Once she has the cleaned remains of the new beatstick Linda begins her grim work by tracing a nondescript circle around where she's working a polite distance away from the main camp with the help of her guards. She then produces what appears to be a humanoid bone from her sleeve while the guards proceed to arrange the bones in something resembling a humanoid laying flat. A few motions later Linda's work area takes on a foreboding aura as she shakes her head at the tacky choice of whoever created the wand.<br/><br/>With the initial preparations complete Linda sifts through a small bag also retrieved from her sleeve, occasionally plucking something from it until she has a palmful. The somethings are then deposited inside the skull of their expendable frontliner to be. Preparations now complete she retrieves... another bone due to the poor taste of some other necromancer. Linda may walk around with a pair of skeletons shadowing her at all times but at least she's subtle about things. Other's lack of tact aside Linda gets right to work on animating that skeleton. Which contrary to all the prep work she put in on it is a rather simple seeming process.<br/><br/>With no more effort than she seems to put into any other spell and a quick touch to it's skull the skeleton begins to assemble itself into it's proper three dimensional shape. After it's fully assembled it climbs to it's feet as the reason for all the fuss Linda went through becomes apparent. Somehow, despite being clean previously, by the time the skeleton is on it's feet it's already starting to pick up a very curious coating of grime. A rather vibrant coating of what seems to be fresh blood and the occasional chunk of flesh supernaturally coating it's bones.<br/><br/>"A rather special one I might add." Replies Linda to Alizome as she returns from her work just in time. "The very definition of expendable because unlike most undead, it doesn't stay down. Least I don't expect them to have the know how to keep one of these down."<br/><br/>[Crunch: 1 use on wands of Desecrate and Animate Dead. Used 300gp of Onyx to raise 12HD worth of undead to create a 6HD Bloody Skeleton. It costs double during the cast but only normal on control limit. Linda's Animate Dead control at 12/20. I dub it the Bloody Brute.]