Soft Pawn

You get closer to the room, and the shuffling sound increases. You think you can hear the sound of something scraping on stone. The smell is even stronger here.

Directing your torch inside, you can see that around the room are human bodies, rotted and mouldering, lying in heaps and against the wall. A quick count tells you there are at least a dozen, though the meagre pool of light allows you little chance to grasp details.

The shuffling and scraping is coming from your left, and swinging the light around you see that one of the corpses is apparently mobile, and standing up. The zombie, or ghoul, or whatever it may be, seems to have died in some kind of fire. It's flesh (such that remains) is charred and blackened, and ruinous eye sockets stare directly at you. Most of the scalp seems to have peeled away, leaving patches of skull amidst the short, burned stubble.

It seems to be having trouble standing, as its almost skeletal arms and legs are scraping against the floor trying to find purchase. It is dressed in tattered, burned rags and scraps of some kind of metal armour, though you would not even care to guess what they are.

What will you do?

Zing - draw a pistol and shoot the thing
Zing - flee back the way you came

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