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Dr Fern and Mrs Carolyn|30k Series|Deck Guide | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 |
The Adventures of Carolyn Fern - Scarlet Keys with J & F | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.0 |
Valentin1331 · 67118
Healing Feds as Dr Fern by day, Hypnotising enemies as Mrs Carolyn by night.
Credit: Reiko Murakami & Greg Bobrowski
This deck is unique in the series as it comes with 2 builds: a campaign one and one made for standalone.
- The guide addresses the Campaign Deck, using Ancient Stone - Minds in Harmony, which is a Researched card and, therefore, cannot be used in Standalone. This deck shines by how little experience it needs to start cruising.
- To make sure that everyone finds what they are looking for, I created a second deck that is standalone-friendly, using Power Word (which can also be slightly repetitive during a whole campaign).
After the 20k Series and its success, this 30k Series will focus on the investigators that are much harder to solve. Expect some jank, some outside-of-the-box thinking and hopefully some love for the underdogs of this game.
Click here to see all the previous decks. I will keep releasing a new standalone-ready deck concept every week on Friday, so stay tuned and keep pressing the ♥
button if you want to see more!
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Overview
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Main Strategy
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Your day job as a Federal Mental Health Practitioner
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Employee of the Month
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Standalone Alternate Deck - Your Night-job experimenting hypnosis on Monsters and Mobsters
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Other Cards
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Upgrade Path
Difficulty: | ★★★☆☆ |
Enemy Management: | ★★☆☆☆ |
Clue-getting: | ★★★★★ |
Encounter protection: | ★★★★☆ |
Survivability: | ★★★★★ |
Economy: | ★★★★★ |
Card Drawing: | ★★★★☆ |
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Use Field Agent's ability to get fast, test-less clues against some horror.
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Soothing Melody and Ancient Stone - Minds in Harmony heal the Field Agent to use them every turn.
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Sink the ridiculous cash made with this combo into some Dynamite Blast to clean the board.
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Field Agents see terrible things at work, accumulating many clues, resulting in horrific mental traumas.
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Fortunately, the Empirical Hypothesis you are testing with a Trial and Error approach gets you cards when you work with them.
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Your unique hypnotic pendulum is made of an Ancient Stone designed to harmonise minds. The card heals the Field Agent directly. In group therapies with 2 Agents, the card of the upkeep provides enough draw to keep the two patients afloat.
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When running out of secrets in your Ancient Stone, you can try singing Soothing Melodies to your patients to make sure that they can do their valuable work at all times.
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As long as you Maintained your stone correctly, you can use a Magnifying Glass (1) to get it back into your hand, look at it properly, get your Magnifying Glass (1) back and play the Stone again with all its secrets.
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Over time, a Trust relationship will evolve, allowing your team to take on more burden on their field trips.
- This trust evolves into a totem for your team in the form of a Tarot Card.
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Sometimes, Inspired by your field Presence, your team can work twice as hard on a particularly difficult situation.
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Thanks to all your first-hand, on-the-ground information, you can participate actively in the resolution of mysteries with a basic 6 .
Skills:
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This deck comes with a lot of heavy skills. These are here to crush the Ancient Stone (1) test on scenario 1.
- I double-checked, and every campaign opening scenario of the game comes with at least a 4-shroud location, meaning that we can achieve 7 secrets easily.
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After the Ancient Stone (1) mega test, all these cards can be committed to your teammates or to pass any scenario test the game throws at you, including treachery tests.
De-cluttering the board:
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With all the money earned from your job, you can pay for some Fireworks and lift the mood of the whole city at once.
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Do not forget to Sooth any damage caused by your pyrotechnic enthusiasm.
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We start the campaign with Alice Luxley to get the bonus because she can help your teammates as you get clues. She is especially good in the new TSK Campaign but won't stay long anyways.
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Pathfinder is pure tempo. A must-have in this deck that can gather clues at a very high pace.
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Shrewd Analysis saves 4xp by offering a second Ancient Stone - Minds in Harmony for free.
- Carolyn Fern can only use 1 version of the Ancient Stone, and therefore while picking another version at random, only one meets the requirement.
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I did not use Hypnotic Therapy other than for the icons, but if you play Carcosa or pair with soft-minded clients such as Daniella, Mark or Roland, it may come in handy.
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Ward of Protection is also pure value, especially as the horror is so easily compensated...
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... by your Fearless behaviour.
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Out of all the skills, Helping Hand is phased out first because it serves primarily to the ridiculous oversucceed during the Ancient Stone (1) test.
Further Upgrades:
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Ever Vigilant is an excellent way to compensate for what is maybe the only downside of the deck: set-up.
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This deck runs out of upgrades surprisingly early, so I thought it was the perfect moment to appreciate the incredible artwork of the Tarot cards coming with Observed.
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Upgrading to Dynamite Blast and Fearless (2) is of lower added value, but if there is xp, why not...
Credits: Reiko Murakami
Click here to get the link to the Standalone deck
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This version uses Power Word with the upgrades:
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Tonguetwister and Thrice Spoken to use 2 words simultaneously on 3 different targets at once.
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Betray to deal damage.
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Mercy for healing.
- With Soul Sanctification, you will be able to heal infinitely, storing insane amounts of offerings as well as resources.
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Confess for clues.
- Getting a clue at a location with an enemy triggers Alice Luxley for a damage to any of these enemies.
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If you are short on targets, On the Hunt lets you pick one directly in the encounter deck.
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Arcane Initiate tutors your Power Words.
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Forbidden Knowledge and Empirical Hypothesis - Trial and Error gets you the resources cards.
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Magnifying Glass x2 + Alice Luxley give you 7 to get your own clues easily on top of Power Word.
32xp version:
It is possible to take one more basic weakness for more raw power:
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Upgrade the 2 On the Hunt (3) to pick your minions in the whole encounter deck.
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This leaves you with 4xp available, which you can spend in Martyr's Vambrace to protect your whole team, as you can pass literally any treachery test with your infinite Soul Sanctification offerings.
Cost | Total | ||||
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Core Upgrades | 0 XP | ||||
In the Thick of It | → | Ancient Stone • | 1 XP | 1 XP | |
In the Thick of It | → | Ancient Stone • | 1 XP | 2 XP | |
Empirical Hypothesis | → | ☑ Trial and Error | 1 XP | 3 XP | |
Ancient Stone • | → | Ancient Stone •••• | 3 XP | 6 XP | |
Ancient Stone • | → | Ancient Stone •••• | 0 XP | 6 XP | |
Alice Luxley | → | Field Agent •• | 2 XP | 8 XP | |
Alice Luxley | → | Field Agent •• | 2 XP | 10 XP | |
→ | Charisma ••• | 3 XP | 13 XP | ||
Quality Upgrades | 13 XP | ||||
Hallowed Mirror | → | Hallowed Mirror ••• | 3 XP | 16 XP | |
Forbidden Knowledge | → | Pathfinder • •• | 3 XP | 19 XP | |
Helping Hand | → | Magnifying Glass • | 1 XP | 20 XP | |
Helping Hand | → | Well-Maintained • | 1 XP | 21 XP | |
Trusted | → | Well-Maintained • | 1 XP | 22 XP | |
Trusted | → | The Star • XVII ••• | 3 XP | 25 XP | |
Inquiring Mind | → | Ever Vigilant • | 1 XP | 26 XP | |
Inquiring Mind | → | Ever Vigilant • | 1 XP | 27 XP | |
Luxury Upgrades | 27 XP | ||||
→ | Observed •••• | 4 XP | 31 XP | ||
Dynamite Blast | → | Dynamite Blast ••• | 3 XP | 34 XP | |
Dynamite Blast | → | Dynamite Blast ••• | 3 XP | 37 XP | |
