Editing Ghoul (section)

==Specifics==
Ghouls are individuals who’ve interrupted the circle of life and death, sometimes by eating the dead, coming back from near-death one too many times, or practicing necromancy badly and ending up out of balance, only able to keep going with periods of convalescence, like hibernation, and bursts of life or death voraciousness. Once awake the weakest among them have a three hour window to find food or perish, and then rest for months or years.<ref name=":0">“Ghouls are supposed to be ''thin'',” Rose said.<br>[...]<br>“Ghouls are individuals who’ve interrupted the circle of life and death, usually by eating the dead, coming back from near-death one too many times, or practicing necromancy.”<br><br>“Black magic?” I asked.<br><br>“Yeah. Maybe I should amend that to say ‘practicing necromancy ''badly''‘. Using terms we’re mostly familiar with, they’re individuals who are out of balance. They’re the spinning plates that are only just hanging on, and that means they need a fine touch to keep going. They do that with periods of convalescence, like hibernation, and bursts of… hunger is the wrong word. Life or death voraciousness. Maddened with a need for sustenance. More like a rabid dog than human.”<br><br>“So they ''are'' basically super-zombies,” Evan said.<br><br>I heard Rose sigh.<br><br>“Sustenance? Feasting on human flesh,” Maggie added.<br><br>“The go-to way, yeah,” Rose replied. “If they have their wits about them, then they can use the necromancy they knew in life, or they just move between areas with an awful lot of death or life energy.”<br><br>“But they mostly manage by eating human flesh,” Maggie said. “Right?”<br><br>“Essentially. No warning, three hour window to find food or perish, rest for months or years. Depending on where their personal balance is sitting, they eat either corpses or they scarf down bits of still-living victims they’ve found in isolated spots.”<br>[...]<br>“They’re dead. They don’t feel the cold, they don’t get tired, the only thing that drives them is a need to gorge themselves with flesh. They aren’t going to move until they have a reason to move.” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/06/10 Excerpt] from [[Void 7.5]]</ref> Another conception or metaphor for them doesn't use a cycle but rather a spinner (tops, plates, etc.) where ghouls try to balance at the edge of life and death.<ref name ="tops">Ghouls live on the threshold of life and death, like spinning tops perpetually wobbling, and they keep themselves going by feeding on lives on the brink of death, or the freshly dead, as close to being still warm as they may hope.<br>[...]<br>“The closer they get, the more I hang out. Until I’m there whenever nurses and staff aren’t. If they have a place they want to be or a thing they want to do, I sometimes pay a bit of myself to keep… you said we were like spinning tops [...] keep them spinning for the last day or last few hours. One day to sneak out of the hospital, go shopping, go to a movie, or maybe go to the beach. Usually one thing. The last one, I took her back to school, after hours, so she could sit at her desk again. Then they go, I like to listen to music with them at the end. Then I eat, I leave nothing behind unless they ask.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/12/15 Excerpt] from [[Gone Ahead 7.5]]</ref><ref name=":0"/> Of course there many variants who have different presentation of ghoul traits.