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The Drowned, the Crew Below
"What the sea takes, it keeps fresh."The drowned is a sailor the sea took and a necromancer came to take back. Fisherman, deckhand or pirate, drowning makes no distinction, and neither does the zombie raised from it: nothing of the man remains, not even his sea legs. But cold water keeps the flesh. Where a corpse on land rots within weeks, a drowned one lasts for seasons, and those left forgotten in the still water of a hold or a cove end up crusted with shells, like an old hull.Appearance
You spot it. A figure comes out of the water with a heavy step, and the water does not leave it. The skin has swollen, pale, drawn tight to splitting, the belly enormous. A pistol still hangs at its belt. The fixed eyes look at nothing. Under the skin of the belly, something moves, and it isn't the drowned.The ambush. The water is waist-deep, black, without a ripple. Your legs bump against soft shapes you take for sacks or coils of rope. One of them won't be pushed aside. It rises with a crackle of shells, and a cold hand is already closing on your arm.Combat
How it fights. It never draws the weapon it carries. It grabs and drags toward the water. The shells grown into its skin turn blades aside, and some are covered from head to toe. Its bloated flesh absorbs the rest. Every blow that pierces it sends the stagnant water inside spurting out, and with it whatever lives there: worms, larvae, eels, sometimes worse.How to fight it. Stay on dry ground: on land it is slow and heavy, in the water it is at home. Aim for the joints, where the shells don't hold, and never stand in front of the wound you open. Water magic slides right off it, because you cannot drown what is already drowned.
A Drowned Crew Zombie token depicting a large, bloated humanoid corpse wading through shallow water, wearing tattered clothing with visible lacerations, barnacles, and water-soaked seaweed clinging to its body. This undead creature token is suited for aquatic or coastal encounter scenarios, including swamp ambushes, flooded dungeon chambers, or riverside combat situations. Compatible with major virtual tabletop platforms such as Foundry VTT, Roll20, and Fantasy Grounds, it fits RPG systems including D&D 5e, Pathfinder, and Call of Cthulhu.
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