d100 | Result |
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1 |
They’re still alive, just barely. |
2 |
It’s undead and playing dead, waiting for one of the living to come by to attack. |
3 |
It’s carrying a contagious disease. |
4 |
It’s been covered in glue. |
5 |
It’s a lifelike mannequin. |
6 |
On closer inspection it looks exactly like you. |
7 |
It’s boobytrapped with explosives. |
8 |
The coins in its pocket weren’t minted with any known metal. |
9 |
It’s being used as a lure by a cunning predator. |
10 |
Their friends are looking for them and they won’t take kindly to looters. |
11 |
It’s someone famous. |
12 |
There’s no apparent cause of death. |
13 |
The body’s already been looted. |
14 |
Someone has stripped the body and replaced everything it was wearing and carrying with other stuff. |
15 |
The body is floppy and has no bones. |
16 |
It’s been covered in flammable oil. |
17 |
Everything they’re carrying is a convincing but less valuable counterfeit. |
18 |
Everything they’re carrying is of high quality and more valuable than other similar items. |
19 |
They’ve got a bounty on their head. If you bring their head in you can collect the bounty. |
20 |
They’re still alive and in good health, but are practicing for a role as a dead body in a play. |
21 |
Something’s removed its teeth and fingertips. |
22 |
A vicious parasite has been incubating in its guts and will emerge and attack if the body’s disturbed. |
23 |
All the body’s valuables have been stuffed down its throat. |
24 |
It immediately decays to a late stage of decomposition when touched. |
25 |
It smells terrible and the smell will cling to you for hours after you touch it. |
26 |
A swarm of small scavengers are eating it. |
27 |
There is a wind-up key in their back. If turned they’ll return to life. |
28 |
The first person to touch them will have a vision of how they died. |
29 |
It’s got no face. |
30 |
Something has decapitated it and stitched on someone else’s head. |
31 |
Some of its organs have been surgically removed. |
32 |
Anyone who loots the body will be haunted by its ghost. |
33 |
The words: “TRESPASSERS BEWARE” have been carved into the body. |
34 |
The body’s been implanted with galvanic wiring that make it twitch and grab when touched. The wiring is worth 10 silver if stripped out, and is a good conductor. |
35 |
The body smells irresistibly delicious. Save vs. magic to not take a bite if you don’t immediately back off. |
36 |
The body’s been enchanted to repeat a speech promising a reward to the person who finds the one who killed them. |
37 |
The body is a glamour, and so is everything it carries. One hour after being found, it’ll all disappear. |
38 |
The body has an important political message tattooed on it. Some of the message has been flayed off. |
39 |
The body’s cause of death is implausibly incongruent with its environment. |
40 |
They’re still alive, and conducting a sting operation on necrophiliacs. |
41 |
The body’s hand is pointed towards a secret door or compartment. |
42 |
The body’s on top of the pressure plate of a trap. |
43 |
The body is unnaturally, painfully cold to the touch. |
44 |
The body’s anatomy is subtly wrong. |
45 |
The body shrivels and shrinks every time it’s touched. |
46 |
The body bloats and swells every time it’s touched. 1-in-6 chance each time it bursts in a flood of putrescence. |
47 |
One of the items it’s carrying is cursed to induce a deathlike stupour. When removed from the body it will spring back to life and the looter will fall unconscious. |
48 |
One of the body’s fingers has been carved down to the bone into a key. It unlocks something nearby. |
49 |
The body is being used as a test by a very dumb goblin hiding nearby to learn what’s worth looting from a corpse. |
50 |
They are several smaller corpses posed in the same outfit to look like a larger corpse. |
51 |
It’s been embalmed. The embalming materials are quite valuable if extracted. |
52 |
Makeup has been applied to the body to make it look fresher. |
53 |
The body’s been enchanted to pronounce a curse on looters. |
54 |
It bears a familial resemblance to someone you’ve met. |
55 |
It changes in appearance every time you look away. |
56 |
If you loot it it’ll appear next to you the next time you sleep. |
57 |
It’s a mimic posing as a corpse. |
58 |
The body bears the marks of necromancy and will rise as one of the undead unless blessed, or dismembered or otherwise destroyed. |
59 |
The body appears to be swiftly decomposing in reverse. |
60 |
They’re still alive, and are hunting ghouls using themself as bait. They’ll start off assuming anyone touching them is a ghoul. |
61 |
The body has a magic diary that records everything that happens to and around it. |
62 |
The body has been seasoned with expensive spices. |
63 |
The body’s skin has been tanned into leather while it’s still attached. |
64 |
The body’s eyes follow you and never blink. |
65 |
The body’s weirdly heavy. |
66 |
Decomposers and scavengers haven’t and won’t touch the body. |
67 |
If you loot the body it will become a recurring figure in your dreams until you sell off the loot. |
68 |
The body’s been dusted with mutagenic spores. |
69 |
The body’s loyal pet viper guards it still from inside a pocket. |
70 |
A faulty Speak With Dead spell was cast on the body. If touched it’ll scream its life story until its vocal chords rupture. |
71 |
The body’s been smeared with poisonous slime. |
72 |
Any coins the body carries are stamped with its own face. |
73 |
Any coins the body carries have been amateurishly clipped. |
74 |
The body’s face is frozen in a paroxysm of fear, and its hair is still standing on end. |
75 |
The body is that of a missing person, and there is a reward on offer for news of their fate. |
76 |
The body falls apart along invisible seams when touched. |
77 |
It’s an unusual zombie which will imprint on and obey the first person to touch it. |
78 |
When touched its flesh will slough off its bones. |
79 |
On closer examination the body’s clothes are organic parts of it. |
80 |
They’re still alive and are taking a nap. |
81 |
The body is currently under clairvoyant observation by a self-righteous wizard. |
82 |
The body, the floor it’s lying on, and its belongings have all partially fused together, and must be cut apart if they are to be retrieved. |
83 |
The body’s blood has been replaced with imperishable honey. This is quite valuable if drained, and could also be used as an encumbrance-efficient ration. |
84 |
The body is slowly being carried away by ants. |
85 |
The body’s possessions are wildly anachronistic. |
86 |
The body is only dead while observed (seen, heard, smelled, etc.). When unobserved, they return to life. |
87 |
Its brain has been messily slurped out one ear. |
88 |
The wealth it’s carrying was stolen from someone dangerous who wants it all back. |
89 |
The body is a hollow skin that collapses when touched. |
90 |
The body has been colonized by an intelligent fungus that intends to use it as a vessel to communicate with and go about humanity. |
91 |
They bore a supernatural debt which will fall on the first person to touch their body. |
92 |
The body is not dead, but metamorphosing. |
93 |
The body has many minor wounds, and one will transfer to the person who touches them or takes one of their possessions each time they do so. |
94 |
It’s carrying something that used to belong to you. |
95 |
They’re someone you used to know but forgot until now. |
96 |
The body bursts into butterflies when touched. Their possessions remain intact. |
97 |
When touched the seed planted in the body’s chest will immediately sprout to full size. |
98 |
When touched the body will violently expel a pool of acid from all orifices. |
99 |
The body’s caught in a non-localized time loop. Every 1d6 hours it and its possessions will return to the condition it was found in, and its possessions will return to their positions on the body. |
100 |
They are still alive but suffering from Cotard delusion. |
“I Search The Body” Complications (d100)
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