Mark Harrigan Tutorial

Mark Harrigan: Guardian A combat focused investigator who picks up clues passively while tanking damage carefully.

Interacting with Sophie:

• Firstly, Mark wants to take damage, but not too much! You want to stay at 4 or under directly on Mark.
• Sophie, In Loving Memory allows you to Take 1 direct damage (which draws you a card) and get +2 to a skill test, useful for key actions (combat against powerful enemies, clearing the last clue from a location etc) -If Mark ever goes above 4 Damage placed on him, Sophie flips and gives -1 to all of his skills until he goes below 4 again.

Combat:

• Use Machete and the .32 Colts to deal extra damage to enemies with attack actions.
• Assigning damage to assets you control draws you a card, this makes Beat Cop and Guard Dock very useful damage soaks.
• You can assign damage other investigators in your location would take to True Grit, drawing you a card.
• Use Vicious Blow to deal an additional damage with your attacks
• Use Prepared for the Worst to find your weapons.
• The home front can move horror from Mark onto the attacked enemy, effectively healing you for 1 damage and inflicting an additional 1 damage.

Investigation:

• Assigning Damage to allies and assets as well as Mark triggers the draw effect.
• Hallowed Mirror gives you access to 3 copies of a damage and Horror healing event that can help with the Sophie threshold and draws you a card.
• Emergency Aid and Soothing Song (Hallowed Mirror) can be used to heal damage.
• If It Bleeds and Soothing Song (Hallowed Mirror) can be used to heal horror.
• Heal horror on Mark with Smoking pipe, then assign the damage to an asset to draw a card.
• Heal damage on Mark with Painkillers, then assign the horror to an asset.
• Steadfast is worth 3 Will and 3 combat at the start of a scenario.
• Use Flashlights to investigate low shroud locations when there is some downtime.

Weakness:

• Sophie technically counts as a weakness if Mark ever has more than 4 Damage on him, reducing all of his stats by 1, to reverse this, heal damage until you have 4 or below.

• Shell Shock can be fairly harmless if you are distributing your damage and have horror soak, but the taking 1 horror for every 2 damage on Mark can be punishing if you dont plan for it.