The book says something like "If there is an explored marker, you can close or seal the gate." It doesn't say "you may close or seal the gate, or you may hang out draw an Arkham Locations encounter card" for your encounter, so that you can close or seal the gate at a later time.

So I've read on the forums about investigators waiting around at a sealed gate while another invest. brings them some clue tokens so that they have enough to seal. I've been trying this in my solo games, and it raises several questions for me:

1) Is it even legal to wait around with an explored marker? The book says only two options- close or seal.

2)In the list of things you may give or trade between invests, clue tokens is not one of them. Is it officially okay to do this?

3)can an invest leave some clue tokens on a space so that another invest may pick them up later?

4)an invest explores a gate and gets and an explored marker is placed. Another invest moves into the explored location. The invest that scored the explored marker leaves the location, but the other invest stays there. Does the expored marker remain on the space? There IS an invest on the space, but the original "explorer" has left without closing.

Thanks.

Adamquest64,

This is one if the areas which is actually quite simple, once you do it once or twice.

When your Investigator is on the Explored Marker, the Gate still exists, which obviously negates the ability to draw an Arkham Location card ~ the location, currently, doesn't exist.

You may 'hang out' on the Explored Marker as long as you like, but you're not going to receive any Clue Tokens by doing so, except for some very rare circumstances. For instance, if your Investigator happens to have the Tome King in Yellow, by which the Investigator may pass a Lore check and receive 4 Clue Tokens OR you're playing with the Innsmouth Horror Expansion, and another player has the Violinist,. Patrice, through whom you can receive additional Clue Tokens, etc.

So, to go through your questions, in order...

1) Yes, you may "hang out" on the Explored Marker ~ if you choose to do anything else during the Arkham Phase, it's either Close or Seal the Gate.

2) You may not, except in rare circumstances (a couple of Mythos cards and the Investigator Patrice allow this possibility) trade Clue Tokens.

3) An Investigator may not leave Clues for others to "find" on the map.

4) As soon as another Investigator moves onto the Gate, he/she is immediately placed into the Other World associated with the Gate. If the Investigator who traversed the Other Worlds (and subsequently received the Explored Marker) leaves the space, remove the Explored Marker from the Gate.

The Professor

The Professor said:

Not immediately. If you have movement points left, you can move away in the same movement phase (useful for move and trade with an Elder Sign). Or if the gate is closed before your Arkham Encounter phase comes up, you're not sucked in. Only if you're at the gate location in your Arkham Encounter phase, there is still an open gate there AND you don't have an Explored marker are you sucked in.

Adamquest64 said:

I was uncertain what you meant by this question. If you mean, can I drop off clues that my investigator already had, the answer is no, as the Professor said.

If you mean does the investigator have to pick up clues off a location where he stops, the answeris no. He/she may leave some or all of the clues on the spot for another investigator to pick up at a later time. Once the investigator picks up clues, he may never trade them or drop them (unless she is Patrice, or you ahve coded messages or certain mythos cards in play.)