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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9498078" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/216822/Secret-Soldiers" target="_blank">Secret Soldiers</a></p><p>Pathfinder 1e</p><p><strong>Bellamorte, Graverobber, Cyborg, Next-Gen Prototype Graverobber, Frankenstein's Monster of Upgraded Genetics and Agility Enhancing Cyber Systems, Blood-Drenched Ballerina of Death, Fastest Bipedal Creature on the Planet, Private Military Contractor, Metamorphosis North’s Most Trusted Highly Favored Agent, Liason to Puzzle Ops, Outsider, Undead Shock Trooper, Mean-Spirited Sadistic Adrenaline Junkie, Hyperspeed Cannibal Boss, Corpse-White Female:</strong> Bellamorte is a next-gen, prototype Graverobber, a Frankenstein’s monster of upgraded genetics and agility enhancing cyber systems.</p><p><strong>Bleeding Wraith:</strong> Bleeding Wraiths are the souls of those Bleeding Ghosts who died during the hated Cultureborn’s first strike against their race and homeworld. Transformed into howling, psionic apparitions of shadow and freezing scarlet blood, undeath has made the Bleeding Wraiths both incredibly cruel and incredibly canny.</p><p>A Blood Possessed Creature with at least 8 HD undergoes a horrific and terrifying transformation 1d4 rounds after its death or destruction. The creature’s body explodes into superheated chunks of blood, gore and bone shards, and a Bleeding Ghost with full HP appears in the creature’s square. The Bleeding Ghost acts as if hasted for one round after appearing in this manner. The Bleeding Ghost possesses all the knowledge possessed by the Blood Possessed creature.</p><p>Hosts with fewer than 8 HD are too weak to host a full grown Bleeding Ghost, and do not gain this quality. Hosts with signifigantly higher HD than the norm might spawn a Bleeding Wraith, or a more powerful creature, at the game master’s discresion.</p><p><strong>Domina:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Elizabeth Vose, Dread Devourer, Iconic Setting Villain, Attractive Serious Woman, Something Alien and Inhuman, Ravenous Cannibalistic Soul Eater, Desiccated Undead Queen:</strong> Vose approached the Bleeding Ghosts and allowed their leaders to transform her into something alien and inhuman,</p><p><strong>Graverobber:</strong> Project: Graverobber began in the late sixties, using the remains of American soldiers killed in Vietnam and Cambodia as ‘test-beds’ for cybernetics experimentation and surgical re-animation trials. Within a few months, Puzzle Ops medics were able to successfully ‘resurrect’ a human corpse as an unfeeling and efficient undead supersoldier. Graverobbers are created by a highly-classified procedure that blends science and ancient necromancy, which returns a fallen American soldier to life as something both more and less than human.</p><p>Remorseless, relentless and neuro-conditioned for obedience, Graverobbers emerge from their birth-coffins as ideal soldiers.</p><p>Graverobbers are military Undead created by technooccultists for use as disposable shock-troops.</p><p><strong>Graverobber Bulletstopper, Graverobber Fighter 2:</strong> Graverobber Bulletstoppers are the lowest rung of Graverobber supersoldier, created from the bodies of young enlisted men slaughtered in America’s most recent wars. These soldiers are considered disposable in the extreme, and can be assembled from fresh corpses quickly and cheaply.</p><p><strong>Graverobber Infantry, Psychic Warrior 4/Rogue 4:</strong> Graverobber Infantry are sociopathic but well trained and dangerously professional combat zombies created from the corpses of America’s most decorated special forces troops. These elite, undead soldiers had a full military career with all the attendant decorations, up to and including the Medal of Honor, awarded posthumously, before Puzzle Ops cyber-surgeons repaired their bodies and wiped most the memories of their first lives.</p><p>They are fully masked, concealing their scars and the crude cyberorgans that brought them back from the dead.</p><p><strong>Graverobber Silencer, Cryptic 5, Gravedigger Silencer:</strong> Gravedigger Silencers are returned to (un)life through a more advanced, less visibly damaging process than ordinary Gravedigger soldiers. Rather than frontline toops, Silencers are trained and programmed to serve as assassins and spies. The corpses of female soldiers are used exclusively, and the process that resurrects a Silencer incorporates vampire DNA.