Giant Tortoise

Giant Tortoise
A really large tortoise. Can carry many additional crates.
Type	Animal (Mount)
Capacity

A Tortoise is a pack animal companion. It has high toughness and carries 4 crates of cargo. If mounted, it will reduce the base Sanity cost of travel and provide a defense-oriented combat die (potentially two if you're playing as Alexandra David-Neel).

It can only be obtained by finding a rare Mysterious Egg, usually when looting an Elephant Graveyard. After the egg remains in the player's inventory for a few days, a baby tortoise hatches. The baby tortoise must be kept for a few more days before it will grow up to become a giant tortoise. When the tortoise matures, the player must choose whether to free the tortoise or to use it as a companion of the expedition.

Stats

lvl	Dice*	Toughness
1	none	12
2	**	15
3	**	18
4	**	21

*Gets extra level 2 die if mounted.
**Beak attack deals 3 damage.

Notes

• Animal: Has no skills and can only be promoted through Alexandra David-Neel's Animal Whisperer perk.
• Mount: Can be ridden to reduce the base sanity cost of travel. When mounted, gains an additional combat die and the Slow Mount perk at the cost of 2/3 of total Cargo Capacity.
  • Combat dice given when mounting can not be used while over-encumbered.

Companions