Vulture Mask

The vulture mask's general purpose is to protect the weak spot of the vulture: its face. It can be obtained by hitting the vulture's mask with a spear just right, or knocking it off with a powerful explosive. Be careful, however, because vultures that have been unmasked are incredibly persistent and will pursue slugcat exclusively until their death.

After it's knocked off the vulture (or looted off its corpse), the mask can be worn in order to frighten off lizards. Slugcat will wear the mask when not otherwise occupied with the hand holding it (i.e. while, climbing, crawling, swimming); the mask has no collision with the environment or projectiles. The mask cannot be thrown, and can only be dropped. As with other items, a lizard's tongue is capable of ripping the mask from Slugcat's hand or face.

Vulture masks are prized by Scavengers, who will typically trade most weapons and resources for them, though they are not as highly valued as data pearls. King vulture masks are valued even more highly, as high as pearls even, and scavengers will trade any object for them.

Trivia

 * While eating or swallowing an object, Slugcat will lift the mask off of their face.
 * Masks needs to be held in Slugcat's hands and cannot be swallowed/regurgitated for storage.
 * Lizards will react to slugcat with great fear while slugcat is wearing a vulture mask. While they may still bite slugcat if they are close, they will typically make every effort to run away. Green lizards are a notable exception: as they do not fear vultures normally, they will ignore the mask completely.