Shriekling

z shriekling Hitchhiker's Guide: Stable (0.F-3) - [ shriekling ] Experimental - [ shriekling ]
Hit Points	20
Species	zombie
Default Faction	zombie
Size	dog sized
Weight	40.75 kg
Material	flesh
Phase	flesh
Speed	95
Combat
Melee Sk	2
Damage	2d2 bash + 1 cut
Dodge Sk	1
Protection
Bash Armor	0
Cut Armor	0
Other
Special Ab	SHRIEK, scratch
SA Cooldown	5 turns, 15 turns
Aggressiveness	100
Morale	100
Difficulty	3
Flags	SEES, HEARS, SMELLS, STUMBLES, WARM, BLEED, GUILT, BASHES, POISON, NO_BREATHE, REVIVES, BONES
Vision	30
Night Vision	5

“ This heavily mutated child zombie twitches and flails its limbs in painful looking spasms as it runs about. ”

This creature is a dog sized zombie. It's an incompetent fighter with very low hit points. It's a bit slower than you, quite clumsy, has no armor against bashing weapons and no armor against cutting ones (that includes bullets). Its special ability allows it to nothing, every 5 turns; perform a special scratch attack, every 15 turns.

It has extremely high morale and it's totally aggressive. Being a zombie, it's afraid of nothing in particular, and can be angered by nothing in particular.

It can see, can hear noises, is able to smell characters, stumbles around, is warm blooded (it appears in infrared), its attacks can make you bleed, drops your morale when you kill it, can bash destroyable objects in its way (like doors), is poisonous to eat (produces tainted meat when butchered), doesn't breathe (it's not affected by smoke, toxic gases, drowning, etc), resuscitates after a few hours (unless its corpse is either smashed to a pulp or butchered), can produce bones and sinews when butchered, and nothing else.

Being made of flesh, it's vulnerable to nothing in particular.

When it dies, nothing unusual happens. If it is burned to death it can transform into a zombie kinderling.

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• Shrieklings do what kids do best: run around fast and scream. At least they are fragile.
• Killing shrieklings will inflict a morale penalty, so killing lots of them at once is not recommended. If you do not care about loot, lure them into a building and burn it down, killing the zombies inside without any morale penalty. Alternatively, running over them with a vehicle also works. The Psychopath trait also gets rid of the morale penalty.
• Eventually if you kill enough of them (100) the penalty goes away. And the penalty slowly reduces in number the more you kill
• Can shriek for a lot of Noise, just hope their big brother isn't around.
• Added in 0.D (Danny).

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