I have a question about Lola's weaknesses Crisis of Identity. It reads, "Discard all cards you control of your current role. ..." It goes on, but my question pertains to the first sentence.

What, exactly, is being discarded?

Rules Reference, page 16:

"Ownership and Control

• "A card's owner is the player whose deck (or game area) held the card at the start of the game.
• "A player controls the cards located in his or her out-of-play game areas (such as the hand, deck, discard pile).
• "The scenario controls the cards in its out-of-play game areas (such as the encounter, act, and agenda decks, and the encounter discard pile).
  • "Cards by default enter play under their owner's control. Some abilities may cause cards to change control during a game.
  • "If a card would enter an out-of-play area that does not belong to the card's owner, the card is physically placed in its owner's equivalent out-of-play area instead. The card is considered to have entered its controller's out-of-play area, and only the physical placement of the card is adjusted."

Literal interpretation: discard all cards from her hand, play area, and deck of her current role. And I suppose, if we're being literal, her previously discarded cards of that role are also discarded. While this would explain why you must have at least 7 cards of at least 3 different roles (as it can be triggered through normal gameplay twice (via 2 copies) per game) and why her deck size is 35, I think this would make her virtually unplayable. The exception being if you had 3 other investigators capable of finishing each scenario without her to compensate for her low survivability.

So, let's assume that her deck is not part of this card exodus. Is it limited to her in play area or her hand or neither?

I believe this is resolved with an oddball but an important rule that has come up before

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Ability
"Card abilities only interact with other cards that are in play, unless the ability specifically references an interaction with cards in an out-of-play area."

Essentially, it just means her cards in play.

Otherwise weird things happen, like you could lose a card in your hand instead of in play to a Crypt Chill or Pushed into the Beyond, for example. Or you can assign damage to asset cards that are in your discard pile, that sort of thing.

Jesus... any time I read her weakness I thought it said from hand.... not from cards you already had in play?!