Bull Cantankeri

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Bull Cantankeri
Type	Sky-Beast
Stats	Health: 50
Location	The Reach, Albion, Eleutheria

Description

Bull Cantankeris is a type of Sky-Beast found everywhere hours can be mined. They are aggressive and will chase ships which come too close. They attack by ramming in a straight line into their enemies, dealing 6 Hull damage. Destroying a Bull Cantankeri grants you 57 Experience.

They have a chance to spawn when mining sky-rocks for buried hours.

A Bull Cantankeri, Defeated

A Bull Cantankeri, Defeated
Category	Story Event
Type	Story
Data ID	302477

This bull was a king of its kind. An isopod with the dimensions of an elephant, sheathed in layer upon layer of semi-calcified armour plates, all wrapped around the temperament of an embittered badger. Now, it is a ruin of muscle and shell.

Interactions

Actions	Requirements	Effects		Notes
Chisel precious stones from its carapace The bull's outer layers are encrusted with stone from their long slumber in the crust of their dying world. In places, it is traced with shimmering veins of mineral.		Gleaming in the starlight You and the crew chip chunks of gleaming stones from the shell. Some shines like quartz. Some glistens, banded like tiger's eye. Some is deep and solemn as polished jade. 25+(1 to 50) x Sovereign		Advanced alteration value probably needs examination. Game note: Gain sovereigns.
Prise otherworldly artefacts from between its plates Something is trapped in the segment-joints of its inner plates...	Looting ≤ 50	Old trophies Bull cantankeri are aggressive, and once roused, will bash themselves against a foe until either it or they are dead. During the battle it's not unusual for fragments or belongings of their victims to become wedged in the bull's carapace. The thing you pull free from this one is ancient and inexplicable. Perhaps a use will present itself. +1 x Otherworldly Artefact
Capture a lesser cantankeri clinging to the bull's underbelly Is it a parasite? A servant? An apprentice? It is beginning to stir, having sensed the death of its host. Or master. Or teacher.	Looting ≥ 51 Veils challenge (75 for 100%) Crew ≥ 2 1 x Supplies	Failed event		Advanced alteration value probably needs examination. Game note: Spend Supplies and try to acquire a Caged Catch.
		Eluded Your crew try to tangle the younger cantankeri in a net before it wakes. Unfortunately, they are not gentle enough. The beast grumbles. It stirs. Then it thrashes its way free, sending crew spinning into the sky before it propels itself away. -(1 to 3) x Crew -1 x Supplies
		Successful event
		A catch With the aid of your crew, you manage to net the cantankeri before it has roused. It struggles, but the net holds long enough for you to wrestle it into more permanent lodgings. It bangs, irritably, against the bars of its cage. +1 x Caged Catch -1 x Supplies
		Partial success event (5%)
		The price of its freedom Your crew have a net tangled halfway around the younger cantankeri before it realises what's afoot. It thrashes and bucks, knocking some of its captors from the bull's broken bulk. You intervene, tangling the last of its spindly legs in the netting while a cage is brought to hold the beast. +1 x Caged Catch -1 x Supplies -(1 to 2) x Crew
Use your cannery to extract its heart It's said that something of value can be found in the shrivelled casing of its heart.	Butchery ≥ 1 Looting ≥ 26 and ≤ 75 Mirrors challenge (75 for 100%)	Failed event
		The damage is done It is a messy process. Your cannery flenses away the outer shells until you reach its pale core. Alas, the heart is already broken and crumbled. A curio, nothing more. +1 x Uncanny Specimen
		Successful event
		The contents of a heart No part of a bull cantankeri is notably edible. Most of its mass is stony plating, and any nuggets of flesh that can be found are stringy and sour as old milk. So you put your cannery to another use. After much boring you reach its heart, grey and brittle. Cracking it open, you find a cluster of gritty hours inside: the preserved moments of an old bitterness upon which a common cantankeri dwelled, bloating into a bull as it accreted new layers of plating and spite like a pearl around a grain of sand, or a gallstone around its first fleck of crystal. +1 x Barrel of Unseasoned Hours
Retrieve the stomach The Phlegmatic Researcher in the Leadbeater & Stainrod Nature Reserve believes this will aid his research. He'd better be right.	Field Sample – Stomach of a Cantankeri = 1 [The Phlegmatic Researcher has requested that he be brought the stomach of a Cantankeri] Experiments Sanctioned by the Company = 2 [The Researcher at the Nature Reserve seeks a variety of items]	The shell is too tough to crack. But it is large enough to crawl into; and that's what the unlucky winner of an impromptu lottery is obliged to do. They are given a knife and a sou'wester to cover their sky-suit, and crawl into the shell. They emerge later, dripping, cursing, and clutching a withered knot of a stomach. Field Sample – Stomach of a Cantankeri = 2 [You have collected the stomach of a Cantankeri for the Phlegmatic Researcher]
Retrieve the stomach The Phlegmatic Researcher in the Leadbeater & Stainrod Nature Reserve feels this will aid his research. He'd better be right.	Field Sample – Stomach of a Cantankeri = 1 [The Phlegmatic Researcher has requested that he be brought the stomach of a Cantankeri] Experiments Sanctioned by the Company ≥ 5 [The Researcher has a new goal: investigating what happened to his colleagues. But he'll still accept samples for his research]	The shell is too tough to crack. But it is large enough to crawl into; and that's what the unlucky winner of an impromptu lottery is obliged to do. They are given a knife and a sou'wester to cover their sky-suit, and crawl into the shell. They emerge later, dripping, cursing, and clutching a withered knot of a stomach. Field Sample – Stomach of a Cantankeri = 2 [You have collected the stomach of a Cantankeri for the Phlegmatic Researcher]