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Scrawny Cannibal

A Scrawny Cannibal — the war paint is green

Race	Cannibal Skav
Gender	Random
Faction	Cannibals
Weapon	Iron Stick
Armour	None
Inventory	Basic First Aid Kit
Main range	Cannibal Plains, Darkfinger
Stats	Roughly 6–12 across the board (combat baseline 9, ±3 spread)

The weakest rank of the Cannibal faction — green war paint, an almost adolescent build, and nothing to their name but an iron stick. They come in crowds, and they carry unconscious people back to camp.

Contents

Telling them apart at a glance
Weak, but not harmless
They carry first aid kits
Trivia
See also

Scrawny Cannibals are the weakest members of the Cannibal faction. They roam the Cannibal Plains and Darkfinger in large groups, and they are also used to pad out regions where cannibal presence is thin and stretched out — a great many of the "cannibals" you meet in Okran's Valley and Dreg are actually these.

Note"Scrawny Cannibal" is a whole class of generic enemy, not one specific character. Their race entry is Cannibal Skav, which is not the race used by the standard Cannibal, and their gender is rolled at random.

Telling them apart at a glance

The fastest tell is colour: standard Cannibals wear red body paint, Scrawny Cannibals wear green.

Gender is read off the war paint:

Gender	Body paint
Male	Darker paint around the legs, and a rib-cage-like bone marking across the upper torso
Female	Green patterning throughout, with a design on the stomach that looks suspiciously like the Holy Nation's symbol

They are also noticeably smaller in body size, almost to the point of looking like teenagers.

Weak, but not harmless

Every number on a Scrawny Cannibal is low: Strength, Toughness, Dexterity and all six weapon skills land between 6 and 12, and Dodge and Martial Arts start out negative. Their weapon is an Iron Stick and they wear no armour at all. One on one they are barely a threat.

The problem is numbers and behaviour:

They travel in large groups. That is the cannibal pattern generally; low individual strength does not mean low pressure in a fight.
They carry unconscious characters off. If there is a Cannibal Camp nearby, a downed character gets hauled in and imprisoned there. Only if no camp is close enough do they leave the body on the ground.

ImportantBeing carried into a cannibal camp is not the same as dying, but you will have to get out yourself, or send someone in. When a squad breaks, the first thing to check is whether anyone is being carried away.

They carry first aid kits

Living in conditions like these, Scrawny Cannibals nonetheless each carry a Basic First Aid Kit. The wiki offers two readings: either they understand how dangerous an open wound or a blackout is in a neighbourhood like theirs, or they want to patch up the victims they have captured so the meat stays "fresh".

Trivia

The wiki suggests they are meant to be a pygmy people.
In the game's editor (the FCS) they are called "Cannibal Skavs".
In regions where cannibal presence is minimal and thinly spread, Scrawny Cannibals are routinely substituted for standard Cannibals — Okran's Valley and Dreg being the stock examples.