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Act. Stage 2

Mythos
Clues: –
You have to find a way back home. Surely if the Yithians can bring you to this place, there must be a way to return…

Objective - If three of the following are true, you must advance:

- An investigator "found the process."

- An investigator "dissected an organ."

- An investigator "interviewed a subject."

- An investigator "realized what year it is."

- An investigator "activated the device."

- An investigator controls The Custodian.

Stephen Somers
The City of Archives #242. The City of Archives #6.

The Process - Back

Act
You believe you have discovered the process used by the Yithians to transport you here. But the truth is hard to accept. Your body was never brought to this place. Your mind has been transferred into the body of one of these creatures. Somewhere, in another place - in another time - one of the reviled creatures dwells in your body.

You no longer have to perform any of the following tasks. However, the more you have performed by the time the scenario ends, the easier the transition to your human body will be, and the less likely the process is to fail or backfire. Be careful...

Place this act in the victory display with this side faceup, as a reminder.

- An investigator "found the process."

- An investigator "dissected an organ."

- An investigator "interviewed a subject."

- An investigator "realized what year it is."

- An investigator "activated the device."

- An investigator controls The Custodian.

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This is a question as opposed to a review: suppose an investigator controlled the custodian and then lost control of it in Act 3a. Then for the purpose of Act 2b (and the scenario resolution), is it true that the investigator "has performed" the "An investigator controls the Custodian?"

To be clear, I think this is different from Act 2a, where it states "if three of the following are true..." and when you lose control, it is no longer true that you "have control". However, given the way the game resolves the number of tasks in the resolution of the scenario, it seems it expects the number of tasks you have "performed by the time the scenario ends" (as opposed to, say "to be true by the time the scenario ends") to be definitely between 3 and 6, and you can get into a state where you only have 2 tasks (by doing the Custodian and 2 other tasks, then losing the custodian), which is not given a consequence in the resolution.

krzhang · 7
You'd have to control the custodian at time of resolution; the text isn't in quotes so it's not asking you to remember something, it's just looking at the game state. It should say, roughly, "the more of the following that are true, the better..." but it seems to have slipped under QA's nets. — SGPrometheus · 809
I agree with SGPrometheus; you need control when all payers reach the “resign” condition. — LivefromBenefitSt · 1052
That seems to be right to me as well but like the OP said , it does create a new hole in the rules in the resolution. If you advance from Act 2a to 2b with control of the Custodian and two other things , lose control of the Custodian in Act 3 and don't complete any other tasks by the time you resign then you end up with 2 tasks completed in the resolution and no instructions for what to do. And yeah, I also kinda think that suggests the intent was for it not to be possible to "un-do" the tasks....Might be worth asking over — bee123 · 31
I'd just go for the 3 tasks completed bullet; it doesn't get much worse than that anyway :p — SGPrometheus · 809
hehe I do agree with that! I still hold that if we are going to take cards to their word though, we would incentivize minmax players to go for the 2 tasks instead of the 3 to dodge a ‘ — krzhang · 7
(argh misclick) “better” outcome, so an errata would be nice. — krzhang · 7