Message:King: Important NPC; flip clarifying card and relate intervention to campaign theme. Reveal a Boon or Bane depending upon the alliance of King.
Queen: Reveal something about the Patron. This will result in a Boon or Bane depending upon the disclosure.
Jack: Either reveal a Bane or fight a battle. The battles should include a SpAT which will escalate across the adventure.
10: Advance the Phase, regardless of Boons and Banes. Players option to escalate and remove a SpAT or potential Bane.
9: Advance to Climax but only after all Boons and Banes have been revealed. Any fight here can erase one or more SpAT.
8: Fight and advance to Climax but only after all Banes have been revealed. The battles should include a SpAT which will escalate across the adventure.
7: Retrograde back to Phase B, if there are still adventure Boons and Banes. Otherwise, enter Climax.
6: Set-back, typically with combat. Add an SpAT which will escalate across the adventure. Retrograde back to Phase A, if there are still adventure Boons and Banes. Otherwise, advance to C.
5: Reveal Boon or Bane then resolve, often a fight; Advance to Phase C but only after all Boons and Banes have been revealed.
4: Reveal a Bane, typically a fight. If none remain, move to Phase C. The battles should include a SpAT which will escalate across the adventure.
3: Reveal Boon or Bane then resolve, often a fight; regardless, Advance to Phase B.
2: Reveal a Bane, typically a fight. If none remain, move to Phase B. The battles should include a SpAT which will escalate across the adventure.
Ace: Reveal Boon or Bane and advance to Phase C. Players option to escalate to remove a SpAT or potential Bane. But doing so will move squad only to Phase B.
Note: SpAT are accumulative. e.g., if the enemy is in your Matrix, he will not be so easily thwarted by and by.
Yours,
IronRed
10-Nov-2023