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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9731697" data-attributes="member: 2209"><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/216462/Chronicle?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Chronicle</a>SolipstryBeithir: ?Chatterjaws, Chatterbones: Most often, they wait months or years before returning, but I’ve heard cases where they didn’t last the night.While anyone can become a Chatterbones, it seems that murder victims come back most often.Ghost, Spirit: Bodies fade quickly after death, but sometimes the spirit doesn’t quite get the message. More often than not, spirits that stick around in this way have some pressing goal-to incriminate their murderer, to find a certain artifact, to warn others who might die in a similar fashion. Other times they simply stick around as if they are unsure how to leave. If there is a goal, the ghost often fades after the task has been completed (except in the case of those who serve as a warning against some perpetual danger).Ghosts tend to be rooted to one place, often one that has special significance to the departed. Sometimes it’s the place they died, but it can also be where they are buried, a house they grew up in, or a boat they once traveled on. Other ghosts are not rooted, and can travel freely. I’ve yet to discover a consistent cause to reliably predict this behavior.Haunt: Haunts aren’t ghosts. They aren’t lost souls, waiting to be put to rest. Haunts are murderers in life who didn’t quite get their fill in death.Skeleton, Full Skeleton: I see it all the time, whenever bodies aren’t buried quite right. Sometimes there isn’t enough reverence given to the corpse, enough tears shed, some ritual overlooked. Other times it seems the body simply wasn’t ready to die. No matter the cause, the outcome is the same: A decaying corpse, with no muscle left to direct its bones, crawls out of the ground and wanders about. Sometimes it takes weeks. Other times years.But the skeletons. It’s usually just people who come back like this, but I’ve seen it happen to a pet.Thaco: I thought it was a man walking. I’ve never been so wrong. The thaco is a curiously unique creature. I know not if it is a ghost possessing abandoned armor, a fallen fighting spirit that hasn’t realized its body has gone, or if simply the armor itself has come to life.Vampire: ?Vampire Lord: ?Vampire Underling: ?Zombie, Shambler, Living Dead: There’s always a cause.Sometimes it’s a talisman. I’ve also seen a plague, an angry priest, an unsealed tomb... the cause isn’t important. What’s important is the effect: recently dead rising up (usually in a localized area, thank all that is good!) and feasting upon the flesh of their own.Beithir, Big Thing: ?Chatterjaws, Floating Human Skull, Floating Head, Skull, : ?Ghost, Spiritual Thing: ?Old Ghost: ?Baroness Elizra, Ghost: ?Skeleton, Abomination: ?Thaco, Man, Curiousy Unique Creature, Ghost Possessing Abandoned Armor, Fallen Fighting Spirit That Hasn't Realized its Body is Gone, Armor, Suit of Armor, Spirit of the Dead: ?Monster of Perf Crater, The Mayor's Monster, Vampire: ?Shen, Zombie: ?Undead: ?Ghoul: ?</blockquote>

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