I just played a game against Yibb-Tstll, which included Luke Robinson.

He started the game with Mythos Lore, which effectively meant one fewer clue to seal gates, which is great against Yibb.

During the game he acquired Find Gate, which is pretty good too.

Unfortunately, he got Double Vision, so he couldn't gain clues on the board anymore. This sucks against Yibb, but at least he has another regular qay of gaining clues.

When I saw that a rift was about to open, I sent him into Kingsport to stop it. We were 3 doom tokens away from battle, and at a -15 modifier, we were TOAST. The best spot for him to investigate was the North Point Lighthouse. I was about to draw his random encounter, and then I realized where exactly I was.

Luke became Captain of the White ship. Now he could zoom to the other worlds, gaining clues, and returning at his leisure to any open gate to seal it. This was worth the risk of the rift opening. (I play that taking an alternate encounter does not remove rift progress tokens.)

On his first subsequent turn, I shot him into the Dreamlands, ready to return and close or seal a gate if something should go wrong with our close-gate plan currently in effect. Well, the Mythos card was a monster surge, and the monsters that appeared on the waiting players were within their abilities to defeat (plus the one Leng Spider that threatened a character was removed by the Mythos card's effect anyway).

Lily Chen pulled her gate closed, and Monterey Jack used his Linguistics skill to lullabye his gate closed, returning Yibb-Tstll to another long slumber. How appropriate.

This left Luke trapped in the Dreamlands forever. But since he did start there, and his backstory does imply that he prefers the majestic Dreamlands to the "dull and provincial" New England, I'm sure that he regrets nothing.

The rest of his existence will be spent sailing across the Other Worlds, gaining wisdom and knowledge of all its facets and realms. Not too bad, I'd say. Except for the fact that all those wonderful and astounding sights will be obscured by his double vision. But what's but an eternity to get that fixed?

Nice report Tibs, I didnt understand much of it as it sounds like you were using expansion stuff I havent seen yet but I still enjoyed the story.

Tibs, there's no such thing as an "alternate encounter" either you take an encounter or you do something "instead" of an encounter. Instead is not an encounter. So, you're doing the right thing ;') even though your terminology (and implication that there's an alternate correct way) is wrong.

And I agree :') that was an apt and excellent ending.