Don't Be Alarmed, Now

Choice adventure number: 329

Don't Be Alarmed, Now

As you're walking past a hedgerow, you hear a bustle within it -- you freeze in your tracks and peer into the shadows, where you see a large, brown, spiky-looking turtle.

A hedgeturtle! Boy, imagine what the guys at the lodge would say if you managed to tame one of these! Care to give it a shot?

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Fortune favors the bold -- tame it

You carefully extend your arms toward the spiky little guy. He rolls up into a ball, lunges at you, and gets stuck in the fleshy part of your hand. Now that his movement is restricted, you're able to reach in between his spikes and stroke his chin, calming him down.

You acquire an item: hedgeturtle

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Occurs at the following locations as a Turtle Tamer:

• The Poop Deck
• The Arid, Extra-Dry Desert
• The Oasis
• The Junkyard (Post-War)
• McMillicancuddy's Farm
• Sonofa Beach
• An Incredibly Strange Place (Great Trip)
• Neckback Crick

History

• Prior to the Turtle Taming revamp, Eau de Tortue needed to be active in order to receive this adventure, and a lot of work was required to tame the turtle:
  • If one did not have a Grinning Turtle or Syncopated Turtle as their active familiar they received this message:

    You approach the turtle cautiously, but evidently not cautiously enough -- you spook him, and he scuttles deeper into the hedge, out of your reach.

  • If did have a Grinning Turtle or Syncopated Turtle as their active familiar but didn't have a turtling rod equipped they received this message:

    The turtle starts to scuttle away from you, but stops when it sees <familiar name> -- you take advantage of the hesitation, and move in closer.
    
    You slowly approach the little guy, with your arms extended in a welcoming embrace. The only thing it ends up welcoming, however, is a whole bunch of puncture wounds, as the hedgeturtle rolls into a basketball-sized orb of pain and travels up one of your arms and down the other, Globetrotter-style.

    You lose 45 hit points.

  • If one had all of those requirements met, they received this message:

    The turtle starts to scuttle away from you, but stops when it sees <familiar name> -- you take advantage of the hesitation, and move in closer.
    
    You carefully extend your turtling rod toward the spiky little guy. He rolls up into a ball, lunges at it, and gets stuck in the wood. Now that his movement is restricted, you're able to reach in between his spikes and stroke his chin, calming him down.

    You acquire an item: hedgeturtle

References

• "If there's a bustle in your hedgerow / don't be alarmed now" is a lyric from the song "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin.