[Arkham Horror] The Lullaby of Yog-Sothoth: Monster Mashup

Nullzone

Props to mi-go hunter for the OP, saves me a lot of effort :P

The year is 1926, and it is the height of the Roaring
Twenties. Flappers dance till dawn in smoke-filled
speakeasies drinking alcohol supplied by rum runners
and the mob. It’s a celebration to end all celebrations in
the aftermath of the War to end all Wars.
Yet a dark shadow grows in the city of Arkham. Alien
entities known as Ancient Ones lurk in the emptiness
beyond space and time, writhing at the gates between
worlds. These gates have begun to open and must be
closed before the Ancient Ones make our world their
ruined dominion.
Only a handful of investigators stand against the
Arkham Horror. Will they prevail?

The Rules: http://www.math.iupui.edu/~bramsey/AH_Rules.pdf

You can download a more concise version of the rules and a ton of other player resources here: http://www.headlesshollow.com/freebies_games.html#ark

Gameboard:

https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1i5NbrsKgAv7lpKhFZ7ftB2Of2ez6CzIigkyABuWlyBg/edit

Locations proceeding clockwise:

NORTHSIDE (ORANGE):
Curiositie Shoppe
Newspaper
Train Station

DOWNTOWN (WHITE):
Bank of Arkham
Arkham Asylum
Independence Square

EASTOWN (GREY):
Hibb's Roadhouse
Velma's Diner
Police Station

RIVERTOWN (PURPLE):
Graveyard
Black Cave
General Store

FRENCH HILL (BLUE):
The Witch House
The Silver Twilight Lodge

SOUTHSIDE (BROWN):
Ma's Boarding House
South Church
Historical Socactiiety

UPTOWN (RED):
Woods
Ye Olde Magick Shoppe
St. Mary's Hospital

MISKATONIC U (YELLOW):
Library
Administration
Science Building

MERCHANT DISTRICT (GREEN)
The Unnameable
River Docks
Unvisited Isle

Other World Locations from Top to Bottom:

R'lyeh

Plateau of Leng

The Dreamlands

Great Hall of Celeano

Yuggoth

City of the Great Race

Abyss

Another Dimension

Location Special Abilities:

CURIOSITIE SHOPPE:
Shop: Instead of having an encounter here, you may draw 3 Unique Items and purchase one of them for its list price. Discard the other two items.

BANK OF ARKHAM:
Bank Loan: Instead of having an encounter here, you may take out a Bank Loan if you don't have one yet.

ARKHAM ASYLUM:
Psychiatric Care: Instead of having an encounter here, you may recover Sanity by receiving psychiatric care. You may either regain 1 Sanity for free, or pay $2 to restore your Sanity to its maximum value.

POLICE STATION:
Deputized Instead of having an encounter here, you may spend 10 toughness worth of monster trophies, 2 gate trophies, or 5 toughness worth of monster trophies and 1 gate trophy to become the Deputy of Arkham. Take the Deputy of Arkham card.

GENERAL STORE:
Shop: Instead of having an encounter here, you may draw 3 Common Items and purchase one of them for its list price. Discard the other two items.

SILVER TWILIGHT LODGE:
Inner Sanctum: If you have a Silver Twilight Membership, then you look at the Inner Sanctum entry when having encounters here.

MA'S BOARDING HOUSE:
Recruit: Instead of having an encounter here, you may spend 10 toughness worth of monster trophies, 2 gate trophies, or 5 toughness worth of monster trophies and 1 gate trophy to take any 1 Ally of your choice from the Ally deck.

SOUTH CHURCH:
Blessing: Instead of having an encounter here, you may spend 5 toughness worth of monster trophies or 1 gate trophy to have any investigator you choose be blessed

YE OLD MAGICK SHOPPE:
Magic Lessions: Instead of having an encounter here, you may pay $5 to draw 2 Spells. Keep one of them and discard the other.

ST. MARY's HOSPITAL:
Medical Care: Instead of having an encounter here, you may recover Stamina by receiving medical care. You may either regain 1 Stamina for free, or pay $2 to restore your Stamina to its maximum value.

