CURSES!

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Asset play — Players play cards representing allies, items, or other assets to aid them.
• clue gathering — Players spend actions and tests to gather clues to progress the scenario.
• Combat — Players engage enemies by attacking them to defeat them.
• Concealed cards — Cards that are hidden and can be revealed or interacted with during gameplay.
• Decoy — Mentioned as a mechanic that one host finds boring and dislikes the design of.
• Doom — A game mechanism that advances the agenda or threat level.
• Enemy engagement — Players can choose to engage enemies to fight them.
• evade — A mechanic to avoid engaging with enemies.
• parlay — A mechanic used to interact with an enemy instead of fighting, allowing for scenario advancement.
• Scenario interlude — A narrative break in the scenario that progresses the story based on player actions.
• Skill Tests — Players perform tests using investigator stats and card abilities to overcome challenges.

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Quotes (from this video)

• So, what we knew about current has changed. So, while this is still labeled the current quest, it's not really the same as that anymore.
• I'm not a big fan of this scenario.
• I just don't like the mechanics of it. I think it's a very boring use of decoy.
• I feel like this is a very slow deck at the moment, but that's okay.
• Minus five. Oh, brutal.
• Oh, that was fun. That That was good.
• We did all that globe trotting just to change a minus4 to one.
• I like the second half of this scenario a lot more. So, I'm excited for that.

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