I really loved the mummy in Kevin’s No Theme Thursday, and that inspired me to make her a boyfriend. Covered in foul disease, because mummies do be like that. So this is an entry into this week’s NTT from a prior week’s NTT. Because my schedule do be like that, apparently!

While I don’t necessarily have mummies in my story, its a fantasy setting where monsters casually roam the woods looking for adventurers to fight. So why can’t a mummy join in the festivities I ask you? No reason at all, before you attempt to answer that! So while it may not have any (air quotes) sense or reason (end air quotes) to exist, you cannot deny that mummies are absolutely the kind of monster that shows up, locks their soulless eyes upon you, and commences with the violence we assume all mummies harbor deep within their rotting breast.

I really got inspired by the awesome looking mummy Kevin bashed out, looking at you like a decrepit librarian about to make you overdue for having your innards shoved into canopic jars. Seriously, the casual disdain on that pharaoh says “Clearly, you cannot read the Do Not Pillage cartouche on the door…” and I am here for it. Only not actually here for pillaging tombs. That’s how you get mummy curses. (Future edit note: May I put the picture up here, Kevin?)

So, speaking of mummy curses, I wanted to put one as a monster in my game. My favorite cheesy mummy movie, Being From Another Planet, had a mummified alien with a really nasty disease touch and a tendency to bop college co-eds who have its precious shiny MacGuffins. So the main attack of any mummy should be to spread foul, debilitating diseases because that’s canon. I am still playing with the wording, but any poison damage this one does cannot be healed up in combat, because its that nasty. Which, given one of the main characters is a healer, is quite the conundrum!

The other thing I wanted to play with is that mummies simply don’t die. This one regenerates, and if it has any living allies, it won’t die either. I assume once you deal with its friends (do mummies really make lasting friendships? I mean, they’re everlasting, but are they open to that? Asking for a friend), you can knock it over and set it on fire, but in the heat of combat, it is going to be touching you with its nasty fingers and being a general pain in the ankh. So I decided to add passive abilities to the game and the Scummy Mummy gets the first one.

So yeah! More monsters please, I need them!