Zombie (Nodh)
the slow plague carriers
HP 7, Morale −, Leather scraps −d2, Claw/bite d2 + special Special: Anyone bitten tests Toughness dr8 or dies within two days before rising as a zombie. The only cure or vaccine is said to be found at the peak of a pale mountain within an infinitely-miserable forest of dark leaves.
King Fathmu IX of Western Kingdom in particular seeks this cure and knows the name and location of the forest which the mountain overlooks.
Loot: Dead 30s — Captured 5s — Blood per litre
Compare the Undead of the Death Ziggurat — drooling, red-eyed, rising again after one round — and the Drowned Altar-mourning Drowned. The world holds many varieties of walking dead, all worsening as the Calendar of Nechrubel turns.
Fathmu IX, Western Kingdom, Calendar of Nechrubel (3:1 at Graven-Tosk), Bergen Chrypt (likely the pale mountain), Sarkash (likely the forest of dark leaves)
The pale mountain in the infinitely-miserable forest is named only as the cure's location. Fathmu knows the name and place — the GM does not. This is the single most explicit "go on a quest" hook in Bare Bones; it has no canonical resolution.