Corpses in Interactive Fiction

A1RL0CK (2023)

> x corpse (@ Terrace Restaurant, North Side)

[if badge untaken] The first thing that catches your eye is a rectangular badge pinned to the man's shirt. [end if]

The eyes are dull and appear to be looking in your direction. The neck is evidently broken, it seems, as the result of a struggle. That, or misfortune has taken a formidable aim.

> x figure (@ A Room Like No Other)

It's Nurse Nelly. You know her well, even if her current features are irreparably compromised. Something has dug a furrow on her, a sort of abyss that is born in her chest and dies in her face, showing the underlying flesh.

You remember that she was your friend, that she spoke kindly to you. She was relaxing to listen to and even more to touch.

> x bodies (@ Quarantine)

They are children. Dozens of children, piled up like puppets.

Some have malformations beyond the monstrous: arms at the end of which the hands have no fingers, faces with disproportionate features, with eyes that look like wounds, legs joined in a single limb that ends with a tail fin covered in moss. And many others simply switched off, without a legible expression, as if they had gone during sleep. Someone still wears a suit similar to yours, with codes printed on it.

According to Cain (2022)

> x corpse (@ Corpse)

It is Crado, a highly experienced Indagator. He was sent by the Academy before you.

Both his legs are broken. He must have suffered the injury climbing down the well, crawled here, and expired. Such are the risks of your chosen profession…but still. To die in this manner is a waste.

Acid Rain (2021)

> x body (@ Bedroom)

Oh, my god. What a gruesome sight. It's a partially decomposed body. You guess it's the body of the mad scientist.

Arborea (2022)

> x body (@ Funeral Ship)

He would be pining for the fjords if he wasn't actually in them. Clearly an important fellow; otherwise Vikings would soon get fed up of burning a boat every time one of them died.

Ariadne in Aeaea (2016)

> x bodies (@ Pebble beach at the foot of the cliffs)

The corpses are both bloated and whitish, having spent many days at sea. You take a look at the nearest one. It is a man, that much you know, with a sword hung from a tasseled shoulder belt. The weapon is of good quality and northern make, so you are looking at an Achaean officer, may the Goddess have mercy on his heretic heart. You grimace. A ship this size carried more warriors, obviously, perhaps thirty or forty. Perhaps most of them were swept to the sea in the gale, or jumped out in terror, or died here on the beach and were thrown back into the ocean by whoever found the wreck.

Aunts and Butlers (2006)

> x corpse (@ Drawing room)

Not pretty.

Babel (1997)

> x mice (@ Lab Hall III)

The mice are all very thin, and you assume they must have died of malnutrition. Their black eyes are open and stare in skewed directions, making you suddenly very uncomfortable.

> x body (@ Cage)

You take a step towards the large creature, and think you see one of its multi-fold wings move a fraction. Your heart freezes. Was it a trick of the light, or might the thing be alive? If it is, judging by the stained white talons on the tips of its wings and the oddly constructed jags of its beak, you don't want to be here. Indeed, if this thing broke open its own cage in desperation, its strength is to be reckoned with.

A borderline case: is this creature dead or not?.

Because you're mine (2016)

> x corpse (@ gallows tree)

It's been hanging here for some time; it looks almost mummified.

Being the Ending of the Beginning (2011)

> x bodies (@ Apocalypse)

The former McDonalds customers are piled here in front of the exit to the mall. You'll neer be able to move them in time.

> x bodies (@ Ghosts of the Past)

Shopped til they dropped.

Bio (2003)

> x body (@ Men's Bathroom)

As you take a closer look at the body, you recognize the face. It's Carl, your buddy and co-worker. It looks as though he's been shot in the forehead.

Birmingham IV (2018)

> x body (@ Octagonal Chamber)

Dead at Phil's hands, Sir Lawrence has measured his length on the ground. He was caught in the middle of his transformation to wolf, and is still recognisably Sir Lawrence, just with tearing claws and enormous teeth.

