BTW, my advice? Take the damage, don't waste the tokens. You just have to spend a couple days with Smudge to get back up to max. Not a huge deal.

Curses! Foiled again!

Argh! That's what I get for being in a hurry.

I'll take my curses. Don't wanna give up the tokens this early in the game.

Or should I use the token? What benefits the group more?

That's IT! I'm joining the winning team!

Wait...what do you mean that card's not in this version of the game... Oh... never mind then...

Oh fine, I'll belay my order and let the guard hit me.

I'll channel some other old guy for my beating

Maybe Clint Eastwood?

Take the curse, it'll go away, eventually and with 3 clues already you're very close to the magical number (5, which is the number of clues you need to seal a gate permanently if you don't have an Elder Sign handy) as it is.

I have to take off in 5 minutes.

If holding on to the tokens is in the group's interest, I take my curses.

If not, I reroll the luck die and try to get blessed instead.

Melkh, any advice here?

OK, thanks. I takes my curses. I'm outta here, guys, probably for the rest of the day.

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Arkham Encounters:

1. Rokk - Historical Society

Pay $3 fee to gain access to the private library. If you refuse, move to the street. If you pay, make a Luck (-1) check. If you pass, you learn an ancient spell from a dusty ledger. Draw 1 Spell. If you fail, you doze off and enter The Dreamlands. Have an encounter there, then immediately return here.

2. Charles - Bank of Arkham - DONE!

You find a penny with a strange sigil carved into it. Amused, you flip it in the air, then gasp as you feel the sudden gathering of magical forces around you. Make a Luck (-2) check. If you pass, the penny comes up heads. You are Blessed. If you fail, it comes up tails. You are Cursed.

Charles has a Luck score of 3. With the -2 check, he rolls one die=

1

Ashcan is now Cursed. He only succeeds on 6's, 5's no longer work. He will hopefully be rid of this during next upkeep.

3. Jack - Independence Square

A pair of friendly picnickers share their lunch with you. Gain 1 Stamina (already maxed).

Alternate Encounter:

You touch Founder's Rock. Make a Luck (-1) check. If you pass, there is an electrifying shock that opens your mind to the elder things of eons past. Lose 1 Stamina, but gain 2 Clue tokens and draw 1 Spell. If you fail, you find a strange carving. As you finger the grooves, a gate opens here, and you are drawn through it.

4. Pax - Woods - DONE!

You find a sleeping Sheldon Gang member near the still. Make a Sneak (-2) check to try to swipe the shotgun he has dropped on the ground. If you pass, take a Shotgun from the Common Item deck, if there is one. If you fail, the guard awakens. You are caught and beaten, losing 2 Stamina, but you escape with your life. Move to the street.

Pax automatically fails. Pax is now in the Uptown Streets, and lost 2 Stamina.

5. Smudge - Decide if you want to draw an Encounter card, or buy from the Magic Shop.

My advice Jack, DON'T try the luck roll, go for the nice, quiet picnic. The risk of having another gate opening on us is simply too great in an 8 player game!

I will take the Encounter card.

Oh, this is awesome. BTW, drew the same card Pax did.

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Arkham Encounters:

1. Rokk - Historical Society

Pay $3 fee to gain access to the private library. If you refuse, move to the street. If you pay, make a Luck (-1) check. If you pass, you learn an ancient spell from a dusty ledger. Draw 1 Spell. If you fail, you doze off and enter The Dreamlands. Have an encounter there, then immediately return here.

2. Charles - Bank of Arkham - DONE!

You find a penny with a strange sigil carved into it. Amused, you flip it in the air, then gasp as you feel the sudden gathering of magical forces around you. Make a Luck (-2) check. If you pass, the penny comes up heads. You are Blessed. If you fail, it comes up tails. You are Cursed.

Charles has a Luck score of 3. With the -2 check, he rolls one die=

1

Ashcan is now Cursed. He only succeeds on 6's, 5's no longer work. He will hopefully be rid of this during next upkeep.

3. Jack - Independence Square

A pair of friendly picnickers share their lunch with you. Gain 1 Stamina (already maxed).

Alternate Encounter:

You touch Founder's Rock. Make a Luck (-1) check. If you pass, there is an electrifying shock that opens your mind to the elder things of eons past. Lose 1 Stamina, but gain 2 Clue tokens and draw 1 Spell. If you fail, you find a strange carving. As you finger the grooves, a gate opens here, and you are drawn through it.

4. Pax - Woods - DONE!

You find a sleeping Sheldon Gang member near the still. Make a Sneak (-2) check to try to swipe the shotgun he has dropped on the ground. If you pass, take a Shotgun from the Common Item deck, if there is one. If you fail, the guard awakens. You are caught and beaten, losing 2 Stamina, but you escape with your life. Move to the street.

Pax automatically fails. Pax is now in the Uptown Streets, and lost 2 Stamina.

5. Smudge - Ye Olde Magick Shoppe -

Looking into a glass ball, you receive a vision of things to come. Turn the top card of one location deck of your choice face up. The next investigator to have an encounter at that location draws that encounter card.

Pretty sweet. You can give us some advance warning with a location.

My suggestion would be Rivertown. Let's hear from everyone else.

Sorry Thawmus.

Yep, I'll pay the $$$ and go to the Private Library.

Not a problem. My big thing is responding once a day, and you guys have all been very responsive, so don't worry about it. Doom, obviously, is getting replaced after this turn, and I have a replacement in line.

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Arkham Encounters:

1. Rokk - Historical Society

Pay $3 fee to gain access to the private library. If you refuse, move to the street. If you pay, make a Luck (-1) check. If you pass, you learn an ancient spell from a dusty ledger. Draw 1 Spell. If you fail, you doze off and enter The Dreamlands. Have an encounter there, then immediately return here.

Rokk pays the $3.

Luck check - Luck score of 2, check is -1, so one die=
3

You can spend a clue token for another die, if you want, or just go to Dreamlands.


2. Charles - Bank of Arkham - DONE!

You find a penny with a strange sigil carved into it. Amused, you flip it in the air, then gasp as you feel the sudden gathering of magical forces around you. Make a Luck (-2) check. If you pass, the penny comes up heads. You are Blessed. If you fail, it comes up tails. You are Cursed.

Charles has a Luck score of 3. With the -2 check, he rolls one die=

1

Ashcan is now Cursed. He only succeeds on 6's, 5's no longer work. He will hopefully be rid of this during next upkeep.

3. Jack - Independence Square

A pair of friendly picnickers share their lunch with you. Gain 1 Stamina (already maxed).

Alternate Encounter:

You touch Founder's Rock. Make a Luck (-1) check. If you pass, there is an electrifying shock that opens your mind to the elder things of eons past. Lose 1 Stamina, but gain 2 Clue tokens and draw 1 Spell. If you fail, you find a strange carving. As you finger the grooves, a gate opens here, and you are drawn through it.

4. Pax - Woods - DONE!

You find a sleeping Sheldon Gang member near the still. Make a Sneak (-2) check to try to swipe the shotgun he has dropped on the ground. If you pass, take a Shotgun from the Common Item deck, if there is one. If you fail, the guard awakens. You are caught and beaten, losing 2 Stamina, but you escape with your life. Move to the street.

Pax automatically fails. Pax is now in the Uptown Streets, and lost 2 Stamina.

5. Smudge - Ye Olde Magick Shoppe -

Looking into a glass ball, you receive a vision of things to come. Turn the top card of one location deck of your choice face up. The next investigator to have an encounter at that location draws that encounter card.