You pick up the rusted scalpel. The cough from Kaelen’s tent has stopped.

But a new button pulses at the bottom of the screen. A desperate, shaky icon. .

You open the (another new UI panel). It asks you a question the old versions never dared:

In 0.56, a new bar appears beneath the choices: . If you starve the Elder, you lose the Water Sourcing blueprint forever. If you starve the Mother, the Collective Sanity buff becomes a Collective Despair debuff (-5 Sanity to all).

The cough started three rations ago. You mark another tally in the margin of your dog-eared notebook— “Kaelen, left lung, wet.”

Version 0.56 - Straitened Times

You pick up the rusted scalpel. The cough from Kaelen’s tent has stopped.

But a new button pulses at the bottom of the screen. A desperate, shaky icon. . Straitened Times Version 0.56

You open the (another new UI panel). It asks you a question the old versions never dared: You pick up the rusted scalpel

In 0.56, a new bar appears beneath the choices: . If you starve the Elder, you lose the Water Sourcing blueprint forever. If you starve the Mother, the Collective Sanity buff becomes a Collective Despair debuff (-5 Sanity to all). Straitened Times Version 0.56

The cough started three rations ago. You mark another tally in the margin of your dog-eared notebook— “Kaelen, left lung, wet.”