Gigantic Seashell

This is a Beach exploration event. It can occur multiple times per play through and offers the chance to get  Healing Dust,  Raw Fish,  Rotten Food,  Seaweed, and  Verbena Ointment.

## Inspect

Wandering along the shore you find a HUGE seashell on the sandbank. Maybe there's a gigantic pearl inside?

## Scratch the pearl (x1)

Relevant Skills:  **Strength**

You heard somewhere that you can make healing salves from mother-of-pearl. You take your weapon and aim at the seashell.

* **Smash it. (Strength)**

Failure
You strike a few blows to shatter the mother-of-pearl. Your blows aren't strong enough and you just end up exhausting yourself.
+  Fatigue
Success
You strike a few blows to shatter the mother-of pearl and extract it from the shell. It was tedious but you manage to get a lot of pearly dust from it.
+  Fatigue
+  Healing Dust,  Seaweed
## Get into the shell (x1)

Relevant Skills:  **Intelligence**

The size of the shell intrigues you. You wonder if you could fit inside. There's only one way to find out!

* **Climb inside** (**Intelligence**)

Failure
You climb inside the shell. You really can fit inside! Only if you stay crouched, though. You didn't expect the dark lining on the bottom to be mushy. You lose your balance and knock the top shell to prevent your fall. It falls down on you, closing the shell... You shout and knock on the shell to make as much noise as you can. You hope someone will hear you. After some time, you start feeling tired and numb.... Each breath gives you less air than the last one. You eventually pass out. You wake up later with water splashing your face. You're on the beach. You look around but can't see the seashell anywhere. You don't know who saved you but you're grateful.
+  Depression
The participating survivor gains the negative trait  Claustrophobic permanently.
Success
You climb inside the shell. You really can fit inside! Only if you stay crouched, though. The dark lining on the bottom is mushy, so you sit on it. Your whole body starts to relax. You feel so comfy that keeping your eyes open is troublesome. You succumb to the sleepiness. When you open your eyes you're sitting outside the shell on the dark mushy thing. You have no clue how you got out of the shell. Strangely you don't feel weirded out by that. Between your legs, embedded on the dark lining, a bottle.
-  Fatigue
+ Random ointment
## Search the shell (x1)

Relevant Skills:  **Intelligence**

Inside, the only thing you can see is some thick dark matter filling the whole bottom shell. Still you think you can find something beneath.

* **Search the Dark Lining** (**Intelligence**)

Failure
You grab the black lining and pull it toward you. It seems stuck to the mother-of-pearl. You pull stronger and stronger till the thing breaks. You fall on the sand, your face all smeared by the insides of the black thing. Now you realise what it was: the mollusk... rotting... And your face is covered in it... You throw up. Cleaning your face with your sleeve, you stand up and check what's left of the animal. You could get some of the flesh to use as bait...
+  Sickness
+  Rotten Food
Success
You touch the dark lining. It's all mushy and smells like the tide. Must be the mollusk which lived in the shell. It seems strongly attached to the shell so you decide to cut it ans check the inside. Some smelly liquid pours out, revealing the mollusk's last dinner. The fish looks still fresh enough to eat. Safer would be to cook them though...
+  Raw Fish,  Rotten Food