Creatures

Hungry Zombie

the ones who never stopped eating

HP 6, Morale −, Leather scraps −d2, Claw/Bite d2 + special Special: Test Toughness DR8 or die turning into a zombie after 2 days.

Lore: Encountered in groups of d4, eating. Whatever is at hand. The standard Graven-Tosk variant of the walking dead — leaner than Nodh from Bare Bones, but the bite delivers the same patient sentence. Two days, then up. The cure, if there is one, sits canonically atop a pale mountain in an infinitely-miserable forest of dark leaves, and the Hungry Zombies do not seem to know about it.

Connections

Graven-Tosk, Graves Left Wanting, Zombie (Bare Bones variant), Calendar of Nechrubel (3:1, those who rest be made to walk), Fathmu IX (seeker of the cure)

Gaps / Expansion Notes

Why a Graven-Tosk zombie has 1 HP fewer than a standard Nodh is uncommented in canon — the soil's warming, the cemetery's hunger, the fog. Whether the Hungry Zombie's bite produces a Hungry Zombie or a Nodh zombie when the 2 days pass is unclear; the booklet just says "a zombie."