Combos well with Counterpunch. Enemy upon you but no weapon in play? No problem: play the Remington Model 1858 to trigger Attack of Opportunity. Play Counterpunch too. 4 damage done before they get a chance to hit you!

Not sure why previous Gloria Goldberg reviews are all gone.

I just did a blind run through Drowned City on Expert and can confirm that Gloria is the strongest investigator in the game. It’s not even close. Her ability trivializes most of the unknown dangers for the whole group in a blind run. It doesn’t really matter that her health and sanity (she starts the game with two Arcane Research and In the Thick of It) are low, because very few things can touch her.

(Spoiler:), also brought her to one of the standalone that requires gambling at the casino. Get Eye of Ghatanothoa or Alyssa Graham out quickly and Her ability simply breaks the system. Talking about becoming a gambling god by cheating the system. . .

If you're worried about picking the wrong Desi since you don't have the secret only the real Desi would know, there's actually a really neat way to guarantee you kill the right one in the third act!

Assign the lead investigator role to an investigator with the card Ward of Protection (5). When you resolve the b side of this act, use Ward of Protection (5) to discard the phony Desiderio Delgado Álvarez. This will also cancel his concealed keyword as per the effects of Ward of Protection (5) making the following act 2a pretty easy to complete quickly.

When you reach act 2b, the game will get a little scuffed. Since the fake Desiderio Delgado Álvarez is now sitting in the encounter discard pile thanks to his nifty standard encounter card back and is not at a location, the real Desiderio Delgado Álvarez will be discarded since he has no spawn locations. Since he does not have an encounter card back, he cannot be placed in the encounter discard pile and will instead be removed from play. Act 3a will be a little challenging to complete from this game state. It only ends when one of the two Desis are defeated. Simply run through the entire encounter deck as quickly as possible, draw Desiderio Delgado Álvarez, remembering not to resolve his concealed keyword nor spawn him engaged with you as per his aloof keyword as per the rules of 3a, then defeat him. Since the real Desiderio Delgado Álvarez is safely permanently removed from play, there is no risk of picking the wrong one!

Unfortunately when resolving act 3b the game will now instruct you to store the copy of Desiderio Delgado Álvarez that is currently in play, which as you will note is currently neither of them. They provided a failsafe if both are in the victory display, which is also not the case. One is in the victory display and the other is removed from play. I presume this means you store neither copy safely, and come the Congress of Keys, the real Desiderio Delgado Álvarez will have had his memories erased by his trip to the shadow realm, have no idea who any of you jokers are, votes to have you all killed, and steals the mirroring blade he gave to you for good measure.

Typo lol a a

I like revisiting old cards that were once terrible/awkward and have gotten better with subsequent releases. I think this one is still awkward but the payoff is actually good if you can make it work.

It works well with Trish's In the Shadows and Skids' On the Lam. Stealth and Hiding Spot used to be basically the only ways to use this other than burning an evasion attempt beforehand, but now we also have Ethereal Form, Blackmail File and Existential Riddle.

There's trick synergies with Chuck Fergus and Bewitching, (and insight synergies with Eidetic Memory and De Vermis Mysteriis but these are questionable).

Blur lets you evade and refunds your action so you can use it to get 2 clues. There's a lot more support for evasion in general these days, and as evading becomes cheaper and more common, Eavesdrop gets better and better.

Overall this is a solid B-tier card in the right kind of deck, can be bumped up to A if you are really building around it, but shouldn't really be played outside of its niche. If only it was a parley test we could run Snitch alongside it to bulk scoop some clues. Alas.