Rare Book Collection:

Velma's Gratitude:

Coded Messages:

Darke's Blessing:

Sheldon Gang Membership:

Cult Membership without Black Goat Herald:

And with the Herald:

Non-Cult Encounters that give you Corruptions:

Me:

Rare Book Collection: Had the encounter twice, and one of those times I actually activated it.

Velma's Gratitude: Had the encounter one, activated it just for the heck of it even though it's pretty useless.

Coded Messages: Had the encounter twice, one time managed to activate.

Darke's Blessing: Had the encounter once, and managed to activate it.

Sheldon Gang Membership: Had the encounter about five times but only one time I met the requirement and got a membership.

Cult Membership without Black Goat Herald: Once

And with the Herald: Twice

Non-Cult Encounters that give you Corruptions: Twice

Now you.

Rare Book Collection:

Velma's Gratitude:

Coded Messages: Once

Darke's Blessing:

Sheldon Gang Membership: Once

Cult Membership without Black Goat Herald: Once

And with the Herald:

Non-Cult Encounters that give you Corruptions: Twice

There's also Deputization, at the Arkham Police Station, which I've had occur twice in games.

I've gotten the Changed card once, from the High House in the Mists.

I've also once been Captain of the White Ship (As Luke Robinson, no less, which was AMAZING.)

I too was once Captain and I even was Changed twice (one time The Great Seal actually stopped an elder sign from exploding at the Woods! you have no idea how awesome it feels). I didn't include these because you can get those things on purpose. The things I listed are all luck based.

Mighty Maltim said:

The Deputization happens quite regularly at our games. It may be expensive, but the income is a nice thing, if you're going to look for Ancient Signs in the shop. Some days ago we had five players and monster-surges and Mythos-encounters that spawned new monsters on a pretty regular base. One player was Michae McGlen and blasted a heckload of baddies in no time. I think he was deputy by the fourth or fifth round

Rare Book Collection: Activated once, but I know I’ve seen it more than that. Not more than a handful of times though.

Velma's Gratitude: I’ve seen it less than a handful of times. Never activated.

Coded Messages: This is the Condition Encounter I see the most frequently, often because I’m “shopping” for a Retainer or Clues. Activated twice, I think.

Darke's Blessing: Seen once. Never activated.

Sheldon Gang Membership: Again, a handful of sightings. Achieved once, and then utilized once. Surprisingly disappointing.

Cult Membership without Black Goat Herald: Once. I’m not counting the few games where I started everyone with Cult Memberships to see what would happen. I pretty much retired the Black Goat Expansion shortly after that. I have adopted the BG Investigator cards, Mythos cards, and monsters (except for the extra Dark Young) into my Innsmouth box.

And with the Herald: Twice, I think. But it could be that I’m remembering both “with” and “without” together, so it could be “once” and “once”.

Non-Cult Encounters that give you Corruptions: Never.

I thought about adding Silver Twilight Lodge Memberships to this list--technically, they are "luck-based" Encounters as well--but judging from my own experience, they probably couldn't be considered "Rare". (Been a member several dozen times, not counting the times I was playing Diana.) Not rare like these other categories, anyway.

Gettin a Lodge memrship is insanely easy. Carl Sanford seems to hand them like hot potatos.

I like to fish for Coded Messages. If we are playing with Dunwich, once I meet the prerequisites I start hitting the newspaper. Only gotten it a handful of times, but it always makes a difference (well, at least before Patrice, but our group nerfed her pretty quickly).

As for the rest, Rare Book Collection doesn't seem worth it (and I hate drawing it, as we never have the Necronomicon). Neer got Velma's or Darke's. Not sure if we had a Sheldon Gang member seems like it did happen, and I want to say someone like Gloria (?) of all people got it; whoever it was we consider to be a bookworm.

The cult membership are more common, but our group still feels that the cults are lacking something. We love the concept, but are unimpressed by the final execution. Playing with the BG Herald, though, makes for some of the most challenging games of AH.

I would realy, really, really have liked Black Goat herald if it weren't for its power to add a doomer every surge. It just makes the game too short and it ends just when it gets interesting. Corruptions and double monsters is more than enough IMHO.

I say none to all except for Sheldon Gang Membership. I think the gang really likes me when I play, because everytime I go there, they start picking on me. How many times they popped up: more than I can count. How many times I agreed to join: none. I get hurt a lot when they boot me out of the woods.

Hey, I made some time ago an unofficial herald that makes those things happening (see Hermes in the thread in Fan creation/guardian for those who cares). always fun to advertise yourself )

Rare Book Collection: Never

Velma's Gratitude: Never

Coded Messages: Never (but I've seen the encounter to activate it)

Darke's Blessing: Never

Sheldon Gang Membership: Never (again, seen encounter)

Cult Membership without Black Goat Herald: Never

And with the Herald: Once

Non-Cult Encounters that give you Corruptions: Once

Rare Book Collection: Gotten the encounter but never actually used the space. Never seemed worth it anyway.

Velma's Gratitude: Got it once. Kinda funny really. Me and someone else needed somewhere random to meet up and Velma's Dinner was the safest place. I got the encounter and took it for its novelty. Then he got an encounter and got to heal for free thanks to it. We felt very proud afterwords.

Coded Messages:

At least twice. Games where we got it became very easy.

Darke's Blessing:

Personally never but I had a friend who said he did.

Sheldon Gang Membership:

Never