Highland

**Highland** is a location that you unlock while you explore Pines. Highland is a location that has many encounters with creatures.

* Unlocks Gym.
* Unlocks Tunnel and Bedrock locations.

## **Badger**

* You hear teeth grinding. The Source is very near. What could it be??
* The Source is quickly found: It is a Feral Badger. It sees you as a disturbance and attacks!
* The Feral Badger has **5.4k HP 14**  **50%**
* The animal runs away with its tail behind its legs. You are lucky to find some gems. You get +**3**

## **Wolf**

* While Traveling throughout the beautiful highlands, you hear howling, wolves are on the prowl

* The Wolf Pack has **1.5HP 42 70%**

* You beat the Wolf pack. After the fight, you find some gems. You get **+5**

## **Bear**

* The highland is rugged wind-swept terrain, Only little cover can be found to hide from terrible gusts coming from the ocean.
* You consider yourself lucky when you find a series of bushes and small trees to take refuge [Take cover]

### **Take Cover**

* The Shelter is not perfect, but it offers some respite from the terrible winds.
* Soon you notice that it offers shelter to others as well. [Others]
* A cute bear crawls from under the bushes to pay you a visit. It is a harmless animal, It just wants to play. Do you pet it?

* [Why Not?]
* [No Way!]

#### **Why Not**

* You pet the cute little teddy. What hardship could befall you for doing such a harmless thing?
* The bushes come alive with movement and a huge brow bear appears. You've guessed it. It's mama-bear. **[Fight]**

#### **No Way**

* Cold sweat covers you, you back away instinctively.
* [Run]
* [Sneak]

#### **Sneak**

What direction do you take?

* [North West]
* [South East]

##### '***South East'***

* You manage to sneak away, evading even the acute senses of a Mama-bear.
* Your survivors get +4  and +2 .

##### '***North West'***

* Even though you sneak away like a mouse, your scent is picked up by someone that was also residing in the bushes: **Mama-Bear. [Fight]**

#### **Run**

What direction do you take?

* [North West]
* [South East]

##### '***South East' or 'North West'***

* Your fast and loud escape stirs up another denized of the bush shelter. Mama-bear awakens and is ready to defend her cubs. **[Fight]**

### **Fight With Mama-Bear**

* The mama-bear grabs her cub and runs away. In her makeshift den you find valuables. You get **+30** .

## **Bad Stone**

Terrible news! While inspecting your storage of , you noticed that a large part of it is terribly brittle and totally useless!

You lose a third of your .

* **[OH NO]**

## **Gym**

* It is summer on Tinker Island and your survivors want to go to the beach.
* Some think they aren't presentable in a bathing suit and require a Gym to muscle up. Fine.
* You can build Gym. The Gym increases the fight and build skills of all your survivors by +10.

## **The tombstone**

* *If you deny Oliver and Mary to be together in the Waterfall, this event will be triggered.*
* *While exploring highlands you found a rock formation with something written on.*
* This... [IS]
* Yes, looks about right, and the next word is... [THE]
* You are doing great, quickly, what's the next word? [RESTING]
* Superb, continue! [PLACE]
* That's correct. This is a resting place, a grave! But who is resting here? There is a name written down below. It says. [What]
* Oliver.
* Underneath it is added: I will never forget you, my love. Mary, Tinker Island survivor.
* [Oh no]
	+ You feel terrible for scaring Mary and Oliver away like that. Without the group's support, the couple had a hard time surviving and Oliver had to pay the price. But what happened? Did they run out of food? Got an infection? Or were they attacked? [<- Who knows]
* [Serves him right]: ?

## **Random fight**

* Behind a rock you find a bear sleeping. You try to sneak away, but step on some twigs. The beast is fully awake and ready for breakfast. [Fight]
* You vanquish the animal! In the fur coat you find some debris and some gems. You get 15 .