So long, and tanks for all the gear

With high agility and evasion skill cards, Wendy is well placed as a tank in this game. Move to location, engage, evade. Leave the others to beat on the mob in safety. She lacks sustainable damage output relying instead on single use burst damage like Backstab and Sneak Attack for tight spots or pitching in on big mobs. Once mobs are evaded of course you are able to investigate, potentially triggering Scavenging. This means you can recur that spent Baseball Bat, Knife or Leather Coat as needed. Remember you can use Flashlight and Perception to provide boosts to your skill checks to help get you over that threshold if things are tight. Otherwise get those clues in while others do the killing. Burglary provides you with both a steady supply of resources to re-play these cards later on and the opportunity to investigate in absence of clues. You'll have plenty of card draw from Pickpocketing and your Rabbit's Foot to help you find that Wendy's Amulet early and recur those combat events (and Emergency Caches). Just watch out as this deep digging will eventually bring back those dreadful childhood memories. Until you can get yourself an Elder Sign Amulet you have no in-faction cards available to soak sanity damage so in your first game this could be a pain. Depending on timing, the loss of your discard pile may also hurt, but really none of those items are that essential. Your innate agi stat is likely to be enough and you`ll have a few odds and sods in play hopefully. Another decent upgrade once you get the chance is of course to swap that little Stray Cat out for a much bigger Cat Burglar friend giving you even more evade options and that tasty looking permanent +1 agility.

Its always the little ones that you have to keep an eye on!