Lost Ruins of Arnak: Expedition Leaders
Lost Ruins of Arnak: Expedition Leaders Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
- Using This Expansion
- Expedition Leaders
- Player Setup
- Blue Idol Slot Effects
- The Captain
- The Falconer
- The Baroness
- The Professor
- The Explorer
- The Mystic
- New Research Tracks
- Monkey Temple
- Lizard Temple
- Notes on Specific Cards
- Red Moon Staff Variant
- Solo Game
- Design Notes
- New Icons Used in This Expansion
- General Notes
- Don't Forget!
Using This Expansion
Welcome back to Arnak! In this expansion, you will find several different ways to increase the variety of tactics and discoveries in your Lost Ruins of Arnak game.
Add These to Your Base Game
The components shown here should be added to your base game immediately. In addition to expanding your base game, they are needed to support the other parts of this expansion. Simply mix them in with the existing components.
The components shown are 18 items, 5 level I sites, 3 level II sites, 12 artifacts, 3 assistants, 4 idols, and 5 guardians.
Replacements
When playing with expedition leaders, replace the Stone Key artifact and the miner assistant with these new versions. The original versions can still be used with the base game, if you wish.
New Research Tracks
The new research board has two new research tracks. They can be used with or without the expedition leaders.
Moon Staff
The red moon staff variant is explained on page 22.
Setup Notes
For the most part, setup is the same as usual.
- You will now have 4 leftover idols. You will need them if you are playing with the Lizard Temple. Otherwise, return them to the box.
- You will now have 5 assistants per stack on the supply board – except for the Snake Temple, which should have two stacks of 4 and one stack of 3, 4, or 5.
Expedition Leaders
Expedition leaders give each player their own unique abilities. They can be used with or without the new research tracks. (But see the Design Notes on page 22.)
When playing with this part of the expansion, each player takes the role of an expedition leader with unique strategies and abilities for exploring Arnak.
Players can choose leaders according to any method you wish. If you want to assign leaders randomly, mix the random-role tokens face down and have each player draw one.
Some leaders are easy to play well. Others require a bit of experience before you discover how to use their full power. The list below is ordered with the simpler leaders on top and more challenging leaders at the bottom. For players new to Arnak, we recommend a leader from the top of the list.
- Captain – A military man whose courage inspires his big team. He has 3 archaeologists.
- Falconer – A woman who knows the ways of the animal kingdom. She has an eagle she can send to retrieve useful trinkets.
- Baroness – A lover of the arts, but also a shrewd investor. She has many ways to get the items she will need for this expedition.
- Professor – A researcher who studies the language and culture of lost civilizations. Academic contacts give him access to a wider range of artifacts.
- Explorer – A loner who prefers to explore the island by herself. She is only one archaeologist, but she can visit multiple sites.
- Mystic – The most mysterious leader of them all. He has many ways to gain and exile fear, which he can use to power arcane rituals.
The components for the leaders are shown on page 3: Captain, 1 archaeologist; Falconer, 1 eagle tile; Professor, 1 suitcase tile; Explorer, 3 snack tokens; plus 6 random-role tokens and 4 tent tiles. All components from this expansion are marked with the expansion symbol.
Player Setup
Each leader has their own board and cards that replace the player board and basic cards from the base game. Take the board and the starting cards that belong to your leader. You will also need 2 Fear cards, as usual.
Use the archaeologist figures and research tokens from the base game.
Your player board can be used with any of the four player colors from the base game. Choose a color and use the tent token in that color to mark your board. You can place your archaeologists on their tents, just as you did in the base game. These tokens can also be used to mark who has already passed this round – simply flip them over to the night side when you pass.
Certain expedition leaders have special setup rules which may include one or more of these additional components from this expansion: a suitcase tile, snack tokens, an eagle tile, and a gray archaeologist figure.
Once your boards are set up, play order and starting resources are determined normally. Each expedition leader is explained in detail in its own section of the rulebook.
Blue Idol Slot Effects
Expedition leaders have unique idol slot effects in addition to the five that were also available in the base game.
Your unique idol slot effect can be used only when you place the idol in a blue slot.
When playing with the expedition leaders, you are not required to use idol slots in order. So you can use a blue slot even before the normal slots are filled.
The five usual idol slot effects can be used with any of your idol slots, even the blue ones.
The Captain
They say I know how to get the most out of my team, but there's no secret to it. Once you get a reputation for treating people right, all the best people want to come work for you.
