Colossal Ox



This is a Meadow exploration event. It can occur once per playthrough and offers the chance to acquire an Orichalcum Bead,  Sage Powder,  Raw Meat as well as either a  Fire Crystal, or the chance for a participating survivor to gain a significant increase to their Strength skill.

Inspect
You stumble across a massive ox lying on the ground. You've never seen a beast this fat. Its legs are so tiny in comparison that you doubt it will ever stand up again. How much time has it been lying here? You wonder. And how could it not starve to death? Lost in thought, your eyes wander on the big red rune carved into the animal's belly.

Check the Carving
Relevant Skills:  Courage, Wisdom , Intelligence 

The carving is rather deep. The redness and puffiness of the skin around it suggest an infection. The animal doesn't react as you touch the area.


 * Decipher the rune. ( Wisdom )
 * Failure :???
 * Success :You remember this is the *FEHU rune. The old texts give it a meaning of property, wealth, power, abundance... How did the poem go again? "Wealth is the source of discord among kind..." You can't remember the rest... There's no doubt that this ox is a symbol of abundance. More specifically, its fatness. You wonder if there's an artifact hidden in its belly?


 * Finish him off softly beforehand. ( Intelligence )
 * Failure :???
 * Success :You get your knife out and approach it from the withers of the ox. The animal slowly turns its head toward you and stares with empty eyes. You gulp. You close your eyes as you slide your knife across the neck of the miserable beast. It dies without a sound. You then open its belly in two. You find a bag with the *FEHU rune embroidered on it. That's what you were looking for! You open it and discover a small golden bead.
 * + Orichalcum Bead.png Orichalcum Bead Sage Powder.png Sage Powder
 * Butcher the beast.
 * Now that you killed the beast, it would be disrespectful not to eat it. You take some time to cut the best parts of the ox, and bring them back to camp.
 * + Hunting Experience
 * + Raw Meat.png Raw Meat
 * Leave.


 * Open the belly right away. ( Courage )
 * Failure :???
 * Success :???


 * Leave the beast be.
 * The beast looks beaten... It's kind of sad... You don't have the heart to hunt it... You decide to leave it alone. As you step away, the animal moves its head back into its initial position, staring at the void.


 * Touch the belly.
 * Note: this option requires successful deciphering of the rune and simply brings the player to the above options of what to do with the ox.

Approach the Ox (x1)
Relevant Skills:  Strength 

You approach the fat ox. It seems to start noticing you just now, moving its large heavy head slowly toward you. It looks at you with the emptiest eyes you ever seen, as if its soul has been scrubbed a million times before leaving for good.


 * Leave it alone.


 * Open its mouth


 * +Depression.png Depression, +Depression.png Depression, +Depression.png Depression, +Fire Crystal.png Fire Crystal


 * Lift the animal ( Strength )
 * Failure :You put all of your strength in it, but the bulky animal won't budge a rib.
 * + Fatigue.png Fatigue
 * Success :+5 Strength