• This will be a four player cooperative game, using the new Life and Death rules below. In this scenario the Mage Knights must face both the Elementalist forces of the southeast and the Dark Crusade forces to the northwest.
  
• As such, PVP is off. You may move into each other's keeps, but being in or adjacent to a conquered keep will only give you a hand size boost based on how many you yourself have taken over.
  
• Traditional houserules apply: If your first hand each Round has no Move, you may mulligan it until it does.
  
• When deciding your actions, please do as many actions as possible at once in bold. Obviously stop if you need a tile revealed, or an enemy piece - otherwise, try to bundle as much into a single post as possible. I'm only going to be double-checking your moves, rather than providing blow-by-blow feedback.
  
• Off-turn posting and COs are allowed. This is obvious, because sometimes you'll have to pick level-up choices or artifacts and plan your cooperative tactics.
  
• Audience posting is allowed, as ever.

• I'm looking for four players. Please indicate your first two choices of Mage Knight, in order, or else I will assume you want a rando.
  
• I reserve the right to take a slot myself because I've run four of these loving things, give me a break already. Practically-speaking, this will depend on how many signups I get.
  
• Shades of Tezla knowledge is not required - I will explain any expansion items as they come up - but this is apparently quite a hard scenario and I'd prefer people who have played before.
  
• Recruitment will be open for 24 hoursish, whereupon selection will be by random draw.
  
• I would like players who can check in at least once per day or who are prepared to do COs to cover themselves. The last thread took five months so I think I'm allowed to be a bit antsy.

• Arythea - focuses on spells and red/black mana.
  
• Goldyx - focuses on crystal generation.
  
• Norowas - focuses on troop use.
  
• Tovak - focuses on blocking and not using mana.
  
• Wolfhawk - focuses on ranged and movement.
  
• Krang - focuses on refreshable skills.
  
• Braevelar - focuses on versatility??

• Length: Six rounds.
  
• Map: Fully Open
  
• Tiles: 11 countryside, 4 core, 3 city.
  
• Dark Crusader and Elementalist are set to Level 12.
  
• A single Dummy player is used, except it picks a random Tactic before the players do.
  
• Green, brown and red tokens are replaced with faction-specific versions.
  
• When placing rampaging enemies, pick from the Dark Crusader pile for northern map tiles and Elementalist tiles for southern map tiles. If the map tile is placed in the middle of the available space, place a random one. (For our map consisting of five diagonals, this means the two NW-most diagonals will be Dark Crusader, and the two SE ones will be Elementalist. The middle diagonal will be random.)
  
• Whenever a Magical Glade is placed, a brown and green token of the appropriate type are placed on it face up. If the tile is a Dark Crusader tile, then the Magical Glade is changed into a Graveyard.
  
• Whenever the Green City is placed, it is replaced with the Hidden Valley. Whenever the Red City is placed, it is replaced with the Necropolis. The Green City cannot be placed as a northern map tile and the Red City cannot be placed as a southern map tile. If this would occur, draw and place the next core tile and shuffle the tile back in. If it is the last core tile you may only explore in a location that would be valid.
  
• Whenever the other city is placed, it is friendly. Each player receives one shield token on it, but no-one is leader.

• Magical Glades and Graveyards can be liberated by entering them from their space as your action for that turn. Fight both enemies. If you do not defeat both, they can be attacked again in a later turn. If you defeat the last enemy, gain +1 Reputation and then either a Spell (if it was a Graveyard) or an Artifact (if it was a Glade). Mark it with your shield token.
  
• You must move into the Hidden Valley or Necropolis spaces to assault the leaders; they are not safe spaces. They both have a movement of 2.
  
• Magical Glades act as normal, though they do not provide their usual benefit until they have been liberated.
  
• Within a Graveyard or Necropolis, night rules apply. If you start your turn on a Graveyard at night, gain a black mana token.
  
• Whenever a faction enemy is defeated, you'll pick up a faction token. These may be used as appropriate, or exchanged during interaction for 1 Fame or 3 Influence each.

• A faction leader's Armor and Attack values depend on their level, as shown on the faction leader token. Both leaders are Arcane Immune.
  
• Faction leaders come with a number of enemy tokens according to the scenario rules. Faction leaders count as enemy tokens for the purposes of cards such as Flame Wave.
  
• Faction leaders are attacked and blocked in a similar way to other enemies. As they are successfully attacked they are reduced in level. Once reduced below level 1 they are defeated.
  
• To reduce the faction leader by one level you must make a successful attack by playing a total Attack value equal to or greater than their Armor value. You may reduce a leader by more than one level by playing an Attack value equal to or greater than a multiple of their Armor value, though any reductions will only occur at the end of combat.
  
• Faction leaders may be rolled up into other enemies Armor totals: resistances and fortifications are handled in the normal ways.
  
• Faction leaders have attacks that must be blocked normally. These attacks will weaken as their level drops. The enemy tokens with them do not change.
  
• During cooperative attacks the enemy tokens are allocated as per cities. Players may choose not to attack the faction leader, but will all suffer the faction leader's attacks. Their level only decreases after all players have attacked.
  
• If the faction leaders are defeated, any enemy troops will flee, providing no Fame.
  
• If both faction leaders are defeated, the players win.

• Vial of Toxin - One source of normal Attack gains +3 (+2 if Ranged, +1 if Siege). This bonus is lost if it becomes an elemental Attack.
  
• Vampiric Chalice - After combat this turn, you may discard a Wound for each enemy you defeat (up to 4).
  
• Ghostly Elixir - One source of Attack from a single card, regardless of type, becomes Ranged.
  
• Staff of Concealment - Move 2. Your movement does not provoke rampaging enemies this turn.
  
• Amulet of Reawakening - A card at random from your discard pile is placed on the bottom of your Deed deck. At the end of your turn, draw +1 card.
  
• Orb of Twilight - Change one die in the source from a gold to a black, or vice versa.

• Healing Herb - Heal 1, or throw away a Wound in your discard pile.
  
• Ice Shard - One source of Attack or Block from a single card becomes Ice.
  
• Fire Gem - One source of Attack or Block from a single card becomes Fire.
  
• Mystical Map - During your movement, reveal a new tile at a distance of up to 3 spaces for 0 Move.
  
• Cloak of Shielding - Once, when your Hero is about to be wounded, you may ignore one Wound and any additional effects (Poison, Paralyze, Vampiric).
  
• Tome of Relearning - On your turn, when not in combat, swap one of your skills for another in the common offer.

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