scope1(ply, FALSE,
	 "As you are ushered into the bowels of the earth, it begins a low rumble in response to the mortal body making its way so close to a sacred cavern. The floor of the temple itself breaks apart, encasing your legs with sodden earth, trapping you in place. \n",
	"$+(caster$) is ushered into the bowels of the earth, where it begins to make a low rumble in response to the mortal body being so close to a sacred place. The floor of the temple around $(caster#) breaks apart, and traps them, encasing their feet in sodden earth.\n");

   scope1(ply, FALSE,
      "As soon as the sodden soil touches your flesh, the rumbling around you begins to increase, an angry sound that soon fills your ears entirely. Once it has detected that the flesh is mortal, a roar of sound comes as the earth swallows you entirely. Pressure and pain collide as your body is shoved further into the earth, until it touches heated rock. Flesh and bone are seared and crushed away, leaving nothing but the spirit behind.\n",
      "As soon as the sodden soil touches $(caster$),the rumbling in the place begins to strengthen till there is naught else but the sound of it. With a sudden roar of movement, the earth rises up to swallow #(caster$) entirely, sucking them down into the earth with a muted scream of pain.\n");

   remove_state(st); (* Otherwise failure msg procs. *)

***Not sure about the prompts here, probably need help! DOPT_UNDEAD maybe?***

   death(0, ply, 0, [DOPT_NOSAVE, DOPT_NOCORPSE, DOPT_DUAMVI, DOPT_DEATHSIGHT,
      "$+(target$) has been sheared from $(his$) mortal flesh by the power of the earth."]);


  switch stage
   {
      case 1:
         unimsg(ply, "As the earth consumes your flesh, you are left without a body, without voice. There is no way to scream, no way to voice the sudden loss of a shell to hold your soul. All that surrounds you is earth. Stone, dirt, blackness. Despite this lack of body, pressure and movement is sensed, pushing you further into the earthen embrace.\n");
         break;

      case 2:
         unimsg(ply, "The sense of traveling downward starts to slow. Vision somehow begins to return, but in this deep place only the muted red heat from earthen core can be seen. Pieces start to break away from the core, merging together in a central point for a new form to be molded.\n");
         break;

      case 3:
         unimsg(ply, "The only source of light comes from the molten core, and even that dims as the pieces come to a central point and begin to merge together. They take the rough shape of a body, clumps and pieces still missing as the rock begins to cool and harden.\n");
         break;

      case 4:
         unimsg(ply, "The pain from your mortal flesh being consumed has dimmed now to only a fleeting feeling of unease. A sense of strength starts weak and becomes stronger as molten rock and earth start binding together into a new, perfect form. The earth continues to rumble and shake with energy, drowning out all other sound.\n");
         break;
      case 5:
         unimsg(ply, "Debris and strata from the earth itself bind, mold and shape around you in the darkness of its embrace. Bones are shaped to the body that most fits what captures your choices, cementing into place as small worms wind through the new flesh, binding with sinew and tendon, sacrificing themselves in order to be one with the new form.\n");
         break;

      case 6:
         unimsg(ply, "Sensation starts to trickle into your extremeties. Your fingers can move, curl inwards and tighten. Toes can flex - then ankles, wrists, arms and legs. Mobility starts to return, though in the tight embrace of the Earth, it is limited. Strength and newfound power rushes through as your flesh pinkens with its newness and then settles into the proper pigment.\n");
         break;

      case 7:
         unimsg(ply, "As you feel the last of your body form into place, movement is felt as your body is slowly pushed upward from the depths of the earth. It is a slow progression, with stray bits finalizing themselves inside, organs formed but not given the spark of life to make them function. Lungs fill in with air that is not needed, giving you one last exhalation as you break the surface and rise as a new child of strength.\n");
         break;
      case 8:
      default:
         PLY_ROOM(ply) = search_room("grandflame");
         resurrection_results(ply, 0);
         scope1(ply, FALSE,
            "As you break the surface of the holy ground, dirt and debris fall away from your body in a shower, coating the ground with remnants of your old body scattered around in a circle. One last breath is expelled from your lungs, and with it, a new understanding of the power and strength of the earth versus the weakness of mortality. You rise as a child of Strength. As the earth starts to sink back down and leave no trace, a strong, fatherly voice intones, "Welcome, Child."\n",
            "As $+(caster$) breaks the surface of this holy ground, dirt and debris fall away from $(his$) altered form. $+(he$) gives a last exhalation of living breath, while the earth recedes and leaves no trace of what has occured. As the ritual completes, a strong, fatherly voice intones, "Welcome, Child."\n");
         allinareasee(ROOM_AREA(PLY_ROOM(ply)), cbwhite$("The earth rumbles and shakes violently, then settles into compliance as a new child of Strength is formed. " + ply_name$(ply) + "."));
         become_undead(ply);
         player[ply].CurrentHealth = 1;
         player[ply].CurrentMana = 1;
         showroom(ply, PLY_ROOM(ply), get_player_elevation(ply));
         break;
   }