Setup
You have 3 archaeologists. Take the gray archaeologist and use it just like any other archaeologist in your color.
Starting Cards
The Captain's starting cards are Funding, Piloting, Transmission, and Hidden Fear. The effects of Funding and Piloting are shown on the card faces as icons only, and the rulebook does not print separate text for them. As on all starting cards, the Lightning icon marks a free action.
Transmission
This card's effect is one of the 3 free actions shown in the table:
- If you have no placed archaeologists, the card cannot be played for its effect.
- If you have 1 placed archaeologist, your only option is the Coin.
- If you have 2 placed archaeologists, you choose either the Coin or the Compass.
- If all 3 of your archaeologists are placed, any one of the three options is available to you.
Call on a Specialist
As your turn's main action, you may move one of your available archaeologists here to use the silver effect of one of the assistants available on the supply board.
This action can be used only once per round. The archaeologist remains on the space for the remainder of the round. It does not count as a placed archaeologist (not even for Transmission) and it cannot be moved by any action or effect. At the end of the round, it rejoins the other archaeologists as usual.
Hidden Fear
Like a Fear card, Hidden Fear cannot be played for an effect. However, it does have a special property: If you somehow manage to exile it, you will gain a Fear card (to your play area) and a Compass.
The Falconer
Come to me, come to me, come to me dear Farwing! Oh what have you brought me this time?
Setup
Take the eagle token and place it on the eagle's starting space. (It will, however, move to the next space at the beginning of the first round.)
Starting Cards
The Falconer's starting cards are Funding, Falconry, Animal Bond, and Tracking. Falconry and Animal Bond have effects that advance the eagle (see Your Eagle below).
Animal Bond
Animal Bond has one of the three effects depicted in the table. Your choices are determined by the number of guardians you have overcome:
- If you have 0 guardians, you must choose the Coin.
- If you have 1 or 2 guardians, you may choose either the Coin or the Card X (exile) symbol.
- If you have 3 or more guardians, you may choose any one of the three effects.
Tracking
And if you discover a new site this turn, you may draw 2 guardians and choose 1. When you draw 2, the guardian you did not choose goes to the bottom of the stack.
Your Eagle
Flight
Your eagle starts on the starting space of your eagle track. The eagle symbol means you should advance your eagle along the track. This can be done in several ways:
- It advances 1 space automatically at the beginning of each round, including round I.
- Two of your starting cards have an effect to advance the eagle (Falconry and Animal Bond).
- Your unique idol effect advances the eagle (the blue idol slot, with a Compass and an eagle).
- You may use a guardian's boon to advance the eagle instead of the effect printed on the guardian tile.
If the eagle is already on the final space of the track, advancing the eagle has no effect.
Return
On your turn, you may use the effect of the eagle's current space or any previous space. Return the eagle to the starting space and then perform your chosen effect.
The first two effects are free actions, and thus it may be possible to advance the eagle again and use it multiple times on the same turn.
The two effects marked with a checkmark over a level I site icon and a level II site icon can be performed only as the main action of your turn. They allow you to activate any discovered site (occupied or not) of the depicted level.
Note that the eagle does not return at the end of every round – it remains in flight until you use one of its effects.
When you return the eagle from this space, you can choose any one of the first three effects.
The Baroness
I'm not here on vacation. I'm here for Arnak's secrets. And I get what I want.
Setup
Place coins as shown on the II, III, IV, and V spaces above the card row.
Start the game with Special Delivery in your hand. Shuffle your deck and draw 4 more cards for your starting hand of 5.
Starting Cards
The Baroness's starting cards are Connections, Research Notes, Resourcefulness, and Special Delivery.
Income
The Baroness has regular income from her investments. At the beginning of rounds II, III, IV, and V, when you draw back to a full hand, you also gain the Coin you placed above the card row during setup.
Connections
Connections has a free action (Lightning) that gains a Coin, and: "And you may exile the far left [brown wedge icon] from the card row and refill it."
Research Notes
Research Notes has two options separated by "OR": the first is a free action (Lightning) that gains a Compass; the second is two Coins paid to gain a Jewel.
Resourcefulness
Resourcefulness has one of the three effects depicted in the table. Your options depend on how many item cards are currently in your play area:
- If you have 0, you gain the Coin.
- If you have 1 or 2, you choose the Coin or the Compass.
- If you have 3 or more, you choose any one of the three options (the Coin, the Compass, and the third option shown in the table as a crate icon).
