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Servant from Out of Time

Servant from Out of Time

Type: Character Faction: Yog-Sothoth
Cost: 0
Icon: (T)(T) Skill: 1
Cultist
Forced Response: After Servant from Out of Time enters play, sacrifice a resource from one of your domains, if able.
Illustrator: Matt Dixon
Set: Core
****- No Comments have been made.
Servant of Nodens

Servant of Nodens

Type: Character Faction: Yog-Sothoth
Cost: 2
Icon: (T)(C) Skill: 2
Servitor

It could do nothing but obey its master's voice. That this might mean a flight of a thousand years made no matter to it.
Illustrator: James Ryman
Set: Core
***-- No Comments have been made.
Shadow-spawned Hunting Horror

Shadow-spawned Hunting Horror

Type: Character Faction: Cthulhu
Cost: 4
Icon: (C)(C)(A) Skill: 3
Servitor
While Shadow-spawned Hunting Horror is committed to a story, each committed character loses an (I) icon.
Illustrator: Marc Simonetti
Set: Core
***-- No Comments have been made.
Shadowed Reef

Shadowed Reef

Type: Support Faction: Cthulhu
Cost: 1
Location
Deep One characters gain a (T) icon.
Illustrator: Alan Dillingham
Set: Core
***-- No Comments have been made.
Shadowed Woods

Shadowed Woods

Type: Support Faction: Shub-Niggurath
Cost: 1
Location
Response: After you play a [Shub-Niggurath] character from your hand, pay X to choose and return a character with cost X or lower from your discard pile to your hand.
Illustrator: Andrew Hall
Set: Core
**--- 2 Comments
Shocking Transformation

Shocking Transformation

Type: Event Faction: Shub-Niggurath
Cost: 3
Action: Sacrifice one of your characters to search your deck for a non-Ancient One character and put it into play. Then, shuffle your deck.
He felt he could breathe in the very earth like air, and breathe it out again as fire.
Illustrator: Xia Taptarra
Set: Core
***** 1 Comments
Short Fuse

Short Fuse

Type: Event Faction: The Agency
Cost: 3
Play during your operations phase.
Action: Choose a character. Give that character 7 wounds.
Illustrator: Kevin Wasden
Set: Core
***-- No Comments have been made.
Shotgun

Shotgun

Type: Support Faction: The Agency
Cost: 1
Attachment. Weapon
Attach to a character. While attached character is committed to a story, it gains "Action: Pay 1 to choose and wound a character committed to this story."
Illustrator: John Goodenough
Set: Core
***-- 2 Comments
Shotgun Blast

Shotgun Blast

Type: Event Faction: The Agency
Cost: X
Action: Choose and wound a character with skill X or lower.
Illustrator: Alex Dai
Set: Core
****- 2 Comments
Shub-Niggurath

Shub-Niggurath

The All Mother
Type: Character Faction: Shub-Niggurath
Cost: 7
Icon: (T)(T)(T)(C)(A) Skill: 7
Ancient One
Villainous. Invulnerability. Action: Pay 3 to search your deck for a Dark Young character and put that character into play. Then shuffle your deck.
Illustrator: John Matson
Set: Core
**--- 2 Comments
Slavering Gug

Slavering Gug

Type: Character Faction: Shub-Niggurath
Cost: 5
Icon: (C)(C)(C) Skill: 4
Monster
Action: Pay 4 to choose and wound a character.
'Nurse, sedate him.' 'Please, no - it waits for me! I can't go to sleep - Its terrible size - The awful slit of its dripping maw!'
Illustrator: Tyler Walpole
Set: Core
***-- 6 Comments
Sleep of Reason

Sleep of Reason

Type: Support Faction: Cthulhu
Cost: 2
Attachment. Environment
Attach to a story card. Attached story gains: [Terror][Terror][Terror]
Illustrator: Jessica Van Hulle
Set: Core
**--- No Comments have been made.
Small Ghouls

Small Ghouls

Type: Character Faction: Shub-Niggurath
Cost: 5
Icon: (T)(T)(C)(C) Skill: 6
Monster
Forced Response: After Small Ghouls enters play, put 3 cards from your discard pile on the bottom of your deck in any order, if able.
Special Attribute: Steadfast x2 Shub-Niggurath
Like all children, they hoarded their toys.
Illustrator: Carlo Bocchio
Set: Core
***-- No Comments have been made.
Small Price to Pay

Small Price to Pay

Type: Event Faction: The Agency
Cost: 1
Action: Choose a character you control and a character an opponent controls. Choose one of those characters to go insane, then wound the other character.
Illustrator: Josh Hagler
Set: Core
****- 3 Comments
Son of Yeb

Son of Yeb

Type: Character Faction: Yog-Sothoth
Cost: 2
Icon: (C) Skill: 2
Cultist
Son of Yeb gains C for each Cultist character you control.
Shub-Niggurath begat Nug and Yeb. Nug and Yeb begat Shub-Niggurath. These actions are known as the key and the gate, the twin blasphemies.
Illustrator: Chris Seaman
Set: Core
****- No Comments have been made.
Spell-bound Shoggoth