ADMINISTRATION:
Classes: Instead of having an encounter here, you may pay $8 to draw 2 Skills. Keep one of them and discard the other.

SCIENCE BUILDING:
Dissection: Instead of having an encounter here, you may spend 5 toughness worth of monster trophies or 1 gate trophy to gain 2 Clue tokens.

RIVER DOCKS:
Shady Character: Instead of having an encounter here, you may spend 5 toughness worth of monster trophies or 1 gate trophy to gain $5.

Gamestate:

ACTIVITY:

TERROR LEVEL: 1

OPEN GATE LIMIT: 4
# of GATES OPEN: 3

OUTSKIRTS LIMIT: 1
MONSTERS IN THE OUTSKIRTS: 1

MONSTER LIMIT: 10
MONSTERS IN PLAY: 3

2 MONSTERS DRAWN FROM EACH GATE OPENING

Gate and Monster Locations:

GATES OPEN:
Yuggoth @ Unvisited Isle
Celeano @ The Unnameable
Yuggoth @ Independence Square

MONSTERS IN PLAY:
High Priest @ Merchant District
Cultist @ Merchant District

MONSTERS IN THE OUTSKIRTS:
Nightgaunt

MONSTERS IN THE SKY:

Player Dossiers:

TheRoadVirus as Ashcan Pete

Sanity: 2/5
Stamina: 5/6

SPEED/SNEAK: 3/3
FIGHT/WILL: 4/3
LORE/LUCK: 3/0

CURRENT LOCATION: Rivertown

MONEY: $6

CLUE TOKENS: 1

INVENTORY:

SPELLS: Shrivelling

SKILL: Stealth, Lore

SPECIAL CARDS:

ALLIES: Duke

MONSTER TROPHIES: Maniac, Zombie

GATE TROPHIES:

stever777 as Sister Mary

Sanity: 5/7
Stamina: 3/3

SPEED/SNEAK: 2/3
FIGHT/WILL: 0/4
LORE/LUCK: 3/4

CURRENT LOCATION: Yuggoth 1

MONEY: $5

CLUE TOKENS:

INVENTORY: Cross, Healing Stone

SPELLS: Dread Curse of Azathoth

SKILL: Luck

SPECIAL CARDS: Blessed

ALLIES:

MONSTER TROPHIES: Star Spawn, Hound of Tindalos

GATE TROPHIES:

jdarksun as Harvey Walters *First Player

Sanity: 4/7
Stamina: 1/3

SPEED/SNEAK: 3/2
FIGHT/WILL: 2/1
LORE/LUCK: 5/2

CURRENT LOCATION: St. Mary's Hospital

MONEY: $8

CLUE TOKENS:

INVENTORY: Necronomicon

SPELLS: Dread Curse of Azathoth

SKILL: Sneak

SPECIAL CARDS: Blessed

ALLIES: Thomas F. Malone

MONSTER TROPHIES: Ghoul, Chthonian, Zombie, Dimensional Shambler, Chthonian, Dark Young

GATE TROPHIES: 1

El Skid as Kate Winthrop

Sanity: 5/6
Stamina: 3/4

SPEED/SNEAK: 5/1
FIGHT/WILL: 1/3
LORE/LUCK: 4/2

CURRENT LOCATION: Hibb's Roadhouse

MONEY: $6

CLUE TOKENS:

INVENTORY: Lamp of Alhazred, Holy Water, Pallid Mask, .45 Automatic, Flute of the Outer Gods

SPELLS: Mists of Releh, Red Sign of Shuddle M'ell, Shrivelling

SKILL: Luck

SPECIAL CARDS:

ALLIES:

MONSTER TROPHIES: Dark Young

GATE TROPHIES: 1

GrimmyTOA as Mandy Thompson

Sanity: 4/5
Stamina: 3/5

SPEED/SNEAK: 4/2
FIGHT/WILL: 2/3
LORE/LUCK: 2/2

CURRENT LOCATION: Curiositie Shoppe

MONEY: $8

CLUE TOKENS: 1

INVENTORY: Research Materials, Silver Key, Warding Statue

SPELLS:

