Been a little while since I had a question, but I knew one would come up eventually. O_O

Had an interesting series of events happen last game. A player went to the library and had an encounter there. This encounter sent him to the Dreamlands to have one encounter and immediately return. However, the Dreamlands encounter then resulted in him being delayed.

The actual text of the library card: "You doze off and enter the Dreamlands. Have an encounter there, then immediately return here."

So, my questions are as follows:

1. Is the investigator actually delayed by this result? (I assume that he is.)
2. If so, is he delayed in the Dreamlands, or in the Library?

We handled it by delaying him in the Dreamlands, where the delay actually happened, but the more I think of it, the more I feel like we should have delayed him at the Library since he was supposed to immediately return.

he should've been delayed in the library as he was supposed to immediately return, and being delayed does not conflict with that.

Taurmindo said:

WRONG! BECAUSE HE WAS MARK HARRIGAN!

Avi_dreader said:

****, should've seen that one coming.

...Well delivered, avi.

Taurmindo said:

Thanks...I figured that was it. Makes more sense than what we did.

Sadly, we do not yet have the epic collection of awesome that is Mark Harrigan.

Y'all must have a different Mark Harrigan than came in my Dunwich box. My Mark Harrigan has a max Will of 3, a max Sanity of 3, and nothing to help him with Horror checks. He has a flamethrower, but pretty much any monster that you'd need a flamethrower against does too much Sanity damage for Mark to be able to fight it.

No, it's the same Mark...you're just looking at him wrong. (I totally understand, believe me: I hated Mark for months until Innsmouth showed me the light.)

Mark's not Infantry; he's Special Forces. The Art of Not Being Seen. Mark excels at not getting caught in Innsmouth, not being stalled in Kingsport, and giving away his free flamethrower to someone who's better at fighting.

IIRC, Mark starts with three clues. Is he really a fighter?

I run him in to the "high risk" areas that other investigators avoid, for clues. If he gets sucked in the Dreamlands thanks to a gate opening on him, who cares? He'll be back, soon. Real soon. Once Completed his "Mission: R'lyen" story because it opened up on him at Independence Square. He spent one turn in R'lyeh, had an encounter there, then exited the next turn. He doesn't have time for those stupid Star Spawn...

subochre said:

It was an ambush I'm quite proud of ;'D

avec said:

just get him Mental Fortitude and/or a quickly gotten ally with +2 will/+2 horror and he's unstoppable.. against one monster.
the times i've (randomly of course) got mental fortitude with Mark is surprisingly many.