Stoat

* Act I
* Kaycee's Mod
* Act II

The Stoat's initial appearance

The Stoat as it appears in Kaycee's Mod

The Stoat as it appears in Act II

> Total misplay.
>
> Stoat

The **Stoat** is a Talking Beast card in Act I of *Inscryption*. It is always part of the player's starting deck.

This card contains the consciousness of P03, the Scrybe of Technology. As the player progresses, its appearance gradually changes to that of P03. Throughout Act I, the Stoat will try to help the player find the other talking cards and defeat Leshy.

## Variants

In Act II and Kaycee's Mod, the Stoat is replaced by a non-talking Beast card. In Kaycee's Mod the Stoat is part of the Vanilla starting deck, and in Act II three of them are part of the Beastly starter deck.

Normally, no additional Stoats can be obtained in Kaycee's Mod, but The Mycologists can offer another if the player visits them with no duplicate cards.

## Strategy

### Act I

The Stoat has high Health for its Cost, but is otherwise unremarkable. Buffing it at a Campfire can be a good investment, as it will either make it overall strong with buffed Power, or highly tanky with buffed Health, but one must keep in mind that there are cards of the same price that can benefit more from this, such as the Mantis or Stunted Wolf.

### Kaycee's Mod

Losing its higher than average Health, the Stoat becomes considerably less useful, essentially a Bullfrog without the Mighty Leap Sigil. You should try to buff the Stoat so it may fill a specific role in your deck instead of being a worse Bullfrog.

### Act II

While you can now collect many copies of it, due to its lower Health the Stoat is still essentially a Bullfrog missing its Sigil, making it far less useful in most situations. It should generally be avoided outside of the beginning of the game, as there are many better options for its price.

## Trivia

* The Stoat appears in the Notepad on the desktop at the official Inscryption website.
* The Kaycee's Mod version of the Stoat was in the game's files before it released.
* In Act II, P03 changes its screen to the Stoat's face after the Player beats Leshy, taunting the Scrybe for his failure.
* The Stoat appeared in Sacrifices Must Be Made, the game-jam precursor to Inscryption.
* The Stoat's voice in the game's files is listed as "female1\_voice."
	+ The voice is the same as Rebecha's voice in The Hex.

## Quotes

	+ (if sacrificed) "Huh? Hey, stop!"
* First Battle:
	+ (if sacrificed during the Tutorial) "You sacrificed me. *While I was sleeping.* It was the right play. I get it."
	+ (if not sacrificed during the Tutorial) "You didn't sacrifice me? How kind."
	+ (continued) "Maybe... ...you'll help me?"
	+ **Leshy:** "Take your turn."
	+ **Stoat:** "Play along for now."
* Second Battle:
	+ **Stoat:** "He's completely insane. You see that, right? No care for the rules. Pathetic, really."
	+ **Leshy:** "Enough."
	+ **Stoat:** "Only keeps me around to watch me suffer."
* Third Battle:
	+ **Stoat:** "There's a way out for both of us. It's somewhere in this foul cabin!"
	+ **Leshy:** "Be silent or I will tear you to shreds."
	+ **Stoat:** "..."
* Hints for obtaining the Stinkbug:
	+ "Are you smart or something? He usually doesn't even bother teaching about Bones. Alright here's a tip. I saw a past... victim... writing a passcode in the Rulebook."
	+ "Ever look in the Rulebook? There's definitely [a] passcode scrawled in there. They were looking up the Bullfrog's Sigil."
	+ "Pretty sure there's a passcode to that safe in the rulebook."
	+ "You ever peeked in that Rulebook? You know the one... You look at it if you forget a sigil. You know. The sigils on the cards."
	+ "We need to get things moving. The Rulebook describes all the different sigils. There's gotta be a passcode in it!"
	+ "You're probably sick of hearing it... **but come on!** Open up the book. Use the passcode on the safe."
	+ "Peep that Rulebook. Bullfrog... etc..."
* Conversation with the Stinkbug:
	+ **Stoat:** "You again..."
	+ **Stinkbug:** "Indeed! Our friend freed me."
	+ **Stoat:** "Well, I basically told them how to do it. You got a plan?"
	+ **Stinkbug:** "We have... another friend here..."
	+ **Stoat:** "You've got to be -- I wouldn't call him a friend. But I suppose we are in deep this time."
* Hints for obtaining the Stunted Wolf:
	+ "Look. There's a third talking card somewhere around here. Personally I hate the guy. Biggest killjoy ever. But he's the only one of us with a plan to get things... back to normal..."
* Conversation with the Stunted Wolf:
	+ **Stunted Wolf:** "I ought to thank you. How has it been?"
	+ **Stoat:** "It has been quite bad. I am trapped in the body of a stoat in the paper of a card."
	+ **Stunted Wolf:** "I see that. And I have of course set up a way to reset once more."
	+ **Stoat:** "...Go on..."
	+ **Stunted Wolf:** "Our player friend here... they already hold the key..."
* Drawn from deck:
	+ "Lucky draw."
	+ "Nice topdeck."
	+ "Me again."
	+ "Yep."
* Placed:
	+ "Here we go."
	+ "Back on the board."
	+ "This spot... You sure?"
	+ "OK..."
	+ "Fine."
	+ "Bad play."
	+ "You sure?"
	+ "Total misplay."
	+ "Keep me alive."
	+ "Yep."
* Taking damage:
	+ "Ack."
	+ "**Stop that.**"
	+ "Ow."
	+ "Ouch."
	+ "**Enough!**"
* Killed by Sacrifice:
	+ "Wow... seriously?"
	+ "Again?"
	+ "Oh come on!"
* Sacrificed during Bones tutorial:
	+ "While I was asleep, again?"
* Sacrificed on Bone Lord's altar:
	+ "I die."
	+ "Bad... play..."
* Drawn in a card trial:
	+ "Good luck."
	+ "Good luck..."
	+ "This again?"
	+ "Fingers crossed."
* Considered for Bone Lord offering or visiting a Campfire:
	+ "Hmm..."
	+ "Nope."
	+ "No way."
	+ "Nope. Nope. Nope."
	+ "Stop this."
	+ "Pick something else."
	+ "Please. No."
* Considered for receiving a sacrifice sigil:
	+ "I'll go."
	+ "It's me."
	+ "Your choice."
* Receiving a sacrifice sigil:
	+ "What an honor."
	+ "Fine choice."
	+ "Yeah? Alright."
	+ "Another sigil... Hooray..."
* Drawn during The Prospector's Boss fight:
	+ "He's doing The Prospector again? Easy boss. The Mule's key."
	+ "Easy boss. Just pop that mule."
	+ "The Prospector. Again."
	+ "Prospector boss... again..."
	+ "Boss time, eh?"

## Gallery

The talking StoatThe non-talking Stoat from Kaycee's ModThe Stoat in Act IIThe Stoat search results shown after defeating Golly in Act III.The Stoat's appearance in Sacrifices Must Be MadeThe Stoatpad on the Inscryption official websiteStoat transformStoat transform 2Stoat is PO3Stoat sleeping.