</p><p><strong>Hellrider:</strong> Hell Riders are insufferably arrogant street racers who died behind the wheel and crawled out of hell, still burning and screaming, because they hadn’t won enough midnight races in life.</p><p><strong>Irish Magdalene, Paladin 15:</strong> Irish Magdalenes are the unquiet ghosts of a dark period in Irish history. Each is a composite of dozens of souls, mingled memories and destiny of long dead women and unwanted children. Each Irish Magdalene was once an inhabitant of a Magdalene Asylum – a Catholic-run home for unwed mothers and their children, a kind of Catholic prison beyond the reach of Irish law.</p><p>The old asylums were shuttered during the 1960s, and the first Irish Magdalenes appeared roughly three decades later.</p><p><strong>Lady Entropia, Fabulously Beautiful Stunningly Cold Undead Queen, Nihilistic Undead, Stunningly Beautiful Woman More Than Nine Feet in Height:</strong> Her true nature and origin is unknown, but occasionally she speaks of a Dark Mother that she serves.</p><p><strong>Deddy Teddy, Teddy Dourif, Diminutive Stuffed Teddy Bear, Minion, Eerie Haunted Teddy Bear:</strong> Spree killer Teddy Dourif was gunned down by police while fleeing the scene of a multiple lust-murder at a sundrenched Florida apartment complex. However, thanks to Lady Entropia’s tampering, the loathsome murder’s soul transmigrated into a classic ‘Talkin’ Teddy’ stuffed bear on the nightstand of one of his victims.</p><p><strong>Killwatt, Fred Craven, Prison-Buff Man Dressed in Bright Orange Convict Garb, Talkative Killer, Minion:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Mr. Sandman, Eddie Eugland, Horrific Gaunt Undead Man, Satanic Version of Fred Astaire, Undead Childkiller, Minion:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Necrofficer:</strong> In life, Necrofficers were dedicated patriots… professional military men and women who weren’t afraid of committing war-crimes in the name of the national good. The temptation and corruption of a Necrofficer candidate can take decades, and is usually accomplished by a single Hellgrin, who shadowed the candidate, in various guises, through their entire career. The same Hellgrin might assume the shape of the rat bastard recruiter whose lies first enlisted the candidate, then a succession of drill sergeants, commanding officers and handlers. When the candidate finally falls (in a suicide mission the Hellgrin CO never bothered to tell its subordinate was a suicide mission), that same Hellgrin personally escorts their soul to torture in the Abyss.</p><p>After an eternity of torture and mystical surgeries that imbue the soul with dark power, the newly minted Necrofficer is released back into the mortal realm with its former identity wiped away.</p><p>The tortures they endured in the Abyss toughened their hides until their dead flesh was tougher than Kevlar.</p><p><strong>Sekhmet Ammt, The Great Manipulator of the Time Stream, Cybernetic Pharaoh-Queen, The First Cyborg, Cosmic Template For All Full and Partial Reconstruction Borgs, Cosmic Matriarch, Dark Devourer of Time, Goddess of Entropy Time Travel and Paradox, Mockery:</strong> Her origins are paradoxical in the extreme; once the most brilliant temporal physicist among the Culture species, she mastered tactical time travel. Then she expanded her knowledge of space-time manipulation beyond the immediate and became a galactic conquorer. After carving out a stellar empire for herself, Sekhmet Ammt mastered strategic time travel, and in that moment, she realized the conquest of 17 systems was as nothing; she had conquered one grain of sand in the endless desert of time. With grim determination, Sekhmet Ammt set out to conquer all the rest.</p><p>To aid her grand dreams of conquest, Sekhmet Ammt wove an intricate web of parallel realities and temporal paradoxes. She created the parallel reality that her race was born in, in the distant, unremembered past, and spawned other parallel presents and false futures. In a grand scheme that manipulated the Great Watchmakers themselves, Sekhmet Ammt transformed a long-ago Ethiopian warlord into an incarnate God and turned him loose on Earth.</p><p>At the dawn of galactic history, Sekhmet Ammt performed the first cyborg conversion. Eventually, she gave birth to herself, and granted herself the cybernetic and temporal might that was her destiny. She became paradoxical and immortal.</p><p>Her personal history is fluid, but there is one constant; a currently serving Psi-Watch agent will one day travel cross-time to help the Culture’s parallel universe ancestors to develop spaceflight.