Extracurricular Activities (Spoilers)

[j_gunder 17]

Played the Extracurricular Activities scenario of the Dunwich Legacy the other night, had a good time.  We actually tackled this second in the scenario order, having completed The House Always Wins first.  That was a great scenario as well, loved it.

During Extracurricular Activities, however, we ran into some problems at the end.  First, finding Jazz took forever.  When shuffled in, he was the LAST card in the encounter deck.  Things definitely started to heat up before we finally found him.  Once we found him, we ended up at the dormitories first, having explored everything else except the lab and the faculty offices.  We desperately wanted to rescue Dr. Francis Morgan, so we decided to risk searching the rest of the locations as the monster was smashing its way towards the dormitories.  We managed to get past it and backtrack to the labs--I thought for sure we'd find him there, but nope.  

Calculating doom against the distance from the beast to the dorms, we rushed into the faculty offices only to be stunned to find them empty.  I thought for sure I had screwed up in setting up the game.  We reread the passed acts and agendas, double-checked revealed locations, and I even went through the rest of the cards set aside from the scenario to make sure I didn't miss anything (we didn't want to read the resolutions yet).  I thought for sure something was wrong, as there was no real indication that it wasn't possible to find him.

In the end, we got back to the dormitories (after getting pummeled) just in time to get the remaining clues and bug out before getting slaughtered, but man was it close!  Even after we finished, I checked messageboards to see if I had just missed something.  Turns out there was no way to find him (considering the order in which we played the scenarios).  That's fine, I just wish it was made clearer during play!  We all thought I had messed up, and it was late enough in the evening that we just wanted to finish out the scenario.

Anyone else have a similar experience?

Really love this game, by the way.  Having played a TON of Lord of the Rings LCG, I really wish that it had a similar resolution mechanic to Arkham Horror LCG.  We replayed some of those scenarios (Into Ithilien was the WORST) so many times it would make us put the game aside for weeks after finally winning.

[Jobu 720]

It is wild that you got Jazz last, investigated both the faculty offices and the labs and still managed to pull off a win via clue gathering.

Great job there.

[j_gunder 17]

Thanks!  There were three of us playing, Jenny Barnes, Daisy and Skids.  It was a close thing, and it wasn't without consequence.  Jenny Barnes had to abandon the search for her sister, as the weakness spawned in the lab right after we explored it and left for the faculty offices.  We had already gathered a few clues from the dormitory while debating the decision to race past the beast and backtrack, so we only had a couple to clear off after our search turned out to be a bust.  I don't think we failed a single test the last two turns.

One more doom, and the university students would have been done for.  It was tense.

Edited January 26, 2018 by j_gunder