Strange Blue Woman with Cats

This article details the events of the questline *Explore the Island's* first step, and the questline *Strange Blue Woman with Cats'* first step **Look for a Clue**. Subsequent encounters which are different parts of the *Strange Blue Woman with Cats'* quest are listed in their own event pages.

This is a Meadow exploration event. It progresses the ‘Explore the Island’ quest.

## Inspect

*You blink your eyes several times just to be sure they aren't deceiving you. What you see is... Astounding! A tall, blue woman is sitting on a massive marble throne. She only wears some sort of feather cape, and her naked body is covered in runes. Ah, and she is guarded by four gigantic cats. She doesn't seem to have noticed you, but the cats have. They purr and lick their paws while staring at you with their disdainful eyes.*

## Move Closer

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

*Those cats... Are scary! You try to hail the woman from a safe, far enough position, but she doesn't seem to notice you. In fact, she doesn't seem to be moving at all. You even wonder if she's not asleep. There's no beating around the bush: if you want to check her out, you'll have to get pass these monstrous felines.*

* **Advance with confidence (Courage)**

Success
*You take a few confident steps toward the throne, and the annoying cats. The four of them freeze in an instant and start hissing at you! You're at paws' reach, but weirdly they don't make any move toward you. You come safely closer to the throne, and can check out the blue woman in detail. She is not sleeping. She is in some sort of trance, her blank eyes staring into the void.*
* **Try to wake her.**

*You think that maybe some physical contact would wake her up. You take a step toward her, but you seem to have crossed an invisible line... In a blink of an eye, you feel four pairs of claws ripping through your back! You scream in pain, fall on your knees and crawl out of reach of the four guardian beasts.*

* Survivor: +  Injury

*You check on the blue woman again.*

(You are given the original 3 options once more.)
* **Search the throne. (Scavenging)**

Success
*You search around the throne of the lady in blue, not too close to her. And you find something! A large, flat stone like many others... But someone carved runes on one of the sides!*

* Survivor: -  Depression
* Survivor: + Scavenging

*You put the stone in your purse and move away from the throne. Once back to camp, the others will want to have a look at it. Maybe if we manage to read the runes, the secret of the mysterious lady will be lifted?*

* +  Ancient Knowledge

Failure
*You search around the throne of the lady in blue, not too close to her. You can't find anything of interest. But you felt hindered by the guardian cats' stare. You can't shake the feeling that you didn't search everywhere.*

* Survivor: +  Depression

*You check on the blue woman again.*

(You are given the original 3 options once more.)
Failure

*You take a quivering step toward the lady in blue, and the annoying cats. The four of them freeze in an instant and start hissing at you. You clearly feel like you are the meal today. Your legs and your will falters... There's no point risking your life today, even over a naked mystery.*

* Survivor: +  Depression
* Survivor receives the negative trait Afraid for 3 days.

*The mysterious woman will have to wait.*

* **Forget it for Now.**

Note: This option can be taken before approaching the woman, or after. The dialogue is the same.

*You're already relieved that those big shaggy beasts haven't attacked you on sight, there's no point risking your life today. The mysterious naked woman will have to wait.*
* Survivor: - Courage