The Plaguetouched
THE PLAGUETOUCHED The Grinding Dead | What the Rust Leaves Behind ROLE — The ever-present threat. Not a person — the reanimated dead, rebuilt by
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THE PLAGUETOUCHED The Grinding Dead | What the Rust Leaves Behind ROLE — The ever-present threat. Not a person — the reanimated dead, rebuilt by the Cogwork Plague into piston-driven horrors. The soundtrack of the whole world is their low, grinding chug-chug-chug. WHAT THE RUST LEAVES BEHINDWhen a body dies with enough Rust in it, the nanites thread a brass endoskeleton through the meat, lace the muscle with gearing, and light a Steam-Heart — a bio-furnace in the chest that burns anything organic for fuel. The self is gone; only the drive to feed and spread remains. Only destroying the Steam-Heart stops one for good — everything else just slows it. Sound draws them. They are patient, and they do not sleep. GRINDERS — the common dead Shambling corpses whose arms end in fused, spinning gear-teeth and blades. Weak alone; they come in swarms, drawn to any noise, and kill by sheer number and the meat-grinder of their limbs. STOKERS — the heavy Massive, plague-bloated hulks armored in fused iron plate, their over-stoked Steam-Heart glowing furnace-hot through a cracked ribcage. Slow, but nearly unstoppable — you cannot out-muscle one, and the heart is buried deep behind the plate. TICKERS — the fast Lean, stripped-down bodies sprinting on spidery piston-legs, jaws and claws honed sharp. They hunt in packs, announced only by a rhythmic tick-tick-tick at the edge of hearing. You cannot outrun them; they do not tire. RUST-CURSED — the environmental Corroded through, weeping acid and venting plague-spores with every step — the Choking Smog made flesh. Dangerous even to strike: melee one and its leaking corrosion eats your blade, your gear, and you.
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