SKILL: Expert Occultist

SPECIAL CARDS: Retainer

ALLIES:

MONSTER TROPHIES:

GATE TROPHIES: 1

Mr. Mojo Risin as Jenny Barnes

Sanity: 4/6
Stamina: 3/4

SPEED/SNEAK: 2/2
FIGHT/WILL: 4/2
LORE/LUCK: 4/2

CURRENT LOCATION: Unvisited Isle (explored)

MONEY: $22

CLUE TOKENS: 1

INVENTORY: Shotgun, Axe

SPELLS: Wither, Heal

SKILL: Will

SPECIAL CARDS:

ALLIES:

MONSTER TROPHIES: Cultist, Ghost, Fire Vampire, Ghost, Ghoul

GATE TROPHIES: 1

Cayrus as Joe Diamond

Sanity: 1/4
Stamina: 1/6

SPEED/SNEAK: 3/4
FIGHT/WILL: 5/0
LORE/LUCK: 0/3

CURRENT LOCATION: The Unnameable (explored)

MONEY: $13

CLUE TOKENS: 5

INVENTORY: .45 Automatic, Motorcycle, Old Journal, Blue Watcher of the Pyramid, Cultes des Goules, The King in Yellow

SPELLS: Enchant Weapon

SKILL: Marksman

SPECIAL CARDS:

ALLIES:

MONSTER TROPHIES: Cultist, Gug

GATE TROPHIES:

Ancient One:

DOOM TRACK: 5/12

ELDER SIGNS: 2/6

GATE TROPHIES: 4/7

Enviroment, Rumors, and Modifiers:

ENVIROMENT: Darke's Carnival Arrives (Urban): Investigators who end their movement in the Northside streets gain 1 Clue token from the sinister wonders they witness, but must pass a Will (-1) check or lose 1 Sanity.

RUMOR:

WORSHIPPERS ABILITY: Yog-Sothoth's worshippers have powerful magical abilities. Cultists have Magical Immunity and a combat rating of -1.

Special Cards: http://www.arkhamhorrorwiki.com/Special

Common Items: http://www.arkhamhorrorwiki.com/Common_item

Unique Items: http://www.arkhamhorrorwiki.com/Unique_item

Spells: http://www.arkhamhorrorwiki.com/Spell

Skills: http://www.arkhamhorrorwiki.com/Skill

Allies: http://www.arkhamhorrorwiki.com/Ally

Monster Encylopedia: http://www.arkhamhorrorwiki.com/Monster

The Worlds Beyond: http://www.arkhamhorrorwiki.com/Gate_marker

Reserve list is now being kept on the central AH thread.

Capfalcon

Totally up for reserving up.

Erin The Red

Gimmegimmegimme

Nullzone

@TheRoadVirus Choose between Ashcan Pete, Sister Mary, and Kate Winthrop.

(Goddamn that was a good roll to get those three)

Cythraul

Ah damn I'm tempted but I'm on the final leg of my vacation and alcohol consumption is at its peak, so I'm gonna be heavily unreliable til saturday when I'm home. Your call, if you need the extra man I'm there but otherwise I'll give it to someone who's ready to go!

Erin The Red

I shall tell the tale of ashcan Pete and his trusty dog Duke

stever777

signy!

Nullzone

Ashcan Pete receives 1 Common and 1 Unique item.

Take the Old Journal off the bottom of the Common deck, or draw from the top?

Take the Alien Statue off the bottom of the Unique deck, or draw from the top?

mi-go hunter

The more Arkham Horror, the merrier!

Nullzone

@stever777 choose between Gloria Goldberg, Michael McGlen, and Sister Mary.

Nullzone

@Cythraul Inebriated Arkham Horror is the best kind, it helps dull the sense of helplessness as the Ancient Ones move in to devour you.

Nullzone

Going to bed now, will catch up on setup tomorrow at work

Cayrus

I'll reserve since this is a busy month for me and I just played.