</p><p><strong>Cool Ghoul, Bard 3/Rogue 3, Urban Protector, Vigilante:</strong> Less than a year ago, the Cool Ghoul was living the ideal early 1990s life. He had a garage grunge-band that was getting pretty popular and playing decent gigs every weekend and half ownership of a hip record shop/coffee bar. He even had somebody to love, a boyfriend or girlfriend twice as hip, smart and stylish as he was. Then something went wrong and death hit the stage.</p><p>Somehow, whether through divine intervention, a deal with some minor devil, or just sheer love-of-life and willpower, the Cool Ghoul returned the grave.</p><p><strong>Leather Zombie, Fighter 5/Rogue 2:</strong> Sometimes when a soldier who’s done black-bag killing for decades finally dies, his soul is strong enough to survive the inevitable condemnation to Hell. The soldier claws and bites his way back to the world of the living, reanimating the dead flesh of his armor-clad corpse as a Leather Zombie.</p><p><strong>Vivisect:</strong> The long experimental process to create a psionic god began with animal testing. Tens of thousands of test animals were atomized in breeder reactors and particle accelerators, in hopes their deaths would unlock the secret of post-nuclear immortality.</p><p>Vivisects are created when an animal consciousness, often canine or lupine, survives its physical atomization, albeit in broken and fragmentary form.</p><p>Only a single Vivisect might emerge out of ten thousand test killings.</p><p><strong>Cyber-Zombie:</strong> Cyber-Zombies are disposable shock troops that can be assembled by any half-way competent surgeon with ready access to mostly intact corpses, factory-reject cybersystems, some off-the-shelf electronics and a few miles of rubber tubing to replace the circulatory system.</p><p><strong>Reborn Graverobber, Extreme Hero Graverobber Psychic Warrior 4/Rogue 4:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Rot Soul:</strong> A Rot Soul is the result of a powerful Mutant warrior’s refusal to accept the death of their body. Their soul shriveled by hunger and greed, the Rot Soul returns to life as a visibly rotting mockery of their former self.</p><p>A creature slain by the Rot Soul’s energy drain while lifelinked, rises as a Rot Soul undead within 1d4 minutes.</p><p>A creature slain by the Dead Claw’s energy drain while lifelinked, rises as a Rot Soul undead within 1d4 minutes.</p><p>A creature slain by the Rotting Eugenicist’s energy drain while lifelinked, rises as a Rot Soul undead within 1d4 minutes.</p><p><strong>Dead Claw, Deadclaw, Rot Soul Catscratcher:</strong> Dead Claws are what happens with a feral-blooded Mutant dies horribly. The most savage part of the creature’s nature reanimates the corpse, overwhelming every good and merciful impulse the Catscratcher had in life.</p><p><strong>Rotting Eugenicist, Rot Soul Eugenicist Demon:</strong> A Rotting Eugenicist is a failed, self aware occult-tech clone of a truly and permanently slain Eugenicist Demon, a last desperate chance at survival that almost succeeded. Awakening in a cloning tube with all the memories, education and ambition of her genetic forebear, the Rotting Eugenicist quickly realized that she was an inferior creation. She could not contain the etheral energy of life: her cloned body began rotting within hours of her removal from the stasis tube.</p><p><strong>Bleeding Wraith, Howling Psionic Apparition of Shadow and Freezing Scarlet Blood, Combination of Warlord and Incarnate God-Thing, Leader:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Domina, Psionic Vampire, Connoisseur and Sybarite Without Compare, Tall Impossibly Beautiful Human:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Pale-Skinned Domina:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Darker-Skinned Domina:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Graverobber, Unfeeling Efficient Undead Supersoldier, Ideal Soldier, Artificial Species, Military Undead, Disposable Shock-Trooper:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Graverobber Soldier, Ordinary Graverobber Soldier:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Graverobber Soldier, Expendable Combat Trooper:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Graverobber Soldier, Emergency Reinforcement:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Graverobber Soldier, Slumbering Zombie-Warrior:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Graverobber Bulletstopper, Lowest Rung of Graverobber Supersoldier, Soldier, Bulletstopper Trooper:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Graverobber Infantry, Sociopathic But Well Trained and Dangerously Professional