Microscope

Asset. Hand

Item. Tool. Science.

Cost: 2. XP: 4.

Seeker

After an enemy at your location is successfully evaded or defeated: Place 1 resource on Microscope, as evidence.

: Investigate. You get +2 for this investigation for each evidence on Microscope (max +6 ). If you succeed, you may spend up to 3 evidence to discover that many additional clues at your location.

Jason Caffoe
The Feast of Hemlock Vale Investigator Expansion #58.
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I brought this card to a convention meetup play. The removal of exhaust condition on the compared with Lv. 0 one make it very suitable for high player count, where you get more enemies and the team can flex and perform both evasion and fighting. A single flex fighter that evade before doing stuff (Sneak Attack, Dirty Fighting, etc.) might be filling your evidence many times in their round. You just have to make sure you are present there.

The maximum 3 evidence you can spend discovers 4 clues, so it covers all the way to 4 players if you found a high shroud 1 victory location. With peace of mind if somehow you failed with +6 you can try again later without losing neither clue compression nor accuracy.

5argon · 9930

This card is bonkers for Monterey Jack. Correct me if I'm wrong, but with his Trusty Bullwhip from Relics of the Past, would it not put 2 evidence on Microscope if it kills an enemy? Essentially evading AND killing the enemy at the same time?

If so, with the help of Leo De Luca, it isn't unreasonable to think that Jack could get up to 8 clues a turn.

Sengy · 2
Sadly no, because Microscope's text says "successfully evaded" which implies the evade must come from an evasion attempt, not an automatic evade. Second, I honestly am not sure if you could even separate the effects (defeat and evade) from the Bullwhip. — AlderSign · 284
You can separate the effects, or at least you can respond to both the defeat and to the evade. But AlderSign is correct that the bullwhip evasion is not a successful evasion because you didn't test for it. If you want to run this nonsense, consider Kymani. They can take microscope 4 because it's a tool, and even with base int 2, testing at 8 is OK in normal difficult. And if you remove an enemy using 2 evasion tests in kymani that's 2 evidence on the microscope — NarkasisBroon · 10
Thanks for the clarification guys. Yeah Kymani would love this card, throw Stealth (3) in there and let the nonsense commence. — Sengy · 2
Kymani is very good at turning what should be singular plural. — Eudaimonea · 5