An investigator uses Elixir of Life after being reduced to 0 health/sanity. Does he/she go to Arkham Asylum/St. Mary's Hospital? If so, is their turn over or do they have an encounter? If not, do they remain in the location where they were? If they ere in combat, does it continue? BTW, excellent game.

Elixir of life is a "discard instead of drawing an Injury / Madness". It does not affect the cause giving you the Injury / Madness. You can have encounters instructing you to draw a Madness or an Injury. And also Stamina or Sanity losses non-combat related can induce Injuries and Madnesses to be drawn.

So, let's say an OW encounter instructs you to pass a Lore check or draw a Madness. Check failed, Elixir discarded, no Madness drawn. You're still in the OW. Let's say a Dak young smashes you to the ground: you move to the Hospital, restore your Stamina to the maximum, discard eventual retainer (and so on; follow exactly the rules as if you have drawn an Injury) BUT instead of drawing the Injury, you discard the Elixir.

Hope this helps!

Julia said:

Julia, what did you mean by this?

Tibs said:

An encounter forcing you to lose Stamina can kick you unconscious, as well as a failed Combat check. Am I wrong by assuming that whenever you go unconscious you can draw an Injury, regardless of what made you go unconscious?

I thought you were saying that combat-related unconsciousness was different from non-combat-related. Unconsciousness is unconsciousness—in both cases you could take an injury.

Tibs said:

Nope, the opposite! As you said, the key point is the Unconsciousness!

It does help. Thanks!