Combat Zombie, Undead Warrior, Deniable Operative:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Graverobber Silencer, Assassin and Spy, Adept Seductress:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Hellrider, Master Car Thief, Masterful Undead Street Racer, Plague, Undead Man:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Irish Magdalene, Unquiet Ghost, Composite of Dozens of Souls Mingled Memories and Destiny of Long Dead Women and Unwanted Children, Highly Capable Demon Hunter and Vampire-Killer, Courageous Strong-Minded Holy Warrior, Stunningly Beautiful Red-Haired Woman in Her Late 20s:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Necrofficer, Undead Soldier, Powerful American Undead Soldier:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Leather Zombie, Fierce Combat-Ready Undead, Powerful Tactical Asset:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vivisect, Damaged Hound:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Rot Soul, Visibly Rotting Mockery, Uncontrolled Free-Willed Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Dead Claw, Solitary Hunter:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Rotting Eugenicist, Inferior Creation, Sadist:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead, Undead Creature:</strong> The Sentencer Devil can use its baleful polymorph ability to transform a victim into virtually any form it wishes, often transforming the victim into 1 HD animated objects, elementals, constructs or undead rather than animals.</p><p><strong>Military-Trained Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Dangerous Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Impressive Undead Specimen:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Nihilistic Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Horror Movie Undead:</strong> When her latest ‘pet’ is inevitably killed by police or executed for their crimes, Lady Entropia imbues their corrupt soul with a miniscule fragment of her power, and they rise again as horror movie undead.</p><p><strong>Undead Snake Cultist:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Devourer, Normal Devourer:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghast, Normal Ghast:</strong> Any creature killed by the Leather Zombie that lies undisturbed until the next midnight rises as a ghast at that time. The new ghast is not under the control of its creator. A protection from evil or gentle repose spell cast on the corpse prevents its conversion.</p><p><strong>Ghoul, Normal Ghoul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Graveknight:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Lich:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Shadow:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Greater Shadow:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Wraith, Normal Wraith:</strong> Any creature slain by a Bleeding Wraith’s CON drain or incorporeal touch attack rises as a wraith in 1d4 rounds.</p><p>A Bleeding Ghost that shows even a second’s mercy or hesitation [d]ies at the Wraith’s smoky talons, its soul trapped forever as another wraith haunting the halls of an ancient warship.</p><p><strong>Fast Zombie:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Zombie Soldier:</strong> ?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 9498078, member: 2209"] [URL=https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/216822/Secret-Soldiers]Secret Soldiers[/URL] Pathfinder 1e [b]Bellamorte, Graverobber, Cyborg, Next-Gen Prototype Graverobber, Frankenstein's Monster of Upgraded Genetics and Agility Enhancing Cyber Systems, Blood-Drenched Ballerina of Death, Fastest Bipedal Creature on the Planet, Private Military Contractor, Metamorphosis North’s Most Trusted Highly Favored Agent, Liason to Puzzle Ops, Outsider, Undead Shock Trooper, Mean-Spirited Sadistic Adrenaline Junkie, Hyperspeed Cannibal Boss, Corpse-White Female:[/b] Bellamorte is a next-gen, prototype Graverobber, a Frankenstein’s monster of upgraded genetics and agility enhancing cyber systems. [b]Bleeding Wraith:[/b] Bleeding Wraiths are the souls of those Bleeding Ghosts who died during the hated Cultureborn’s first strike against their race and homeworld. Transformed into howling, psionic apparitions of shadow and freezing scarlet blood, undeath has made the Bleeding Wraiths both incredibly cruel and incredibly canny. A Blood Possessed Creature with at least 8 HD undergoes a horrific and terrifying transformation 1d4 rounds after its death or destruction. The creature’s body explodes into superheated chunks