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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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sedated

Sedated

Type: Support Faction: Hastur
Cost: 1
Attachment
Attach to an insane character. Attached character cannot be restored.
'He'll be asleep for a while.' 'How long? We have to know how long.'
Illustrator: Rafal Hrynkiewicz
Set: Core
**--- No Comments have been made.
Scotophobia

Scotophobia

Type: Event Faction: Hastur
Cost: 2
Madness
Action: Until the end of the phase, each character controlled by an opponent loses all of its printed T icons.
Illustrator: Rafal Hrynkiewicz
Set: Core
***-- 6 Comments
Sacrificial Offerings

Sacrificial Offerings

Type: Event Faction: Cthulhu
Cost: 1
Action: Choose and wound a character controlled by an opponent. Then, that character's controller may choose and wound a character.
On the pile of ruined packing crates lay those who had given their lives for the Master, both friend and foe.
Illustrator: Daarken
Set: Core
***-- 4 Comments
Richard Upton Pickman

Richard Upton Pickman

Genius Painter
Type: Character Faction: Syndicate
Cost: 4
Icon: (C)(C)(I) Skill: 3
Cultist
Action: Pay 2 to choose a character. Until the end of the phase, Richard Upton Pickman gains that character's keywords and triggered abilities. Then, treat that character as though its printed text box were blank until the end of the phase.
Illustrator: Nick Percival
Set: Core
***-- 1 Comments
Restless and Wary

Restless and Wary

Type: Event Faction: Miskatonic University
Cost: 2
Action: Ready all exhausted characters.
She slept lightly, when she slept at all, for the nightmares kept her ever anxious and on the edge of some nameless panic. Even after waking in the dead of night, she could not be certain the inhuman shapes and sounds that haunted her mind were merely dreams.
Illustrator: Xia Taptara
Set: Core
***-- 3 Comments
Pulled Under

Pulled Under

Type: Event Faction: Cthulhu
Cost: 0
Action: Exhaust a character with at least 2 (T)(T) icons to choose and destroy an exhausted non-Ancient One character.
Special Attribute: Steadfast x2 Cthulhu
Illustrator: Jesus Garcia
Set: Core
***-- 1 Comments
Professor Nathaniel Peaslee

Professor Nathaniel Peaslee

Scholar of the Arcane
Type: Character Faction: Miskatonic University
Cost: 4
Icon: (C)(C)(A)(I) Skill: 3
Investigator
Response: After Professor Nathaniel Peaslee enters your discard pile from play, pay 2 to put into play all characters that entered a discard pile this phase.
Illustrator: Felicia Cano
Set: Core
***-- 5 Comments
Professor Hermann Mulder

Professor Hermann Mulder

Bureau Consultant
Type: Character Faction: The Agency
Cost: 1
Icon: (C)(C)(A) Skill: 4
Government
Professor Hermann Mulder goes insane at any time there are 6 or more characters in play.
The streets had never been meaner, or their inhabitants more cruel.
Illustrator: Carlo Bocchio
Set: Core
**--- No Comments have been made.
Professor Albert Wilmarth

Professor Albert Wilmarth

Folklore Expert
Type: Character Faction: Miskatonic University
Cost: 5
Icon: (C)(C)(I) Skill: 4
Investigator
Heroic. While Professor Albert Wilmarth is committed to a story, that story card loses an icon struggle of your choice.
Wilmarth preferred boisterous company, and avoided the soft-spoken.
Illustrator: Zotho Lhun
Set: Core
**--- No Comments have been made.
Priestess of Bubastis

Priestess of Bubastis

Type: Character Faction: Shub-Niggurath
Cost: 1
Icon: Skill: 1
Cultist
Action: Exhaust to lower the cost of the next [Shub-Niggurath] character you play this phase by 1 (to a minimum of 1).
Illustrator: Roberto Campus
Set: Core
***-- No Comments have been made.
Predatory Byakhee

Predatory Byakhee

Type: Character Faction: Hastur
Cost: 4
Icon: (C)(C)(A) Skill: 3
Servitor
Action: Sacrifice Predatory Byakhee to discard the top 3 cards from an opponent's deck.
Illustrator: Oliver Specht
Set: Core
**--- No Comments have been made.
Power Drain

Power Drain

Type: Event Faction: Hastur
Cost: 2
Spell
Disrupt: Cancel an Action or Response just played or used.
Illustrator: Kyri Koniotou
Set: Core
****- 1 Comments


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