Roadkill
Mark Morrison

	This one happens while the investigators are in their car, 
somewhere out in the country. They are speeding along a shady road, 
anxious to get from point A to point B to further their researches. 
Suddenly a man steps out from the trees at the side of the road, 
directly in front of their oncoming vehicle. There is nothing they can 
do. The car slams into him.

	When they get out to check on the victim's injuries, a 
terrible smell assails their nostrils. From the decayed and 
liquescent human debris smeared across the road it is apparent that 
the man had been dead for a while before they hit him.

Possibilities
1       The wandering dead man was an experiment on the hoof. A Dr 
Frankenstein-type has a laboratory in the area, where he is 
conducting his studies in reanimation in relative seclusion. This one, 
however, got away. The doctor or his assistants may be in pursuit. The 
cadaver may have been a one-off, or the first in a series of escapees 
abroad in the countryside.

2       As the investigator who was driving surveys the splattered 
corpse, the horror causes them to swoon. As they lift their head, they 
see the road rushing by, their white knuckles gripping the steering 
wheel - the whole scene with the undead pedestrian was a 
hallucination, an R.E.M. dream as they nodded off at the wheel. They 
snap awake just as the car starts to drift off the road, heading at 
full speed straight for a large tree.

3       The man they have just run down was a lot older than he 
seemed. His life had been extended by magick (see Lovecraft's The 
Case of Charles Dexter Ward) or surgery (as per Cool Air). When he was 
accidentally killed, his body immediately reverted to its correct 
state of decay. The players may never learn his old secret.

Copyright (c) 1990 Mark Morrison