Bloodless on the Orient Express (2011)

> x body (@ Classy Compartment)

Her expensive gowns indicate elevated social status. Which won't help her anymore since she's dead.

> x body (@ Restaurant Carriage)

All this valuable blood! You have to find a way to preserve is somehow!

The Body (2003)

> x body (@ A River Runs By It)

It's a dead body. A big man, bearded, but he's immobile, and stone cold. Dead. Dead as a doornail. Well, that's why you made the trip. Hardly seems worth it now.

Bored Ladders (2011)

> x corpse (@ Chicken Room)

Nah, it's not an object.

Brain Guzzlers from Beyond! (2015)

> x body (@ Pool of Light)

Even Officer Wilcox didn't deserve to die like this! The one consolation is that his brain appears to have been pulled out through his ear before the car hit the wall, so at least he didn't suffer. He's been splattered by that greenish-yellow goo the Brain Guzzlers leave everywhere, and you spot a few flecks of something solid in it. On closer inspection, they appear to be fragments of eggshell.

By the Lake (2015)

> x body (@ Edge of the Woods)

[as Alex:] They say sleeping people are beautiful, and you always thought that was a lie. Sleeping people are ugly. And that's how you look, one eye half-closed, the other staring mindlessly, mouth slightly agape. Your torso a mess of blood, with something blue shimmering inside the wound. Ugly.
[as Paul:] How ugly she looks, now that you don't love her anymore.

Capture Santa! (2007)

> x corpse (@ hidden room)

This foul smelling thing must be the reason the bathrooms smell so bad. It's falling apart, and the guy was killed by being repeatedly bashed in the face with a blunt object. Somehow, you doubt you should ask Matt about this, as this guy's death was probably the result of pissing Matt off one too many times..

> x dead Matt (@ Main Hall)

You've killed your friend. That makes you sad.

Chronicle Play Torn (2004)

> x corpse (@ Basement)

He lies dead in the coffin, with calmness on its face, its hands lying next to its body. He wears [if has gown] a black ceremonial gown, and [end if] an amulet made of a dead spider in its neck. His body is covered with a blanket of black flowers; everything looks like as if he would be put in the coffin just minutes ago.

Cough Cough (2003)

> x body (@ Alley behind Casino)

A close look at the body and you can see that the man is dead. You can also see that the man is Joh Johaneson, famous movie actor!

The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)

> x body (@ Friend's prison cell)

His body is light from so many years on prison fare. The guards had closed his eyes, but his hair is still long and wild about his face. The body is cold.

Cragne Manor (2018)

> x corpse (@ Backwater Jail)

This withered and horrible corpse will be hard to identify as the poor soul seems to have been dead for a good while now. You're pretty sure it was once female as the clothes, while dirty and torn, are a feminine style.

> x pigs (@ Outside the Plant)

Each pig's as pale as a drowned cadaver, skin shriveled and stuck to the bones underneath. Their corpses are covered with tiny punctures.

> x rat corpse (@ Dusty Office)

It's the size of a large cat or a small dog, but it is definitely a rat. It is completely dried and its tail is missing, but it shows no other signs of decay. Dust is matted in what remains of its fur.

> x corpses (@ Bathroom of the Meatpacking Plant ... in Space)

There's a bunch of frozen space corpses in low orbit around the bathroom, most of them in meatpacking employee coveralls. Wow, no wonder they had people stop using the toilet. [if Ed wears coveralls] One corpse's coveralls has a name-patch that says "Ed" on the front, and "Janitor" on the back. Guess that corpse is named Ed. Was named Ed. Do corpses still have people names? Hmm. [else] Ed's corpse floats nearby, bare-assed and frozen. [end if]

[if Ed wears coveralls]On a loop of Ed's coveralls, you see a pair of keys.[end if] [if note examined]Presumably that same corpse is the "Edward" mentioned in that handwritten note you found on the other side of the portal-toilet.[end if]

