Play-by-Play #8: Jenny's The Essex County Express

Trauma: 1 Damage, 2 Horror

Opening Location: Passenger Car

Opening Hand: Perception, Physical Training, Lockpicks, Lone Wolf, Ace in the Hole

#1: PLAY Lone Wolf, PLAY Lockpicks, Lockpicks (2 supplies left, clue), upkeep (Lockpicks, 2 resources).

#2: Rotting Remains, 1 resource, MOVE to Dining Car, EVADE (+3 , exhaust Grappling Horror), MOVE to Passenger Car (2 horror), upkeep (Guts, 2 resources),

#3: Broken Rails (lose 1 action), 1 resource, Ace in the Hole, Lockpicks (1 supply left), INVESTIGATE (+3 , clue), INVESTIGATE (+3 , clue), MOVE to Passenger Car (2 damage), DRAW Unexpected Courage, Grappling Horror moves to Passenger Car, upkeep (Leo De Luca, 2 resources).

#4: Acolyte (on the leftmost Passenger Car), 1 resource, Lockpicks (pitch Perception, draw Dr. Henry Armitage, clue), RESOURCE, PLAY Leo De Luca, MOVE to Train Car (discard Unexpected Courage), Grappling Horror moves to Passenger Car, upkeep (Machete, 2 resources).

#5: advance A Tear in Reality, Broken Rails (lose 1 action), 1 resource, PLAY Machete, Lockpicks (clue), INVESTIGATE (clue), Grappling Horror attacks (1 damage, 1 horror), upkeep (Overpower, 2 resources).

#6: Helpless Passenger, Ancient Evils, 1 resource, FIGHT (pitch Overpower, draw Leo De Luca, 2 damage to Grappling Horror), FIGHT (defeat Grappling Horror), Lockpicks (clue), PLAY Physical Training, upkeep (Switchblade, 2 resources).

#7: advance The Maw Widens (discard Helpless Passenger, 1 horror), Emergent Monstrosity, 1 resource, MOVE to Parlor Car, RESOURCE, Parlor Car, MOVE to Engine Car (advance Run!, +3 , pitch Dr. Henry Armitage, 1 Mental Trauma), Grappling Horror, Terror from Beyond, Rotting Remains (pitch Guts, draw Unexpected Courage), Grappling Horror attacks (1 damage, 1 horror), upkeep (Quick Thinking, 2 resources).

#8: Acolyte (on the leftmost Passenger Car), 1 resource, FIGHT (+2 ), FIGHT (pitch Unexpected Courage & Quick Thinking & Switchblade, extra action, 2 damage to Grappling Horror), FIGHT (+1 , defeat Grappling Horror), Lockpicks (discard Lockpicks), INVESTIGATE (pitch Leo De Luca), upkeep (Manual Dexterity, 2 resources).

#9: Dissonant Voices, 1 resource, INVESTIGATE (+3 , clue), INVESTIGATE, INVESTIGATE (clue), R1.

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Campaign Log:

The Gathering: R2. Jenny’s house is still standing!, 8XP (Ghoul Priest, Flesh-Eater, Attic, Cellar, 3 bonus XP)

The Midnight Masks: R1. Jenny interrogated the Masked Hunter, Peter Warren, "Wolf-Man" Drew and Ruth Turner! Herman Collins and Victoria Devereux got away! 8XP (The Masked Hunter, "Wolf-Man" Drew, Peter Warren, Ruth Turner, Graveyard, Northside, Miskatonic University)

The Devourver Below: R1. The ritual to summon Umôrdhoth was broken! 7XP (Victoria Devereux, Herman Collins, 5 bonus XP), Token, 2 Mental Trauma

Carnevale of Horrors: R1. The sun banished Cnidathqua into the depths! 3XP (Don Lagorio, Savio Corvi, Salvatore Neri)

The House Always Wins: R1. O'Bannion gang has a bone to pick with Jenny! Dr. Francis Morgan was kidnapped! 2XP (Clover Club Pit Boss, VIP Area), 1 Psychical Trauma

Extracurricular Activity: R3. Professor Warren Rice was kidnapped! The Experiment was defeated! Jenny rescued Dr. Henry Armitage! 4XP (The Experiment, Orne Library, Dormitories)

The Miskatonic Museum: R1. Jenny destroyed the Necronomicon! 5XP (Exhibit Hall, Exhibit Hall, Exhibit Hall, Exhibit Hall, Exhibit Hall)

The Essex County Express: R1. 2XP (Engine Car, Parlor Car), -4 Token, 1 Mental Trauma