Fearless | → | Fearless •• | 2 XP | 39 XP | |
Fearless | → | Fearless •• | 2 XP | 41 XP |
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18 comments |
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Apr 23, 2023 |
Apr 24, 2023I have a Scarlet Keys campaign coming up and as soon as I read this, I think I found my investigator! Thank you for continuing these! One question, does Field Agent trigger Empirical Hypothesis? Empirical states when "you" take horror. I always get caught up on what damage "you" take. |
Apr 24, 2023
So it seems it does work. |
Apr 24, 2023
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Apr 24, 2023Much love ❤️❤️ Thanks for the shoutout, I’m honored you liked my build! |
Apr 24, 2023I really like the combo with Well-Maintained and Magnifying Glasses! I'd never realized Well-Maintained could be attached to Item assets and not just Weapons, so thanks for opening my eyes. Very flavourful deck as always, love it <3 |
Apr 25, 2023Wow, having played TSK already once, this seems like a banger of a deck to go through it a second time. Any fighter investigator you advice to pair up with Carolyn? |
Apr 28, 2023Since you mentioned the deck running out of good upgrade options early, I think you should really consider stick to the plan. 2 dynamite blasts and an ever vigilant on it would be pretty strong. Helps you setup quicker and thins your deck so you can find the critical combo pieces earlier. |
Apr 28, 2023
I considered it, but unfortunately, Stick to the Plan mentions 3 different cards, so 2 Dynamite Blast is not an option... And out of the rest, I couldn't see anything worth the inclusion and the 6xp just for Ever Vigilant basically. |
Apr 29, 2023Love it, and the write-up is really good on this one, great job ! ;) We allow Researched cards for independants on our group, it doesn't break the game so I'll just take out Observed and the Star I think to make it a 21xp deck :) (not legal though, I know, don't do this at home or Roland Banks will come for you !) |
May 01, 2023Solid list. It's missing a key element to functionality though. Core setup is:
You're missing the card draw to get to your 3 card combo. The 3 cards that draw you cards in this deck are Hypnotic Therapy, Empirical Hypothesis, and Perception. Perception is solid. Empirical is the engine itself, and doesn't even come online until you draw Field Agent. Hypnotic Therapy has no tutors in the deck so you are at the whim of the card draw to find this. It's an unfinished deck that needs card draw packages like Practice Makes Perfect + Plan of Action + Perception, Eureka!, Preposterous Sketches, Deep Knowledge, Astounding Revelation thinning via the searches of Backpack and the aformentioned PMP / Eurekas / Tetsuo for both setup as well as Ancient Stone payoff. All in all, it's nothing new. Looks like a rehash of Big Ma'm on Campus with 2 TSK cards Empirical and Field Agent. |
May 01, 2023
has been tried and true. |
May 05, 2023@Valentin1331 Hey, just wanted to say thanks for putting these guides out there! They've brought me countless hours of fun when my friends refuse to build their own decks and I want them to have a great, fun, colorful deck to play. The 20/30k series has been a lot of fun so far and I hope to see more! It's always a mental and emotional challenge to put something out there for people to see, enjoy, comment on, and criticize. Know that you're making at least one player very happy! |
May 08, 2023I want to find a way to include Practice Makes Perfect in a deck with this many skills -- and that would be the 3rd card for Stick to the Plan! I might try this as a clue-ver with those adjustments, it looks extremely powerful. |
May 31, 2023For your standalone deck I don’t think Pathfinder fits. With Power Word you’re going to spend most of the game engaged with multiple enemies, shutting off Pathfinder. |
Jun 03, 2023Hi |
Nov 19, 2023How do I make Shrewd Analysis work when upgrading my deck on ArkhamDB? I swear I have been here for like 1,5 hours trying to figure this stuff out... |
Jan 18, 2024Would you recommend including Foolishness together with weakness To Fight the Black Wind? Which card can I use instead of promise of power? |
Nicely done! I'm a big fan of Carolyn!
Quick question, with all the spot horror healing, how necessary is The Star and its 3XP?