of blood, gore and bone shards, and a Bleeding Ghost with full HP appears in the creature’s square. The Bleeding Ghost acts as if hasted for one round after appearing in this manner. The Bleeding Ghost possesses all the knowledge possessed by the Blood Possessed creature. Hosts with fewer than 8 HD are too weak to host a full grown Bleeding Ghost, and do not gain this quality. Hosts with signifigantly higher HD than the norm might spawn a Bleeding Wraith, or a more powerful creature, at the game master’s discresion. [b]Domina:[/b] ? [b]Elizabeth Vose, Dread Devourer, Iconic Setting Villain, Attractive Serious Woman, Something Alien and Inhuman, Ravenous Cannibalistic Soul Eater, Desiccated Undead Queen:[/b] Vose approached the Bleeding Ghosts and allowed their leaders to transform her into something alien and inhuman, [b]Graverobber:[/b] Project: Graverobber began in the late sixties, using the remains of American soldiers killed in Vietnam and Cambodia as ‘test-beds’ for cybernetics experimentation and surgical re-animation trials. Within a few months, Puzzle Ops medics were able to successfully ‘resurrect’ a human corpse as an unfeeling and efficient undead supersoldier. Graverobbers are created by a highly-classified procedure that blends science and ancient necromancy, which returns a fallen American soldier to life as something both more and less than human. Remorseless, relentless and neuro-conditioned for obedience, Graverobbers emerge from their birth-coffins as ideal soldiers. Graverobbers are military Undead created by technooccultists for use as disposable shock-troops. [b]Graverobber Bulletstopper, Graverobber Fighter 2:[/b] Graverobber Bulletstoppers are the lowest rung of Graverobber supersoldier, created from the bodies of young enlisted men slaughtered in America’s most recent wars. These soldiers are considered disposable in the extreme, and can be assembled from fresh corpses quickly and cheaply. [b]Graverobber Infantry, Psychic Warrior 4/Rogue 4:[/b] Graverobber Infantry are sociopathic but well trained and dangerously professional combat zombies created from the corpses of America’s most decorated special forces troops. These elite, undead soldiers had a full military career with all the attendant decorations, up to and including the Medal of Honor, awarded posthumously, before Puzzle Ops cyber-surgeons repaired their bodies and wiped most the memories of their first lives. They are fully masked, concealing their scars and the crude cyberorgans that brought them back from the dead. [b]Graverobber Silencer, Cryptic 5, Gravedigger Silencer:[/b] Gravedigger Silencers are returned to (un)life through a more advanced, less visibly damaging process than ordinary Gravedigger soldiers. Rather than frontline toops, Silencers are trained and programmed to serve as assassins and spies. The corpses of female soldiers are used exclusively, and the process that resurrects a Silencer incorporates vampire DNA. [b]Hellrider:[/b] Hell Riders are insufferably arrogant street racers who died behind the wheel and crawled out of hell, still burning and screaming, because they hadn’t won enough midnight races in life. [b]Irish Magdalene, Paladin 15:[/b] Irish Magdalenes are the unquiet ghosts of a dark period in Irish history. Each is a composite of dozens of souls, mingled memories and destiny of long dead women and unwanted children. Each Irish Magdalene was once an inhabitant of a Magdalene Asylum – a Catholic-run home for unwed mothers and their children, a kind of Catholic prison beyond the reach of Irish law. The old asylums were shuttered during the 1960s, and the first Irish Magdalenes appeared roughly three decades later. [b]Lady Entropia, Fabulously Beautiful Stunningly Cold Undead Queen, Nihilistic Undead, Stunningly Beautiful Woman More Than Nine Feet in Height:[/b] Her true nature and origin is unknown, but occasionally she speaks of a Dark Mother that she serves. [b]Deddy Teddy, Teddy Dourif, Diminutive Stuffed Teddy Bear, Minion, Eerie Haunted Teddy Bear:[/b] Spree killer Teddy Dourif was gunned down by police while fleeing the scene of a multiple lust-murder at a sundrenched Florida apartment complex. However, thanks to Lady Entropia’s tampering, the loathsome murder’s soul transmigrated into a classic ‘Talkin’ Teddy’ stuffed bear on the nightstand of one of his victims. [b]Killwatt, Fred Craven, Prison-Buff Man Dressed in Bright Orange Convict Garb, Talkative Killer, Minion:[/b] ? [b]Mr. Sandman, Eddie Eugland, Horrific Gaunt Undead Man, Satanic Version of Fred Astaire, Undead Childkiller, Minion:[/b] ? [b]Necrofficer:[/b] In