Class and Level Geekery IX: the thread levels up again!

[Kurald Galain]

None of this gets us anywhere, since he used the staff.

Actually, the rules on staffs say that you cast spells from a staff, and the rules on clerics say that they cannot cast spells with an alignment descriptor opposite to their own. So this would still show that Malack is non-good; Durkon wouldn't be able to use that same staff.

I believe casting a spell from a staff is a standard action, regardless of the listed casting time. And if Malack is not Good-aligned, then controlling the newly created undead via rebuking would be no problem for him.

I'm afraid this is incorrect. Third paragraph here, casting from a staff takes as long as the spell would take normally.