the director's cut - alternate plots

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These are a series of replacement plots to

be used in a game of Android. They retain

the same storylines as the original plots but

change the conditions required for players

to accumulate good and bad baggage.

They are fully compatible with the existing

twilight decks, as well as both the base rules

and The Director’s Cut alternate rules.

Using the alternate plots

You will need a number of fully transparent

card sleeves to use the alternate plots

properly. Print out this PDF and cut out

each alternate plot card from its sheet.

Insert the original plots into card sleeves

with the corresponding alternate plot

covering its matching face. Some plot

cards do not have a corresponding alternate

plot; in this case, the original plot is still

used as normal.

Cut out both pages of the reference sheet

and stick them to each side of a sturdy

piece of cardboard. In order to make the

plot conditions easier to read across the

table for other players, the alternate plot

cards make use of large icons instead of

text to represent the different conditions. It

is not necessary to memorise the meaning

of each icon, as the full conditions of each plot are spelled out in plain English on the

reference sheet – the icons merely act as a

reminder.

When a new plot enters play, players can

temporarily pull the original plot card

out of its sleeve to read the flavour text.

Then consult the reference sheet (which is

colour-coded for easy lookup) and read the

relevant entry to all players, taking time tosee how this corresponds to the icons on

the card (after a few plots have entered

play, it will become easy to understand

how the plot icon system works. If unsure,

the reference sheet contains a legend to

the most commonly-used icons). Finally,

read any additional text on the card itself to

all players. You are then ready to resume

play.

Some changes to the basic rules of Android are required if using these alternate plots:

NPCsWhen using The Director’s Cut – Alternate

Plots the NPCs in the game have lives

of their own and will often move around

the board due to their own drives and

motivations. Apart from many of the

new plots featuring NPC movement, the playing of certain twilight cards will now

also move NPCs.

NPC Movement

Whenever a game effect occurs that requires

that a particular NPC be alive (i.e, either a

light/dark card is played, or due to the effect

text of a plot), or if a game effect grants an

NPC favour to a player, move that NPC’stoken to the location of the investigator

receiving the effect. For example, if a dark

card is played on Louis that says “play if

Sara is alive…” then move the Sara token

to Louis’ location.

If the NPC token is moved as the result

of the investigator playing a light card or

receiving a favour, that investigator must

place one of his hero markers pointing

at the NPC token (after any other effects

of the card are resolved). This signifies


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that the detective may not encounter that

NPC again until the NPC next moves (see

“Encountering NPCs” below).

After an NPC is moved, any hero markers

at the previous location of the NPC arereturned to their owners.

NPC tokens may be moved from off the

board (if they have not yet entered play)

to locations on the board. NPC tokens are

never removed from the board unless the

NPC is eliminated.

Movement Clarifications

Simmons only appears at the NAPD at the

end of Floyd’s day if Floyd chooses to go

there rather than Haas-Bioroid. Simmons

never moves from NAPD (meaning hero

tokens are never normally removed from

him).

The cards dealing with Louis going on a

date with Sara will move Sara’s token

twice; once when the card is first played

(“play if Sara is alive”) and once when

Louis collects her favour from the board.

Parsons is never moved by the effect of a

card; no cards state “if Parsons is alive”.

Encountering NPCs

With The Director’s Cut – Alternate

Plots, not only will the NPCs be moving

around the board under their own steam,

but the detectives will have opportunity

to encounter the NPCs and interact

with them, even if the detective is not

normally associated with the NPC they are

encountering.

A detective at the same location as an

NPC may encounter that NPC providing

the detective does not already have one

of his hero markers pointing at the NPCtoken. An encounter can take a number of

different forms:

1. Event encounters

2. Favour encounters

3. Plot encounters

All three types of encounter have one

thing in common: whenever a detective

has an encounter, he places one of his

hero markers pointing at the NPC he has

just encountered. This signifies that the

detective may not encounter this NPC

again until the NPC next moves.

Event Encounters

Any events in play that reference an NPC

on the board are no longer dependent upon

the NPC’s location (with two exceptions

– see below). If there is an NPC’s event

in play and the NPC later moves, the event

text may still be triggered at the NPC’s new

location. There may even be two events in

play both relating to the same NPC, either

of which can be activated at the NPCs

current location.

A detective may encounter an NPC to

trigger the text on one event card in play

relating to that NPC. If the event is only

available to the first player to carry it out,

turn the event card facedown once it is

resolved.

The Time cost to have an event encounter

is stated on the event card.

Note: The two “Director Haas/Chairman

Hiro are touring the facilities” cards are

the only exception where the NPC token is

required to still be at the location in order

to receive the benefit of the event card, as

it specifies this on the card itself.

Favour Encounters

A detective may encounter an NPC inorder to receive one of that NPC’s favours.


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A favour encounter costs the detective 2

Time.

Note that any detective can gain any NPC’s

favour, even if that detective is not normally

associated with the NPC. Floyd could gaina Sara favour, for example.

If ever an investigator who is associated

with an NPC should receive one of that

NPC’s favours, and there are none in the

supply due to other players holding one or

more, then the player may take one of those

favours from a player of their choice.