life, Necrofficers were dedicated patriots… professional military men and women who weren’t afraid of committing war-crimes in the name of the national good. The temptation and corruption of a Necrofficer candidate can take decades, and is usually accomplished by a single Hellgrin, who shadowed the candidate, in various guises, through their entire career. The same Hellgrin might assume the shape of the rat bastard recruiter whose lies first enlisted the candidate, then a succession of drill sergeants, commanding officers and handlers. When the candidate finally falls (in a suicide mission the Hellgrin CO never bothered to tell its subordinate was a suicide mission), that same Hellgrin personally escorts their soul to torture in the Abyss. After an eternity of torture and mystical surgeries that imbue the soul with dark power, the newly minted Necrofficer is released back into the mortal realm with its former identity wiped away. The tortures they endured in the Abyss toughened their hides until their dead flesh was tougher than Kevlar. [b]Sekhmet Ammt, The Great Manipulator of the Time Stream, Cybernetic Pharaoh-Queen, The First Cyborg, Cosmic Template For All Full and Partial Reconstruction Borgs, Cosmic Matriarch, Dark Devourer of Time, Goddess of Entropy Time Travel and Paradox, Mockery:[/b] Her origins are paradoxical in the extreme; once the most brilliant temporal physicist among the Culture species, she mastered tactical time travel. Then she expanded her knowledge of space-time manipulation beyond the immediate and became a galactic conquorer. After carving out a stellar empire for herself, Sekhmet Ammt mastered strategic time travel, and in that moment, she realized the conquest of 17 systems was as nothing; she had conquered one grain of sand in the endless desert of time. With grim determination, Sekhmet Ammt set out to conquer all the rest. To aid her grand dreams of conquest, Sekhmet Ammt wove an intricate web of parallel realities and temporal paradoxes. She created the parallel reality that her race was born in, in the distant, unremembered past, and spawned other parallel presents and false futures. In a grand scheme that manipulated the Great Watchmakers themselves, Sekhmet Ammt transformed a long-ago Ethiopian warlord into an incarnate God and turned him loose on Earth. At the dawn of galactic history, Sekhmet Ammt performed the first cyborg conversion. Eventually, she gave birth to herself, and granted herself the cybernetic and temporal might that was her destiny. She became paradoxical and immortal. Her personal history is fluid, but there is one constant; a currently serving Psi-Watch agent will one day travel cross-time to help the Culture’s parallel universe ancestors to develop spaceflight. [b]Cool Ghoul, Bard 3/Rogue 3, Urban Protector, Vigilante:[/b] Less than a year ago, the Cool Ghoul was living the ideal early 1990s life. He had a garage grunge-band that was getting pretty popular and playing decent gigs every weekend and half ownership of a hip record shop/coffee bar. He even had somebody to love, a boyfriend or girlfriend twice as hip, smart and stylish as he was. Then something went wrong and death hit the stage. Somehow, whether through divine intervention, a deal with some minor devil, or just sheer love-of-life and willpower, the Cool Ghoul returned the grave. [b]Leather Zombie, Fighter 5/Rogue 2:[/b] Sometimes when a soldier who’s done black-bag killing for decades finally dies, his soul is strong enough to survive the inevitable condemnation to Hell. The soldier claws and bites his way back to the world of the living, reanimating the dead flesh of his armor-clad corpse as a Leather Zombie. [b]Vivisect:[/b] The long experimental process to create a psionic god began with animal testing. Tens of thousands of test animals were atomized in breeder reactors and particle accelerators, in hopes their deaths would unlock the secret of post-nuclear immortality. Vivisects are created when an animal consciousness, often canine or lupine, survives its physical atomization, albeit in broken and fragmentary form. Only a single Vivisect might emerge out of ten thousand test killings. [b]Cyber-Zombie:[/b] Cyber-Zombies are disposable shock troops that can be assembled by any half-way competent surgeon with ready access to mostly intact corpses, factory-reject cybersystems, some off-the-shelf electronics and a few miles of rubber tubing to replace the circulatory system. [b]Reborn Graverobber, Extreme Hero Graverobber Psychic Warrior 4/Rogue 4:[/b] ? [b]Rot Soul:[/b] A Rot Soul is the result of