Eldritch Horror S4E01 - Season 4 EP01 Hastur & Signs of Carcosa

Eldritch Horror S4E01 - Season 4 EP01 Hastur & Signs of Carcosa 

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welcome back everyone to pontas fathom hobbies this is season four episode one of eldritch horror signs of carcosa this is our turn one uh with hastur as our great old ones and it is hastur month yellow sign month here so we just finished up the setup video you can go check that one out uh we'll go through the characters we'll read the intros and uh we'll jump right into turn one uh quick shout out to the king and yellow lost carcosa and the yellow sign these are two studies one is the collection of short stories that influenced uh lovecraft called king and yellow prefaced by august moldenhauer and then this is august moldenhauer's book on the history of carcosa yellow sign and some links to historical things we also have got the new trilogy of necromancy of nirolithotep the hermeticism of haster and the alchemy of azathoth hermeticism of hestor is volume 2 and these are a look at disclosures from the necronomicon fragment especially in the hasdor one talking about how there's this pastoral element to yellow sign in the way you s shift your perception from the normal world to sort of the other world and we kind of go into that here we'll do some readings from the books uh give some flavoring for this game and we'll also be playing now that i'm thinking of it when we do our cthulhu wars game i think we'll play the azithoff expansion with neurolithotip and with yellow signs so we'll kind of do an homage to that over on uh hastur month other games so let's jump into signs of carcosa we've got the board set up we have uh the reserve set up with the rumor mill the three card monty for one assassination for two and a copy of the king james bible the other king and we will actually be doing speaking of the king james bible on our pontos fathom press podcast this week we're going to do solomon kane and king james so we're going to talk about the 1600s over there so a little cross cross pollination pollinating there okay so let's get into it first i'm going to read this hastur card and we'll do that flavoring test text it says far from earth beneath the star of aldebaran the unspeakable one sleeps in prison within the core of one of the dark sires of the hyades trapped there and along for in a war long forgotten he dreams of escaping to his exact his terrible will upon the cosmos wow uh so that is hastur the king in yellow maybe when we spawn him i'll actually pull out the king and yellow from cthulhu death may die that i painted up i think that's a pretty cool looking one so we can have him on the board okay so let let's uh get into our investigators and turn one and we can check out um their stories as we kind of go along so first up let's look at um revealing the active mystery so we'll grab the first card and we have cities on the lake far away from the hyades star cluster when an investigator okay as an encounter i'm sorry far away from the high days star cluster two cities lie upon the shores of lake holly in ethio queen casilda tries desperately to keep her dynasty from falling to the tattered king of carcosa the city across the lake as an encounter an investigator on a space containing a gate may travel to the shores of lake haley he draws and resolves a cities on the lake special encounter okay so we've so if we get to an encounter uh with a gate we can do a cities on the lake special encounter there and i believe i did not spawn a gate here yet so let's spawn a gate and our first gate is in arkham fittingly enough and we can go into the monster bag and set that up and we get a cultist which is perfect so we've got a cultist uh we've got arkan gate spawned and the other thing is i believe i need to spawn an initial clue or two clues so we spawn two clues by the reference card so we will spawn two clues from the bag we'll place those and then we'll get right into the turn okay plateau blank is on another board we have one on four and one on cairo's on the other board and one on eighteen whoa okay so down here all right so we've got two clues on the board let's uh get into it so first off um let's review our characters what they have here so uh jenny barnes has got the automatic pistol fine jewelry and a ship and she's there in the caribbean or caribbean how do you guys say it leave a leave a comment in the comments the caribbean dexter drake has got his starting items of a binding spell and the arcane assistant so this is his sort of it's his assistant but maybe it's almost it's like a magician assistant but she's actually magical so that's kind of fun and then wendy adams starts with a clue and she also starts with an elusive condition during the encounter phase you may test if you pass you may choose an encounter as if there's no monsters on the other so that's always great to have that ability to run from monsters so let's check out what our goal is here uh far away the shores of lake haley queen casilda tries to keep her dynasty from falling to the tattered king of carcosa as an encounter an investigator on a space containing a gate right so that that's right there may travel to the shores of lake haley and drozen resolves the cities on this on the lake special encounter so let's look for those in here so this is cities on the lake special encounter let's look for those cities on the lake specials encounter okay so we can shuffle these up the cities on the lake special encounter put them on the top of the deck for now and let's have