So, how do you expect to lose when Rhan Tegoth is your Ancient One? A quick filling of the doom track followed by a horribly long, arduous, and inevitably brutal loss in an epic final battle? Yeah, that's what I thought too. But instead after 12 rounds of play, his doom track was only 6, we had only closed two gates, we had only successfully made it through two Other Worlds after about 10 attempts and many visits to Lost in Time and Space, and on turn 12 with 5 of our 6 investigators hanging out in Lost in Time and Space, we decided to draw an Environment (Weather) card to put the Third Act in play and lose. Not exactly how you expect to lose to Rhan.
Well played Mr. Tegoth, well played.