Okay, I think I might have just set a record for the most Innsmouth Look cards drawn at one time. We had the Innsmouth Plague swing around to Silas Marsh, whose Tainted Blood requires him to draw one extra Innsmouth Look card each time he has to draw one or more. Well, he drew two and one of them instructed him to draw another one. Then the same thing happened again. And again! Silas drew EIGHT Innsmouth Look cards, over half the deck, and did not turn into a Deep One, though he was Cursed, all the plus monsters moved and an Ally became a Deep One. The next time he only drew two, and before it came to him again he sacrificed himself to seal a Ry'leh gate.

As for the Innsmouth Plague, it did eventually turn a player into a Deep One: Silas' replacement, Amanda Sharpe.

Solan said:

Niiiice ;')

If someone in my group began with Silas and then picked Amanda to replace him, I'd start to have serious concerns about that player's loyalties... (-:,

A little question about Silas' Tainted Blood used in conjunction with the new Innsmouth Look cards from MH: some of them instruct the investigator to draw one more card. Do you apply the Tainted Blood every time? Let's say Silas has to draw one card as result of an encounter in Falcon Point. He then draws two, because of the TB. One of these cards instructs him to draw another one. Does he has to draw two insted (for a total of four IL cards?) or just one (total of three)? I know the wording on his sheet says "each time", but when Silas was created, MH was still in our Dreamlands. Just wondering how you guys play this!

Julia said:

As you point out, the wording of Tainted Blood is completely unambigous; there's no question that every time Silas has to draw one or more Innsmouth Look cards, he draws an additional one, so that's exactly how I play it. That's how he ended up drawing eight at one time (I still can't believe he survived!).

Well, I don't know about "completely umabiguous." I play it that, since all of the cards are part of one draw, Tainted Blood applies once. Remember that the purpose of the new cards forrcing you to draw one more is to preserve the original odds of being devoured. WIth Silas, those odds go way up. I'll admit this is thematic, but it's still a little too harsh.

@Solan: yep, this is the way I played so far, but as Walk pointed out, it seems to me too a little too harsh. The wording on Silas sheet was written before Miskatonic Horror, and sometimes FFG is not properly carefull about these things (IIRC, a lot was discussed about Norman's ability to remove corruptions by closing gates)