Stella delivers mail everywhere - Stop #13 Dinner party

Opening Hand: Neither Rain nor Snow, Take Heart, Granny Orne, Rabbit's Foot, Drawing Thin
Kept: All
Replacements: None
Starting Location: Foyer

Orne will help a lot in this scenario, time to see if Quick Learner was a mistake or not!

R1 (2D, 4H, 5$, 0C): 0/3 doom

-Encounter: None
- Play Rabbit's Foot [-1$]
- Play Drawing Thin
- Investigate, exhaust Drawing Thin [draw The Man in the Pallid Mask [spawns at Gallery] (Well hello there)], commit Take Heart, 2 vs. 3 (, is -2): fail [draw Lucky!, Old Keyring, +2$]
- Exhaust Rabbit's Foot: draw Thermos
- Stella Clark: Take an additional action this turn
- Play Granny Orne [-4$]
-Draw Drawing the Sign [threatens], discard Old Keyring, Thermos [+1$]

2 weaknesses on the first round and I really hate drawing the sign for Stella who likes to hold lots of cards!

R2 (2D, 4H, 3$, 0C): 1/3 doom

-Encounter: Corrosion [discard Rabbit's Foot] (Grumble…)
- Discard Drawing the Sign
- Move to Living Room
-Draw Jessica Hyde [+1$]

R3 (2D, 4H, 2$, 0C): 2/3 doom

-Encounter: Fine Dining [1H Granny Orne, 1D]
- Parley Constance Dumaine 3 vs. 4 ( is -2), play Lucky! [draw Peter Sylvestre]: pass [+1C]
- Living Room [draw Live and Learn]
- Parley Constance Dumaine 3 vs. 3 (-1), exhaust Granny Orne: pass [+1C, “interviewed Constance Dumaine”]
- Move to Gallery
-Test Gallery 4 vs. 2 ( is +1): pass
-Draw Grisly Totem [+1$]

R4 (3D, 4H, 3$, 2C): 3/3 doom

-Agenda advances: encounters reshuffle, Dianne Devine spawns at Living Room
-Encounter: Ooze and Filth [threatens]
- Parley Ashleigh Clarke [+1C]
- Use The Man in the Pallid Mask: Investigate 4 vs. 2 (0): pass [defeated]
-Test Gallery 4 vs. 2 ( is +1): pass
-Draw Atychiphobia [threatens] [+1$]
-Ooze and Filth discarded

R5 (2D, 4H, 4$, 3C): 1/3 doom

-Encounter: Ancient Evils [+1 doom]
- Parley Ashleigh Clarke [+1C, “interviewed Ashleigh Clarke”]
- Move to Courtyard, discard Dance of the Yellow King
-Draw "Look what I found!" [+1$]

R6 (3D, 4H, 5$, 4C): 3/3 doom

-Doom removed, Ishimaru Haruko removed, Ishimaru Haruko spawns at Ballroom +2C on Ballroom (Boo, couldn’t give me either of the two I already interviewed)
-Encounter: Fine Dining [1H Granny Orne, 1D]
- Move to Dining Room
- Parley Sebastien Moreau 4 vs. 3 (-1): pass [+1C]
- Parley Sebastien Moreau 4 vs. 2 (-1): pass [+1C, “interviewed Sebastian Moreau”]
-Ishimaru Haruko moves to Dining Room, engages, attacks [1D, 1H]
-Draw Neither Rain nor Snow [+1$]

R7 (5D, 5H, 6$, 6C): 1/3 doom

-Encounter: Tough Crowd [threatens]
- Evade Ishimaru Haruko, exhaust Drawing Thin [+2$], commit Neither Rain nor Snow 7 vs. 6 (+1): pass [evaded]
- Move to Courtyard, discard Dance of the Yellow King
- Gain a resource [+1$]
-Ishimaru Haruko readies
-Draw .18 Derringer [+1$]
-Tough Crowd discarded

R8 (5D, 5H, 10$, 6C): 2/3 doom

-Encounter: Tough Crowd [threatens] (Well that’s unfortunate, now I have to risk a turn dealing with an attack to parley my final guest)
- Parley Jordan Perry 3 vs. 3 (-1), exhaust Granny Orne: pass [+1C]
- Investigate, exhaust Drawing Thin [+2$], commit Neither Rain nor Snow 6 vs. 6 (-1): fail [1H], play "Look what I found!" [-2$, +2C from Ballroom]
-Ishimaru Haruko moves to Courtyard, engages, attacks [1D, 1H]
-Draw Take Heart [+1$]
-Tough Crowd discarded

R9 (6D, 7H, 11$, 9C): 3/3 doom

-Doom removed, Ashleigh Clarke removed, Ashleigh Clarke spawns at Gallery
-Encounter: Roach Swarm spawns and engages (holy crap, I have exactly this turn to parley and get out before I die, lets see if the chaos bag messes me up!)
- Parley Jordan Perry 3 vs. 3 (-1), exhaust Granny Orne: pass [+1C, “interviewed Jordan Perry”] (…phew, now time to get out of this madhouse)
- Move to Foyer, Ishimaru Haruko attacks [1D, 1H Granny Orne, discarded], Roach Swarm attacks [1D]
- Use Foyer: Resign [-10C onto Act], Resolution 1

Resolution 1:

-VIPs interviewed: Constance Dumaine, Jordan Perry, Sebastian Moreau, Ashleigh Clarke
-VIPs slain: None
+1 doubt (from Interlude) (Total: 2)
+1 mark Chasing the Stranger (Total: 3)

5 experience (0 Victory, 10C on Act (1 bonus Victory/2C))

Quick Learner turned out to not screw me over badly, so I think I’ll pick up the second one!