Flayed Corpse and Ghouls

Combat - Flayed Corpse and Ghouls

Encounter Difficulty: Standard
Victories Awarded: 1
Expected Party: 5 heroes at level 1 with 1 Victory each

Enemies:

Group	Creatures
1	Flayed corpse
2	Two ghouls
3	Two ghouls
4	Two ghouls

Balancing:

If you have fewer or more than 5 heroes, modify the encounter in the following ways:

Number of heroes	Modification
3	Remove four ghouls from the encounter.
4	Remove two ghouls from the encounter.
6	Add two ghouls (in their own initiative group) to the encounter.

Flayed Corpse

Undead	Level 1 Elite Brute
	EV 12

Size	Speed	Stamina	Stability	Free Strike
2	5	80	2	5

Immunity: —	Weakness: —
Movement: Climb

Might	Agility	Reason	Intuition	Presence
+2	+1	+0	+0	+0

Tendon Lash 2d10+2	Signature Ability
Melee, Strike, Weapon	Main Action
Melee 2	Two creatures or objects

≤ 11: 7 damage

12-16: 10 damage; A < 1 grabbed

17+: 12 damage; A < 2 grabbed

Effect: The flayed corpse can have up to four targets grabbed at once.

Drain (3 Malice)
Melee	Maneuver
Melee 2	Each creature grabbed

Effect: The flayed corpse deals 3 damage to each creature they have grabbed, and regains Stamina equal to the damage dealt.

Meat Shield (1 Malice)
—	Triggered Action
Special	One enemy

Trigger: The flayed corpse is targeted by a strike while they have a creature grabbed.

Effect: The flayed corpse halves the damage from the strike. The grabbed creature or object takes the remaining damage. If the flayed corpse has more than one creature grabbed, the flayed corpse chooses which grabbed creature takes the damage.

Ghoul

Undead	Level 1 Horde Harrier
	EV 3

Size	Speed	Stamina	Stability	Free Strike
1M	7	15	0	1

Immunity Corruption 1, poison 1	Weakness —
Movement —

Might	Agility	Reason	Intuition	Presence
+0	+2	+0	+2	+0

Razor Claws 2d10+2	Signature Ability
Charge, Melee, Strike, Weapon	Main Action
Melee 1	One creature or object

≤ 11: 3 damage

12-16: 4 damage

17+: 5 damage; M < 2 bleeding (save ends)

Leap
—	Maneuver
Self	Self

Effect: The ghoul jumps up to 3 squares. If they land on a size 1 enemy, that enemy is knocked prone and the ghoul can make a free strike against them.

Arise

The first time the ghoul is reduced to 0 Stamina by damage that isn't fire damage or holy damage and their body isn't destroyed, they instead have 1 Stamina and fall prone.

Hunger

When the ghoul uses the Charge main action, they gain a +2 bonus to speed until the end of their turn.

Undead Malice

At the start of any undead's turn, you can spend malice to activate one of the following features.

Ravenous Horde (2 Malice)

At the end of this round, each hero not already adjacent to one or more undead is beset by two rotting zombies who burst up from the ground to appear in adjacent unoccupied spaces. Each zombie is winded. This feature can't be used two rounds in a row.

Paranormal Fling (3 Malice)

Up to three unattended objects on the encounter map rise to float 1 square off the ground. Each object is then pulled 5 squares toward the nearest enemy within 3 squares of the object.

The Grasping, the Hungry (5 Malice)

Ravenous and rotting undead arms burst forth from 9 connected squares of a vertical or horizontal surface. Any creature who ends their turn adjacent to an affected square makes an Agility test.

≤ 11: 5 damage; restrained (save ends)

12-16:5 damage; restrained (EoT)

17+: 5 damage

Effect: While restrained this way, a creature takes 1d6 damage at the start of each of their turns.

Dread March (7+ Malice)

Up to four undead in the encounter move up to their speed and can make a free strike. The number of undead affected increases by 1 for each additional Malice spent on this feature. If an undead is reduced to 0 Stamina during this dread march, they don't die until the march is resolved.