Linda can't think of much to say in the wake of what's happening for awhile. Even after her prey have stopped sloshing about. But she does force herself to think of something so as to not waste the time spent letting her meal settle. "Can you get back in it? A giant talking panther probably isn't going to be well received in most places. Even relative to Aethon's and my usual lack of welcome."<br/><br/><br/><br/>[One thing of note is that Linda's Skeletons (The lone Zombie is a special case. Animated as such for a specific purpose.) are largely intended to be Linda's contribution to combat as she stands at the moment. Whether it be as meatless meat shields or as a striking unit. Even the armored pair she has a measure of attachment to, just from the effort put into them if nothing else, are a sort of ablative HP for everyone else. Aside from obvious things like positive energy their big weakness is longevity. Outside of the self healing Blackscale Skeleton, Linda doesn't have the means to restore lost HP among her undead.<br/><br/>So if Aethon were to switch to Fighter/Barb/what have you and Linda were to take his place as a cleric. The healing potential lost is made up for in a way by the massive increase in how much damage the undead could absorb. That said, melee Clerics do work very well. A one level dip in fighter for the martial weapons and heavy armor results in a very robust frontline character with negligible loss to Clericing. Speaking from experience you probably won't miss being a fighter as a melee cleric, especially if you can counteract the multiple ability dependency of it.<br/><br/>All things said though. I'm probably just going to move a feat and play Linda a little differently unless Aethon goes full melee.]