> x Ed (@ Bathroom of the Meatpacking Plant ... in Space)

A [if naked]buck-naked[end if] frozen corpse floating in space, whose name (based on the completely circumstantial but compelling evidence of the name patch on his coveralls) is Ed. And if you believe the other words on the coveralls [if naked]that no longer cover his frozen dead buttocks[end if], Ed is also the janitor of the meatpacking plant. Was the janitor. Maybe still is; the janitor being a [if naked]naked[end if] dead guy floating in space would explain why nobody's cleaned all that graffiti off the stall. [if note examined]And it's just a guess, but he's probably the Edward mentioned in that note you found tucked into the vintage issue of Juggs on the back of the can.[end if]

[if not naked:]There's a set of keys attached to Ed's coveralls.

> x woman (@ Forestland)

You want to understand more about what's happened here, or why, or who this is, but it's dark and you're numb and afraid. Your mind feels like it's retreated under a rock.

> x bodies (@ Study)

Insect corpses are strewn around. Perhaps someone was recently here, spraying a can of insecticide around. Perhaps the insects just breed and die fast enough in here, and decay slow enough, for you to see the bodies before they decay into dust. Anyway, you can see a daddy long-legs or two.

> x mass (@ Steeple)

As you approach the misshapen mass, your gut wrenches as you realize it is, of course, a corpse. . . a hideously deformed corpse.

So misshapen is this poor figure that it's difficult to tell where its head ends and its torso begins. Its back is horrendously humped, its face an amorphous mass of tumors with sunken holes for eyes. What appears to be its mouth is open in a silent scream.

Hard to say how long the corpse has been here in the steeple, but it seems ancient, skin and clothes desiccated and thin like parchment, somehow mummified. It's slouched--or sitting?--on the floor in one corner of the steeple.

On the corpse's lap rests an open tome. Another book lies near the corpse: A worn, leather-bound journal.

[if corpse is wearing pendant:] Hanging around the corpse's oversized neck is a leather cord and pendant.

> x bodies (@ Constabulary Road)

The bodies of the paleontologist and his student sprawl lifeless in the bottom of the excavation site. Both have exsanguinated from a pickaxe wound to the head.

> x weasel (@ Family Crypt)

You have no idea what happened to the rest of Uncle Harvawell, and you really have no idea why there is a mummified weasel with large yellow teeth next to his head.

Darkiss Chapter 1: the Awakening (2015)

> x corpse (@ Bats room)

The corpse is in an advanced state of decay: it's difficult to recognize the forms and the lineaments of the beautiful lady who had the honour to rest near you in your hideout. Now, she's naked, bald, with hands and feet tied, a big "V" branded on her forehead and the mouth open in a mute scream of desperation. Before being buried alive, Sabrina must have suffered every kind of atrocity: these tortures must be revenged as your horrific execution must.

The Day I died (2013)

> x body (@ Ronathan Rasks' cell)

Without going into too much detail, it looks like he died a humiliating and avoidable death.

The Day I stabbed Stalin (2010)

> x corpse (@ Cemetery)

Some random guy. You didn't kill him.

> x corpse (@ In the Swimming Pool)

It's Uncle Wally's soaked corpse.

> x Tony's corpse (@ Garden Area)

A block robed guy, shot right square between the eyes. All that puppy hunting finally paid off.

Down, the Serpent and the Sun (2015)

> x warriors (@ Atop the Pyramid)

Rent limb from bloody limb, none remain intact as individuals.

> x corpses (@ Stomach)

The corpses are tangled in partially digested heaps: humans, but also bears, wolves, horses, elephants, rhinoceri, bulls, stags, and assorted lesser creatures.

Dr Horror's House of Terror (2021)

> x body (@ Studio Lot South)

The cultist sprawls, limbs splayed, on the ground. [if robe untaken, add:] He wears a blood stained crimson robe.

