<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=155004.msg7276120#msg7276120">Quote from: TheRaven on 25-11-2012, 16:22:36</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Quick question for the GMs before I do my intro post: do Revenants need food, water, and/or sleep?<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Well here's a topic that's gonna get squicky fast ;)<br/><br/>You can eat the food(even taste it, if your body was very fresh when you claimed it) but your digestive system doesn't work very well anymore, so the food you eat just kinda sits there. Over time you'd end up with a swollen belly as you pack more and more in there.<br/><br/>Fluids is easier. Once the bladder reaches a certain point, I imagine gravity will probably work it out.<br/><br/>I hear that it's common for a body to vacate it's bowels upon death, since all the muscles in the body loosen up. Or something along that line. So I'd say that a Revenant...over time...can learn to do that deliberately. Yours is old enough to have learned to do it, so it shouldn't be an issue.<br/><br/>Just for fun, let's say every body is different, so it takes about a few months to a year every time you body-swap to get the "lay of the land" enough in your new body to develope such fine muscle control. Like breaking in brand new sneakers or jeans. It takes a little time. It gives Revenants another reason to want to stay in whatever body they're currently using as long as possible. So they're not quite so cavaleir about throwing themselves into the proverbial(or literal) grinder.<br/><br/>As for sleep, no your body doesn't need it. Your mind on the other hand...i'm reminded of a Star Trek: TNG episode where we saw what a week or two without REM Sleep can do to a person's sanity. I figure revenants who DON'T want to develope sinigificant psychological issues over time(anymoreso than the fact that they are now bodyhopping spirits of vengeance entails anyway) make a point of learning meditative techniques that allow them to periodically rest their minds.