Necromancer frog raises fresh corpse as a skeleton while his son watches.
How do you know he was a local man and not from Florida or something?
Would have been in the local news if he was.
If you removed the “nobody:” part of the post, does it change it in any way?
Yes. It makes it much better.
Reaper comes to collect first born after granting man’s wish to become anthropomorphic amphibian.
Domestic partnership ripped apart as frog price curse expires and is forced back into human form without twilight alchemy to dull the pain.
Alt: Amphibious nobleman violently repels begging human peasant
Reincarnated as an Undead Skeleton, I Now Wander the Land of the Frog People
Caves of Qud vibes
Banshees of Inisherin
Now that’s just prosperous and crazy talk. Let’s keep this plausible like the first OP.