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Before you go, equip berries.



You don't make a habit of eating random unidentified berries, but these might be of some use if you're desperate.

You put the berries in your inventory alongside your Ration Pouch (empty), Dull Shortsword, and the piles of Ash filling the rest of your pockets.

Consider that it might be a Werewolf.



You wonder if the prints might belong to some sort of abominable half-man half-dog creature capable of using a lantern to lure unsuspecting adventurers to their doom.

Unfortunately you don't have any knowledge of such a beast. They just look like dog prints to you.

Eat leaves and twigs for much needed sustenance.



You pull some foliage off a tree and eat it. Hopefully this will help prolong starvation.

Tastes like ash.

Follow ye footprints.



Following the tracks, you make your way into the entrance of a cramped cave. It's uncomfortable, but you appreciate the respite from the cold and ash.

Strange patterns are carved into the walls here, and unappetizing looking meat has been left on the ground. It seems the light you saw was actually from a candle.

The cave continues on ahead of you. Apart from your usual unease, a sort of unnatural presence fills the air here.