Bedlam

I will reserve if someone else wants to play.

But I will play if the reserve list empties and you still have room.

I cant decide things till this afternoon though if you put me in.

GrimmyTOA

Yeah! Totally in like flynn.

El Skid

Woooooo I'm in!

Erin The Red

Take the journal, look for new unique

edit: Are we using any expansions, or base game only?

Nullzone

Just the base, since we still have some newbies. After this game I might throw in Dunwich.

Nullzone

@jdarksun choose between Carolyn Fern, Harvey Walters, and Joe Diamond.

Nullzone

Ashcan Pete receives an Old Journal and an Ancient Tablet.

Ashcan Pete learns the Stealth skill!

Erin The Red

Fair enough.
I don't always die
(dos equis guy photo)
But when I do, I do it in new and horrible ways.

Erin The Red

Ooo, looks like I should maybe make my guy sneaky. But I need movement points to use my stuff. Curses!

GrimmyTOA

You only need movement points a couple of times. Burn through those items before the board is clogged with monsters and then turn up your sneakiness. Golden.

Ashcan can, if I remember right, get pretty damn sneaky, too. If you hover your sneak at around four (counting your skill bonus) you'll sneak past most stuff, and you can turn it up as needed.

Also, @Nullzone -- delighted to play. Not sure if that really came through in my other post.

Nullzone

@GrimmyTOA choose between Bob Jenkins, Darrell Simmons, and Vincent Lee.

Erin The Red

Ah true. And I got the stealth skill, which makes me pretty much a goddamn ninja hobo

Nullzone

@El Skid choose between Dexter Drake, Jenny Barnes, and Kate Winthrop.

GrimmyTOA

Hmmm. Hmmmmmmmmm.

I think I'll have to choose Bob Jenkins. I can't resist having six will. Although Darrell is awesome too. Ah well, it's a great problem to have.

GrimmyTOA

I'd go with Harvey, jdark -- although I see your point about Joe.

Erin The Red

Harvey would be my guess, Jdark. We need a mage-o-mancer

Nullzone

Bob Jenkins may take any 2 of Food, Knife, and Dynamite for his Common items, discarding the remainder.

Bob Jenkins receives 2 Elder Signs!

Bob Jenkins learns the Will skill!

GrimmyTOA

2 Elder signs? Yoinks! I think I'll hand one off to whomever else wants to dive through one of the first gates and keep t'other to get a gate trophy of my very own.

Hang on to the Knife and the Dynamite.

Nullzone

Harvey Walters receives a Necronomicon and a Blue Watcher of the Pyramid.

Harvey Walters receives the spells Enchant Weapon and Dread Curse of Azathoth.

Harvey Walters learns the Sneak skill!

Erin The Red

2 elder signs wtf awesome

Erin The Red

I can't access arkham horror wiki on my work pc, but that dread curse thing sounds p. sweet.

Nullzone

Dread Curse of Azathoth

Casting Modifier: -2

Sanity Cost: 2

Any Phase: Cast and exhaust to gain +9 to Combat checks until the end of this combat.

Hands: 2

Nullzone

@capfalcon
@cythraul
@cayrus

Still three seats open, if you want in!

Nullzone

And you guys are off to an amazing start so far. I predict many shoggoths in your future as karmic recompense :P

Erin The Red

Nullzone wrote: »

Dread Curse of Azathoth

Casting Modifier: -2

Sanity Cost: 2

Any Phase: Cast and exhaust to gain +9 to Combat checks until the end of this combat.

Hands: 2

+9? Jesus.

Nullzone

Correct, paying a cost is not the same thing as taking a loss. Harvey's power only prevents losses.

No personal story stuff just yet.

Erin The Red

@Nullzone, thanks in advance for running this!

Nullzone

No prob! Figured it was a better solution than mi-go getting piled up with a huge waitlist.

We'll probably get started tomorrow. Gonna give other players a bit longer to catch wind of their options, and then offer seats to reserves beyond that this evening.