> x corpse (@ The Den of the Beast)

[if 1st time] The corpse is real! For a moment, you had hoped it was just a prop. But no! You look closer. You recognise the face! It's Davor! Davor Slyzvak, your friend who had been working on this film. He's been half eaten! You thought you hadn't seen him around because he'd just been busy. [end if]

Davor has definitely been gnawed on. He's wearing some form of sacking tunic, but it has been shredded from some vicious attack and reduced to strips. Tied around his waist is an open pouch. [if coin untaken, add:] You see a gleam of silver inside it.

> x body (@ The Ruins of Men-nefer)

You don't even want to look. At least the red uniform is hiding most of the blood!

The Dragon Diamond (2017)

> x body (@ Outskirts)

Leons headless bloody body lies sprawled on the ground.

Eat Me (2017)

> x corpses (@ Dungeon)

Bless their little dead bodies. They couldn't have been older than you when they gasped their last. Five children altogether have perished in this dungeon, twisted on different devices. That trio tangled on the wheel could be mistaken for a single mass.

> x corpse (@ Dungeon (west cell))

Born with a silver spoon in her mouth, as you might guess from her looks. Still elegant and refined even after death's scraped her flesh down to near nothing. [if has spoon] She certainly perished with a spoon in her mouth: it's still there, jabbed right down her throat. Impossible to eat with that impediment. [else] Now that you've pulled the real spoon from her throat, however, she's still not about to stir again.

> x corpse (@ Dungeon (east cell))

A peasant woman, by her dress, begrimed with dirty hands outstretched as though to scrape the pastry when its shell was shut. Little good that did with toothpicks stabbed through her top to bottom. Her flesh has long since shriveled to the bone.

> x body (@ Creamery)

Who knows how large this fellow was in life. His body's swollen like a sponge. His skin's slick and gelatinous. His face has puffed enough to lose what features constitute a face. Leave him alone, my dear. You've more enticing things to eat than corpses left to rot down here.

> x corpses (@ Fondue Fens)

Not fresh corpses by any means. These have been left to rot for such a span their skin's shrunken, muscles withered to bone-stuck strings. Enemies all, and planted for a cautionary wood. Challenge the castle: here's what will happen.

Elephants and the Afterlife (2000)

> x corpse (@ Chinese Restaurant)

It's you alright. Never mind, eh?
[if holding peanut:] Your corpse appears to be holding a peanut.

Escape from the Arboretum (2002)

> x corpse (@ in a crypt)

Vlad is a bloated, pasty faced shopkeeper who has grown fat from exploiting
everyone in his path and feeding on the souls of the innocent.
He is currently sleeping soundly.

Everybody Loves a Parade (1997)

> x dead gerbil (@ Paint Shop)

Its gerbil soul has long since traveled to gerbil heaven. For a corpse, it is amazingly well preserved.

Ferryman's Gate (2020)

> x mouse (@ Spare Room)

The fat little mouse is dead. You don't care for it, but Charlie loves this kind of stuff.

Fido and The Dead Body (2000)

> x dead body (@ Lower Hallway)

It's a dead body that you're trying to get rid of...

First Person (2014)

> x corpse (@ basement)

I didn't like the look of him, so I didn't wait. That was less than a month ago, maybe. At this point, half his bones should be showing.

The Four Eccentrics (2019)

> x Ancient Expert (@ Turret Bedroom)

Her withered body lies limp in your arms. She has gone completely still.

Frankenstein Adventure (2004)

> x corpse (@ Graveyard)

You see a [mutilated] corpse.

> x dead man (@ Inside the cemetery gates)

You have found a needle.
You see a fresh liver.
You see a [mutilated] dead man.

Frankenstein's Legacy (1992)

> examine corpse (@ Cemetery)

[if screwdriver unfound:] You find a screwdriver in his pocket.

[if corpse cut and heart not found:] Inside you see the heart and liver.

The corpse has no description at all if there's nothing to find.

