Horse Head

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This is a **Forest** exploration event. It is required for the Small Angry Dude questline during the "Find a Nithing Pole" part.

## Inspect

A horse head impaled on a wooden stake... Creepy. You wonder who left it here. And why. All things considered, you don't want to know.

## Touch the head

Relevant skills: **Courage**, **Intelligence**, **Strength**, **Agility**

You want to approach the horse head, but you feel an... evil... aura around it. Like... A presence? You take a step forward, and the air begins to be suffocating with devilry.

**Leave**

You don't like this. You fear the horse demon-ghost will haunt you! You run away.
The participating survivor gains the negative trait  Afraid for 4 days.
**Get closer** (**Courage**)

Failure
You physically feel the aura of evil in your body. You cough, you feel... Very bad. You back off, sick and ashamed.
+  Depression,  Sickness
Success
You take a deep breath and walk confidently toward the horse head. Your vision is starting to blur, everything seems... Hazy. You're now facing the horse head. You touch it with the tip of your finger, and instantly your body freezes! You can't move, and your mind is engulfed into an impenetrable darkness. Everything around you is blurry and dark, like in a nightmare.The forest has disappeared into a mess of moving shades and mist. The world has slowed down, you feel like you were under water. It is black as coal and freezing. Suddenly, you see a hooded shape in front of you. He's wearing scraps of cloth filled with swarming worms. The shape asks you a riddle in a language you can't understand. But you KNOW you have to give an answer. You KNOW that your life is at stake if you don't find the right answer.
* **Find an answer** (**Intelligence**)

Failure
You utter several unintelligible words... Instantly, you wake up lying on the ground, at the foot of the horse head. You feel terribly sick, as if your internal organs had decayed.
+  Sickness
The participating survivor gains the negative trait Horse Curse temporarily.
Success
You hear words you don't understand coming out of your mouth. The hooded shape starts to laugh hysterically, transforms into a putrid black mist and moves... right behind you! The black shape is now ensnaring your whole body with an incredible strength! You feel your bones cracking as you try to free yourself from its grip. That's when you see in the distance a crazy black horse running right into you! You must free yourself from the shape, if not you will be trampled by the demonic beast!
* **Free yourself** (**Strength**)

Failure
You can't, you're not strong enough. Your bones are cracking, and the horse will run into you in a second! Instantly, you wake up, lying on the ground, at the foot of the horse head. You feel terribly sick, as if your internal organs had decayed.
+  Sickness
The participating survivor gains the negative trait Horse Curse temporarily.
Success
You manage to free yourself from the shape in time! But now, you have to dodge the wild black horse!
* **Dodge!** (**Agility**)

Failure
???
Success
You dodge just in time! But then... Everything turns back to normal... No more mist, no more hooded shape, no more horse... You wake up where you were before, in front of the stake. Just... Now you are holding the decapitated horse head in your hands! You shiver. You still feel the ominous aura around the head... You decide to quickly put it in your bag.
+  Dead Horse Head
+ **Courage** Experience
The participating survivor gains the negative trait Nightmares for 4 days.