Since quite a long time, I felt the intense urge to play with the Black Goat herald in the nastiest way possible (no Hello Kitty heralds this time, as someone here loves to say ::laughter: , thus with a number of investigators high enough to have 2 hex monsters appearing every time a gate opens. So, six investigators in play, Innsmouth, Kingsport, Black Goat & Lurker in play. The Mythos deck promitted tons of troubles on the main board, and Innsmouth is a problem per se. Plus, the idea of checking how insane can become the game when forcing investigators to take continuously corruptions.

The game started screwing up things very soon; after the first 5 Mythos, I was able to seal only one gate (Akachi, at the Woods). Hank & Silas kept on cleaning the streets from the hexes hordes, but without any gate closure, it was impossible to get rid of the corruptions. At a certain point, I had Silas with 8 corruptions and Hank 9. Folks, that was insane.

Silas fortunately was devoured by one of his corruptions: he was forced to go insane & lower his max Sanity by one (thx to the revised Cthulhu special ability), but considering the fact his max Sanity was ALREADY one... good bye, sailor.

The next problem was Hank. After Mythos 7, I had only one red corruption available and he always had 9 corruptions. Not the best way to afford the new Mythos phase, so I had to make him being devoured, in some way. Fortunately, Funnel clouds was in play, but his Luck was 4. So: Upkeep: use focus to decrease Luck to 2 (still 3 dice to roll, not so sure to be devoured), then use his movement to reach an Innsmouth street (Martial Law had been already declared). In case of bad luck, maybe the Innsmouth jail would have been useful. So, movement ended in the streets, three dice to roll, zero successes scored. Hank devoured, all other investigators corrupted didn't have corruptions able to make characters draw other corruptions. So, it was sufficient not to kill any other hex monster and, with a lot of fatigue, six seals were on the board. It was the first time I had to strategically kill somebody. A strange experience

Julia,

Usually, when we read a session report, we find ourselves hoping and praying for the investigators. In this case...there was no use. I have to say, however, you've piqued my curiosity with a "Hello Kitty" Herald or AO. Okay, so my girlfriend loves Hello Kitty.

Several years ago, my friends and I had a long weekend of gaming, and in the weeks leading up to the excursion, I made Investigator sheets for everybody based on their specific skills in real life...an Entrepreneur, an Artist, a Salesman, etc. For my girlfriend, I'm thinking of having an Ally, "Hello Kitty" who provides her with a +1 to Horro and Evade Checks.

The Professor

That's "Horror" and Evade checks ~ we could realllllly use an edit button.

You could have deliberately gotten investigators with 6-8 corruptions retired.

The Professor said:

::laughter:: the idea was not to do a proper session report (the game was really long and intense and writing a proper session report would have required too much time, I'm almost dead right now, I desperately need to sleep, and tomorrow I have a Hell on Earth day), but just to highlight some odd things (basically, a horribly nasty Mythos & the special ability of the AO helped me in winning the game, which could seem a nonsense ::laughter:

As for the Hello Kitty thing, I was referring to a post Dam made a couple of days ago, incensing (does this word have the meaning I think it has? ha... I completely flipped out... in case it's unclear, apologies) how magnificent the brutal force of the Black Goat is, in front of which every other Herald seems to be like Hello Kitty.

Avi_dreader said:

Is this official? Anyway, I prefer not to retire people. They have to die for a greater glory!

Julia said:

I mean deliberately smashed them into monsters to go unconscious twice, then retired them. Sometimes one needs to decide between victory and glory ;'D Death to the samurai, yes to the gatling guns! This is war! And in war, honor only applies when you're winning ;'D

The Professor said:

Actually, my true meaning was the people don't play with the RAW BGotW Herald, they house rule it into Hello Kitty variants, mostly I believe by removing doomer for surge bit, while using everything else. But how Julia put it also sounds fine now that I think about it.

Avi_dreader said:

I see what you mean! A good strategy to remember for the future :-) the main problem with Hank was that this strategy would have required two rounds, and I didn't have two rounds. But for Silas, yeah, it'd have worked perfectly!