i threw a bunch of magic missiles at him. So one unlucky shot hitting your slave and you should be fine, just dont let it go berzerk on you.