Rotter

Overview
Rotters are the aftermath of a decomposing body left out to hang just too long. Their occurrence is considered due to poor treatment of corpses. The overwhelming aroma of rotting flesh follows these creatures and are their usual calling card. They spend most of their time feasting on other rotting bodies though won’t allow the living to go unnoticed.

They’re faster then most Necrophages, but in agility they lack strength, normally being cut down very simply. When you thought it couldn’t get any worse, in death or a critical state they begin to choke up, the rotting muscles constricting as the decomposing body fills up, and soon hazardly releases a poisonous gas in which the Rotter explodes into a mess.

Habitat
Battlefields or any location where a large number of corpses are in shallow graves or left out to rot.

ET Notes
When zombies aren't doing it for ya, you're feeling like you want more than the average hack and slash of a vodnik, and you want a lot of them, you have rotters to turn to. These creatures find their utility in small numbers, but high toxicity. If you can manage to get a party to play out the effects of poison gas, these creatures are fantastic to stress the condition of an area (decaying, bad mojo, etc).

Numbers for these creatures can go as high as you like, and in pve they may be represented as baby zombies or pigmen due to the swarm mentality and speed. The average spread for poison gas is round about 30ft max for one creature, which will instill paralyzation and asphyxiation to any unlucky enough to be caught within.

Loot on these creatures is negligible, they're status effect mooks in all actuality and are often nearly naked due to the rot which made them the creatures they are. Still, don't be afraid to throw two minas in the mix here and there, perhaps someone covered the body's eyes with coins as a gesture of safe passage gone wrong.

An example encounter may take place on old battle fields (about a week after the fact), with droves of the creatures rising from the moss and rot left to be stagnant. This also gives good opportunity for a super rotter, a creature bloated beyond belief only held together by its armor. Apply status effects of speed, haste, and wear leather armor if planning on pvping as one of these creatures.