Spell-bound Shoggoth

Type: Character Faction: Yog-Sothoth
Cost: 3
Icon: (T)(T)(C) Skill: 3
Servitor
All other characters get -1 skill.
'Even Alhazred lies,' explained Vaughn to the weeping man in the corner. 'It's best to confirm these things with your own eyes.' The thing in the circle quivered, perhaps in fury.'
Illustrator: Matt Dixon
Set: Core
***-- 2 Comments
Steve Clarney

Steve Clarney

Soldier of Fortune
Type: Character Faction: The Agency
Cost: 3
Icon: (C)(C)(I) Skill: 2
Investigator
Heroic. Willpower.
While Steve Clarney is committed to a story, all characters lose all Toughness.
Illustrator: Eric Wilkerson
Set: Core
****- 1 Comments
Strange Librarian

Strange Librarian

Type: Character Faction: Miskatonic University
Cost: 2
Icon: (A) Skill: 1
Investigator
Action: Exhaust Strange Librarian to look at the top 3 cards of any player's deck. Put one of those cards on the bottom of his deck, and the other two back on top in any order.
Illustrator: Sedone Thongvilay
Set: Core
****- 1 Comments
Student Archaeologist

Student Archaeologist

Type: Character Faction: Miskatonic University
Cost: 2
Icon: (I) Skill: 2
Investigator
Response: After Student Archaeologist is restored, draw a card. Then, each player chooses and discards a card from his hand.
Illustrator: Felicia Cano
Set: Core
***-- 2 Comments
Sword of Y'ha-tallo

Sword of Y'ha-tallo

Type: Support Faction: Cthulhu
Cost: 0
Attachment. Weapon
Attach to a character. Attached character gains (T)(C).
Special Attribute: Steadfast x2 Cthulhu
In the name of Sebek and Seth, we offer up these souls to chaos.
Illustrator: John Goodenough
Set: Core
**--- No Comments have been made.
Syndicate Liaison

Syndicate Liaison

Type: Character Faction: Syndicate
Cost: 3
Icon: (A)(A) Skill: 3
Criminal
Forced Response: After Syndicate Liaison enters play, choose and exhaust a ready character, if able.
He patted the briefcase gently. 'It's from Harrington,' he said.
Illustrator: Bob Stevlic
Set: Core
***-- No Comments have been made.
T-Men

T-Men

Type: Character Faction: The Agency
Cost: 5
Icon: (C)(C)(C) Skill: 3
Government
Forced Response: After T-Men enters play, choose and wound a character.
Special Attribute: Steadfast x2 The Agency
At this time there were secret meetings, and maybe unfortunate treaties, between the two governments.
Illustrator: Miguel Coimbra
Set: Core
***-- 2 Comments
Tcho-Tcho Talisman

Tcho-Tcho Talisman

Type: Support Faction: Neutral
Cost: 1
Attachment. Item
Attach to a character you control. Attached character gains TT. Response: After Tcho-Tcho Talisman is placed into any discard pile from play, pay 1 to return it to its owner's hand.
Illustrator: Lars Simkins
Set: Core
****- 1 Comments
The Bootleg Whiskey Cover-Up

The Bootleg Whiskey Cover-Up

Type: Conspiracy Faction: Neutral
Cost: 1
Symbols:
Treat all characters committed to this story as if their text boxes were blank.
Illustrator: Carlo Bocchio
Set: Core
**--- 6 Comments
The Call of Cthulhu

The Call of Cthulhu

Type: Story Faction: Neutral
Symbols: (T)(C)(A)(I)
Each player searches his deck for a card and puts it into his hand. Shuffle the decks.
Illustrator: Cyril Van Der Haegen
Set: Core
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The Other Path

The Other Path

Type: Story Faction: Neutral
Symbols: (T)(C)(A)(I)
Each player may place 1 success token on any story on which he has 2 or fewer success tokens.
Illustrator: Federico Piatti
Set: Core
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The Shadow out of Time

The Shadow out of Time

Type: Story Faction: Neutral
Symbols: (T)(C)(A)(I)
Each player may exchange any number of cards in his hand with an equal number of cards from the top of his discard pile.
Illustrator: McLean Kendree
Set: Core
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Thing from the Stars

Thing from the Stars

Type: Character Faction: Hastur
Cost: 5
Icon: (T)(T)(T) Skill: 3
Monster
Lower the cost to play Thing from the Stars by 1 (to a minimum of 1) for each resource type other than [Hastur] attached to the domain drained to pay for Thing from the Stars. Action: Exhaust to choose and destroy an insane character.
Illustrator: Paul Ballard
Set: Core
***-- No Comments have been made.
Thomas F. Malone

Thomas F. Malone

Haunted Police Detective
Type: Character Faction: The Agency
Cost: 4
Icon: (C)(C) Skill: 5
Investigator.
Heroic.
Response: After resolving a story to which Thomas F. Malone is committed, choose and destroy an opponent's Villainous or Cultist character that was committed to that story.
Illustrator: Anders Finer
Set: Core
***-- 2 Comments
Through the Gates

Through the Gates

Type: Story Faction: Neutral
Symbols: (T)(C)(A)(I)
Each player sacrifices all characters with printed skill 3 or higher.
Illustrator: Mark Winters
Set: Core
----- No Comments have been made.


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