[3.5] 101 uses for a dead rat?

[DataPacRat]

I've got a PC, divine caster level 6, who's spent some of his starting gold on the material components to cast Animate Dead a bunch of times... and now has himself 96 skeletal rats tucked away in his Heward's Haversack.

So far, he's already used them to wake up some other PCs, and has a few standing by to trigger a few of the dungeon's traps at a convenient time...

... so what other ideas have you got for 'em all?

[Myou]

Tie it to a stick by the tail....

[Dixieboy]

Improvised (thrown) weapons? (fill them with an alchemical substance for added fun)

Spying (Using divination from the mandatory party wizard)

Circumstantial bonus to social skills.

Help with aid another checks?

[Tyndmyr]

Dead rat on a stick. Sell to the rich as a novelty toy/child punishment utensil.

[Myou]

Dead rat on a stick. Sell to the rich as a novelty toy/child punishment utensil.

And sell it to the fighter a a rat-flail.

Try two rats for a dire rat-flail

[Assassin89]

Sell as a toy for cats.

Use to distract house cats and/or catfolk.

[Dixieboy]

And sell it to the fighter a a rat-flail.

Try two rats for a dire rat-flail

Then get promptly kicked in the behind by the DM when you uttered both the words "Rat-flail" and "Dire flail" within the span of one session.

[Myou]

Then get promptly kicked in the behind by the DM when you uttered both the words "Rat-flail" and "Dire flail" within the span of one session.

But the DM cannot deny it, the dire rat-flail is awesome!

[Kylarra]

Give the dead rat tail to a witch.

[SoD]

Rat-onna-stick?

May be hard, given that they're skeletal...get some zombie-fied ones.

[technophile]

Try two rats for a dire rat-flail

No, that's a rat dire flail.

A dire rat flail is a dire rat tied to the end of a stick.

Naturally, you can extrapolate to a dire rat dire flail...

[Strawman]

Biological warfare. You can take down a good sized town by yourself.

Intimidate check circumstance bonus. How many can your raise at once?

Street performance. The world's tiniest and most tragic love story.

Ruin cafes. Chase out residents of a house. Contaminate stored food on a massive scale.

[Myou]

No, that's a rat dire flail.

A dire rat flail is a dire rat tied to the end of a stick.

Naturally, you can extrapolate to a dire rat dire flail...

No no, the rat-flail is a discreet weapon of it's own. Thus the dire rat-flail is two rats on either end of a stick.

Then there's the dire dire rat-flail....

[Zeta Kai]

Tie two of their tails together. You now have a rat-bola, an improvised tripping weapon that can be thrown. You target will be too distracted by the discovery that their legs are suddenly bound by dead rats to notice you coming up with an axe...

[Tengu_temp]

Sock puppet.

[Strawman]

Dead rat + Raise Dead + Torch = Awesome.

[Ganurath]

Smuggling. Tie some thin string connecting opposite tips of the ribs to one another to create a wire mesh to hold up the vials of smuggled merchandise.

Practical jokes in the local Temple of Pelor.

[lsfreak]

Cast Light on them. Mobile torches and/or hilariously tasteless practical jokes involving peasants fleeing in terror.

[Strawman]

Can an undead rat be used as a familiar?

[Godskook]

Am I the only one who thought of this? Yes? Crap!

[AslanCross]

Courtesan Repellant for the Paladin.

[Myou]

Am I the only one who thought of this? Yes? Crap!

You seem to have missed my posts. xD

I knew I should have dropped a rat-kai joke.

[Godskook]

You seem to have missed my posts. xD

I knew I should have dropped a rat-kai joke.

Nope, I saw it, just didn't see anything about a Rat Morning Star Zanpakuto mentioned anywhere in it, but it was your post that made me determined to find the link. :)

[Alcopop]

Tie stings on them and give them to your party bard so that he can reinact your epic adventures via perform: puppetry. also, rat-side story... and Rats! (gedit?)

Construct a moving undead throne from them and name your self the "sewer
king"

[Strawman]

The only thing better than a rat king? An undead rat king familiar. On fire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_king_(folklore)

[Etrus]

Smuggling. Tie some thin string connecting opposite tips of the ribs to one another to create a wire mesh to hold up the vials of smuggled merchandise.

I like this one- I might steal the idea. A smuggling group hires a necromancer to create zombified rats. The vials would be made out of the worthless black onyx 'shell' left over after the rat zombiefication process, so if they were ever attacked or caught in traps the shattered vials would appear to be remains from the necromantic ritual and no smuggling would be suspected. :D
anyways:
Create distractions- people get a minor penalty to Listen checks because of the skittering scratchy sounds.
(Un)living shield- either a small bonus to AC against ranged attacks, or perhaps have them cover the PC's face so he can pretend to be some sort of Skeletal Rat That Walks.

[Cieyrin]

Nope, I saw it, just didn't see anything about a Rat Morning Star Zanpakuto mentioned anywhere in it, but it was your post that made me determined to find the link. :)

Unfortunately, Bleach's definition of a morningstar differs from the D&D Definition. It's more akin to a heavy flail than anything.

Anyways, my suggestions:

Dip them in contact poison and have them invade a building of your choice.

Dire rat zombie tied to a stout stick to make a heavy rat flail.

Have them run though the sewers and roll in anything nasty and drop them into the town water source.

Make your own traveling skeletal rat circus!

[Ravens_cry]

Make a fake rat king to fool the gullible? You would need more then one dead rat though.

[Tyndmyr]

I think the real question is, What can't you do with a dead rat?

[Drider]

What is your alignment? If your good, make them stay at the town your in and defend people against muggers/bandits.

If your evil, use them in the slingshot.

Also, use them for flanking with your rogue, and make it hide, so the person can't see it.