> examine dead man (@ Cemetery gates)

[if needle untaken:] You find a needle inside his lapel.

[if man cut and liver untaken:] Inside you see a liver.

The dead man has no description at all if there's nothing to find.

Frozen (1996)

> x corpse (@ Front Yard)

Propped against the stake it was tied too, the body is even worse close up, the skin blistered and blackened, and the sickly sweet smell of burned human flesh is stronger here as well. The closer examination does reveal one thing though, an amulet, fire blackened but still intact, around the neck of the victim.
All that remains of the body is a small pile of ash, even now blowing away in the slight breeze.

Fun and Games (2000)

> x body (@ The North End of the Attic)

You think the guy is dead, his chest is all bloody. He's wearing a blue shirt with a patch that says TOM and then ACE WINDOW CLEANERS. The thing in his hand looks kinda like a squeegee. He still looks mean. And skinny.

Ghost Train (2003)

> x bodies (@ Railway Line)

Bodies, and parts of bodies litter the track. Most have been burned. It is impossible to tell if one of them is Ingrid.

> x corpse (@ Black Railway Carriage No:7)

This is a most foul thing. From what remains of his uniform, this looks like the long dead corpse of the guard. The body has been dead so long it has started to putrify in to the fabric of the seat. Empty eye sockets stare down the carriage. A badge reads, "Ticket Collector."

Guttersnipe: Carnival of Regrets (2017)

> x stillborn clown (@ Head moulding furnace)

Ugh, it's a rubber clown, probably part of some novelty toy. But it's life-size. Or rather, it looks like it was supposed to be. Its torso is stretched like silly putty and it lies in a crumpled heap on the floor.

Halothane (1999)

> x corpse (@ Master bedroom, in your house)

[1st time:] You force yourself to look at the body for a few minutes....
Oh, God.....Gerald!
A second glance serves to dispel your unwarranted fears. Though the man's body does eerily resemble your husband, you're quite sure it isn't him. The man must have been nearing forty, and is greying at the temples. The cause of his death, as far as you can see, is a deep stab wound on the left side of his chest.
[else:] The cadaver of a middle-aged man, stabbed to the heart.

> x Judith (@ Empty Room)

A tall, graceful, middle-aged woman, dressed in black, who is now quite dead.

Igor's Quest (2020)

> x body (@ Gym)

Builder's body.

Probably not a corpse, but where else to list this one?

In The House of Professor Evil: The HAM HOUSE (2006)

> x corpse (@ Cell)

He never saw it coming, but that serves him right for gloating about the "awesome" ham he got at the supermarket, and his plans to make the ham ruler of the universe.

Internal Documents: A Memo (2003)

> x cat carcass (@ Smelly, Mottled, Dim, Dirty Store Room)

Eewww!

Interstellar Pizza Brigade (2016)

> x corpse (@ Nexus)

You see nothing special about the corpse, other than that obviously it's not Lieutenant Hatwonsky's corpse at all but that of an alien having taken his place.

J'dal (2012)

> x Stolas' body (@ Worker's area)

I don't want to.

Keepsake (2011)

> x corpse (@ His Apartment)

He's definitely dead. And you feel nothing. You should be ecstatic, but you feel...nothing.

> x dead Fixer (@ By The Alley)

The Fixer is man man in his his early twenties, wearing a red hoodie with the hood up. You never met him before today, but from what the Greek told you, you know he's the neighborhood go-to guy for either procuring hard to get items or, for that matter, making too conspicuous items disappear of the face of the earth. Payment for services has already been handled via the Greek, so all you have to do is conclude what you set up the meeting for.

Besides all that, he lies dead on the sidewalk. And also stands by the alley, arms folded, looking at you.

