Plague Rats not always consuming corpses

[bloarg]

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has A Plague Upon Thee. Really just bought it as a way to eliminate corpses but now have seen some very strange behavior.

Most of the time the "set rodent infestation" will consume the corpse but there have been several instances now where it doesn't. When it doesn't consume on setting the infestation is also does not consume it when the rats are released later.

This happened twice in a row at the Wan Shi library, though at least one other time away from this location.

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Yesterday in the Library I killed two NPCs and then set an infestation that did not consume the corpse, and released the rats (which also did not consume the corpse). I now returned there today and set infestations on each corpse and each time it did consume the corpse...

So something is changing, not sure what. Also it means that yesterday I got free rats. I'll keep messing around with this and see if I can nail it down.

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I think I know what is going on and it's maybe a bug and maybe not a bug?

Wan Shi Library is a place where this character has killed many characters and often turned them into Steles. I think there's something going on where even though a corpse is consumed via Stele creation, I think the vermin infestation skill is somehow seeing an available corpse. I'll try to confirm

[bloarg]

I think the issue is that when a character is killed at a location (and a corpse is created) it allows a rat infestation - even long after the corpse is no longer displayed. I don't know if there's a natural timer on corpses or by what method they're not displaying. I only know they're not listed as being there in EoD. But it looks like there's some sort of record of the kill that remains.

That was what was confusing, there were fresh corpses not being consumed...but "invisible" corpses were. I've returned to this specific location and created rat infestation despite no fresh kills by the character.

I'm not sure this is intended behavior, so closing this ticket is your call.

[NearNihil]

I'll have a look later, apologies for the response time.