Had an interesting game today. Marie/Wilson/Trish/Silas vs. Ghantathoa + Dagon&Hydra.

Had a fairly strightforward first half. Early Elder Sign in Wilson's hands got a quick seal. Marie took $6 from Silas and passed her story, controlling doom for long enough so that Wilson could pass his too, with some help from Marie's Alchemical Process, and Trish's dedication at the Newspaper.

Midway through the game, Trish got petrified by Ghantathoa's visage. So we shuffled 'em up and dealt one random replacement investigator to the player.. Patrice. Well, we roll with our punches (dagon and hydra anyone?), so we take our blessings too =). Patrice is little help actually for several turns, a victim of some poor starting equipment and most of the group's cash gone already towards Wilson's/Marie's story, but her clues enable Marie to slap another seal down.

After the seal Marie walked out into the street and executed a star spawn with storm of spirits and the enchanted knife. Next turn she spent the trophies (along with a shoggoth she killed earlier) at ma's and picked up Zebulon Whately. Figured that Alchemical Process/ Refresh (tap Zeb) and recast would quickly allow Patrice to finish off her PS and solve our cash problems for the rest of the game. I was right.

Game progressed fairly standard, now there are 4 seals down. DOR track is starting to become a threat, so Silas went up and quelled the uprising fairly easily, thanks to some early clue seeding from Wilson. Next turn he realizes that we're sitting at 6 gates, so he decides that his time is up, sacrifices himself and seals a gate on Yha-Nethlei. 5 seals down. Since we were playing a 4-investigator game with 2 players (2 investigators each), we continued the turn with silas devourered rather than replacing him right away, it was just more streamlined that way.The mythos that turn however is not with us, and another gate opens on the Graveyard, back up to 6 gates and nobody in one.

Time to see who Silas gets replaced by. We shuffle 'em up, and I draw one from the middle of the pile. .... Who is it? Silas Marsh. Well, although i'd mused over this situation before as a thought-experiment, this was the first time that we actually drew an investigator who had been devourered already, and it was an added laugh that it was the turn *after* he killed himself.

Silas: "I'M BACK IN THE GAME!!!!!"

With some help from Patrice and Silas' two clues to start, he sacs another gate, and a monster during upkeep, nukes a Ry'leh gate for style and sacrifices himself -again, for the win.

Whoa. Gotta admit, that's pretty fun. I admit, I've always tried to play that the dead investigator cannot come back. But, also admittedly, there is some flair when that happens. Reminiscent of all those roleplaying games when the DM used artistic license to ressurect a character.

I have always played that when a character is devoured mid-turn, his replacement comes in at the beginning of the next one. It's also economical when playing with many players. The rest of the players finish their turns while the devoured one creates his new character.

Twas his twin I say

rapatpamp said:

Simon Marsh