Rotten Bull Head

This is a **Meadow** exploration event. It can occur multiple times per play through and offers the chance to get  Fish Bait,  Rotten Food and  Worms Poultice. You can also receive one of the special stat boosting items, either  Smelly Fertiliser or  Weird Zooming Device

## Inspect

The head of a bull lies on a wooden table. It smells very foul. Worms are playing in the decayed orbits, eating the flesh and revealing the skull of the beast. You look around but find no sign of the rest of the body. No blood smears. Nothing. Just a fully rusted knife and some small bags.

## Examine the head x1

Relevant Skills: **Courage**

The absence of any traces of blood is driving you mad. The head couldn't have "magically" landed here, could it?

* **Lift the head.**

You grab the head by its horns and lift it. Underneath, you find several flowers, chalk markings. Was this head a blót for the gods? As you ponder that thought, a lump of rotting flesh and maggots from the head falls off on top of the sacrificial area. You fight bile rising in your throat. You do notice something shiny among the filth.

 **Search the filth ( Courage )**

**Success:**You throw the head away, crouch, take a deep breath and... plunge your hand into the pile of rot and crawlers.The feeling and the smell are both sickening. Once you feel something hard in your hand you remove it from the filth. You clean the tinket -and your hand- with the rest of your water. Hmm... An offering to the gods indeed...

+  Weird Zooming Device

**Failure:**Maybe it's the sight of the crawlers, maybe it's the rancid smell entering your nostrils, but you instantly empty your stomach on the pile of rot. You throw the head away, crouch, take a deep breath and... that wasn't the best idea...

+  Sickness

+  Hunger

* **Poke the head.**

You take the knife and poke the head. It enters the flesh as if it was butter. You push a bit up to attempt rolling the head to the side.The head collapses on the side and now thousands of maggots crawl on the table. Eww... Not as fresh as it looks.Your attention goes back to where the head was placed. On the table, you spot herbs and flowers placed on top of chalk markings.You take the herbs, shaking the remaining maggots away.

+ Healing Plants

## Collect worms x1

Relevant Skills: **Courage**, **Scavenging**

Be it for fishing or for healing, you know worms are useful, You have to keep your cool and get some.

 **Steel yourself ( Courage )**

**Success:**You take a deep breath. Fighting your disgust, you take your knife to cut a thin piece of flesh. Thousands of worms wiggle on it. Gross...You fight the rancid feeling in your throat and close the flesh on itself to carry the crawlers. Now you hope they won't escape and crawl on you. Yuck!

+  Fish Bait or  Worms Poultice

+  Sickness

**Failure:**You extend your shaking hand towards the crawlers. You close your eyes, take a deep breath and grab a handful.Yuck!Yuck! Yuck! That feeling... NO, you can't. it's disgusting!As you release the maggots, you notice some were starting to crawl on your arm. You shriek and shake them off your arm.You don't see them on you any more but you can't forget the crawling feeling. Yuck!

+  Sickness

+  Depression

## Search the bags x1

Relevant Skills: **Courage**, **Scavenging**

You crouch to check the bags. The opened one is filled with gross smelly brownish mixture. Others doesn't have the same consistency.

* **Put your hand in the bags. ( Courage )**

**Success:**It smelly like poo, and rot, but something might be hidden in those bags. You take a deep breath and plunge your hand in one bag.Nothing. You pull your hand out, identifying the content as bowels. The bull's probably. You try another one. it's... a rotting heart.You're about to throw up when you feel something between your fingers. You retrieve it from the filthy bag nad clean it with water. It's a weird zooming device.You clean your hand as best as you can. Oh by all gods... the stench doesn't go away...

+  Weird Zooming Device

+  Depression

+  Stinky for 3 days

**Failure:**It smells like poo, and rot, and it looks just like that! NO. FUCKING. WAY: That's beyond disgusting.

+  Sickness

+  Depression

* **Take the bags.**

It smells like poo, and rot. You're sure you can make a nice fertiliser with this filth.

+  Smelly Fertiliser

+  Rotten Food