the Small Cottage
A small cottage, standing by the side of a road. In its vicinity there is a small over-grown field, a collapsed shack and an abandoned outhouse – all remnants of a time self-sufficiency yet meagre means.
You follow the dirt road, overgrown by hardy pioneer shrubbery, dry grasses and stunted trees. You come to a dead-end, where you are met by an old homestead cradled by the dark pine forest.
the Small Cottage
The little, lived in cabin stands out to you first. Homely as it is, years have been unkind to its façade.
browse the bookshelf
Lacking anything better to do, you decide to spend a bit of time browsing the bookshelf in the living room of the Small Cottage. The higher your Knowledge, the more patience you have for going through the literature, though each book flipped through takes you 1 Encounter's worth of time.
the Shack
It is a sorry sight, with its collapsed roof and crooked walls. It is just walls to house the seldom-needed, discarded and forgotten.
search the shack for items
You brave the seemingly endless depths of discarded tools and farm labour trash that make up the entrails of the shack, in hopes that something actually useful might lie within all the debris.
But the process is slow, as the stuff in your way is both cumbersome to move and accumulated in precarious piles. If you wish to proceed fast, you may spend 1 Encounter's time to find an Item – but in doing so, you risk an injury by drawing a card from the draw deck, a red card inflicting you with a Moderate wound. Spending 2 Encounters' time allows you to find an Item without an injury.
Every once in a while, you may find something unexpected while scouring the shack. Instead of finding an Item, you may draw a random card from the draw deck. If it is one of the following cards, you may play the Encounter associated with it – but if not, you have found nothing and have merely wasted your time.