Krakatoa Tuna Melt (2002)

> x dead sheep (@ Lonely Hill)

[initially:]
This poor little lamb has lost its way. (baa baa baa)
It tripped and fell, and here he'll stay. (baa baa baa)
A predator ate its flesh away. (baa baa baa)
And now its stomach greets the day. (baa baa baa)

Yeah. You can see its stomach. Ick.
[after stomach removed:]
This poor little lamb has lost its way. (baa baa baa)
It tripped and fell, and here he'll stay. (baa baa baa)
A predator ate its flesh away. (baa baa baa)
Its stomach, too, has gone astray. (baa baa baa)

Last Day (2020)

> x sailor (@ Harbor, Nelsonville)

He's dead. You could tell even before you got close to him, from the way the flies buzzed over his body. And in any case, you seen enough pale, bloated, rotting corpses over the last few weeks to be pretty good at telling them apart from the living.

This guy is a bit much even for you, though. His eyes have rotted or been eaten already, and the flies laid eggs in there, and the eggs have hatched. It makes even your skin crawl.

You briefly wonder if flies will survive the comet. Probably, you guess.

> x corpses (@ Yaquina Bluffs)

The bodies of people who decided to end the world -- for them, at least -- on their own timetable. You don't feel right calling them cowardly, or courageous for that matter

> x shapes (@ Central Forest Trail)

Nothing much, just the corpses of a large number of suiciders, hanging from the trees. Well, you hope all of them were suicides anyway. In any case, nothing you haven't seen since the announcement...

Lazy Gods of Earth (2002)

> x body (@ Forest Trail)

A deer lies dead in the middle of the path. It looks like something quite big killed it and started to eat it, but got no more than a couple of bites.

The Legend of Horse Girl (2022)

> x dead judge (@ Parlour)

Judge Lazarus Dives sits slumped in his rattan peacock chair, dead of six lead slugs in the belly. Looks like his devil's bargain didn't help him this time.

> x cadaver (@ Boneyard)

A grinning skeletal cadaver dressed in the rags of a sheriff's uniform.

Living Room (2000)

> x dead body (@ Living Room)

This is the dead body from your attic. Uggggh --- it's giving you MAJOR creeps by now! You're going to have to cover it with something before you can move it.
It's covered in an afghan, thank goodness.

Lydia's Heart (2007)

> x roadkill (@ A Country Road)

The dead possum looks as if it was run over. Maybe a couple of days ago. Big black flies are circling around it. It’s one of the most disgusting things you’ve ever seen in your life.

The Mage Wars: Statue (2003)

> x mage's corpse (@ Mirrored Hall, Bottom of Stairs)

Limech was long dead. His open eyes stared at nothing; his green complexion was blotchy with decay. The gaping lesion in his chest was empty and heartless.

> x Puck's corpse (@ Altar)

Siedmeur glanced at the little man's disfigured corpse and tried to hide his revulsion. Puck's chest had been cleaved open. The warm blood was beginning to congeal around the empty, gaping lesion.

Maiden of the Moonlight (1996)

> x body (@ Inside Crypt)

You stare for a moment at the corpse of Baron Drochsolas. It is strangely well-preserved. To judge by the condition of his body, the Baron could have died yesterday. [if ring untaken, add:] A heavy golden ring with some kind of strange glimmering crystal is on the Baron's finger.

Mean Mother Trucker (2021)

> x roadkill armadillo (@ Last Chance Gas Station)

Another casualty of the open road, this armadillo is freshly dead but fused to the road by the intense desert heat.
A dead armadilllo.

Mission from Short (2004)

> x body (@ Storage Room)

You step closer to the body, reluctant to touch a dead person. Hey -- is that hay on the floor? You peer at the body closer. It's not a dead person at all! You touch the sleeve of the "body," spinning it slowly on its rope. It's a dummy, apparently made up to look like Mike Sousa. A note is pinned to its chest.

Moonbase (2002)

> x body (@ bunk room)

It looks like this body has been partially eaten by something...

