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purpose of  \nteaching new players how to play Eldritch Horror.For  \nHarrigan ran his bandaged hand across the map on the hotel  \nthis reason,this rulebook omits many rules exceptions  \nrooms wall.Dozens of documents and scraps of paper from all  \nand card interactions.In addition to this rulebook,this  \nover the world were pinned to their corresponding locations,  \ngame also comes with a reference guide.  \ninterconnected by a complex web of colored string.He followed a  \nred string from the transcribed testimony of a lunatic in Arkham  \nThe reference guide addresses rules questions and special  \nto a pencil rubbing of some pictographs he found in the Amazon.  \nexceptions that are not answered in this rulebook.The  \nFrom there,he traced a blue thread to apage torn from the journal  \nguide also includes optional rules for adjusting game  \nof that astronomer who was murdered in Sydney.  \ndifficulty,scoring,and playing one-player games.  \nBut the big picture still wasn’t emerging.Something was distracting  \nhim.What was it?The vendor at the train station had a tattoo  \non the back ofhis hand.Maybe that was it.Harrigan was sure  \n)  \nhed seen that symbol before.It could be nothing.He may just be  \n# GAME OVERVIEW\n\nparanoid.Still,he should make a drawing of the tattoo and show it  \nto Diana.She'd know for sure.  \nA sound in the street suddenly caught his attention.No,it was halfa sound.It was something that was going to be a sound,maybe ascream,but was then cut off.He walked away from his map andmade sure the door to his room was locked.  \nEldritch Horror is a cooperative game ofinvestigation andhorror inspired by the writings of H.P.Lovecraft.In eachgame,one of the Ancient Ones,a being of unimaginable powerthat predates time itself,is awakening.Players take on the rolesof investigators who are attempting to solve mysteries,defendhumanity from unimaginable horrors,and ultimately banishthe Ancient One from this world.If investigators fail at 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