Special Delivery
Special Delivery has a free action (Lightning): play this effect when you buy an item to put it directly into your hand.
SPECIAL: This card returns to your hand at the beginning of each round.
This card has a different back to remind you that it will never be in your deck. When you shuffle your play area at the end of the round, this card goes in your hand – even if it was in exile! It will always be one of your 5 cards at the beginning of the round.
On your turn, you can play Special Delivery when you buy (or gain) an item. Instead of going to the bottom of your deck (or wherever the effect says the item should go) the item goes to your hand.
Tip: Don't overlook the fact that two of your starting cards have a Plane travel value.
The Professor
This glyph from the staff was interpreted as a prepositional "crossing between." We have also found it on the hat, which would seem to undermine that interpretation, but what if ...
Setup
Keep the suitcase token near your player board. During play, you will use it to hold tablet and compass tokens that can be used only for artifacts.
Draw the top 3 artifacts from the deck and place them face up near your player board. This is your archive.
Place tokens, as shown, on the II, III, IV, and V spaces above the card row.
Starting Cards
The Professor's starting cards are Funding, Preservation, Arnakology, and Linguistics.
Arnakology: A free action (Lightning) that gains a Compass. And you may swap one artifact in your archive with one from the card row.
Preservation: Two options separated by "OR": a free action (Lightning) that gains a Compass; or a free action (Lightning) with a combined icon showing a brown item-type icon, a blue artifact card, and a red Jewel (the second option is printed as icons only).
Linguistics
Linguistics has one of the three effects depicted in the table. Your options depend on how many artifact cards are currently in your play area:
- If you have 0, you gain the Coin.
- If you have 1, you choose the Coin or the Compass token placed in your suitcase.
- If you have 2 or more, you choose any one of the three options.
Any artifact card in your play area counts, including one you bought this round or one that was spent from your hand for its travel value. (Artifacts in your archive, however, are not in your play area.)
The Suitcase
The suitcase effects indicate that the depicted token should be placed into your suitcase to differentiate it from tokens which can be used freely.
- The Compass tokens in your suitcase can be used only to buy artifacts.
- The tablet tokens in your suitcase can be used only to pay an artifact's play-from-hand cost. (And they cannot be used in a [suitcase-effect icon] effect.)
Bonus Resources
At the beginning of rounds II, III, IV, and V, when you draw back to a full hand, you take that round's Compass or tablet token from the board and add it to your suitcase. These tokens can only be used for artifacts, as described above.
Archive
When you take the Buy an Artifact action (either as your main action or as part of an effect) you may buy from either the card row, as usual, or from your archive.
The first time your archive is empty, gain a Compass to your suitcase and refill your archive with 3 new artifacts from the top of the deck. This is the only way your archive can ever be refilled; it can happen only once per game.
The three artifacts shown with the Professor on page 12 of the rulebook are reproduced here. Each one's points are shown in its lower right corner, and its buy cost is shown at the bottom left.
Pathfinder's Staff – Buy cost: 4 Compass. Worth 1 point. Effect: Relocate a placed archaeologist to a [tent] site or a [level I] site and activate it.
Pathfinder's Hat – Buy cost: 2 Compass. Worth 1 point. Effect: Relocate a placed archaeologist from a [tent] site to a different [tent] site and activate it.
Divine Riders – Buy cost: 2 Compass. Worth 1 point. Effect: You may treat any guardian's boon as [Lightning] and [figure icon] this round.
The Explorer
Alone? I don't see myself as exploring Arnak alone. I am simply ... in front. Very, very far in front.
Setup
Use only one archaeologist figure. Leave the other in the box.
Take the 3 snack tokens. Place 2 on your board. Place the one with the Compass on space III of the card row.
Starting Cards
The Explorer's starting cards are Funding, Hike, Cartography, and Scouting.
Hike and Cartography
Two card effects are paid for with a snack token. For example, if you play Hike and choose to activate a tent site, you need to place an available snack token on the card (paying the token's cost, if any). This means that token cannot be used to reuse your archaeologist this round. The token remains in your play area even if the card is exiled. It returns to your board only at the end of the round.
Hike has two options separated by "OR": a free action (Lightning) that gains a Compass; or a snack token paid to activate a tent site (shown with a checkmark).
Cartography has two options separated by "OR": a free action (Lightning) that gains a Coin; or a snack token paid to gain the icons shown on the card (a brown tile and a blue "?" token).
Scouting
Scouting card text: Lightning, Compass: And if you discover a new site this turn, you may draw 2 sites and choose 1.
