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Zimbo


The name may have given it away a little already but they’re just zombies. They’re clinically dead human bodies, corpses, decomposing and rotting and in some cases falling apart. They don’t feel, they don’t think, they don’t need sleep or nourishment (indeed, zimbo’s will not try to eat your brain) and they also very rarely make moaning, groaning sounds (more of a sighing, panting noise you won’t even hear until you’re pretty upclose). What they do is follow people around like mindless puppets and cling on them, trying to pull them into the forest and/or swamps.

Strenghts: their strength depends on how far their body’s been decomposed because – as you may have guessed – a 300 year old body with one leg and nearly no muscle tissue left simply isn’t capable of doing much damage.
There is another danger about them though; their bodies secrete an unknown kind of taste-, smell- and colorless fluid which is toxic to people. Nothing to the point where your skin starts melting but it does cause a rash-like irritation, and after a certain amount of contact with it (think along the lines of exterior contact with it for over an hour, swallowing it or something like that) you start experiencing a allover malaise. Symptoms of a mild case would be comparable to a heavy cold, symptoms of a severe case can be temporary paralysis and loss of senses. The slime very rarely has lethal results though, except possibly if the victim in question already was in a very bad medical state.
In the worst case scenario it will take a healthy person half a week to fully recover from all the symptoms of the slime, in mild cases one day and a good night sleep will do.

Weaknesses: except their lack of mental and physical abilities they don’t have a real weakness. Cutting their head off doesn’t stop them, they’ll still keep going if you set them on fire…. But their individual body parts don’t continue to move on. So cutting it into a lot of little pieces or removing muscles so it has nothing to move its skeleton around with anymore does the trick.

Appearance: they look pretty much like you would after dying in a forest and being left there for a while. Some of them are missing arms or legs, even heads, eyes and tongues. They don’t really pay any attention to their appearance so they’re likely to have ripped up clothes with leaves and bugs in it, and smell like rotting meat, swamp or both (and possibly more).

Extra – bog bodies: despite people dying in the forests for centuries now, it’s not unlikely to run into intact zimbo’s. This could be because they’re new to the collection of unlucky dead guys of the forest, or because their bog bodies. This is a different kind of zimbo, a zimbo + sortoff)
(( If you don’t know what a normal, real-world bog body is or how they come to be: click here ))
Bog Their bodies are well preserved by environmental conditions and actually have more strength as they did when they were still alive – about 2 times as much. Other than that their the same as normal zimbo’s.