My picks and their sequence.

Gloria Goldberg -> She gives a yellow and red glyph when doing an other worldly adventure. She gives no particular afvantage for the final fight but she helps to get you there in first place.


Sister Mary -> She is not affected by locked glyphs or midnight mythos effects. Once again she gives particular advantage for the final battle but she helps in getting to it. The game is about having as many glyphs as possible and locked glyphs can simply crush everyone else as well.

Kate Winthrop -> She ignores terror effect and monsters cannot spawn during her turn. Like Gloria and Sister Mary she helps to get you to the final fight. This allows expanded options for completing adventures and she also slows down the spawning of monsters.

Jenny Barnes -> She gives a red and yellow glyph in exchange for any items with the exception of a unique item. She's usefull in every aspect of the game and in the final battle as well.

You start in the Museum and main thing to do is to collect supplies other items for Alaska. The order of my team was important as I had Sister Mary as my number 2 investigator. This allows her to go after any locked glyph adventures with no penalty. The main point all along is to be succesful in completing adventures but to also be able to suceed well enough to be able to going to the final battle with enough item ensure you win.

After that pick your adventure and plan in advance. Mary will go after lock glyphs top priority. Glyphs with midnight effects also have a high priority. Sometimes you will complete an adventure with you final investigator prior to midnight and the new adventure with have a midnight effect.

I use Kate Winthrop to go after not just after adventures with terror effects that I want to avoid but also to go after adventures that give a monster reward. This doesn't sound like much of a reward.

Jenny was the main nuker that would clean up any must take down adventure like a midnight effect as she was the character that proceeded the clock hitting midnight.

I timed my exit of the museum when I got a glyph lock on an adventure that just wasn't worth completing even with Sister Mary. The Doom track at that point was only at about 2. I decided that I would allow the clock to hit 4 then head to Alaska since this is the break point where you get a monster then for the next few spots on the Doom track you get no monsters. All in all I kept monsters to a minimum.

I spent the next cycles collecting items, supplies and healing up. I got unlucky and at the 3 spot got a +2 to the doom track but I was all ready to leave by then.

The main point was heading off to Alaska with a team that was healed up and stocked up on items. I only had about 13 supplies going into Alaska. Another key thing was leaving all the monsters and other bad adventures behind.

The main thing here is getting 12 elder signs while keeping your party strong enough with items and health to survive well enough to succeed in the final battle. The added effect up here is the icy winds and the usage of supplies. The icy winds is an added extra negative effect that can be random.

At this point Gloria really helps out as opening other worldly adventures normally give better rewards then standard adventures. I've even been able to bypass certain bad effects during this stage by using Gloria to complete an adventure that took me from 9 elder signs to 12 and the final battle.

I was able to keep monsters and negative midnight effects to a minimum. You can't keep monsters from spawning when the Doom track does it for you. I got a nasty -1 stamina effect from a minight effect that spawn after Jenny completed an adventure right before midnight but was able to clean it up prior to the next midnight.

I got to a critcal point where my supplies got lost. This happens at a certain point in the game when you get so many Elder signs. Right after that I was at 10 elder signs and it was up to Sister Mary to do something to save the situation. Having no supplies was going to kill Kate and Jenny before they could even act and Sister Mary could complete no adventure to send me to the final battle. My only good option was to use the Search the area option and I hit the 5 supplies. This totally saved the day. This bought me 5 rounds to prep my team for the final battle and collect the final 2 elder signs.

I cycled through everyone to the next day and used Kate to complete the final battle.

This takes place in the cave after you get the 12th elder sign. It had 3 stages and you succesfully complete each one to save Ashley. If you fail even once then Ashley dies but you can still beat Ithaqua but you don't unlock the new character. I had beat this twice before but was not able to save Ashley since I failed to beat of the final stages. My three strongest characters at this point was Jenny, Gloria and Sister Mary. They all had plenty of items to enures extra glyphs, rolls and spell locks. Kate was my weakest character as she nothing to provide yellow/red glyphs but she had just grabbed the final elder sign. All 3 characters were loaded with items and easily overpowered the final 3 stage fight. It wasn't even close.

Now all this effort and the character has 3 stamina and 3 sanity but I fairly nice ability. I wonder if this 3/3 thing is actually a bug.