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The Clown: My Festival

    The Clown: My Festival

    The subconscious world of the Kohl settlers turned nightmarish when a character arrived to embody their anxiety and fears, playing games with them according to his own malicious rules.

    Dilemma Dilemma - Dual dilemma Dual
    To get past, crew or Away Team must have no fewer personnel than lowest INTEGRITY present and no more personnel than highest INTEGRITY present.

    Characteristics: "The Clown" dilemma, wall dilemma.

    Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
     

    The Clown: My Festival

    This Card-Review article was written by Sean O'Reilly and was published first on "Decipher's Website (decipher.com)" at Aug 31st, 2001.

    So you're throwing a party? You send out the invitations, people RSVP back and then the night of the event, your celebration is interrupted by party crashers - people you didn't invite. Well, in the game of Star Trek there's a way to prevent your opponent from overloading a mission attempt and his name is The Clown.

    With the 'My Festival' dilemma you can limit the number of personnel that will hit subsequent dilemmas to a number between the lowest and highest INTEGRITY present. As of The Borg expansion there were fewer than 35 personnel out of the hundreds in the game that have INTEGRITY of 9 or more AND less than 50 personnel (the majority of whom are Non-Aligned) that have INTEGRITY 2 or less. Therefore, most of the time your opponent will get through this dilemma with a crew or Away Team between three and eight personnel.

    Set up your dilemma combos so that nasty consquences will occur to opponent's personnel if they don't have requirements after getting through the Clown. A small Away Team or crew might be hurt by a number of dilemmas. You could control your opponent's personnel with Alien Parasitesimage (then blow up the opponent's ship you control with Auto-Destruct Sequenceimage). A Hull Breachimage could kill up to two personnel, a Misguided Activistimage might kill a V.I.P. or Command personnel, and a Trabe Grenadeimage might kill a personnel with SECURITY or Leadership - and the mission continues with all three of those dilemmas; or you might get to rearrange the spaceline if your opponent can't get past Q.

    Combos:

    • Lack of Preparationimage + The Clown: My Festival: A small Away Team or crew might not have the requirements to solve the mission - an instant ten point loss!
    • Bendii Syndromeimage + The Clown: My Festival: Vulcans abound? Lower the INTEGRITY of your opponent's personnel by two and force them to use an even smaller Away Team or crew than normal to get past My Festival.
    • The Clown: My Festival + Friendly Fireimage: It's unlikely your opponent will have both two SECURITY and two Leadership when they encounter the Friendly Fire after getting past My Festival.