Play-by-Play #3: Jenny’s The Devourer Below

Opening Hand: Leo De Luca, Guts, Ace in the Hole, Dynamite Blast, Hard Knocks

#1: PLAY Leo De Luca, MOVE to Arhkam Woods (Quiet Glade), MOVE to Main Path, MOVE to Arhkam Woods (Tangled Thicket), upkeep (Flashlight, 2 resources).

#2: Ancient Evils, PLAY Flashlight, INVESTIGATE (Flashlight, clue), MOVE to Main Path, MOVE Arkham Woods to (Unhallowed Ground, 1 damage, 1 horror), upkeep (Overpower, 2 resources).

#3: advance Agenda (Ravenous Ghoul), Grasping Hands (1 damage), INVESTIGATE (Flashlight, +3 , clue), RESOURCE, RESOURCE, PLAY Hard Knocks, upkeep (Guts, 2 resources).

#4: Ancient Evils, MOVE to Main Path, EVADE (+3 , exhaust Ravenous Ghoul), MOVE to Arkham Woods (Cliffside), INVESTIGATE (Flashlight, clue), advance Act, upkeep (Jenny's Twin .45s, 2 resources).

#5: Dissonant Voices, RESOURCE, RESOURCE, RESOURCE, RESOURCE (Overpower, 2 resources, discard Dissonant Voices),

#6: advance Agenda (pitch Guts, draw Emergency Cache), The Yellow Sign (pitch Guts, draw Emergency Cache), PLAY Dynamite Blast (3 damage to Herman Collins, defeat Victoria Devereux, defeat Ravenous Ghoul), MOVE to Main Path, FIGHT (+1 , pitch Overpower, draw Hard Knocks, defeat Herman Collins), PLAY Emergency Cache, upkeep (Elusive, 2 resources).

#7: Rotting Remains (1 horror), PLAY Ace in the Hole, PLAY Emergency Cache, MOVE to Ritual Site, advance Act (Acolyte), FIGHT (+1 , pitch Overpower, draw Unexpected Courage, defeat Acolyte), INVESTIGATE (+3 ), INVESTIGATE (+3 , clue), ACTIVATE Act (pitch Jenny's Twin .45s & Hard Knocks, success), INVESTIGATE (+3 , clue), upkeep (Switchblade, 2 resources).

#8: Acolyte (Main Path), ACTIVATE Act (+3 , pitch Unexpected Courage, success), R1.

Campaign Log:

The Gathering: R2, Jenny’s house is still standing!, 8XP (Ghoul Priest, Flesh-Eater, Attic, Cellar, 3 bonus XP)

The Midnight Masks: R1, Jenny interrogated the Masked Hunter, Peter Warren, "Wolf-Man" Drew and Ruth Turner! Herman Collins and Victoria Devereux got away! 8XP (The Masked Hunter, "Wolf-Man" Drew, Peter Warren, Ruth Turner, Graveyard, Northside, Miskatonic University)

The Devourer Below: R1, The ritual to summon Umôrdhoth was broken! 7XP (Victoria Devereux, Herman Collins, 5 bonus XP), Token, 2 Mental Trauma

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"Leo!" Jenny kicked at her friend's shin. "Excellent. Now that I've got your attention, kindly stop scratching on the ground with your foot."

"I wasn't-" The handsome man glanced down and saw an unfinished symbol. "Damnations. It's even the same as the ones we trampled over just now. We should leave!"

"We should, but not before thoroughly thrashing this cavern," Jenny knocked over one of the torch-holders. "I should've brought more dynamite."

"I'll remind you the next-" Leo bit his tongue. "Why would I even think that? There won't be a next time. We've won. We've stopped these robe-clad sigil-drawing idiots."

"Somehow, I doubt that." The woman said gently, without bitterness. "It's still unclear if this cult has any connection with the ones who took Izzie. We'll check on Ms. Devereux, interrogate her again if she wasn't too badly burned. Plus, we need to backtrack and check out those picnic baskets."

"Yeah," Leo mused. "Those were weird. Then again, it wouldn't be too out of place for someone to leave them there and run off after hearing an explosion in the woods and we really didn't have the time to look for tracks back then."

"One detail did stood out."

"You mean that pair of red gloves? Or the quiche? Honestly, I'd be partial to some quiche. Maybe that red-gloved guy brought some wine with him as well? Mhhh..."

Jenny nodded. It would keep his mind off the arcane sigil and her mind of Izzie for the evening. In the meantime, she ripped the ornamented curtain and then stomped on it.