When you draw 2, the site tile you did not choose goes to the bottom of the stack.
Reusing Your Archaeologist
You have only one archaeologist, but it can be used multiple times per round. If it's on your player board, you can send it to a site according to the usual rules. If your archaeologist is at a site, you can still Dig or Discover with it if you have at least one unused snack token.
When you reuse your archaeologist, take a snack token from your board, flip it over, and place it on the site you are leaving. Pay the cost shown on the token, if it has one:
- The first snack token has no cost.
- The second snack token costs a Coin.
- The third snack token costs a Compass.
Your archaeologist moves to its new site according to the usual rules, with the usual travel costs.
You can never move your archaeologist to a site marked by a snack token. This applies even to sites with spaces for two archaeologists and to "relocate" effects. Other players ignore your snack tokens – they don't "occupy" sites or spaces.
Tip: If you use a snack token to leave a site with a guardian, you don't gain Fear.
You start with only the first 2 snack tokens. The third one is available only in later rounds, beginning in round III.
You may use your tokens in any order. Once they have all been used, your archaeologist cannot be reused again this round. Your snack tokens return to your player board at the end of the round.
Note: You can use a snack token for any Dig or Discover action, whether it's your main action or part of some other effect. You don't use a snack token for effects that "return" or "relocate" a placed archaeologist.
The Mystic
Yes, of course my methods are unscientific. The culture of Arnak was a culture of religion, magic, and mysticism. When seeking to comprehend the mysteries of a vanished people, does it not make sense to approach them on their own terms?
Whispers From Beyond
After you draw up to a full hand (including at the beginning of the game) add a Fear card from the Fear deck to your hand. (So you start each round with 6 cards.) If the Fear deck is empty, ignore this ability.
Idol Slots
You have five idol slots instead of four. If you use a slot marked by a Fear card, you gain a Fear card to your play area. If you choose an idol effect granting Card X, such a Fear card may be immediately exiled. Don't forget that you are not required to use slots in order.
The Mystic's two unique blue idol slot effects are shown on the board: one gives Card X together with a blue crystal icon; the other shows a crossed-out Lightning, Card X, and the ritual symbol.
Starting Cards
Each of the Mystic's 4 starting cards has an "Exile this card to [ritual]" effect. This is not a free action. Note that the ritual symbol applies only when you are playing the card for that effect, not when you exile it by some other means. You cannot use the ritual effect if your ritual pile does not have enough Fear cards to pay for a ritual.
The starting cards are Divine Guidance, Meditation, Worldly Goods, and Blindsight.
- Divine Guidance: a free action (Lightning) that gains a Compass; OR a free action (Lightning) that exiles a card (Card X); OR exile this card to perform a ritual.
- Meditation: a free action (Lightning) that gains a Coin; OR a free action (Lightning) that exiles a card (Card X); OR exile this card to perform a ritual.
- Worldly Goods: a free action (Lightning) that gains a Coin; OR a free action (Lightning) that draws a card (Card +); OR exile this card to perform a ritual.
- Blindsight: a free action (Lightning) that gains a Compass. And if you discover a new site this turn, you may exile a card (Card X) instead of the blue "?" effect. OR exile this card to perform a ritual.
Using Your Fear
Because you have Card X effects in your starting cards, you will have more opportunities to exile Fear than usual. Whenever you exile a Fear card (by any means) you place it in a special ritual pile that you keep on your board. These cards will not give you negative points at the end of the game, and they can be used for rituals.
Note: If the Fear deck runs out of cards, players get fear tiles instead of Fear cards. If you exile a fear tile, it counts as a Fear card for the purpose of rituals – place it on your ritual pile.
Rituals
Each of your unique starting cards can be exiled to perform a ritual. Your unique idol effect also includes the option to perform a ritual. Unlike all other idol effects, performing the ritual counts as your main action for the turn.
Choose one of the rituals depicted below the ritual pile. To pay its cost, remove 2, 3, or 4 Fear cards from the ritual pile and return them to the Fear deck.
- Return 2 Fear to gain a Coin and a Compass.
- Return 3 Fear to buy an artifact with a discount of 3 Compass.
- Return 4 Fear to overcome a guardian on a site you occupy without paying the cost.
New Research Tracks
To play with one of the new research tracks, simply overlay it on the research track on either side of the original board. We recommend using the Snake Temple side because its sites have more interesting travel costs.
