Saturday, 23rd June 2012, 02:31 by KoboldLord
Or you could just ignore the teeny-tiny piety hit for making a skeleton that ends up dying. It's not like it's penance or anything. You will probably lose more piety to decay by carting those corpses upstairs to butcher them than you ever will simply letting the skeletons follow you around. The typical Okawaru follower probably doesn't need to butcher more than a couple times per level anyway, and you're killing and sacrificing a whole lot more monsters than you need to make up for that.
And really, you have a vampiric giant spiked club. What are you stockpiling Okawaru piety for, anyway? You're not likely to get a better gift than that, and if your piety does end up getting chipped down a bit, your chance per kill of getting piety goes up to compensate.