Fruit and Leaves

This is a **Forest** exploration event. It offers the chance to get  Bones,  Fresh Fruit,  Healing Plants,  Kola Nuts,  Pelts and  Raw Meat, as well as opportunities for a participating survivor to gain significant increases to their Agility and Intelligence scores. With a successful Agility check, the participating survivor can gain the positive trait Wise permanently, but risks suffering  Depression,  Fatigue,  Hunger and  Injury as well as becoming temporarily Traumatised.

## Inspect

A heap of leaves lays on the ground. Upon further inspection, you realize they're not just some leaves: they are medicinal herbs! And it's not all; among the leaves, you can also distinguish some orangey fruits. That's very nice loot!

## Take the Fruit (x1)

Note: This option becomes unavailable if the **Check the Leaves** action is taken before it.

Relevant Skills: **Agility**

You come closer to pick up some medicinal leaves but as you set foot on the heap of leaves, you slip through it. BOOM. It's a trap and you've fallen right into it. Plus, you hurt yourself... Ouch.

+  Injury
+ The participating survivor gains the wound Broken Ribs for 2-5 days.
It was a hard fall, you're hurt everywhere. You hardly get back on your feet and look around you. You're in quite a deep hole, and the few bones you find on the ground prove you're not the first to fall in this hole. You need to get out of there quickly, otherwise it will be you that will be covering the ground soon...

+  Depression
* **Climb the wall** (**Agility**)

Failure
You try to climb the wall but the soil crumbles in your hands, preventing you from climbing higher, despite your many tries. You can't get out like this... You curse yourself for your recklessness: had you been more careful, this would have never happened... You yell, scream, call for help, hoping for someone to hear you. But no one's coming. A few hours later, you abandon all hope. You realise you're probably never coming out of this hole alive. Desperate, you cry your eyes out.
+ Courage experience.
+  Depression
Success
You slip several times but you manage, a few tries later, to get back on the surface. Covered with soil and exhausted by this tiresome climb, you curse whoever set this trap and rush back to the camp, hoping to never be trapped like this ever again.
+ Agility experience.
+  Fatigue
+ Agility +5
## Check the Leaves (x1)

Relevant Skills: **Intelligence**

This heap of leaves intrigues you: it's strange that it was left here, right in the middle of the forest. No one would be foolish enough to abandon such a loot. No, really, you think this is too shady. You pick up a branch long enough to interact with the leaves without having to come too close. Then, you hit the heap, nothing happens, which is reassuring. However, you push a fruit that disappears through the leaves before a muffled noise is heard a few seconds later. This surprises you, so you start again with another fruit. When you hear the noise again, you understand there's indeed something down below.

* **Examine carefully**

You remove carefully some leaves to see what's underneath, and you make a surprising and worrying discovery: under the heap of leaves, actually held by a small wodden structure, there's a deep hole that seems to have been willingly hidden. Obviously, it's a trap.
+ Intelligence +5
## Disarm the trap (x1)

**Note: This is a 'red' option, meaning the 'entity' will disappear once this action is taken!**

Relevant Skills: **Intelligence**, **Courage**, **Agility**

The trap's structure is very simple, you can easily undo it with your bare hands and get the leaves and the fruit that were on it. However, you're going to have to be careful if you don't want to fall into the hole.

* **Take the Leaves and the Fruit** (**Agility)**

Failure
You decide to undo the trap, but unfortunately, you lose your balance and fall into the hole. Ouch. It was a hard fall, you're hurt everywhere. You hardly get back on your feet and look around you.

+  Injury

You're in quite a deep hole, and the few bones you find on the ground prove you're not the first to fall in this hole. You need to get out of there quickly, otherwise it will be you that will be covering the ground soon...

+  Depression

* **Climb the wall (Agility)**

Failure
You try to climb the wall but the soil crumbles in your hands, preventing you from climbing higher, despite your many tries. You can't get out like this... You curse yourself for your recklessness: had you been more careful, this would have never happened... You yell, scream, call for help, hoping for someone to hear you. But no one's coming. A few hours later, you abandon all hope. You realise you're probably never coming out of this hole alive. Desperate, you cry your eyes out.
+ Courage experience
+  Depression
Much later, as the night has almost fallen, you hear some noise outside, and you raise your head. Above, you can see some people from the camp that came looking for you. They go down to help you thanks to some ropes, as you're still listless, with your eyes red and swollen. The trip back to the camp is done in silence, you're not in the mood to talk, ashamed to be in such a state, and still traumatized by what you've been through.

+ Constitution experience
+  Fatigue  Hunger
+ The participating survivor gains the negative trait Traumatised for 5 days.
Success
You slip several times but you manage, a few tries later, to get back on the surface. Covered with soil and exhausted by this tiresome climb, you curse whoever set this trap and rush back to the camp, hoping to never be trapped like this ever again.
+ Agility experience.
+  Fatigue
+ Agility +5
Success
You undo the trap carefully and you get some medicinal herbs as well as some fruit. You observe the hole. You discover some bones inside and a small dead beast
+ Scavenging experience.
+  Fresh Fruit  Healing Plants  Kola Nuts
* **Stay Above.**

No matter what's inside, it's way too dangerous to go down. Besides, if something were to happen to you, it's likely no one would find you, except the ones who set the trap. And you don't want to meet them to find out what they want or what they'll do to you. You choose to head back to the camp, carrying with you some medicinal leaves that were among the ones that were hiding the trap, and you leave the hole exposed so that no one gets trapped.
+  Fresh Fruit  Healing Plants  Kola Nuts
+ The participating survivor gains the positive trait  Wise permanently.
* **Rappel Down**

You don't take the risk to go down without a rope, that would be the best way to get stuck inside. So, you take a rope and tie it solidly to a tree next to the hole and you use the other end to go down inside. Once you're at the bottom, you pick up the bones that cover the ground, then you take care of the animal. You cut it up to get its skin and some meat. It's too bad it's so small! After you've picked everything what could be useful to you, you go back up to the surface
+  Bones  Pelts  Raw Meat
## Use the trap (x1)

Relevant Skills: **Stealth**

If it's a trap, you might as well using it to your advantage. You may manage to catch an animal with it and bring some food to the camp. You position yourself a little further, making sure you have the trap in your sights, and now all you have to do is wait for an animal to come.

* **Wait Silently. (Stealth)**

Failure
You wait for a long time, but no animal's coming. Is it because you're making too much noise?
Success
Your patience and your discretion finally pay off! A few minutes later, there's an animal coming; it's a young deer attracted by the fruit. It sniffs the air and looks around it to spot any hostile presence. By chance, it doesn't spot you, and judging it's safr, comes close to the trap, unaware of what's going to happen. You watch the deer fall in a the hole, so you stand up and go back to the trap. The animal, wounded and stunned, dimly moves at the bottom's hole. You catch it by a leg and drag it outside, and then you kill it, gently. Finally, you cut it up and take some meat. That will make a great meal for tonight!

+  Kola Nuts  Pelts  Raw Meat
-  Depression