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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 7920580" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/16939/MC14-Monstrous-Compendium-Fiend-Folio-Appendix-2e?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">MC14 Monstrous Compendium Fiend Folio Appendix (2e)</a></p><p>2e</p><p><strong>Apparition:</strong> If an apparition's slain victim is not restored to life within 24 hours, he/she will rise as an apparition 2-8 hours later.</p><p><strong>Coffer Corpse:</strong> The coffer corpse is an undead creature seeking its final rest. It will always be encountered on a stranded funeral barge, unburnt pyre, or the scene of some other incomplete death ritual.</p><p><strong>Penanggalan:</strong> A female victim of a penanggalan will rise from the grave in three days as a penanggalan, as a free-willed undead. If an attempt is made to raise her within that three day period, the chances of resurrection survival are halved. Should an attempt to raise the victim succeed, the victim will be unable to do anything other than rest for a week, after which all damage done by the penanggalan is healed. Failure means that no further attempt can be made; the process by which the victim becomes a penanggalan is then inexorable.</p><p><strong>Sheet Ghoul:</strong> Sheet ghouls are created when sheet phantoms kill their victims.</p><p>If the victim dies enveloped within the sheet phantom, the sheet phantom merges with the body, creating a sheet ghoul. This process takes 12 hours to complete.</p><p><strong>Sheet Phantom:</strong> There are sufficient similarities between the sheet phantom and the lurker above for some scholars to speculate that the former is an undead form of the latter. However, other sages and scholars claim that sheet phantoms are actual sheets that have absorbed the life-essence of an evil person who died in their bed. The evil soul is trapped in the sheet, and forced to wander about as a sheet phantom.</p><p></p><p><strong>Mummy:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Spectre:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Wraith:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Zombie:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghoul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghast:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire:</strong> ?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 7920580, member: 2209"] [URL=https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/16939/MC14-Monstrous-Compendium-Fiend-Folio-Appendix-2e?affiliate_id=17596]MC14 Monstrous Compendium Fiend Folio Appendix (2e)[/URL] 2e [b]Apparition:[/b] If an apparition's slain victim is not restored to life within 24 hours, he/she will rise as an apparition 2-8 hours later. [b]Coffer Corpse:[/b] The coffer corpse is an undead creature seeking its final rest. It will always be encountered on a stranded funeral barge, unburnt pyre, or the scene of some other incomplete death ritual. [b]Penanggalan:[/b] A female victim of a penanggalan will rise from the grave in three days as a penanggalan, as a free-willed undead. If an attempt is made to raise her within that three day period, the chances of resurrection survival are halved. Should an attempt to raise the victim succeed, the victim will be unable to do anything other than rest for a week, after which all damage done by the penanggalan is healed. Failure means that no further attempt can be made; the process by which the victim becomes a penanggalan is then inexorable. [b]Sheet Ghoul:[/b] Sheet ghouls are created when sheet phantoms kill their victims. If the victim dies enveloped within the sheet phantom, the sheet phantom merges with the body, creating a sheet ghoul. This process takes 12 hours to complete. [b]Sheet Phantom:[/b] There are sufficient similarities between the sheet phantom and the lurker above for some scholars to speculate that the former is an undead form of the latter. However, other sages and scholars claim that sheet phantoms are actual sheets that have absorbed the life-essence of an evil person who died in their bed. The evil soul is trapped in the sheet, and forced to wander about as a sheet phantom. [b]Mummy:[/b] ? [b]Spectre:[/b] ? [b]Wraith:[/b] ? [b]Zombie:[/b] ? [b]Ghoul:[/b] ? [b]Ghast:[/b] ? [b]Vampire:[/b] ? [/QUOTE]
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