a powerful Mutant warrior’s refusal to accept the death of their body. Their soul shriveled by hunger and greed, the Rot Soul returns to life as a visibly rotting mockery of their former self. A creature slain by the Rot Soul’s energy drain while lifelinked, rises as a Rot Soul undead within 1d4 minutes. A creature slain by the Dead Claw’s energy drain while lifelinked, rises as a Rot Soul undead within 1d4 minutes. A creature slain by the Rotting Eugenicist’s energy drain while lifelinked, rises as a Rot Soul undead within 1d4 minutes. [b]Dead Claw, Deadclaw, Rot Soul Catscratcher:[/b] Dead Claws are what happens with a feral-blooded Mutant dies horribly. The most savage part of the creature’s nature reanimates the corpse, overwhelming every good and merciful impulse the Catscratcher had in life. [b]Rotting Eugenicist, Rot Soul Eugenicist Demon:[/b] A Rotting Eugenicist is a failed, self aware occult-tech clone of a truly and permanently slain Eugenicist Demon, a last desperate chance at survival that almost succeeded. Awakening in a cloning tube with all the memories, education and ambition of her genetic forebear, the Rotting Eugenicist quickly realized that she was an inferior creation. She could not contain the etheral energy of life: her cloned body began rotting within hours of her removal from the stasis tube. [b]Bleeding Wraith, Howling Psionic Apparition of Shadow and Freezing Scarlet Blood, Combination of Warlord and Incarnate God-Thing, Leader:[/b] ? [b]Domina, Psionic Vampire, Connoisseur and Sybarite Without Compare, Tall Impossibly Beautiful Human:[/b] ? [b]Pale-Skinned Domina:[/b] ? [b]Darker-Skinned Domina:[/b] ? [b]Graverobber, Unfeeling Efficient Undead Supersoldier, Ideal Soldier, Artificial Species, Military Undead, Disposable Shock-Trooper:[/b] ? [b]Graverobber Soldier, Ordinary Graverobber Soldier:[/b] ? [b]Graverobber Soldier, Expendable Combat Trooper:[/b] ? [b]Graverobber Soldier, Emergency Reinforcement:[/b] ? [b]Graverobber Soldier, Slumbering Zombie-Warrior:[/b] ? [b]Graverobber Bulletstopper, Lowest Rung of Graverobber Supersoldier, Soldier, Bulletstopper Trooper:[/b] ? [b]Graverobber Infantry, Sociopathic But Well Trained and Dangerously Professional Combat Zombie, Undead Warrior, Deniable Operative:[/b] ? [b]Graverobber Silencer, Assassin and Spy, Adept Seductress:[/b] ? [b]Hellrider, Master Car Thief, Masterful Undead Street Racer, Plague, Undead Man:[/b] ? [b]Irish Magdalene, Unquiet Ghost, Composite of Dozens of Souls Mingled Memories and Destiny of Long Dead Women and Unwanted Children, Highly Capable Demon Hunter and Vampire-Killer, Courageous Strong-Minded Holy Warrior, Stunningly Beautiful Red-Haired Woman in Her Late 20s:[/b] ? [b]Necrofficer, Undead Soldier, Powerful American Undead Soldier:[/b] ? [b]Leather Zombie, Fierce Combat-Ready Undead, Powerful Tactical Asset:[/b] ? [b]Vivisect, Damaged Hound:[/b] ? [b]Rot Soul, Visibly Rotting Mockery, Uncontrolled Free-Willed Undead:[/b] ? [b]Dead Claw, Solitary Hunter:[/b] ? [b]Rotting Eugenicist, Inferior Creation, Sadist:[/b] ? [b]Undead, Undead Creature:[/b] The Sentencer Devil can use its baleful polymorph ability to transform a victim into virtually any form it wishes, often transforming the victim into 1 HD animated objects, elementals, constructs or undead rather than animals. [b]Military-Trained Undead:[/b] ? [b]Dangerous Undead:[/b] ? [b]Impressive Undead Specimen:[/b] ? [b]Nihilistic Undead:[/b] ? [b]Horror Movie Undead:[/b] When her latest ‘pet’ is inevitably killed by police or executed for their crimes, Lady Entropia imbues their corrupt soul with a miniscule fragment of her power, and they rise again as horror movie undead. [b]Undead Snake Cultist:[/b] ? [b]Devourer, Normal Devourer:[/b] ? [b]Ghast, Normal Ghast:[/b] Any creature killed by the Leather Zombie that lies undisturbed until the next midnight rises as a ghast at that time. The new ghast is not under the control of its creator. A protection from evil or gentle repose spell cast on the corpse prevents its conversion. [b]Ghoul, Normal Ghoul:[/b] ? [b]Graveknight:[/b] ? [b]Lich:[/b] ? [b]Shadow:[/b] ? [b]Greater Shadow:[/b] ? [b]Vampire:[/b] ? [b]Wraith, Normal Wraith:[/b] Any creature slain by a Bleeding Wraith’s CON drain or incorporeal touch attack rises as a wraith in 1d4 rounds. A Bleeding Ghost that shows even a second’s mercy or hesitation [d]ies at the Wraith’s smoky talons, its soul trapped forever as another wraith haunting the halls of an ancient warship. [b]Fast Zombie:[/b] ? [b]Zombie Soldier:[/b] ? [/QUOTE]
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