Vigor Mortis

On the Sky Island of Verdentop, in the city Sky Hope, lives a Street Urchin with no Talent in anything. After an attempt to steal bread goes wrong, she discovers her Talent - Necromancy.

Vigor Mortis was the name of a Quest by Thundamoo. The quest was played here here; while the website has a lot of NSFW stuff, this quest itself is SFW. Unlike the only other quest Thundamoo ran, Vigor Mortis had no dice rolling. The QM has decided to stop running it as a quest and start writing it as a regular story (with some tweaks) here.

"Maybe having parents wasn't all it was cracked up to be after all."
 * Abusive Parent: Grig beats his son.


 * A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: Penta has a hard time not reading her host's mind. Her host is Vita, who often has murderous thoughts. And a considerable amount of these murderous thoughts are about killing Penta. Vita doesn't consider these thoughts to have much sway on her actions (particularly the ones about killing Penta), but it's not clear how much Penta believes Vita on that. What is clear however is that Vita's thoughts give Penta a great deal of anxiety.
 * Creepy Child: Vita thinks she is 16, but has yet to go through puberty because of malnutrition. She is also a soul eating necromancer, which creeps Rowan out. Rowan is relieved that mind controlling living people is outside Vita's natural talent. Norah doesn't know that Vita is a necromancer and she still finds Vita spooky.
 * Justified Criminal: Lyn, Vita, and Rowan. Rowan hasn't really done much that is out right illegal except help a necromancer.
 * Made a Slave: Penelope declare's Vita to be her fiancé's slave. From what Penelope says, what she is doing is basically a legal maneuver to keep Vita from being executed. Then again, Penelope said that maneuver cost her clout and plans to make Vita earn that clout back.
 * Necromancy
 * Fat and Skinny: Frigs and Squigs.
 * Outlaw Couple: Rowan's activities are legally dubious (aside from harboring a necromancer which the public and law enforcement don't know about), Lyn's activities are definitely illegal.
 * Sky Island: Hasn't been particularly important. One thing of note is that "night" only exists when one sky island is in the shadow of another island.
 * Spit Take: Wasn't nice of Rowan to keep spitting on Vita in the chapter The Mistwatcher.
 * Street Urchin: The kids that Rowan and Lyn take care of. Vita counts too.
 * Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Vita discovers she is a natural mage as she is getting beaten to death.
 * Whatevermancy: Going beyond necromancy, the QM is very fond of ending types of magic in 'mancy'. The only type of magic that has showed up that doesn't have that name is chaos magic, which is just shooting raw magic.
 * Your Soul Is Mine: Types two and two B. Vita can rip the souls out of living things. From there she can eat it or use the soul and corpse to create an undead slave. She can also do the same thing if the creature dies before she rips their soul out (in which case the soul is probably floating above the corpse), but in such cases she has to get the soul before the Mistwatcher takes it.