Body of a Yithian
Captive in Another Form

Investigador

Monster. Yithian.

Neutro
  • 2
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Health: 7. Sanity: 7.

Each of your Ally assets gains the Yithian trait.

After you commit a card to a skill test you are performing: Double the skill icons on that card. (Limit once per test.)

effect: +2. Draw 1 card.

Stephen Somers
The City of Archives #244. The City of Archives #-3.

Body of a Yithian - Back

Investigador

Deck Size: What it used to be, when you were human.

Deckbuilding Options: Yithians can't build decks.

Deckbuilding Requirements: (do not count toward deck size): Do you remember...?

And then the morbid temptation to look down at myself became greater and greater, till one night I could not resist it. At first my downward glance revealed nothing whatsoever. A moment later I perceived that this was because my head lay at the end of a flexible neck of enormous length. Retracting this neck and gazing down very sharply, I saw the scale, rugose, iridescent bulk of a vast cone ten feet tall and ten feet wide at the base. THat was when I waked half of Arkham with my screaming as I plunged madly up from the abyss of sleep. - H. P. Lovecraft, The Shadow out of Time
Body of a Yithian
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Just about strictly better than Preston Fairmont's investigator card in a Preston Fairmont deck. You get +1 to every skill, lose his passive drawback but keep Family Inheritance, gain a response trigger that combos well with a fair amount of Preston builds, and the Elder Sign ability is very slightly better (though it does lose the automatic success possibility for very high difficulty checks, +2 should cover most checks anyway). 10/10 would recommend being stuck in the City of the Great Race again.

Thatwasademo · 57
Oh man, that's so janky! I was going to say that it combos well with Monstrous Transformation (also very janky). — Zinjanthropus · 227
a yithian wrote this — HanoverFist · 712
Also great with Lola Hayes! — Lactamaeon · 13
Though, you lose deckbuilding options. Can you even spend exp if you're a yithian? — Mataza · 19
it must be terrible to live like this if you stuck in that body... oh my god — Makaramus · 5
I love this review. Thanks for the laugh. — EmmeBGG · 13

As investigators work differently they can be handled differently.

  • Duke is in the deck, not in play.
  • Preston's permanent is in play.
  • Joe has an unusable hunch deck and Diana has Dark Insight in her hand as those are deckbuilding requirements.
  • Sefina draws 13 cards and Lola chooses a role.

I've asked specifically about Sefina for this and the official answer is here:

Generally speaking, unless otherwise noted, scenario setup occurs during step 10 of setup (see: “Appendix III: Setting Up the Game” in the Rules Reference), whereas Sefina’s ability triggers when you would draw your opening hand, which happens in step 8. There are a few steps specifically in City of Archives that occur before this step (such as removing unique items and Alejandro), but everything else in the setup happens at the normal timing, during step 10. This means that Sefina will have already triggered her ability to draw 13 cards, place 5 events beneath her, etc. (This is why the Body of a Yithian rules explicitly say that cards that were placed beneath your investigator are placed beneath Body of a Yithian!)

vidinufi · 67