Angry Mob

**Angry Mob** is an Encounter Card added to a deck by The Dealer (first used during the Jack of Plague's Court).

## Description

*As you approach the small town of Wicheburn, an angry mob of peasants marches forth and confronts you!*

*"The Ratmen have eaten all our food! We're starving! We demand food!"*

### Choices

* A) Give them half your food.

*You offer to share half of your food with the peasants. They gather around to see your offering.*
**Lose half your current food.**

**If you have low food:**
*"This isn't even enough to feed the children!" someone cries. A fight breaks out amongst the peasants and you leave the scene.*
Event ends.

**If you have a medium amount of food:**
*"Haven't you got any more?" asks one of the peasants. "This is something, but we've got to ration it out to everyone."*
*You leave the simple folk to their troubles.*
**Gain/Loss ???**

**If you have a lot of food:**
*"Look at all this food!" an old man cries. "Bless you, boy - you've saved our village!"*
**Gain/Loss ???** Gain 1 Blessing
**If you have a lot of food (and multiple blessings):**
*"Look at all this food!" an old man cries. "We must hold a feast!"*
**The dealer draws you 1 health gain card.**

Gain Blessing Self-RIghtous
* B) Give them nothing.

**If you have no food:**
*You explain that you have no food yourself. After a thorough inspection of your pockets, they reluctantly let you go.*

**If you have 1 food:**
*You explain that you have almost no food left for yourself. At the sight of the meager morsel, the villagers rush forward to fight over it!*

**Otherwise:**
*You try to ask them why they have no food, and to explain that they have no reason to attack you.*
*The hungry peasants surround you, even as you try to speak.*

**Success (x1 dealt):**
*You manage to convince them that you are only a hungry vagabond yourself. Reluctantly, they let you pass.*

**Failure (x2 dealt):**
*"I've got his food sack!" somebody yells, dashing into the crowd. After a brief scuffle, nothing is left of your food supplies but a few scraps of torn material.*
**You lose all your food.**

**Huge Failure (x1 dealt):**
*"He's lying!" an old woman yells. "You can tell by the look in his eye!"*
**Loose all food, Draw 4 pain cards**
* C) Try to avoid the crowd.

*You turn about and head away from the crowd.*
*"Get him!" somebody cries.*

* A) Run!

**Success (x2 dealt):**
The starving peasants don't have the energy to catch you, and you flee.
**The player is sent back a space, but able to advance safely.**
**Failure (x2 dealt):**
The angry mob swarms around you. Their desperation for food overcomes their fear of your weapon long enough to get what they want.
**Draw 5 Pain Cards.**

* B) Use your Feathered Ice artefact to slow them down.

*Waves of magical cold sweep over the crowd, as you unleash your theurgy. Stunned and freezing, the peasants can do little more than watch your rapidly-retreating form.*
**The player is sent back a space, but able to advance safely.**

* C) Use your Frost Fang weapon to slow them down.

*Waves of magical cold sweep over the crowd, as you unleash your theurgy. Stunned and freezing, the peasants can do little more than watch your rapidly-retreating form.*
**The player is sent back a space, but able to advance safely.**

* D) Use your Folded Steel artefact to outrun them.

*The power of your magic easily allows you to escape the peasants' wrath.*
**The player is sent back a space, but able to advance safely.**