When researching the Monkey Temple or the Lizard Temple, you can find interesting items of Arnak lore even before you reach the end of the path – it is possible to research for a temple tile instead of advancing along the track if your magnifying glass is close enough to the temple.
If your magnifying glass is one row below the temple, you can use a Research action to buy a silver 6-point or bronze 2-point tile instead of advancing along the track. The tile's cost is the same as it would be in the temple row.
If you are two rows below the temple, you can buy a tile, as described above, but only bronze 2-point tiles are available.
Note that the gold 11-point tiles are available only from the temple row.
Some advances on the research track have travel costs in addition to token costs. Pay these travel costs in the usual way.
Monkey Temple
Lying beside the path we found a mysterious artifact, recently unearthed. Tiny muddy handprints told the story – the monkeys think they are archaeologists, too!
Bonus Tiles
- All research bonus tiles are secret, placed in face-down stacks like the one usually found only in the temple row. A player reaching the space looks through the tiles, chooses one, and returns the rest face down. Each stack has one tile per player, but it is possible to get a second tile from the same stack if any are left when your notebook reaches that space.
The Artifact
- This space needs a random face-up artifact card that costs exactly 3 Compass. Shuffle the artifact deck and draw cards until you find one with this cost. Place it face up on the space, then shuffle any other cards you drew back into the deck.
- At the artifact's row, your magnifying glass must move up through the space on the left, with the artifact, and your notebook must move through the spaces on the right. It can move to these spaces even while your magnifying glass is still at the artifact.
- When your magnifying glass reaches the artifact space, you may activate the artifact (without paying its Tablet cost).
- Treat the artifact as though it were printed on the board. No player can buy it, move it, or replace it.
Other Monkey Business
- As your magnifying glass reward for this row, you may use the silver side of one assistant available on the supply board. If you do, move the assistant to the bottom of its stack (unless it's the only assistant left in that stack).
- For this reward, either take a new silver assistant or upgrade one of your silver assistants to gold and refresh it. You are limited to 2 assistants, so if you already have 2, you must choose the upgrade option.
- This notebook reward allows you to activate any discovered level I site (occupied or not).
- This notebook reward allows you to refresh two assistants. You cannot use it to refresh one assistant twice.
Lizard Temple
Having struggled halfway up the mountain, we found our way blocked by a fearsome guardian! Just when we thought we had found a way past, the ground began to shake.
Setup
- After setting out idols, shuffle the 4 remaining idols into a face-down stack and place it beside the Lizard Temple's idol row.
- After shuffling the guardian tiles, place one unknown guardian face down on this space.
The Guardian
The guardian is revealed as soon as any player's magnifying glass reaches that row. No player's token may advance beyond the guardian until someone has overcome it.
The guardian can be overcome as though players' research tokens were archaeologist figures at the guardian's site. For example, as your main action, you can pay the cost to overcome the guardian if your magnifying glass has reached that row. But the alternative ways to overcome a guardian also apply: Revolver or War Club will work as long as you have a research token there. Bear Trap will work as long as no other player has reached that row yet (but it won't work before the guardian has been revealed). However, effects that move a guardian cannot be used to move a guardian to or from the research track.
At the end of the round, if the guardian has not been overcome, you receive 1 Fear for each research token you have on the guardian's space.
Volcanic Eruption!
For this notebook reward, activate any unoccupied level I site. Then the volcano erupts and destroys it! Return the site tile – and any guardian on it – to the box. Turn up the top tile of the leftover idols stack and place it face up where the site was. It is now possible to Discover a New Site again at that location.
Note that if there are no unoccupied level I sites, this has no effect.
Other Adventures
When your magnifying glass reaches this row, you immediately gain 2 Fear cards to your play area.
For this magnifying glass reward, you choose either a Coin or a Compass.
This row's cost is shown as two Tablets and an idol. You pay the idol cost with one of your idols that is not in a slot. Put the idol in the box.
Notes on Specific Cards
Hand Lens
For example, if your magnifying glass has advanced 5 rows, you get to choose any two of the three options (but you can't choose the same one twice). If you choose to draw a card, you are allowed to look at it before making your second choice. On the Monkey Temple, the artifact space counts as only 1 row.
Hand Lens card text: Choose 1, 2, or all 3 of these: [Card +], [Coin], [Tablet], depending on whether your magnifying glass has advanced 2, 4, or 7 rows.
First Aid Kit
First Aid Kit card text: Look at the top 4 cards of your deck. Either exile up to 2, or keep 1. Return the rest in any order.
