- Burn the body.
- Kill a stranger.
- Wear a disguise.
- Hide the head.
- Cast Speak With Dead yourself so nobody else can.
There are many ways to keep a witness from identifying you. You just need to be creative.
Yes DM, this comment right here.
I see you have a lot of experience in the field
I’m writing a murder mystery adventure in my spare time, so… Yeah, it came up.
Depending on the edition, speak with dead requires the corpse to have a working jaw, so just destroy that. If you hide the head, someone can just find it.
Why hide it? A maul is cheap.
Hm. That raises a lot of questions about how people keep killing each other constantly when the job of coroner, lab scientist and homicide detective can all be performed perfectly accurately by a single wizard, as long as he’s prone to long naps.
I could absolutely see a cleric having the roll of coroner / mortician being able to perform holy rights for the body, and preserving it via gentle repose but also being able to use spells like speak with dead for investigation.
Coroner is a really interesting position, with it’s etymology lying in the word crown (i.e. Corona). This is due to its position being appointed by the crown, a position that’s hard to fill due to a wide range of expertise being required, from law to medicine to funerary rites etc.
In a setting or region of a setting with either a joined church and state or where the church are active in the legal proceedings of their community, perhaps the role of investor and coroner is a single position performed by a grave cleric, as long as they take long naps of course.
Hahaha, raises, nice
The thought of this is hilarious.
“Johnson! There’s been a multiple homicide and you’re needed at the precinct. And here’s a box of Ambien. You’re going to need it”
Takes notes…
