Greetings fellow investigators and dear developers of this magnificent game. I am an investigator of " Eldritch Bakırköy: Nightmare Mode On" crew and we had a little bit of arguement about the card "Turning The Tide" Task Unique Asset at our last session of tireless battle againts the Father of Serpents!

Here is the explaination of the card in question:

"At the end of the Mythos Phase if Doom advanced this round or the Ancient One has awoken, you may spend Clues half of the number of investigators to flip this card"

And here comes scenario and therefore our question.

Yig the Father of Serpents had already awoken and our Doom track is at 0. At the end of the Mythos Phase we would like to use this card but since the Doom track can't advance anymore and well we are already battling Yig, we found ourselves in arguement. Can we use the card even though the Ancient One did not awakened at the same round we wish to use this card?If so why?

My personal opinion about it was that we were able to use this card and there was some sort of grammar error at this card. Since "has awaken" state impiles that the Ancient One should be awakened at the same round of usage, some of my friends said that we can't. BUT since awakening an Ancient One means advancing Doom track to 0, why would the author of the card specifies it once more? I believe the text should be "At the end of the Mythos Phase if Doom advanced this round or the Ancient One "HAD" awoken, you may spend Clues half of the number of investigators to flip this card"

I would be really grateful if you folks could clarify this dilemma for us. By the way since our whole investigator group see this game as a great challenge and enjoys every bit of it, we didn't use it until we were able to retreat Doom and advance it once more .

Here is response from Nikki Valens to this issue:

Hello Runko,

The task has two unique things it is looking for:

• Has Doom advanced this round?
• Has the Ancient One awoken?

These two requirements are separate from one another; the "this round" on the first does not affect the second requirement.

If either of the above requirements are met, the investigator may spend Clues equal to half the number of investigators to flip the card.

Please note that if the task is flipped after the Ancient One has awoken, some of the effects on its back might not have any affect. For example, Doom cannot be retreated after the Ancient One has awoken.

Thanks for playing!

~ Nikki Valens

Fantasy Flight Games

Thank you for the clarification!

Thanks for clearing this