"Look at" means the same thing as "draw up to" in the original game. We have changed the wording to make it more clear that this is not like Card +. You cannot play free actions (especially not Card + or Card X) until you have finished dealing with the cards you are looking at.
Camera
Camera card text: Activate any level I site in a row where you have a placed archaeologist.
The level I sites are in 2 rows of 4. If you already have an archaeologist on a level I site, the Camera gives you access to a discovered site on any of the 4 spaces in that horizontal row. You can even choose the site with your archaeologist.
Landing Net
Landing Net card text: Lightning, 2 Coins: For the rest of this round, whenever you buy an item you may put it on top of your deck.
Landing Net applies to all items you buy (or gain) for the remainder of the round. The effect continues to apply even if Landing Net is exiled. (And the effect does not apply if Landing Net was not played for its effect.)
Army Belt
Army Belt card text: Choose two different options: [card with a coin], [Card +], [item with a coin].
You are allowed to choose and resolve the options in any order. For example, if you choose to draw a card, you can look at it before deciding on your second choice.
Rod of Division
Rod of Division card text: [Card +], [Card +]. You may [Card down] one of the drawn cards to [Card X] and [Coin].
If you pay the [Card down] cost, the card you discard can then be exiled with the Card X effect.
Red Moon Staff Variant
To see more items and artifacts during the course of the game, your group can agree to play with the red moon staff variant. At the end of the round, the red moon staff exiles the 2 items and 2 artifacts closest to it before moving to mark the new round.
At the end of round I: the staff's movement and the exiled cards are shown on page 22 of the rulebook.
At the end of round II, exile 4 cards: the staff's movement and the exiled cards are shown on page 22 of the rulebook.
Solo Game
New Idols
Your rival's first idol is worth 3 points, just as all the other idols are, even though it is not illustrated on your rival's board.
Lizard Temple
When the rival expedition's magnifying glass is on the space with the temple guardian, the following rules apply:
- They do not reveal the guardian. (They know what it is, but they don't tell you.) The guardian is revealed only when you reach that space yourself.
- If they take the Overcome a Guardian action, they ignore all guardians on sites and defeat the temple guardian (whether you have revealed it or not).
- If they take the Research action, they simply advance as though the guardian were not there.
Design Notes
One of the joys of playing with the new leaders is exploring their new powers. Of course, we also gave them some interesting limitations, but even so, you will find that you can do more during the game if your expedition has a leader. For this reason, we designed the new research tracks to be a bit more arduous.
This means that if your leaders are researching their way toward the Bird Temple or the Snake Temple, you will find the game somewhat easier than normal. You'll have a better chance of moving high up the research track. And conversely, if you use the Monkey Temple or Lizard Temple without the new leaders, the top row will be harder to reach.
Most of our testing was done with the new temples, but we hope you'll explore them all!
New Icons Used in This Expansion
- You may choose any guardian you have overcome whose boon has already been used. Flip it face up to make its boon usable again.
- Choose one of the unused guardians you have overcome and flip it face down without gaining its boon.
- Activate any tent site.
- Activate any discovered level I site.
- Activate any discovered level II site.
- Use the effect of any face-up idol on the board.
- Use the effect on the silver side of one assistant available on the supply board.
- Use the effect on the gold side of one assistant available on the supply board.
- Use the effect on the silver side of one assistant available on the supply board. Then place it on the bottom of its stack.
- Choose one: Gain either a Coin or a Compass.
- This idol effect is not a free action.
- Activate any unoccupied level I site. Remove it from the game. Turn up the top tile of the leftover idols stack and place it where the site was. It is now possible to Discover a New Site there.
- Either take a new silver assistant or upgrade one of your silver assistants to gold. (You cannot take more than two assistants.)
- Refresh two assistants. You cannot refresh the same assistant twice.
General Notes
Free actions are generally legal between the parts of an effect.
- If the card you draw has a free action, you can play it before exiling it. (Icons: Card + and Card X.)
- Free actions are legal after you draw, but you must not leave yourself unable to pay the cost. (Icons: Card + and Card down.)
Don't Forget!
- If you ever run out of Fear cards, you gain fear tiles instead.
- If an effect generates a travel value that you cannot use immediately, you may still use it at any time before the end of your turn.
- If the item or artifact decks ever run out of cards, they remain empty. The cards are not reshuffled.
- If you play a card effect that lasts the entire round, it will last the entire round even if the card is on the Monkey Temple's research track or in exile.