Dial of Ancients
Signs of Cataclysm

Supporto. Accessory

Item. Relic. Cursed.

Costi: 3. XP: 4.

Studioso

Researched. Limit 1 per deck. Uses (4 charges).

When an investigator fails a skill test at your location, exhaust Dial of Ancients: Seal 1 chaos token revealed during that test on Dial of Ancients.

Forced - When the round ends: For each chaos token sealed here, you must spend 1 charge or release that token.

Yoann Boissonnet
La Città Sommersa, Espansione Investigatori #46.
Dial of Ancients

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This card is ok if you are not prepared to make it broken. Lucius Galloway, Ursula Downs, and Monterey Jack can break this card wide open and make the game a cakewalk. How you might ask? They ask their Local Eldritch know it all to take time and put it to delaying the signs of Cataclysm and the moment someone pulls an auto fail at their location they seal it. So now, for every round, they get one or two actions, and don't worry about the auto fail, because it can't hurt them if it isn't real. This is a much better way than the another way to eat the auto fail because it doesn't require rng or a massive setup. With paying the ferry man and having someone else get xp you can get this at scenario 2 as long as you get 6 xp from the scenario (or 4 if you manage a big kills). Sledgehammer your friends all you want, you know you won't fail because they ate the auto fail.

cocoa2512 · 3
But you have to draw the autofail to seal it. And withouh it, it's a many, many part combo. Three actions, $9, and 4xp+10xp an +ally slot to get it started. — MrGoldbee · 1486
AND you have to research the Dial. — MrGoldbee · 1486
Well Lucius and Monterey jack don't have to worry about translating it because they can/will both be evading. As for the many part combo, it's a combo for 1/2 more actions a round (Ursula's only way to get consistent more actions) + all the charges you ever could want if you were doing something like glyphs. As for drawing the autofail, You going a whole scenario without drawing the autofail? — cocoa2512 · 3

You want to fail at a test to seal a "bad" chaos token ? And then you need charges to keep the token(s) sealed ?

It seems to me that it's best in a mystic deck (or a deck with some access to mystic cards):

So Daisy Walker, Norman Withers or ... Akachi Onyele. She has +1 charge and Spirit-Speaker to recharge the dial by putting it in her hand and replaying it.

And as several of the cards mentioned above work on test made by an other investigator or on assets controlled by an other investigator you can give the dial to an investigator and the token-manipulation an/or recharge to an other one.

AlexP · 282