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buildings, but the Embalmer is very much appropriate.
Most of them were made just to remove the
Consider the lesson learned from Death Becomes Her: You're dead, living the good life and want to look your best. Natural wear and tear on the body requires maintenance, which is no longer automatic now that you're dead. Where do you go to get a little touch-up when your left index finger keeps falling off? The embalmers of course! Reattach loose appendages, gossip with the other patrons and maybe a new coat of flesh coloured paint. You'll look like you just died last week.
The same reasoning applies to the Mortuary, the thing to remember is that Scions Mortuaries and Embalmers are very different places compared to Ljosalfar, Elohim, Calabim or even D'Tesh.
Since I'm on a rant, I'll point out that the Water Sculpture is supposed to be the Haunted Lands effect applied to the actual river. Water running uphill, into buildings and cleaning them, turning to blood at appropriate times, chasing kids (in a friendly fashion) and even to some extent behaving as a useful member of society; attending meetings and creating art for instance. Weird water stuff essentially. I couldn't think of word to convey that idea in a way that would fit in the building menu.
It's function yes. I would not give it that name, however. In fact, it's role is already in game. Called the Flesh Studio.
), but the Ghost Crew promotion could be moved to be the standard crew for D'Tesh.
If they eat for pleasure, why would they want to keep a lot of mouldy grain around? Granaries exist to prevent starvation, not because bread is tasty.
On the whole I agree with you, the names are weird and the effects strange. The only thing I can say is that at least in my opinion, they are better than having buildings that suggest Scions starve, thirst, get sick or die of old age.
The Otherworldly Beacon is no big loss (although it will remain part of the module as long as the Lighthouse gives
Nice touch!
That let's me value the Scions actively spreading haunted lands, as on a philosiphical quest...
Like the elves spreading the forests, not only bacause it makes them powerful, but also because that's how they want the world to be!
D'Tesh shouldn't be bothered by such a trivial task, they don't want a place where life and death mingle. Total dominion is their goal, if I'm correct, and the broken wasteland they leave behind a (more or less wanted...) side effect of their methods.
...And that, incidentally, leaves a niche open for a D'Tesh minor leader that actually spreads Haunted lands (actively, maybe recieves a creeper each x turns). Sort of a schismatic (ahem...sp?) one, could be the lesser evil of the D'Teshi bunch.
But this is obviously modmodders ground, because clearly Valk won't introduce such a leader
PS: Really looking forward to new D'tesh. Untill now I avoided playing with them, even if I already love the flavour, because I want to approach the more polished version that's in store
So I suppose my test game was just with the new improvements and the popcaps. 
bonus from techs, just so that there is a trade-off between rebuilding it and leaving it.
The game should track and make available any information that has an effect and is visible in game. In other words, you shouldn't have to make notes manually.
You know, you could make the Crypt an upgrading improvement that turns into an identical improvement which in turn spawns the one slave. You'd get a lot for free; the need to work the improvement, the indication that it is empty, the known number of turns until it spawns...
I'd be tempted to nerf the developing crypt slightly, maybe remove the
Without being told to display it to the player (made visible), it will not display. All I'd do is have it say how many units the improvement has spawned, and what the limit is. I'm just not sure if I'll add it or not.
