Cleon
Legend
I appreciate your suffering!
I'll whip up some Flavour & Tactics when I have more time to spare.
How's this...
A human skull floating in the air atop a sheet-like translucent figure, vaguely manlike in outline. A pair of bony hands at the end of fluttering, sleeve-like arms.No legs, no feet, the body-sheet just trails away to mist. Shards of decaying bone can be glimpsed inside its body and limbs.
A kyokotsu, meaning "Crazy Bones", is an undead spirit that occasionally forms from a forgotten corpse. Its cursed existence drives it to attack living mortals. They are usually encountered near wherever they died - somewhere a corpse can lie undiscovered, such as the bottom of a well or the overgrown bank of a little-used mountain trail. Most kyokotsu are solitary, but there are very rare cursed places where groups of crazy bones roam, killing those they encounter. These are usually based around sites where a family of evil doers was murdered and left to rot.
A kyokotsu is typically the same size as it was in life, but weighs only a few pounds. Particularly powerful crazy bones may grow to be twice the height of a human.
A kyokotsu can speak whatever languages it knew in life (usually Common), but generally voice nothing but nonsensical shrieks and bloodthirsty cackling, since they're as crazy as their name suggests.
COMBAT
Kyokotsu delight in surprising victims. They can spring upon their opponents by appearing out of small holes and tiny cracks. Crazy bones fight with claws. A kyokotsu is an erratic fighter with little or no sense of tactics. They typically fight to the death, chasing after opponents who try to flee, but might fly away and hide at the slightest sign of opposition, or hover in the air screaming insults and laughter at a retreating enemy.
