EcnoTheNeato said:
Right. But's it's still closed first ;-) Just think of it as a substitute for clues that you sacrifice before rolling. You still roll "before attempting to close" so you still close it, and when (or after, depending on how you want to look at it) you close it, it then becomes sealed. THat's just for the parchment though. Either way, I still say it's up to you. That's the way I look at it. You may very well look at it another way. To be honest, none of this really matters because you still won, and all you're wondering is what box to check
i disagree. it's not closed first. its sealed instead. when the parchment is used you can no longer chose to close it, only seal it. if you spend clue tokens after a roll you can seal it, so if you don't spend them you first close them. so that's different from the parchment.
anyhow. just wanted to see what to put down. in the specific game one of the investigators failed his tome/spell to close the penultimate gate before the last one was sealed, so it didn't become an issue really.. just checking to see what you had reported it if it had occurred.