Advice for getting Lita using Roland solo

[Chimpy 194]

[Possible spoilers for the core set adventure]

I've got two core sets, and am playing Roland solo. I have no trouble completing the first scenario successfully from the core set, but doing it and getting Lita I find impossible. I need to evade the Ghoul Priest at least twice to move safely to the Parlour, but I can't get the agility to make the evades, and doing so loses an action anyway. It's quite frustrating. I wonder if I'm missing something obvious.

I've got 2 of Manual Dexterity and Hyperawareness in the deck, for the agility.

Does anyone have any tips on what I can do to win the first scenario and get Lita?

[soullos 147]

One of the resolutions is to burn the house down. You get Lita choosing that option. You don't even need to parlay Lita during play, you can completely ignore her. Kill the Ghoul Priest, burn the house down.

[Chimpy 194]

O really? I haven't read the other endings! Lol.

[mwmcintyre 271]

Getting Lita in the scenario has no bearing on whether you get Lita in your deck for the rest of the campaign. Just FYI.

[987654321 232]

Also, you only need ro evade the GP once. You don't need to evade it to move out of your location once it's exhausted.

[mwmcintyre 271]

Yep, unless there's another monster in the hallway with you, you can do it in one turn:

Action 1: Evade the GP - this exhausts him and he will not move on the enemy phase
Action 2: Move with no penalty since the GP is exhausted and not engaged with you
Action 3: Parley with Lita

This is the preferable way to accomplish it.

Alternatively you could move from the Hallway to the Parlour and drag the GP with you, suffering one Attack of Opportunity and then you could parley with Lita as Parley does not trigger Attacks of Opportunity. You would also end up taking an attack in the Enemy Phase if you did not Evade which for Roland means you would have to have started the sequence with zero Horror or you would need an ally to dump some Horror damage onto as two attacks from the GP equals 4 Horror.

But also remember getting her in the scenario through Parley does not relate to whether you add her to your deck for later scenarios. 

 

[Chimpy 194]

8 hours ago, mwmcintyre said:

you can do it in one turn:

Action 1: Evade the GP - this exhausts him and he will not move on the enemy phase
Action 2: Move with no penalty since the GP is exhausted and not engaged with you
Action 3: Parley with Lita

 

That's 3 actions and most characters including Roland have a budget of 2?

[mjfilla 29]

1 hour ago, Chimpy said:

That's 3 actions and most characters including Roland have a budget of 2?

Wait - what? Everyone gets three actions per round unless some other circumstance changes that.

2.2.1, page 24 of the rules:

During his or her turn, an investigator is permitted to take three
actions. An action can be used to do one of the following:

<omit action list>

The three actions an investigator performs during his
or her turn may be any of the above, in any order, and
may even be the same action three times in a row.

Edited February 27, 2017 by mjfilla

[Chimpy 194]

10 hours ago, mjfilla said:

Wait - what? Everyone gets three actions per round unless some other circumstance changes that.

2.2.1, page 24 of the rules:

During his or her turn, an investigator is permitted to take three
actions. An action can be used to do one of the following:

<omit action list>

The three actions an investigator performs during his
or her turn may be any of the above, in any order, and
may even be the same action three times in a row.

I think I may have misread the rules and been making my life difficult by thinking I had 2 actions per turn. If it's 3 then this is going to be so easy now.

[jeremyj621 12]

On 2/26/2017 at 5:44 AM, mwmcintyre said:

Getting Lita in the scenario has no bearing on whether you get Lita in your deck for the rest of the campaign. Just FYI.

But if you don't get Lita in the first scenario, you don't get her for the rest of the campaign. The setup instructions for the other two scenarios don't add her to anyone's deck, which (spoiler alert) can make the third scenario more difficult since no one has her to sacrifice in that scenario to make it easier.

[HansZiegler 14]

Yes, but getting Lita during scenario 1 has no bearing keeping her for the rest of the campaign. Even if you parlay with her, if you don't burn down your house, no one gets to put her in their deck.

[BD Flory 695]

1 hour ago, HansZiegler said:

Yes, but getting Lita during scenario 1 has no bearing keeping her for the rest of the campaign. Even if you parlay with her, if you don't burn down your house, no one gets to put her in their deck.

It's true that parleying with Lita during the scenario doesn't add her to your deck, but there are three ways to add her to a player's deck.

[jeremyj621 12]

2 hours ago, BD Flory said:

It's true that parleying with Lita during the scenario doesn't add her to your deck, but there are three ways to add her to a player's deck.

What are the three ways to add her? I assume one way would be to purchase her asset card with earned experience points. Another would be by making the appropriate choice at the end of the scenario (burning your house down), but what's the third way?

[SuperMarino 138]

2 hours ago, jeremyj621 said:

What are the three ways to add her? I assume one way would be to purchase her asset card with earned experience points. Another would be by making the appropriate choice at the end of the scenario (burning your house down), but what's the third way?

You can't purchase her.

 

You can have everyone resign, and get the "no resolution" ending which adds her.

You can burn the house down and get "Resolution 1" which adds her.

Finally, you can stay in the house and get killed for "Resolution 3", making Lita find a new team of investigators, and you choose one to have Lita in her deck.

Edited March 1, 2017 by SuperMarino

[Network57 561]

8 hours ago, SuperMarino said:

You can't purchase her.

 

Hmm, I can't remember the spoiler tag code for this site, so here... SPOILERS below

[ spoiler ] [/spoiler ]

Edited March 1, 2017 by Network57

[SuperMarino 138]

1 hour ago, Network57 said:

[ spoiler ] [/spoiler ]

Thanks.. I did "spoilers" instead of "spoiler", don't know why I didn't think of dropping the 's'!

[mwmcintyre 271]

Yes, I was referring to getting Lita during the scenario, not as part of the resolution, when I said it didn't matter. In fact, I believe the only way you DON'T get her added to someone's deck as part of the resolution is if you refuse to burn down your house.

[Mrsuitcase 12]

If you want to successfully get her for the scenario, you don't have to evade the Ghoul Priest.  Just move to her and take an opportunity attack.  (It's nice to have the dog as an ally to soak up and deal some damage, btw).  Note that a parlay with Lita does not trigger an attack by the ghoul priest.  Then for action #3, you attack Mr. Ghoul.

Just make sure you are prepared.  Don't spend the clues to break the barrier until you've cycled through and got the gear you need (e.g. .38 special), and make sure your horror is topped before you try this.  You have a few extra turns here, I find, and you can probably deal with most random happenings in the deck.

[mwmcintyre 271]

Remember that while normally you spend clues to advance during your turn and you can use all clues from anyone no matter where they are, for this specific advancement you wait until the end of the entire round and everyone who is contributing clues MUST be in the hallway.