Call for Backup

I think my favorite thing about this card is how it shows that all along, the REAL clues you were searching for were The Friends You Made Along The Way!

If I'm not mistaken (and I absolutely could be) I think I recognize Naomi, Peter, and Warren in there from Dunwich! (Not sure who the big fella with the staff is.)

HanoverFist · 777
It also looks like a misfit group of Left 4 Dead survivors XD — 5argon · 12978
sorry to disappoint, but These für are Models after certain CoC LCG Players: https://arkhamhorrorfiles.fandom.com/wiki/A_New_Day — PowLee · 15
@PowLee That is maybe even cooler. — Death by Chocolate · 1513
Twist of Fate

I asked FFG what would happen if you drew a bless token. Here is what they said:

"Bless Tokens (and Curse Tokens, and Frost Tokens) only have value when they are revealed during a skill test—meaning, they don’t count as tokens with “any other number.” If they are revealed from the chaos bag while resolving “Twist of Fate”, nothing happens, because they do not correspond to one of the printed options."

So if you draw a bless, curse, or frost... this card does nothing.

Achire · 583
don't know how you would draw a frost token for a dunwich encounter but where there is a will there is a way! — Zerogrim · 302
I was wondering about that too, but I was just grateful to have an answer about the bless/curse tokens, as we use those a lot. — Achire · 583
Overzealous

The devious nature of this card cant be overstated.

-The "surge" effect is not applied to the revelation effect and is instead applied to the card itself. Therefore, Ward of Protection or radiance wool not cancel the surge.

-The encounter deck, unlike weaknesses, is not standardized. Most weaknesses will net you a loss of two actions. The encounter deck can range from mild inconveniences to game ending debuffs. This card insures you will draw 2, essentially guaranteeing at least 1 will be more detrimental than the standard loss of 2 actions

Not sure if this or doomed is worse.

drjones87 · 218
Nothing Like drawing a cultist plus mysterious chanting right BEFORE the mythos phase. — PowLee · 15
I thought Ward of Protection only cancelled the revelation effect, so Surge would still occur? — Narissya · 1
@Narissya That is correct and what the review is trying to say, but they misspelled 'would' in 'Word of Protection... would not cancel the surge.' — Death by Chocolate · 1513
Will to Survive

Okay, it's been 5 years and I've gotta ask because it's driving me nuts:

What is happening in the picture for this card?

It's a dude in a room full of children's pictures, I get that, but is he...

... mopping a bloodstain? ... holding off a floating urchin-monster-thing with a really long toilet plunger? ... leaning on a pipe that some urchin-monster-thing is coming out the end? ... trying to pull a spear with a bunch of blood and guts on one end out of the wall?

I feel like I'm looking at a magic-eye-sailboat or something and just can't see what's supposed to be going on here! The mop seems most likely, but... why's he doing it in the dark in a kindergarten and why is the mop sort of spiky and what does cleaning the floor have to do with surviving willfully?

HanoverFist · 777
He's holding off some monster hiding out of frame with a mop. — Soul_Turtle · 530
Probably a cell inside the arkham asylum? — Tharzax · 1
@Soul_Turtle: A monster with a flashlight apparently! I mean, yeah, that could be it, and it's actually the best theory I've heard so far... just the artist made a point to cast shadows from the dude like he's lit exclusively from the front, and there's so many other cards that manage to imply and out-of-frame threat with no ambiguity (Act Of Desperation, Not Without A Fight, Frozen In Fear- all of which use menacing tentacles- or Cornered, Hunted Down, which use shadows) — HanoverFist · 777
Perhaps it made more sense in the call of Cthulhu card game or a past Arkham game. Didn’t FFG change the art for this in the revised core? Perhaps they agree. — LaRoix · 1650
Whoa, I never saw that they changed the art in revised core! The new art has Stella, appropriately. Has this ever happened for any other card in AHLCG?? — HanoverFist · 777
Answering my own question I see now they updated multiple pieces of art in Revised Core; just going thru Guardian alone I see that First Aid and Guard Dog are updated. — HanoverFist · 777
I feel like the artwork shows a school janitor fighting off a monster that's not in the frame. — Fogshaper · 1
Unrelenting

The name of this card, "Unrelenting", obviously refers to when your secretary absolutely WILL NOT put down the fantastic Broadway script she's reading.

Look, some folks just like kicking back with a good book on Thursday afternoon when there's not a lot of people coming in to the office, but sometimes the boss really needs you to set aside your penny-dreadful and shove a merman off a boat before you clock out at 5.

+++

TL;DR: I didn't see it mentioned above, so I figured I'd mention this is a fantastic counter to Minh's signature weakness. ? makes it always usable, the +6 pip requirement means you're probably succeeding, & the card-draw cancels the 3-skill tempo-loss. PMP existing is just icing on the cake.

HanoverFist · 777