Murder at the Aero Club (2004)

> x corpse (@ Murder Scene)

The corpse is that of a middle-aged man, dressed in a stylish and expensive-looking suit and tie. He lies face-up on the grass, vacant eyes staring into space. The pocket of his perfectly-ironed shirt is marked with an important-looking insignia that you've never seen before. A large wound on the back of his head leads you to believe he was struck from behind with a large heavy object.

MythTale (2002)

> x body (@ Tomb)

[1st time:] The lifeless body of Glaucus lies on the bier, his eyes closed as though simply resting, but his chest is still. You were so confident, your vision telling you that you would find him when he was lost. You curse your dreams, that they caused you to search for him in hope, but did not warn of how that hope would die. You curse the oracle, who decreed this fate for you. You have no magic, only visions, and visions do not bring the dead back to life.
[else:] The lifeless body of Glaucus lies on the bier.

A Pilgrim (2020)

> x body (@ Pilgrim's Station)

The bundle of twigs is shaped like a person curled into the fetal position.
Its branches, like the limbs of a human, are connected by joints to a central column. It has a round head, and ears, and visible teeth. It is wearing a long cloth garment which has decayed with time even more than your own cape.
You must admit that this is no bundle of twigs but a person, a pilgrim, perhaps, who died in their sleep long ago, and whose body did not decay but withered up into a mass of sweet-smelling twigs and leathers, like is said to happen with certain saints.
The body of an ancient pilgrim, withered up into a mass of sweet-smelling twigs and leathers. From each of its eye sockets long ago sprouted round white flowers, now dried to fragrant fragility.

Poppet (2019)

> x cat carcass (@ Hallway)

It looks like it's been dead for quite some time; it's nothing but brittle papery skin stretched over bones. Its eyeless sockets are two black pits in its grinning skull, patches of raggedy fur still cling to its flanks, a few stray whiskers still poking from its dessicated face.

The Princess In The Tower (2002)

> x bodies (@ Cave)

Dead and roasted. They look like they've been here for quite some time.

Seasonal Apocalpyse Disorder (2020)

> x body (@ North of Hut)

He looks much like he did in life, except significantly more dead. The key seems to be all he had on his person.

> x body (@ Narrow Hallway)

She looks much like she did in life, except significantly more dead. In every way. She has a tattoo of a popcorn kernel on the back of her left hand.

The Seven Doctors (1998)

> x body (@ A clearing)

You find a length of rope and a scrap of paper

> x cyberman (@ Corridor)

The cyberman lies motionless on the floor, green liquid still oozing slowly from its chest. Through the damaged unit, you can see a bone; a chilling reminder that this monster was once a person.

Shades of Gray: An Adventure in Black and White (1992)

> x body (@ Gladiators' Stadium)

This is the body of a Roman gladiator who has been clubbed to death. He looks remarkably like the mugger you chased away earlier.

The Song of the Mockingbird (2021)

> x Ace (@ Behind the Outcropping)

Ace is partially buried in rock scree from the landslide. Only his upper body and one arm are visible. Dust from the sunbaked rocks has turned him into a ghost.

[if casket untaken:] There's a suspicious-looking bulge in Ace's vest pocket.

> x Podge (@ South of the Corral)

Podge was caught in that stampede, and you don't want to look too close. It's a tragic ending to his worthless life. His rifle is still in his hands, but its shooting days are over.

[if paper untaken:] A blood-stained sheet of paper hangs from his shirt pocket.

> x Whitey (@ Outside the Barn)

Whitey's neck is bent at an unnatural angle — he must have broken it when he jumped from the hayloft. It's a tragedy, but he chose this life for himself.

His rifle is nowhere to be seen; it's most likely back in the hayloft.

[if paper untaken:] The soot-stained corner of a paper is sticking out of his dungarees pocket.

> x Felipe (@ Under the Windmill)

Don Felipe's body lies face up below the windmill, his eyes staring emptily at the sky. Blood trickles slowly from the back of his head.

[if paper untaken:] One edge of a tattered sheet is visible in the pocket of his dungarees.

