When Revealed: Either place the lowest
Harad enemy engaged with you facedown under The Black Gate or reveal the top card from under The Cross-roads and put it into play engaged with you.
"Always more people coming to Mordor. One day all the peoples will be inside." -Gollum, The Two Towers
When Revealed: Deal 1 damage to each exhausted character. Discard an attachment from each character damaged by this effect.
Shadow: Discard an attachment you control.
"His arm has grown long."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Either place the lowest Harad enemy engaged with you facedown under The Black Gate or reveal the top card from under The Cross-roads and put it into play engaged with you.
"Always more people coming to Mordor. One day all the peoples will be inside." -Gollum, The Two Towers
You've decided to risk everything to rescue Ulchor's captives from slavery.
Setup: Add each Camp location to the staging area. Attach a random Captive objective-ally to each Camp location as a guarded objective. Place 1 random Warden enemy faceup (but not in play) under each Camp location. Shuffle the encounter deck and discard cards from the top until X locations are discarded, where X is 1 less than the number of players. Add each location discarded this way to the staging area.
Each Camp location is immune to player card effects, and player cannot travel there while a Warden enemy is in play.
Forced: At the end of the round, raise each player's threat by 1 for each Camp location in the staging area.
This stage cannot be defeated unless players control all 3 Captive objective-allies.
You are playing Nightmare mode.
Setup: Place 1 Southron Warrior per player facedown under The Cross-roads, then shuffle the facedown cards under The Cross-roads. Set any remaining Southron Warriors aside, out of play.
"Great strength of them was reported to us some days ago, marching north. One of their regiments is due by our reckoning to pass by, some time ere noon..."
–Mablung, The Two Towers
Begin with the standard quest deck and encounter deck for The Journey to the Cross-roads scenario.
Remove the following cards, in the specified quantities, from the standard encounter deck:
1x Captain of Harad
1x Henneth Annun
2x Southward Road
4x Hills of Ithilien
3x The Dark Lord's Summons
Then, shuffle the encounter cards in this Nightmare Deck into the remainder of the standard the Journey to the Cross-roads encounter deck.
Finally, flip this setup card over and place it next to the quest deck. Its effect remains active throughout the game, which is now ready to begin.