Worlds Numberless and Strange
The zombification process usually produces a misfiring wreck of a nervous system, good only for shambling and groaning. But for some, the process ignites new connections between nerves and muscles, hastening them well beyond human norms. A single fit defender can usually hold off a single normal zed with a baseball bat or similar implement. Not so a zombie sprinter, whose speed, ferocity, and crazed screams can make its attack seem unstoppable.
Motive: Hunger (for flesh, cerebrospinal fluid, certain human hormones, and so on)
Environment (Zed America | Weird Science, Magic, or Psionics): Almost anywhere, usually alone or in groups of four
Health: 12
Damage Inflicted: Minor wound (3 points)
Movement: Long
Modifications: Speed defense as level 4.
Combat: A zombie sprinter attacks with its bite and claws. If its melee attack deals damage, it begins an amplification attack, making another attack as part of the same action. It can keep making additional attacks as part of the same action until it misses or until it makes five attacks as a single action. Once a zombie sprinter pulls off an amplification attack that strings together three or more attacks as part of a single action, it is too tired to do it again for about a minute. If an attack would reduce the zombie sprinter's health to 0, it does so only if the number rolled in the attack was an even number; otherwise, the zombie is reduced to 1 point of health instead. Sprinters can see in the dark at long range. Sprinters are infectious.
Interaction: Sprinters are always hungry and move at maximum speed toward living creatures. They do not reason, cannot speak, and never stop pursuing identified prey unless something else edible comes closer.
Use: The sound of rapidly pattering feet is heard every night, echoing out of the darkness from somewhere near the abandoned highway. What could it be?
GM Intrusion: The character has a hard time dealing with the fast-twitch reflexes of the zombie sprinter. Until he successfully hits the sprinter with an attack, the difficulty of all his attacks on it is increased by one step