Earl Shanty

Earl is the nephew of the Renowned Explorer’s janitor from Kansas. Has a fake membership, but everyone acts like it’s real. Good with explosives.

Summary
Earl is a glass cannon scientist, with amazing Attack and good Speech but very poor defenses.

Earl's area attacks are amongst the best in the Renowned Explorers! Earl does well in or  teams, as long as there is someone to protect him!

Recommended crew: go or  with Molly and Jan-Piet.

Captain Perk
Mechanic for Hire: whenever you complete a research paper.

Hidden Characteristics
Earl:
 * is gullible.
 * is very greedy.
 * has cockamamy ideas.
 * his wrestling name is El Loco.
 * is an Aries.

Campfire Cards

 * Dangerous Engineer (shared with Phillipe) - One crew member gains +3 Attack per level of.
 * Scavenger (shared with Kiwi) - Choose one lvl 4 who gains  on.
 * Weird Patents - received from  increases by 3% every time you find a *.
 * *NOTE: Does not apply to Discoveries collected on the world map, whether from Entourage, Insight or Treasures (Origin of the Species II)

Personal Campfire Story
Weird Patents:
 * On playing the personal story card, Earl announces his intentions to make something, allowing you to select one other crew member to interact with him and play out the story.
 * Earl builds a bike. Depending on either luck or factors not known to the player, Earl will succeed or fail, and he requires two expeditions to finish the bike. On the first story interlude, success will result in the selected crew member to like him, and failure will result in wary. On the second story, success will give the crew tokens, while failure will make Earl wary of himself.
 * Hidden Characteristic Interaction:
 * Yvonne falls in love with Earl, instantly admiring him. The first time the card is played Yvonne will try to seduce earl(and fail) gaining . The 2nd expedition she will try again(and fail) for.

Patch History
Patch 18: - Lowered Earl's bonus from Weird Patents to 3%. Patch 12: - Cooldown of Strike of Fear raised to 6. Patch 9: - Earl gained a little more speech defense (from 25 to 30), and his captain perk is boosted. (from 4 to 6 collect) Patch 4: - Earl's captain perk now gives 4 Collect tokens per Paper.