Just had a brutal game last night and the worst luck imaginable. We were playing the base game + Innsmouth with a scenario one of use cooked up to make the visages trigger more often, by adding the Mask monsters and flipping a visage token each time one was defeated. Shouldn't be too much of a problem.

The game was barely underway when the first Mask appeared, Me, playing Skids o'Tool had a few weapons and was looking to spend a few clues to complete my Personal story took on the Bloated Woman. Took her down and flipped the visage token...and had big G staring back at me. DEVOURED. This was the first token flipped that game.

Several turns later, Wilson decided to help Trish out with her personal story by picking up a pair of clues so her fail condition wouldn't trigger. Flip a visage and...his face loomed once more. 2nd token flipped that game. DEVOURED. Big G goes 2 for 2.

Not too much later, Patrice needed a couple clues to send out to someone who was sealing. Picked up 2...flip the token...and Patrice is no longer with us. DEVOURED. 3 for 3.

With that many investigators faultering, Ghatanathoa awoke shortly after from too many gates being open. To add insult to injury the second Epic Battle card was a sinister plot...Cat and Mouse. Back to the visage tokens. First player flips...nothing! For the first time that game, it wasn't his face! Second player flips...and sees the ugly mug of Ghatanathoa. Roland down.

We lost that game pretty badly...we got no breaks at all.

Total Visage tokens flipped that game: 5

Total times his face was shown: 4

You know that you are supposed to shuffle the tokens once his face has come up huh?

Great report though...

LUUUU UUUU UUUU UUUUV Ghatanothoa. Without a doubt my new favorite Ancient One. (No whammies no whammies no whammies STOP!)

Delightful report!!!

Now let's put this in perspective here. "Worst luck imaginable" would be five faces out of five

Which expansion is this face-loved guy in again?

Knuckles Eki said:

He's a really fun AO in IH. He whacked me two nights ago, but not because my investigators saw his face; it was just because the darned DOR track got me AGAIN!

We had a player running the game (reading off the cards and shuffling the tokens) so maybe he did his job too well. Between having 3 out of the seven of us have to start new characters and 3 people had gates open beneath them (thankfully coming out BEFORE Patrice looked at Ghatanathoa) we had no time to prepare for final combat and were poorly stocked for the final fight. He awoke with 8 or 9 doom tokens due to too many gates.

His -1 success defense is mean...this game hasn't gotten my heart going like that in a while!