Although quite rare, these undead creatures can be found in any urban or suburban location. These creatures, while in life, were shut-ins. They lived in absolute squalor and filth, and were always forced to live their pathetic lives in bed or on other furniture, having grown so morbidly obese they could no longer move. Sometimes these individuals had help from family members who could only watch in horror as they continued to decline, other times the victims were tended to by robots or other similar constructs.  Eventually health issues finally took their lives and they died where they were bound to.

Due to the conditions they died in, on a very rare occasion something dark from the negative planes would discover the remains and would gleefully inhabit the corpse, bringing it to a hideous state of unlife. These corpses were still stuck where they had died, but were fully capable of sensing the living and would use the un-natural abilities granted to them in order to force anything living to come to it. If the couch corpse could not succeed in this manner, they would use the unholy abilities to either throw trash and other items at the potential meal, or even pull the meal towards them so they could attack.

Thanks to the massive bulk, these creatures are very hard to kill. They can soak up damage which would otherwise destroy most other creatures, and are able to withstand punishment from many different types of weapons. Due to the rot and necromantic fluids covering their bodies, they are also immune to acid and fire attacks.

The physical appearance of these creatures is that of a morbidly obese corpse, the body clearly rotting, excrement and ooze covering the furniture it is bound to and spreading out at least 10 feet around the remains. The eyes blaze a hellish red glow, and the mouth is filled with jagged, broken teeth. The arms are massive and powerful, with the fingers having either rotted or been chewed to the bone. The creature constantly moans and complains about how hungry it is, and otherwise will not engage in conversation, except to demand to be fed.

Starfinder Creature Index

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