Creepy Bones Pile

This is a Forest exploration event. It offers the chance to get Bone, Fire Crystal and Strange Mushrooms. The participating survivor may receive the positive trait Bones Blessing temporarily, but also runs the risk of suffering Depression, Fatigue, Hunger, Injury and Sickness

Inspect

You find a bunch of bones coming from humans and animals. Despite the visible mess of the pile, you feel like there's a certain logic, a meaning in their position, as if someone had carefully piled them up one by one to get this precise result. Could this be some sort of grave? Or an offering?

Check around (x1)

You look around to find if there's something else besides the pile, but you only see trees surrounding you. The atmosphere is strange: you feel like the forest is watching you and is waiting for something to happen. You know it has something to do with the pile of bones, you can feel it. But, strangely, those bones stimulate an anxiety you can't explain.

Place a bone (x1)

(Requires at least 1 Bone)
You place a bone on the pile with care. You want it to perfectly fit with the other bones. Once that's done, you feel better, lighter.

- 1 Bone

The participating survivor gains the positive trait Bones Blessing for five days.

Take a bone (x1)

Note: This is a 'red' option, meaning the 'entity' will disappear once this action is taken!

Relevant Skills: Courage, Constitution

You take a bone and you make sure the pile doesn't fall apart. Curiously, the air is getting colder.

+ Bones

• Put it Back and Leave

The atmosphere is way too strange, it's troubling you... This place doesn't look good, you don't want to spend another minute in this place! You put the bone back where you took it and the sensation of cold disappears. You get away from here, but you feel a small burn in your stomach.

- Bones

+ Hunger

+ Constitution Experience

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• Take Another One

You take an extra bone. The air is getting even colder, and the forest becomes silent. You can't even hear the sound of wind passing through the trees.

+ Bones

• Put Them Back and Leave

The atmosphere is way too strange, it's troubling you... This place doesn't look good, you don't want to spend another minute in this place! You put the bone back where you took it and the sensation of cold disappears. You get away from here, but you feel a small burn in your stomach.

- Bones

+ Hunger

+ Constitution Experience

• Take Another One

You take another bone. A mist rises and progressively covers this place. Then, you hear some whispers. You look around you, but no one's there. It's making your blood turn to ice.

+ Bones

• Put Them Back and Leave

The atmosphere is way too strange, it's troubling you... This place doesn't look good, you don't want to spend another minute in this place! You put the bone back where you took it and the sensation of cold disappears. You get away from here, but you feel a small burn in your stomach.

- Bones

+ Hunger

• Take Another One

You pick up a skull. The whispers get louder, but you cant figure out what they're saying. you look at the skull, it's looking at you with its empty eye sockets. It's making you uncomfortable.

+ Bones

Then, all of a sudden, a bluish glow moves its eyes and you distinctly hear it say "Helhest is coming for you". Helhest, the horse of the deadly goddess Hel, the ones who's coming for the dead...

• Keep Your Calm (Courage)

Failure

Horrified, you cry out in fear and run away in the mist. That's when the so peculiar skeletal figure appears in front of you: you can't move, you're just frozen on the ground . You can only see it getting close to you and there's nothing you can do. It touches your forehead with the tip of his skull. Now, you feel terribly depressed, drained. Then, it touches your belly, around your stomach, and suddenly, you're starving. It then chooses to brush your chest, at your heart. You feel your muscles getting weaker, and your sight seems blurry. It approaches its head close to your lips, and you feel exhausted, as if you hadn't slept in days. When it finally touches your skin, a strong pain stabs you at the same spot, making you scream. The pain is so strong that you lose consciousness. When you open your eyes, you realise you're in the camp, where everyone is minding their business. Upset, you wonder if what you'vejustbeen through was real, or if you've been imagining things...

+ Depression, Fatigue, Hunger, Injury, Sickness

+ Strange Mushrooms

The survivor gains the negative trait Dizzy for three days.

Success

Despite the completely irrational and terrifying situation, you manage to keep a cool head. Calmly, you kick the pile of bones, spreading on the ground. The worrying atmosphere slowly dissapears and the skull's sockets completely die out. At the center of the pile, you discover a nice small shining stone, and you grab it. You don't understand what just happened, but you're not going to hang around to find out!

+ Fire Crystal, Strange Mushrooms

+5 Courage.

The participating survivor gains the negative trait Bones Curse for a week.

Destroy the Pile (x1)

(This option is only available after you choose Check around)

The atmosphere is way too strange, it's worrying you. You're pretty certain it's coming from the bones: there's something irrational... no, evil, coming from them. You feel that something terribly bad is about to happen, so you destroy the pile, spreading the bones everywhere. The oppressive atmosphere gradually dies out.

The participating survivor gains the negative trait Bones Curse for a week.