I just picked up Kingsport the other day. I just want to be clear on how you close rifts.

From how I read it in the rules, if you have an encounter at a Kingsport location that matches a marker on an open rift, you turn that marker over. Then when all 4 markers are turned over, the rift markers go back into the pile and the rift is closed and goes back to the Kingsport board? You just need to have an encounter there, no speific encounters needed to turn the marker over?

No specific encounter is needed. I also interpret "encounter" to mean "draw from the encounter deck"; so if you go to the congregational hospital and choose to receive the sanity/stamina, then that does not count as an encounter. (Of course, if you have Ursula from IH, you could do both ).

I've got a good one. If more than one rift is open, and you investigate and clear one of the tracks, which rift do you close? None of the rifts are assigned to any of the specific three tracks. Do you get to choose?

Tibs said:

Good question, how do you keep track of what moving rift on the Arkham board was on what set of 4 tracks on the Kingsport board?

My assumption is that you don't keep track. FFG is pretty notable for including bits and pieces to track everything in Arkham Horror: exactly 48 brood tokens (8 investigators with 6 brood tokens each), 8 STL memberships; 8 Bank loans; 8 Sheldon Gang memberships; 20 doom/elder signs (for Azathoth's 14 spaces and for 6 seals, even though that situation is technically impossible). They did not include any components to track rift "origins."

I think that you can probably choose which rift closes. In the grand scheme of things, choosing which one closes probably makes little tactical difference; and if you were a sucker enough to allow more than one rift to be open at a time, you're definitely going to feel the pain.

Tibs said:

I second. P10 : "An investigator can only investigate one rift progress marker for each encounter he has in a given location, even if several rift progress markers show that location".

So, yeah, we always played that you choose.

And I second your idea, ricedwlit, encounter, no matter what it is, no matter successful or not it is, but not if you're having a special event instead of an encounter.

Hem said:

Hmm. I think you misunderstood, Hem.

Say the black crescent and the white circle rifts are open and crawling around town. Later I investigate the fourth and final location on the middle rift track, closing the middle rift. Do I then close the black crescent, or the white circle rift and place it on the middle track? None of the rift markers are associated with any specific track.

Since we can't be expected to remember necessarily which one came from where, and they're not labeled or marked in any way, we should probably have a choice of which one gets cloesd and returned.

Well, no, I think I didn't misunderstand, because once again I second your very last sentence in that last thread of yours : you can choose. Since you can only invest one rift progress marker for a location shown multiple times, when you close one, if it has more than one, you choose, no matter if the rifts are opened or not.

I think you did. ^^

Tibs is talking about choosing which of the too rifts to close that are on the board, when a rift is to be closed. You're assuming he talks about which rift progress marker is removed, if an investigator has an encounter in a location shown on two rift progress markers on the track.

Yeah, maybe it's a language issue, then, sorry ! But what I was saying is that rift progress marker OR rift itself, no matter what : u choose