# Rat Cave

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/rat-cave/10268>\
**Category:** The Bunker\
**Created:** [August 6, 2015, 12:31am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/rat-cave/10268 "2015-08-06T00:31:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Haerdalas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/258eb7/32.png) [@Haerdalas](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Haerdalas)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2015, 12:31am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/rat-cave/10268/1 "2015-08-06T00:31:23Z")

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So, having not played in a while, I have just recently come back to cataclysm. My most recent character has spent the game so far fleeing from several hordes, going from brief haven to brief haven. Most recently, I was forced to hide in a cave as the horde approached. I found it was a Rat Cave, however I had had time to make basic armour and such, and so decided to try my hand at it.

Killing all the rats on the first floor wasn’t too hard, then I went to the second floor. I knew the Rat King could mutate you, but i didnt realise it happened so fast… according to the wiki, I should be required to stay until I am vomiting repeatedly in order to have good odds of mutation. Instead, I started mutation rapidly and repeatedly almost immediately. I believe my first mutation occured less than 10 steps in to the second floor. Is this meant to occur now? It seems… rather more risky than I remember…

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**Author:** ![Malkeus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/malkeus/32/12037_2.png) [@Malkeus](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Malkeus)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2015, 2:49am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/rat-cave/10268/2 "2015-08-06T02:49:54Z")

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Same thing happened to me, I just chalked it up to scary mutant rat powers and then enjoyed the power of Robust Genetics.

All Hail the Rat King!

[http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas\_obscura/2014/04/16/the\_rat\_king\_or\_roi\_de\_rats\_is\_a\_very\_creepy\_conjoined\_creature.html](http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2014/04/16/the_rat_king_or_roi_de_rats_is_a_very_creepy_conjoined_creature.html) ![](http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/atlas_obscura/2014/04/16/the_rat_king_or_roi_de_rats_is_a_very_creepy_conjoined_creature/ratking_1.jpg.CROP.promo-mediumlarge.jpg)

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**Author:** ![Random\_dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4da419/32.png) [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2015, 2:53am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/rat-cave/10268/3 "2015-08-06T02:53:54Z")

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Ohgodwut, now we know what inspired this…thing.

Ya gotta bum-rush the rat king, or else you’ll never get to be a nutcracker.

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**Author:** ![Haerdalas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/258eb7/32.png) [@Haerdalas](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Haerdalas)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2015, 3:10am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/rat-cave/10268/4 "2015-08-06T03:10:57Z")

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Sadly, I had no torch batteries left, so I was stubbling around in the dark looking for the Rat King.

Lucky, I had robust genetics, and the Ratting gave me Nightvision after a short while. Then I found the rat king and beat him to death with the nice sharp combat knife I found in his cave.

So yeah. Total loot for all that? One shiny combat knife, a suit of light power armour (!) and about 6 mutations. Sadly, I ran into a Hulk shortly after leaving the cave, and got splattered across several trees, but hey. You win some, you lose some.