Corpus Severance is a fantastic spell:
Cost: 30ma
Level: Ne13 Cl32
Effect: You have %chance to have any character death reported to you with %chance of detail about the death.
Something like:
Death intones 'Thraxas has been killed by a snow bird in Aisholm Town'
The who by what and where have a % chance to be shown if the death is reported so you can also get:
Death intones 'Thraxas has been killed by someone in Aisholm Town'
or even
Death intones 'Someone has been killed by someone somewhere'
This is a spell that gives no benefit to the person casting it but potentially benefits all other players. I keep it up at all times and trigger gossip of anything reported as follows:
zmud Trigger to gossip the report:
^(%w) ({intones}) '(*)'$
gossip Corpus Severance : %3
zmud trigger to show corpus severance is up
^You hear the tolling of a slow bell.$
zmud trigger to show corpus severance has dropped and recast
^You are less in touch with death.$
cast 'corpus severance'