Uterus

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The Uterus is an enemy encountered in Fear & Hunger.

Lore

"Valteil the enlightened one created many forms of life for many different purposes. Uterus serves a purpose too and every night Valteil would summon one of them to his quarters."
- The New Gods when asked about the Uterus.

Valteil's exploration of the creation of artificial life led him to the development of Uterus. Following his successful creation of the Lord of flies using organic materials, Valteil delved into a new realm by shifting to mechanical constructs. Recognizing the simplicity of mechanical structures compared to organic ones, his efforts to craft Uterus were much faster.

Uterus stands as a mechanical female puppet, reminiscent of a medical mannequin. Its design mirrors the form of a woman, complete with an embedded Embryo that can emerge to attack intruders. It also appears to have organic viscera, likely for the purpose of generating Embryos. Like the Lord of flies, Uterus lacks a soul, and is apparently devoid of consciousness.

As the mechanical nature of Uterus is unfit for heavy physical labor, this would suggest a potential use for other tasks. But it is implied that Valteil has ulterior motives for these creations, employing Uterus and possibly the Embryo within it to fulfill his own disturbing desires. The accusation is made by Nas'hrah, suggesting Valteil's involvement in pedophilic acts.

Location

Uteri can be located spread across the buildings in Ma'habre, mainly those leading into the Grand Library and encounter with Valteil. They seem lifeless at first, standing idly as the player walks by them sometimes, but can suddenly snap to life and start chasing the player. Their speed is extremely slow, but they are often located within narrow rooms or hallways and are thus difficult to avoid.

Deeper, within the library itself, the player may find several Uteri walking around on their own, who chase much faster.

Uteri are immune to out-of-battle damage. Arrows will pass through them, and Bear traps will not trigger when they pass over them.

Battle

Stats (Uterus)

Body part	HP	Blunt	Slashing	Piercing	Fire	Otherwordly	Ev. Rate	Magic Ev.	Resistances
Head	20	120%	100%	100%	100%	100%	55%	40%	Blindness
Torso	1600						5%	None
Arms	20 each
Legs	350 each

Stats (Embryo)

Body part	HP	Blunt	Slashing	Piercing	Fire	Otherwordly	Ev. Rate	Magic Ev.	Resistances
Embryo (birth stage 1)	2300	120%	100%	100%	100%	100%	5%	None	Blindness
Embryo (birth stage 2)	2300
Embryo (birth stage 3)	1200
Embryo (born)	900

• Note: HP in parenthesis is only used for Damage-over-Time calculations.

Skills

Body Part	Skill	Effect	Condition	Chance	Success Rate
Left Arm	Rusty Claw	Deals 9-11 Slashing damage, can cause Bleeding and Arm infection.	Always	50%	100%
Right Arm
Embryo	Critical Stabs	Deals 29-41 Slashing damage, can cause Critical state and Arm infection, causes Bleeding.	Turn 4+	50%	100%
	Regular Stab	Deals 29-41 Slashing damage, can cause Critical state and Arm infection, causes Bleeding.	Always	50%	100%

• The Embryo is destroyed with Leg Sweep in addition to the legs.
• Cutting both legs does not inflict weakness on the head.
• Defeating the head does not kill the Uterus.

Strategy

Uterus and Embryo take 120% damage from the Blunt damage type. The Embryo that fights with the Uterus is technically treated as a body part, as killing the Uterus will end the fight even if the Embryo is still alive.

The Uterus attacks mainly using its hands, which are able to stab and heavily damage the player and party members. Its limbs are easy to cut off thankfully, and should generally be dealt with first, but there is another great danger coming from this encounter - the Embryo that grows within the uterus will begin to slowly crawl out during turns. If it is not defeated in 3 turns, it can deal critical amounts of damage by stabbing the player's party members. The best way to deal with it is to use Leg Sweep which kills it instantly. If no one in the party knows Leg Sweep, having multiple party members is extremely useful because it is absolutely essential to deal as much damage to it as possible before it crawls up.

Focusing on the torso is also a legitimate strategy if you have the damage to destroy it in one turn as once the torso falls, Uterus will instantly die.

Dialogues

"In combat:"

• "Intro:"
  • "You hear mechanical joins clicking as the uterus approaches..."
• "Intro 2:"
  • "The uterus stumbles from the shadows."

If talked to:'

• You try talking some sense to this mannequin...
  • Player: “What is your origin?”
    • The mannequin strikes a pose with its joints clicking from rust.
  • Player: “Wait. We don't have to fight!”
    • The mannequin just keeps closing in on you with a blank stare on its face.
  • Player: “Please don't!”
    • The figurine strikes a delicate pose, revealing its rusty nails.
  • Player: “Prepare to die.”
    • You feel more courageous for saying that, even if the figurine doesn't seem to react.

Interactions

“The mannequin is down...”

Action	Result	Flavour text
Beat her	Nothing	“No reaction. The surface of the uterus is rather hard...”
Search	Nothing	You find nothing of use from the uterus.
Leave	Success	Nothing
Using a Soul stone	Nothing	“.... The Soul stone doesn't seem to react to the remains of the creature...”
Devour	Nothing	“The surface of the uterus is inedible...”
Skin her	Nothing	“The surface of the uterus is actually too hard for the skinning knife.”
Demon seed	Demon baby recruited	“A baby sprouted out of your seed!” “You take the baby with you.”

Trivia

• The "Uterus" character is based on the mannequin figure in the album cover for Nirvana's 3rd full-length studio album In Utero.
• There is unused code for the Embryo to perform a coin flip attack that, if failed, does light damage and causes paralysis.
• The text and sound effects each turn that signify the Embryo growing play even if the Embryo has been defeated.
• In Fear & Hunger 2: Termina, one of the paint buckets found in Tunnel 1 is labeled "Uterus yellow".

Gallery

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  Early battle sprite art of Uterus.
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  Early battle sprite art of Embryo.

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