Webbed Bodies

This is a **Forest** exploration event. It offers the chance to get  Bones and  Pelts, as well as  Roasted Meat (at the cost of  Fabric and  Wood). It may also reward the player with  Fabric and  Rope, or potentially some  Rotten Food. When retrieving these resources, the participating survivor risks incurring  Depression,  Fatigue,  Injuries and  Sickness, and may risk gaining the negative traits  Arachnophobia or  Pyromaniac permanently.

## Inspect

You stumble upon two shapes covered with spiderwebs and hanging from a tree. You suspect the large one is a human body. There's a smaller one next to it, you can't guess what could be inside.

## Search the small one

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

You touch the web cocoon. It's still firm. Whatever is inside, it's not fully digested or grown up yet... You pray for the former.

* **Burn it** (**Intelligence**)

Failure
You don't want to risk releasing a grown creature into the wild. You burn the cocoon. The fire catches a little too well. It spreads to the other cocoon, burning it's contents. You can only wait for the fire to stop and recover whatever the flames didn't destroy.
-  Fabric  Wood
+  Bones  Roasted Meat
- Fire Intensity
+ The participating survivor gains the negative trait  Pyromaniac permanently.
Success
You don't want to risk releasing a grown creature into the wild. You burn the cocoon. You wait until the fire consumes the webbed mass and retrieve what the fire didn't destroy. Burned flesh, burned fur... must have been the spider's meal.
-  Fabric  Wood
+  Bones  Pelts  Roasted Meat
- Fire Intensity
* **Open it** (**Agility**)

Failure
You open the small package with your bare hands, the silk comes off easily enough, dropping its contents to the ground. With a gasp of horror, you discover the remains of a human child wrapped in wolf pelts. The sight disturbs you so much, you almost didn't notice the gigantic spider coming down from the trees to check what happened to its dinner. It spits silk at your legs, slightly burning your skin. If you don'y want to end up like this child, you gotta act fast.
+  Injury
+ The participating survivor gains the negative trait  Arachnophobia permanently.
You cut the silk wrapping your legs and run away before the spider tries to spit again.
The entity disappears permanently.
Success
You carefully slice the small package open. The silk comes off easily, offering a peek inside. With a gasp of horror, you discover the remains of a human child wrapped in wolf pelts. You reluctantly take the bones and the pelts, knowing that it will be useful. But... It's depressing.
+  Depression
+  Bones  Pelts
## Search the big one

Relevant Skills: **Courage**, **Crafting**

You touch the web cocoon. It's soft. If it was a human being inside, it must already be reduced to mushy digestive fluids.

* **Retrieve the silk** (**Crafting**)

Failure
If what's inside is rotten, what's outside might be of use! You carefully cut a clump of webs from the trees. What you didn't expect, was to alert the owner of this cocoon. A huge spider falls to the ground and spits silk on your legs. It burns.You fall all sprawled out on the ground. When you recover, The beast is right on top of you, starting to weave your tomb. You don't want to die like this... You grab your weapon and plant it in the monster's abdomen. It hisses in pain before falling down dead. Its body fluid burns... You don't care, you're alive.
+  Injury  Depression
+ The participating survivor gains the negative trait  Arachnophobia permanently.
Success
If what's inside is rotten, what's outside might be of use! You carefully cut the silk cocoon from the trees and slice it in half to remove its contents. There's so much silk to transform into fabric that you won't have time to get bored for a while.
+  Fabric  Rope
+  Fatigue

* **Open it** (**Courage**)

Failure
You open the small package with your bare hands, the silk comes off easily. A pile of rotten flesh, filled with maggots and bile falls on your feet. You can't bear the pungent stench and throw up.
+  Sickness
Success
You carefully slice the small package open. The silk comes off easily, offering a peek inside. You see a ton of rotting food, filled with maggots.
+  Rotten Food