*** Some mild pseudo-ranting, and an idea below it ***

I've always felt that the echo from sacrifice is simply an IC-style excuse for what happens to the stuff when you do that. Why would an item vanish? The gods took it when you asked.

If sacrifice were changed, I'd suggest just switching it to something that had nothing to do with the gods. It's really just a clean up method if you're not doing it for the copper. Few people really do it for the copper any more, since the rewards were reduced greatly a while back. I personally used to clean out the goblin village repeatedly at low levels, just for the cash from sacrificing the odds and ends.

If you really want to involve a god, just imagine that the character I mentioned over on Dio's was made an extremely minor deity. Vesperi the Galadonian Janitor (a human shapeshifter in life), is now the god of cleaning things up. That's how he got that silly title anyway, obsessively sacrificing every piece of trash around Galadon until it became part of the RP for that character. In retrospect, whichever Imm gave me/him that title has a great sense of humor, I've laughed about it a lot after I stopped being annoyed about it.

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Now that I've stopped rambling, here's an idea even without a sacrifice rehash: 'offer' with which you make offerings to your favored deity. Maybe a pray-type log for each deity, so they know who sacrificed what, and maybe a brief reason why. You wouldn't get any gold for it, but it could enhance RP and Immteraction.
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---Quislet