Mummified Corpse

Cost: 40 points (see note)
Mummified Corpse is a Meta-Trait in GURPS Zombies that represents a corpse that has been dried out via artificial preservation or exposure to a dry natural environment. It can be used to form different types of Mummies.
While GURPS Zombies tried to explain that Appearance (Monstrous; Universal, +25%) [-25] or Appearance (Horrific; Universal, +25%) [-30] replaces Supernatural Features (No Body Heat, No Pulse, Pallor) [20] that is for undead that have begun to decay.
That idea effectively dies when you realize Boris Karloff "passed" for human for much of that picture, how mummies were treated in many of the Scooby Doo cartoons, and nearly any mummy outside of the Mummy (1932) the Appearance (Monstrous; Universal, +25%) [-25] is perhaps over doing it. Appearance (Ugly, Universal, +25%) [-10] or Appearance (Unattractive, Universal, +25%) [-5] seems more in line with what is shown on screen.
==Comment==
Given Mummified Corpse directly follows Intact Corpse, it shows that sometimes doing a meta-trait from scratch can cause one to miss important details that only become obvious when one uses another more general meta-trait to build it.
==See Also==
*Mummified Undead
*Mummy
*GURPS Mummy
==References==
*GURPS Zombies pg 69
*GURPS Zombies pg 101 
Category:Undead