SpeedIF 11, part six (2000)

> x body (@ Basement)

It's dead all right.

The Surprising Case of Brian Timmons (2013)

> x Haley (@ Walter Haley's Shack)

He was once a simple hoarder living in a shack; now, he's a corpse.

> x corpse (@ Bedroom)

Although massively dessicated, you can tell this is the corpse of Brian Timmons. But if this is the corpse of Brian Timmons, then who the hell is in the straight-jacket in the sanatorium?

Thorfinn's Realm (1999)

> x carcass (@ Castle Entry)

You asked for it...
But there's not much of ol' stiff and smelly left. After picking off a chunk of rotten flesh, you discover the obvious - it's full of maggots. Judging by the splinters embedded in his skull, the origin of the murder weapon is clear - someone layed the womp, bam, boom on him with a wooden club. What's more curious still, are the initials embroidered into the adventurer's vest - T.A.C.

Tuuli (2017)

> x body (@ Cliff)

Mákke is cold and stiff, grotesquely twisted in a death-spasm. Mákke wears the rune of Akka tattooed on her skin, under the damp, dark clothes still holding snow in their folds.
Mákke rests, small in death, on the black stone. She has the rune of Akka tattooed on her skin, under her dark damp clothes.
Mákke is naked on the black stone. Her wrinkled, wet skin is soiled from living and from dying, her flesh unclean. There is blood where her body slammed on the rocks. The rune of Akka is tattooed on her chest.
Mákke has been washed and anointed to enter the next life. Over her chest, on the place where the strength of the soul lies, is the rune of Akka.
You're done with Mákke. She lies on the black stone covered in her sealskin cloak.

> x bodies (@ On the beach)

There are three bodies close to you: a blond man, young; too young. A tall big man, face down on the pebbles. And a bit further way a red-haired man looking at the sky with a single eye.

A Very Hairy Fish-Mess (2009)

> x tall cadaver (@ Fishmas Wonderland)

This cadaver has a drawn, bookish look to him that is not aided by the extreme pallor of his frozen skin. He wears a pair of fogged-over spectacles, a neatly trimmed moustache, and an outfit of the sort that went out of fashion before fashion was invented.

> x fat cadaver (@ Fishmas Wonderland)

Despite being frozen through and coated with sparkling ice-crystals, this corpse has a greasy look to it, like the most honest bookie in the world. He wears a tweed jacket, his hair is parted slickly to the side, and he has a corncob pipe and a button ose and two eyes made out of frozen eyeballs.

> x crossdresser (@ Fishmas Wonderland)

Like the other frosted cadavers, this corpse is frozen solid and coated with crusty white frost. Unlike the others, he is wearing a pair of ruby-red spike heels, a fabulous chiffon robe, and a big, bushy rime-encrusted beard.

The Weird Sister (2002)

> x body (@ The Gallows)

The body is in an advanced state of decay. His own body fat has begun to ooze out through his skin. It appears that someone has been poking the body with a stick -- probably children from the local village. Kids these days.

What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed (2021)

> x body (@ Sunlit Attic)

A pitiful thing: the body of a young woman, curled in the fetal position in the chest and dusted with lime. She has not been dead long, and looks asleep. A few strands of red hair cling to her head, which is bulbous and misshapen. Folds of pocked skin over swollen bones cover her face, nearly obscuring one eye and dragging the face downward.
This is you. Margaret.
You try to open your mouth, to wail and scream; you reach for the sad body stuffed in a chest like trash, but you still have no arms, no mouth.
You were such a gentle, loving person. And you were unloved, forgotten, imprisoned all your life. And now killed. For money.

The feeling rises like a monster in you: rage. Much more than mere anger, this feels murderous.

Rage body.

Margaret's body-- your body-- explodes into flames, which begin licking at the chest and the floor around it.

Default response instances

J'dal (2012): Roderick's body @ Hidden Cavern.