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When Revealed: The first player must choose and discard an attachment from a questing character, if able.
Shadow: If this attack is undefended, deal 2 additional shadow cards to attacking enemy.
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If Mountain Warg is dealt a shadow card with no effect, return Mountain Warg to the staging area after it attacks.
Shadow: attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if a Mountain is the active location.)
When Revealed: The first player must discard 3 resources from each hero he controls.
Shadow: Defending player must discard 2 resources from each hero he controls.
While Knees of the Mountain is in the staging area, it gains:
Forced: After an enemy engages a player, it gets +1
While Turbulent Waters is the active location, players cannot optionally engage enemies.
When Revealed: Search the encounter deck and discard pile for 1 copy of Mountain Warg and add it to the staging area, if able. Shuffle the encounter deck.
Response: After Warg Lair leaves play as an explored location, each player draws 1 card.
Elrond has asked you to scout the Mines of Moria on your return to Lorien, hoping to discover if it is the source of increased Orc activity along the Misty Mountains.
Setup: Remove The Watcher and Doors of Durin from the encounter deck and set them aside, out of play.
Your approach is blocked by a dark lake that slumbers beneath the face of the cliff. You must search for a way around the water.
When Revealed: Reveal cards from the encounter deck and add them to the staging area until there is at least X in the staging area. X is twice the number of players in the game.
The others swung round and saw the waters of the lake seething, as if a host of snakes were swimming up from the southern end.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
The Doors of Durin are blocked by an ancient spell. You must figure out a way into the mines before the Seething bog and its Watcher consumes you all.
When Revealed: Add The Watcher to the staging area. Doors of Durin becomes the active location, moving any previous active location to the staging area. Shuffle all Tentacle cards in the encounter discard pile back into the encounter deck.
If the players have at least 3 victory points and defeat this stage, they have won the game.
Progress tokens that would be placed on Doors of Durin are instead placed on the current quest card.
Action: Each player may discard any number of cards from his hand. Then, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If the first letter of the encounter card's title matches that of one of the discarded player cards, add Doors of Durin to your victory display. (Limit once per round.)
Travel: The first player must exhaust 2 characters to travel here.
Shadow: Remove 1 progress token from the current quest.
No more than 1 progress token can be placed on Perilous Swamp each round
Shadow: Remove 1 progress token from the current quest.
Forced: After you travel to Makeshift Passage, place 2 progress tokens on the current quest card, bypassing any active location.
They reached the strip of dry land between the lake and the cliffs: it was narrow, often hardly a dozen yards across, and encumbered with fallen rock and stones; but they found a way, hugging the cliff, and keeping as far from the dark water as they might.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Discard the top card of the encounter deck. If the discarded card is a Tentacle enemy, add that card to the staging area and raise each player's threat by 5.
When they came to the northernmost corner of the lake they found a narrow creek that barreed their way. It was green and stagnant, thrust out like a slimy arm towards the enclosing hills.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
...there came a soft sound: a swish, followed by a plop, as if a fish had disturbed the still surface of the water. Turning quickly they saw ripples, black-edged with shadow in the waning light: great rings were widening outwards from a point far out in the lake. There was a bubbling noise, and then silence
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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Regenerate 2. While there is another Tentacle enemy in play, The Watcher cannot be optionally engaged.
If The Watcher is in the staging area at the end of the combat phase, each player must deal 3 damage to 1 character he controls.
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Forced: When Thrashing Tentacle is attacked, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If that card has a shadow effect or is a Tentacle enemy, deal the damage from the attack to 1 character an attacking player controls (ignoring defense).
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Forced: When Striking Tentacle attacks, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If that card has a shadow effect or is a Tentacle enemy, this attack is considered undefended.
When Revealed: The first player attaches Wrapped! to a hero he controls. Counts as a Tentacle attachment with the text:
Limit 1 per hero. Attached hero cannot exhaust or ready. At the end of the round, discard attached hero from play.
Combat Action: Exhaust a hero you control without a Tentacle attachment to discard Wrapped!.
You are playing in Nightmare mode.
While Doors of Durin is in play, The Watcher cannot be engaged.
Forced: When a Tentacle enemy is destroyed, deal 1 damage to The Watcher if it is in play.
The players cannot win the game unless both Doors of Durin and The Watcher are in the victory display.
"Something has crept, or has been driven out of dark waters under the mountains. There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world."
–Gandalf, Lord of the Rings
Begin with the standard quest deck and encounter deck for The Watcher in the Water scenario.
Remove the following cards, in the specified quantities, from the standard encounter deck:
1x The Watcher
2x Makeshift Passage
4x Black Uruks
3x Mountain Warg
2x Warg Lair
Then, shuffle the encounter cards in this Nightmare Deck into the remainder of the standard The Watcher in the Water 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.
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While The Watcher is in the staging area, it cannot be damaged by player card effects.
If The Watcher is in the staging area at the end of the combat phase, each player must deal 3 damage to 1 character he controls.
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Forced: When Writing Tentacle engages a player, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If that card has a shadow effect or is a Tentacle enemy, Writhing Tentacle makes an immediate attack, then attaches to the defending character as a Tentacle attachment with the text: "Attached character cannot commit to the quest."
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Forced: After resolving an attack made by Choking Tentacle discard the top card of the encounter deck. If that card has a shadow effect or is a Tentacle enemy, attach Choking Tentacle to a character the defending player controls as a Tentacle attachment with the text:"Forced: After attached character readies. deal it 1 damage."
While Banks of Sirannon is in the staging area, each Tentacle enemy gets +2
Shadow: For each point of damage dealt by this attack, the defending player must discard a random card from his hand.
Forced: After a player looks at one or more cards in the encounter deck, shuffle the encounter deck.
Travel: Reveal the topmost Tentacle enemy in the encounter discard pile to travel here.
When Revealed: Deal 3 damage to each character with a Tentacle attachment. If no characters were damaged by this effect, Pulled Under gains surge.
Shadow: If the defending character has a Tentacle attachment, discard that character.
When Revealed: Shuffle X Tentacle enemies from the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck. Heal X damage from The Watcher, if it is in play. X is the number of players in the game.
Twenty other arms came rippling out.
–The Fellowship of the Ring