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{{adventuretop|name=In the Desert}}

Near the end of your relaxing vacation at the Distant Lands Dude Ranch, you decide that you're sick of being in the rain, and that it's time to go through the desert. You saddle up a conspicuously unnamed horse, and head out.

Once you're out in the desert, you encounter a creature, naked, bestial, eating what appears to be a heart.

"Hey there," you say, "is that a heart?"

"I'll tell you what it is," says the creature, "It's none of your damned business, that's what it is." Then he punches you in the stomach.

You, of course, retaliate by beating him into a pulp.

''Man, that was one bitter creature'', you think to yourself as you head back to the Ranch.

{{adv|type=lose|amount=3}}
{{meat|type=spent|amount=500}}
{{stat|mus=gain X}}
{{acquire|item=Shore Inc. Ship Trip Scrip}}
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Occurs at [[Distant Lands Dude Ranch Adventure]].

==Notes==
*Stats gained from this adventure will range from (0.35 * mainstat) to (0.55 * mainstat), with an average multiplier of 0.45.

==References==
*This adventure references the song ''A Horse With No Name'' by the band [[Wikipedia:America (band)|America]], which features the lyrics "I've been through the desert on a horse with no name / It felt good to be out of the rain".
*The creature in the desert alludes to the first half of the [[Wikipedia:Stephen Crane|Stephen Crane]] poem ''[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46457/in-the-desert-56d2265793693 In the Desert]'', where he describes an encounter with a "naked, bestial" creature eating his own bitter heart.