Lobotomy Corporation 1.3

Horizons Update



Competitive vs Cooperative:
The tabletop game has been around for a decent amount of time now, and in that time I’ve been able to see how it functions when players work together and work against each other in order to achieve victory. This seems to be the most common way players play the game as well as the most enjoyed play-style. So we are making a change, from here on the focus will be on providing a cooperative experience for all players and balancing the game around this.



LOB vs Enkephalin Changes:
Enkephalin will now he tracked on individual abnormality codex cards. EGO, Managerial Notes, and Defensive Statistics now cost Enkephalin boxes garnered from those abnormalities specifically. This will encourage work on abnormalities of all types that were ignored previously, as the old system did not require you to work with your new abnormalities to obtain their information and EGO.

LOB points will still be tracked and used to obtain new employees and increase stats as per usual.




Tool Management Tips Acquisition:
All tools now have unlock conditions built into their managerial notes, so this information can be gained by interacting with and triggering various mechanics of said tools. Tools can have multiple unlock conditions to gain their managerial notes, so failure and success can garner results.


Qliphoth Meltdown Punishment:
Failure to properly remove a Qliphoth Meltdown on a tool or abnormality without a Qliphoth counter will result in all Abnormalities Enkephalin counters in that department lose an amount of Enkephalin based on the meltdown tool/abnormalities risk level.

Zayin=12
TETH=14
HE=18
WAW=24
ALEPH=30


Missions:
Each Department has a pool of 3 mission cards they as soon as their department unlocks, they will draw a single card from this pool; this card will be a prerequisite for unlocking the core suppression of that department. This will provide plenty for players to do during the course of the game with the new economy system, and provide additional challenges for players to tackle together as all players contribute progress to completing them!


R Protocol:
R protocol is now repeatable, by lowering a counter that represents the current number of active [Garrisons] they can summon an intensity of R Protocol.

Each team is made up of 4 members

Mobilization Level Low- costs 1 Garrison
1 Rhino, Reindeer, or Rabbits teams

Mobilization Level Medium- costs 2 Garrisons
2 Rhino, Reindeer, or Rabbits teams(repeats allowed)

Mobilization Level High- costs 3 Garrisons
3 Rhino, Reindeer, or Rabbits teams(repeats allowed)

In addition Rabbits/Rhinos/Reindeers now have higher priority, this priority places them after employees but before insane employees




Damage Type Change:
Black damage will no longer be “reskinned red damage”, instead when an employee is hit with Black damage they will take an equal amount of sanity and health damage. Black damage attacks against entities without a sanity bar is unchanged. In instances where Health and Sanity are both depleted to 0 from the same attack, this will count as only triggering death instead of insanity




Simple Fixes and Changes:
A new Allegiance section has been added to Dossiers, this will allow certain groups of abnormalities/entities to work together without targeting each other due to behaviors. An example being “Guardian of the Black Forest” Allegiance for the 3 birds.
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Yesod core suppression has been changed
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Netzatch core suppression has been changed
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Binah Suppression has been changed
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The Red Mist dossier has been reworked to give the Red Mist a transitional ability/attack when she is reduced to 0 health and moves to another phase.
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EGO is now lost on employee death
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Happy Teddy Bear’s managerial notes not properly state [death]
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Two more copies of Hornet EGO armor were added to the EGO Armor Bag
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Sunshower EGO can now only create a single umbrella at the end of the cycle
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Nameless Fetus containment cell is in the HE deck now(oops)
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The standard issue EGO weapon has been increased to 2 Red Damage
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The Red Eyes EGO Armor has had its ability reworked/reworded
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The Melancholy EGO weapon has had its damage increased
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The 4th Match Flame EGO weapon has gained an ability
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The Gold Rush EGO Armor has been changed to be easier to understand with the new “Rush” keyword
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The follow entities have had their managerial notes and dossiers edited to better fit the new economy:
Cheers of the Beginning,
Electric Sheep,
Silent Orchestra,
Nori Nori,
and more
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We Can Change Anything has been reworked
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Melting Love EGO gift has been reworked
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Added “Rush X” as a combat keyword. Rush X allows entities to move while attacking, and inflict damage in the rooms they left, traveled through, and ended their movement phase in. The following entities have gained this keyword:
Rhino,
Spear Apostle,
The Firebird,
The Red Mist,
All-Around Helper,
Struggle At The Climax,
And more
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The Servant of Wrath has had their Managerial Notes, Codex, Dossier FULLY reworked. Additionally more mechanics have been added to make this abnormality worthy of being a magical girl.
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Sign of Roses and its various summonable roses have had their defensive statistics/dossier updated
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The Portrait of another world has been reworded so that it specifies that all damage factors in the defensive rating of the employee with a “Painbearer Token”
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Added a clause in the Silent Girls dossier for what happens when an employee dies while being pursued
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EGO armor for Grief has been nerfed
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Various other typos have been fixed all across the game
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Various Abnormalities/Ordeals have had their attack/Durability power in

Hotfix

Fixes and Changes:
Titania managerial notes now state scout damage properly
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Tiphereth suppression card was fixed for a typo
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Have You Become Strong has had its managerial notes reworded so the bonus is not provided during work that increases its Qliphoth.
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Gaze has had its EGO weapon ability scale off of entities instead
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Shade EGO can now only produce a single Giant Clover at the end of the cycle

Lobotomy Corporation 1.2

New HE:
Rose Hunter
The Drowned Sisters
Der Fluchshütze

New WAW:
Sign of Roses


Fixes and Changes:
The rule book now reflects that an employee can only work with 1 Abnormality per work phase(Page 19)
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The rule book now reflects that bullets are expendable(Page 7)
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The rule book now reflects when ordeals are added and removed from the event deck(Page 4)
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The rule book now properly states how to handle multiple players declaring a core suppression at the same time(Page 27)
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The rule book now properly states what rooms are(Page 12)
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The rule book now properly defines “Employee”, “Abnormality”, and “Entity” in combat keywords(Page 18)
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The rule book now defines what a “full ego set” is (Page 18)
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The rule book now has a page about Possession(Page 29)
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Managerial notes for warm hearted woodsman now properly state death
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Managerial notes for Blue Star now properly state death
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Piscine Mermaid dossier has been updated to cover a very special case scenario
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Penitence EGO weapon now deals white damage instead of red(you win folks)
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Shock Centipede has had its managerial notes changed, so it can only lower up to 2 times per cycle instead of 3
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Shock Centipede has had its dossier “defensive coil” ability nerfed
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Melting Love has had its managerial notes changed so that only 4 tokens are required to breach, not 8
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The King of Greed dossier has been updated for behavior
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Red Riding Hooded Mercenary managerial tips have had a typo fixed
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The Dawn of Amber ordeal card has had a typo corrected
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The Dusk of Violet has been reworded/buffed
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The Perfect Food standee has been properly update to have 6 health
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Changed the Abnormality Suppression Reward to include the managerial notes of the abnormality that was suppressed.
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Changed Yesod Suppression to grant an additional effect, granting the defensive statistics upon suppressing an abnormality.
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Changed Tiphereth Suppression to fix a typo
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Reworded Malkuth Suppression
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Melting Love Gift has been reworded
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Managerial Notes for the Express Train to Hell have been reworked slightly