uh our lead investigator jenny barnes will uh let's give her a she can she so she can gain a debt condition she can remove a debt condition so basically she can just take a card then right bank loan so she's going to roll she can add two and then she can discard her her her bank loan her her debt condition immediately right but that would be two actions so so let's just have her roll to get uh she'll roll to get a an item so her item is she can roll an additional add one to result of one die with the fine jewelry and she uses her influence okay so she can actually she can go to arkham and then she will roll and acquire asset with plus two right so she may not even need to take a debt condition let's see what she does so she'll roll or she has four and she can also add one to her top die so oh so she actually can roll two more dice right so she has four she rolls two more so she actually gets uh two sixes three sixes she actually can take four but that's fine maybe she'll just take the uh well she'll take the rumor mill right which she can use with the five because she gets plus one to one die so that's one and then she still has three so she can get the king james bible and the three card monty so let's first we'll throw out her rumor mill and that gives her a clue so let's just grab a clue from here so she's got her first clue then she can also when you gain this card immediately roll one die on a five or six you gain one asset of your choice so let's put some more assets in the pool here and she can just roll and she gets a five she can get one more asset of her choice so she can get the let's have her get the tommy gun right so now she's loaded up on assets now she's quite a collection of assets here and that will be her action phase so jenny barnes is quite uh able to get stuff right it's pretty cool so now she can also share with others so let's move on to a dexter drake so dexter drake is in tokyo his quote is do not be afraid i've spent my entire life doing the impossible so dexter drake uh i guess we'll go towards this clue or should he go toward the gate encounter too because they want to close this gate right so uh yeah so perhaps he can get a ship token he'll get a ship token and he'll use the ship token to end up in sydney and then he's one closer to that so he can do his encounter in sydney and then let's have um the urchin wendy adams go check out the she will also get a train token so she gets her train token and she spends her train token and she's at the um pyramids and she can do the uh expedition check on her encounter so quick let's do a quick recap too of wendy's how does she get her power after you resolve a research encounter you may spend three clues and place one random clue on this card okay so she can do that after a research encounter so let's that's our action phase let's move into our encounter phase so first off let's start with our leader jenny barnes the dilettante and she's going to have an encounter with the cultists the cultist and we say here the cultist summons a bayake the biake monster set aside one biake monster and one high store special encounter so i believe is the biake a normal monster so i think i have to dig for that so so she will fight a biake and let's see what that looks like so this cultist will summon that she does have the machine gun now so she should be able to make shorter work of that let's just check if it's a if it's a special monster i think it's a normal monster but let's just double check here okay so here's the biake biake so the biake has um so the cultist says oh no that's only on a that's only on a reckoning so we'll just set that aside now he doesn't the cultist does not summon that that's only on the reckoning so she can just attack this cultist so let's have her start out with uh the mind check so she can roll that and she can pass that so that's fine then she can do a minus one strength check but she also gets plus four strength with her tommy gun so that gives her four and all those dice she gets one but it's enough to kill the cultist so cultist is dispatched to uh the other world and then she can do her encounter so instead of using a portal encounter she's going to take that exactly cities on the lake special encounter so we'll grab the first cities on lake special encounter it says a shimmering apparition of the tattered king floats before you on one of the black spires of carcosa shredded golden robes flapping gently despite the absence of wind resolve the pacific to kneel before the king or resolve the fail effect to face him in all of his terrifying glory so he so this is great so the king in yellow i like this this rendition of it the king in yellow sort of appears right and says with the black spires of coracosa behind so their choices are resolve the pass effect to kneel before the king or resolve the fail a fail effect to face him in all of his terrifying glory well i don't think i don't think that the dilettante jenny barnes is going to kneel to anyone she's used to getting what she wants she's not kneeling to this king so i you feel his dark so we'll read the other one you feel his dark presence sifting through your thoughts and hammering on the cracks of your ego so we have to roll a check here which we fail if you fail the yellow king bestows his blessing upon you gain two madness conditions oh no jenny barnes you went the wrong way so she is gaining two madness conditions and uh and that's what she gets for being defiant for the king and yellow so let's add her madness conditions lost in time is this curse blight i think they're here