In the darkness, the creature's pallid skin catches your eye; it's almost translucent with black, spiderwebbing veins. They sit crouched, but as you near they rise to their full, staggering height. Gaunt and spindly, with a hunched, skeletal frame, the creature that may have once been human opens its bloody maw to reveal rows of jagged, yellow teeth. A walking corpse, with desiccated flesh pulled taut across warped bones, though the cunning in its eyes gives you pause.