Your House

Your House

Significant narrative spoilers for the Night of the Zealot Campaign (all three scenarios). Please only read after you have played it through at least once.

T’was the Night of the Zealot

 
T’was the Night of the Zealot and all through my house
Some creatures were stirring, far worse than a mouse!
I`d gathered some friends to research with care,
local ghoul activity, of which few were aware.
.
As many of Arkham were snug in their beds,
And visions of yellow kings danced in their heads
We sat and we focussed without even a nap.
When the door to my study vanished with a snap!!
.
My home was invaded! It caused such a clatter!
We sprang to our feet to address the matter.
I pulled back my rug in despair like a flash
Finding a door to my hall beneath like a Cache!!!
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Tumbling into to my hall, not beside but below,
to a barrier of heat, that we smashed with some snow.
When what to my wondering eyes should appear,
but a nightmarish ghoul priest with horns of Reindeer! [seriously check out the art]
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Our saviour was named Lita, who lively and quick,
BURNED DOWN MY DEAR HOUSE! ghouls and all, to the brick!
“Theres a cult in our town” she began to exclaim,
She ranted, and shouted, and then called them by name.
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Theres Turner! Theres Collins! Theres Warren and Drew!
Theres Cooper, and Hill! Pierce and Devereux!
“You must go fast to the town! Now go stop them all!
Now dash away! Dash away! Go stop The Cabal!”
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So into town, like a hurricane, we did fly
And late into the night we searched low and searched high
And around all the houses like coursers we flew,
Slaying masked cultists, and persuading a few
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When then, a slight twinkling, I heard on a roof,
A deer masked man had stalked us, lacking aloof
As I drew in my head, and was turning around,
Down from a tall chimney stack he leapt with a bound.
.
He was dressed all in leather, from his head to his foot,
His clothes were not tarnished with ashes or soot.
We tumbled and fumbled, evading his attack.
Until midnight when he left rejoining his pack.
.
They`d gone to the woods for a ritual? ... “How Merry!”
“No” exclaimed Lita. “Its about to get hairy!”
"In revenge for their lair I burned a night ago,
They’ll summon Umôrdhoth, The Devourer Below!"
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We searched deep into the forest, beyond the old heath
Following glyphs to a cave wrapped in smoke like a wreath
While the dark chamber within lit by candles wasn’t smelly,
its walls shifted and warped like a bowl full of jelly
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And stood blocking the door was the deer man himself
Other cultists stood smirking, like a jolly old elfs.
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know I had plenty to dread.
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Too late was it now, the rite began its work.
And all filled with a terror, we turned with a jerk.
Warped shadows stretched high as Umôrdhoth rose
As its writhing blue tendrils engulfed the enclose
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“’Tis Lita it wants!”. We threw her to the bristle
It consumed her whole then vanished with a whistle
Appeased, the deer man exclaimed, now just out of sight,
“Be that a lesson to all, and to all a good night!”
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StartWithTheName · 74755
Beautiful — SolarJ · 506

The Necronomicon

The Necronomicon

If you:

  • play with it anyway, regardless of the official Taboo (Forbidden), but wish to make it a bit less overpowered or
  • would like to make this playable, because of theme or simply preference

→ House rule we tested to make it playable but still give that power fantasy:

  • The Necronomicon has a fixed, finite number of unique charges (so you cannot replenish them or put charges on it) and it doesn't matter if you: put it back to your hand via Knowledge is Power, (untabooed) Sleight of Hand, Scavenging, put it under Library Pass etc. You can do all those things, but you won't get back your spent charges.

TL:DR: the intention is, that you have 6 charges, no matter what - and if you used them up, they are gone for good.

  • As an additional fair play bonus, you may treat this card as "Exceptional" and play 10 XP for it.
Coach Pete · 2
You may also 1. Make it Exceptional (10 XP) and use the 6 charges per scenario. Or 2. Don't make it Exceptional, but nerf it even harder by allowing 6 charges - per campaign. — Coach Pete · 2
That sounds messy because it requires additional book(hah)keeping. In general I also don't like exceptional-as-nerf, because it just delays the OP thing (until you have the xp) instead of really making it non-OP. — AlderSign · 453
Or just use the card as designed without comboing it — Dash83 · 1

Glimpse the Void

Glimpse the Void

For anyone looking for the answer to the question

"What happens if another investigator triggers this action?"

According to the rules for "you/your" it refers to the investigator controlling the card. Agatha crane.

It does not shuffle into a fellow investigator deck.

AussieKSU · 1173
... no it doesn't? (This is a case of "the conclusion is correct, but the reasoning is wrong", the card does get shuffled into Agatha's deck, so you don't need to read the rest if you don't care about the reasoning) — Thatwasademo · 59
From You/Your - Expanded: "When resolving a triggered ability ... "you/your" refers to the investigator triggering the ability." So it clearly *would* be shuffled into the deck of the investigator spending the action to clear it. BUT, from Ownership and Control: "If a card would enter an out-of-play area that does not belong to the card's owner, the card is physically placed in its owner's equivalent out-of-play area instead. The card is considered to have entered its controller's out-of-play area, and only the physical placement of the card is adjusted." So the card is considered to be shuffled into the deck of the investigator who triggers the action, but is physically shuffled into Agatha's deck instead. — Thatwasademo · 59

The Bell Tolls

The Bell Tolls

Asides from scrying/deck manipulation. The only way i know how to defend against this card is draw Ikiaq before bell tolls and put her into play so you can cancel the weakness. But most of the time I never got this weakness by the time campaign ends unless you have a ton of drawing.

Soaringseraph · 40
Do note that Ikiaq only works on Doomed, as Accursed Fate and The Bell Tolls are no longer basic weaknesses — MaleficMarby · 35

Sacrificial Beast

Sacrificial Beast

Sacrificial Beast may seem easier with more players to help Jenny kill the beast, but actually Jenny's Green Man Medallion becomes less effective with more players! The Green Man rewards ONLY Jenny with Bonus XP, which means your ability of effectively using the extra xp is penalized with more players.

Well designed; it keeps Jenny very flexible in any comp.

hencook · 1