cursed corruption light hallucinations lost in time and space paranoia terror you know keep going moxie resilient elusive no dark pact debt disease infection blessed righteous head injury internal injury back injury haunted wounded how come i can't find madness uh she has to gain two madness conditions not just one so let's get through these here paranoia amnesia oh so she can get a second an amnesia is one and then she can get terror is one okay so she's got amnesia and terror those are her two madness conditions that come and so when she performs a rest when she performs a rest okay they're both when she performs rests so i guess she kind of got away okay but she didn't pass the encounter though so so maybe next round she has to try again so or maybe um maybe our urchin can come help her if she's still struggling on the next round okay so jenny barnes she stops a cultist but uh she has the city on the lake cities on the lake encounter and she fails it so she will go back for more uh soon so next up is uh dexter drake and he will just do a sydney encounter so the sydney encounter it should be a carcosa sydney encounter and it says you discuss military tactics with harold hardwick gain a military prowess condition he then asks the former olympic athlete to train you okay so he's going to be trained by a former olympic athlete and that will result in a fail if you fail you try to train alone and you gain one indoor injury condition poor dexter so he's he he's the olympic athlete is going to train him but he decides to train alone instead and he gets an injury condition so we'll find him in injury condition and he gets a back injury when you perform a rest action he has to flip the card but then also he does gain a martial prowess condition so he did learn something he just injured himself doing it so he's also got this martial prowess condition when you're resolving a combat encounter you may gain plus three during the counter and then you have to flip the card so he's got some martial prowess so he's not just a skinny illusionist he's you know he's a little clumsy he injured himself but okay so he's fair enough and let's move on to um the final encounter which for turn one which would be wendy adams the urchin and she's going to resolve the pyramids expedition sort of the tie back to our season 3 game which was beneath the pyramids inside a hidden chamber you find a funerary boat large enough for you to pa for you to board resolve the pass effect to stand on the deck of the boat or resolve the fail effect to try to get the boat out of the chamber i don't think she would get the boat out of the chamber that does not seem her her style so i think she will resolve a pass effect uh instead so the boat begins to drift through time it requires arcane knowledge to steer it so she can roll her lord test she gets a six if you pass you return to an era when this room hit a treasure gain one artifact so she gains an artifact and let's just get into this i'm just gonna grab the first one that's the that's got a carcosa symbol and she gets a tattered cloak you may spend one fewer sanity to play for an effect if an effect would cause you to lose sanity you lose one fewer sanity instead so that's pretty good so she's got this tattered cloak from the the pyramids this is great she's gonna go around with this ancient egyptian cloak it's kind of odd right okay so um so the expedition now moves to tunguska so we'll move the expedition there and that will be the end of our encounters phase and now finally we're going to wrap up with the oh it's the end of the turn no i'll play this i will play my mythos card i always skip mytho's phase for some reason okay so our first mythos is it's from the karkoza deck and it says strange affliction the flowers of your hotel have begun to wilt have begun to wilt at your touch the dogs in the street now whimper and cringe as you pass by no matter how elegantly you dress strangers look upon you as a leprous beggar the lead investigator gains a blight condition okay so not not good news for our madness riddled priscilla barnes but now she's also got a blight condition so and let's also go ahead to the mythos effects so first mythos effects is advance the omen by one so we can advance the omen to here and then for each gate with that sign no uh then we resolve the reckoning now we've already dispatched that cultist so luckily for us um there's no reckoning on the board but there is reckoning in these madness conditions so she will need to do two tests passing and passing so luckily uh jenny barnes passes both of her reckoning madness tests any other reckonings here oh yes the back injury we're gonna do a reckoning and also gets a plus three to that so let's give him five and he passes that so no reckoning effects luckily okay so reckoning effects are fine and yeah so it looks like we'll be okay for the reckoning and then finally spawn a gate so we take the gate on the top and it's shanghai and we'll go to our monster bag and we will spawn one monster and it's a y2l's right loigor a liger a loiger a liger a lion tiger okay so that is going to wrap up the mythos phase i will get this blight condition out for jenny barnes and we will wrap up turn one thank you guys for watching uh we'll check out turn two season four turn two up in the corner and uh see you on the next turn uh this is gonna be a good one i can tell already we got some good characters already some funny moments uh things are already starting to progress badly for jenny we'll see how we we make it through talk to you in the next turn bye bye