Random Encounter

**Random Encounters** are events that are randomly triggered while the protagonists are traveling on the world map. Random encounters should not be confused with Vignettes which don't have any gameplay implications and occur in persistent locations.

## Details

There are two main types of random encounters: forced and optional encounters. Forced encounters usually involve being ambushed by a group of hostile, ranging from outlaws to creatures. Having a horse allows the protagonist to avoid most of the forced encounters, except those where the ambushers also have horses. There are also story-specific forced encounters that don't involve combat. Optional encounters, on the other hand, can be ignored, and consist of a wide variety of scenarios.

Traveling through swamps and mountains will slow the protagonist down, increasing the chance of encounters. Enemies encountered on the East side of the map tend to be more powerful and numerous.

## List of Encounters

### Bounty Hunter Journey

 Coyote Attack!
 The Wanderers | Forced

### Pigman Journey

* If Jane met Essex during the Bounty Hunter Journey and is now part of the posse, he'd recognize her and say *"Jane--? Y'all already possed up?"*.
 A Witch at a Crossroads
 A Witch at a Crossroads

### Protector Journey

 Cold Wind Blowing
 End of the Line
* Two pigmen: one accuses the other of selling them out to Ruth Bough, while the second pigman claims the first burned a whole pigmen village to the ground.
* Pigman Joe and another pigman.
* A deputy confronting an outlaw.
* An Oneirist and a Ritualist from Ruth's Coven accuse each other of killing their covens.
* Cecilia Oscuro might end up as one of the two people in this encounter, facing a pigman who accuses her of turning them to Ruth Bough. She will show hostility if Cl'erns is in Across Rivers' posse. If Across Rivers chooses to attack her, Cl'erns will turn hostile and might start a vendetta.

### Community Events

The following encounters only take place during specific Community Events.

 Walking Dead

## Trivia

* During the very first A Witch at a Crossroads encounter, Heathen asks Jane a hypothetical question regarding a woman who's wronged her but because she has good reason to, and whether Jane would take revenge or ask for forgiveness. This is exactly what would happen between Cl'erns Qui'g and Cecilia during the Pigman Journey.
* Murals in The Serpent's Mouth encounter suggest the cave was used as a sacrificial or execution chamber. They also show an indigenous people who harvested poison from the snakes.
* In the Howling Hatch encounter, there is a unique painting of a child, flanked by two men. This is possibly the child sitting at the Blood Moon throne in the same encounter.
* In the Bounty Hunters encounter, the hunters might arrive with a bloodied cart with a few wanted posters on top of it, suggesting other bounties were captured or killed by them.
* The Crash Site encounter is a tribute to *Fallout* which also has a random encounter with a similar-looking alien ship and two alien skeletons.

## Gallery

Location of the lever in the Howling Hatch encounter.Howling Hatch encounter, painting of a child.Howling Hatch encounter.The Serpent's Mouth encounter.The Serpent's Mouth encounter.The Serpent's Mouth encounter.Native burial ground in the Protected Ground encounter.A Witch at a Crossroads.Cart with wanted posters in Bounty Hunters encounter.Crash site encounter.