Joe Diamond - Solo The Night's Usurper

Spoiler Warning

Return to the Dunwich Legacy solo (Standard difficulty):
Disclaimer: semi-blind run - several decisions within the game as well as in deck-building is done with prior knowledge of the Campaign in mind.
Though this is my first run on Return and with Joe Diamond.

Upgrades:
Continuing the theme, dropped Logical Reasoning for Well Prepared and .32 Colt for Extra Ammunition

The Night's Usurper (2XP):

Summary:
Very, very difficult scenario.
Trying to join Xzharah was probably a terrible idea.
Hawk-Eye Folding Camera is starting to feel overpowered for solo

Game Begins: Put Ace of Swords in play

• Turn 1:
  Play Hawk-Eye Folding Camera
  Explore (Nile River) (1 horror)
  No Stone Unturned (Hunch) draw Well Prepared

• Turn 2:
  Encounter: Eclipse (2 vs 3) (0: fail; 2 horror)
  Preposterous Sketches (Hunch)
  Investigate (4 vs 2 shroud) (0: success) Hawk-Eye Folding Camera
  Play Well Prepared (WP)

• Turn 3:
  Encounter: Dark Sacrifice
  Play Pathfinder
  Explore (Faceless Sphinx)
  Investigate (5 vs 2 shroud) (-1: success) Hawk-Eye Folding Camera

• Turn 4:
  Encounter: Eclipse WP commit Eureka! (5 vs 3) (-2: success; draw Quick Thinking)
  Faceless Sphinx: -1 Strength of the Abyss; discard Dark Sacrifice
  Investigate (5 vs 1 shroud) ( & -1: success)
  Explore (The Black Wind add to Victory Display)

• Turn 5:
  Encounter: Terror Under the Pyramids commit Abbess Allegria Di Biase (5 vs 3) (: success; Move No Stone Unturned to Hunch Deck)
  Investigate (5 vs 2 shroud) (+1: success)
  Advance Act (shuffle Eldritch Gate into Exploration deck)
  Explore (Swarm of Locusts WP (3 vs 3) (: success; Move Preposterous Sketches to Hunch deck)
  Explore (Eldritch Gate)
  Working a Hunch (Hunch) Hawk-Eye Folding Camera
  Crack the Case (+4 resources)

• Turn 6:
  Encounter: Abyssal Revenant (spawn Expedition Camp)
  No Stone Unturned (Hunch) draw Ancient Ankh
  Play Ancient Ankh
  Play Detective's Colt 1911s
  Advance Act

• Turn 7: Advance Agenda (spawn Farid)
  Encounter: Terror Under the Pyramids (3 vs 3) (+1: success)
  Fight Farid commit Vicious Blow (6 vs 3) (-3: success - 2 damage)
  Detective's Colt 1911s on Farid (6 vs 3) (: success - kill Farid and add to Victory Display; Move Working a Hunch to Hunch deck)
  Investigate WP (7 vs 4 shroud) (: success) (move to The Great Abyss)
  Exhaust Pathfinder: move to Stairway to Sarkomand

• Turn 8:
  Encounter: Speaker for the Dark Pharaoh
  Play Hawk-Eye Folding Camera
  Attack of Opportunity: Speaker for the Dark Pharaoh (1 horror)
  Detective's Colt 1911s on Speaker for the Dark Pharaoh (6 vs 2) (-1: success - kill Speaker for the Dark Pharaoh; Move No Stone Unturned to Hunch deck)
  Evidence! (Hunch) Hawk-Eye Folding Camera
  Stairway to Sarkomand: Well Prepared (6 vs 3) (: success) and commit Steadfast (7 vs 3) (0: success) cut off all escape
  Enemy: Xzharah to The Great Abyss

• Turn 9:
  Encounter: Dark Sacrifice
  Exhaust Pathfinder: move to The Great Abyss
  Working a Hunch (Hunch) Hawk-Eye Folding Camera
  The Great Abyss: +2 Strength of the Abyss (1 damage & 1 horror)
  Shortcut to Mist-Filled Caverns
  Evade Xzharah commit Take the Initiative, Eureka! (6 vs 4) (0: success; draw Forewarned)
  Mist-Filled Caverns: commit Inquiring Mind WP (6 vs 4) (0: success) and (5 vs 2) ( & -3: success) affronted the ruler of this realm
  to The Great Abyss

• Turn 10:
  Encounter: Eclipse (4 vs 3) (-3: fail; 2 horror)
  Exhaust Pathfinder: move to Tunnels under Ngranek
  Tunnels under Ngranek: (6 vs 2) (-1: success) and WP (7 vs 4) (-3: success) executed the nightgaunts
  Play Well Prepared
  Investigate (6 vs 2 shroud) (-4: success)
  Enemy: Xzharah to The Great Abyss

• Turn 11: +1 Strength of the Abyss
  Encounter: Abyssal Revenant (spawn A Dream Betwixt)
  Exhaust Pathfinder: move to The Great Abyss
  Parley (Xzharah) WP (8 vs 6) (-1: success)

Scenario Ends ( R3 : 3VP )
you joined forces with Xzharah