Example: Louis is currently holding oneMr Li favour. Raymond and Rachel are

also each holding one Mr Li favour. Louis

plays a card that allows him to collect

another Mr Li favour. Seeing as there are

none in the supply, he may take one from

either Raymond or Rachel. Louis could

also do this if he encountered Mr Li on the

board and paid 2 Time to receive a favour.

Plot Encounters

Some alternate plots refer to encountering

NPCs in order to place good or bad baggage.

The cost to have a plot encounter is 1 Time.

There is no other benefit associated with

having a plot encounter – the detective

simply pays his Time, places his hero

marker and carries out the instructions

associated with the plot.

Note that instructions on plots can referenceencounters in two different ways:

“…may encounter [NPC] in order to…”

– this signifies a plot encounter only. The

detective is encountering the NPC in order

to carry out the effects on the plot; he

receives no other benefit.

“…each time he has an encounter…”

– this does not necessarily indicate a plot encounter. The detective can have

an encounter of any kind to satisfy this

condition.

Example: Floyd’s What Makes A Soul?

plot states “Floyd may encounter any NPC

to place two good baggage on this plot”. IfFloyd chooses to do this, he pays 1 Time

and places 2 good baggage on his plot. He

receives no other benefit for encountering

the NPC, such as receiving a favour or

triggering an event’s effect text.

Example: Raymond’s Old Flame plot

states “Raymond gains one bad baggage

each time he encounters Kate”. Raymond

will gain 1 bad baggage each time heencounters Kate, regardless of what type

of encounter it is; whether he is gaining

a favour from the encounter, or triggering

the effect of an event.

Other RulesGaining Baggage

Gaining baggage is handled slightlydifferently when using the alternate plots.

A player can never have two different types

of baggage on their plot at the same time.

Whenever a player gains good baggage

and they already have bad baggage on

their plot, each good baggage will instead

remove one bad baggage. If at any point

there is no bad baggage remaining, then

any leftover good baggage is added to the plot as normal. The same applies if a player

gains bad baggage while their plot already

contains good baggage.

Example: A player’s plot already contains

one bad baggage. The player gains two

good baggage. The first good baggage

removes the single bad baggage from the

plot. The second good baggage is then

placed on the plot, as normal.

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baggage of a particular type can only be

applied if there is baggage of that type

on the target plot. A player cannot, for

example, play a card that says “lose 2 good

baggage” on a plot that only contains bad

baggage.

Some plots may seem to have conflicting

conditions as to which type of baggage is

gained when a particular action occurs. In

these cases, both conditions are triggered

– the amount of baggage gained for each

condition will always be different, and so

there will always either be a net gain or

loss in baggage.

Example: Rachel’s Let’s sit this one

out plot has two conditions that seem to

conflict:

Concern – Rachel gains 1 good baggage

for each $1,000 she gains, or may sacrifice

$1,000 to gain 2 good baggage.

Greed – Rachel gains 1 bad baggage for

each $1,000 she loses, or for each of her

Bounty cards in play at the end of each

day.

If Rachel sacrifices $1,000 then it would

seem that both her Concern and Greed

conditions are satisfied (she has both lost

$1,000 and sacrificed $1,000). However,

the Concern condition states that she gains

2 good baggage, while the Greed condition

states that she gains only 1 bad baggage.In this case the net effect would be that

Rachel gains 1 good baggage.

Moving Leads

In order for some plots to function correctly,

a few minor changes to the way leads are

moved are required.

After a player follows up a lead, that same

player moves the lead to a new location(rather than passing the lead to the player

on their right). The player may not move

the lead to any location in the same district

as his detective or any adjacent district.

Districts on the Earth and the Moon are

not considered adjacent to each other. The

Beanstalk is considered adjacent to its

connecting districts.

Additionally, players no longer move leads

between locations of the same colour.

Instead, players use the location type key

in the bottom-right corner of the board to

determine which colour location the lead

should move to next.

Read the colours from

top to bottom, starting

with religious (yellow)

locations and ending

with residential (red)

locations, and find thelocation type the lead


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ClarificationsNew Terms

Some of the alternate plots in The Director’s

Cut use new terms not covered in the base

rules:

Time that passes – this refers to any Time

that is spent, lost or sacrificed during the

specified player’s turn (and only duringthat player’s turn).

Lead detective – whoever holds the First

Player marker is the lead detective.

Plot Clarifications

Floyd’s starting plots

Floyd can no longer choose the outcomeof his starting plots. Instead, Floyd has

a single task that he must achieve before

the end of day 3 of each week in order

for the starting plot to resolve positively

(leading to the good crossroads). Good or

bad baggage that has accumulated on the

plot does not count in any way towards thisoutcome, but is instead transferred over

to the crossroads plot (as happens with

Floyd’s original starting plots).

If Floyd achieves his task before the end

of the third day of the week, his good

crossroads plot enters play immediately

– he does not wait until the end of day 3.

The sooner Floyd achieves his task for

the starting plot, the longer he will haveto accumulate baggage on his crossroads

plot.

Example: Floyd’s starting plot for week

one is Thou Shalt Not Kill. The positive

condition for this plot states “Floyd may

encounter Father Michael and sacrifice one

dark card of each opponent to satisfy the

positive condition of this plot”.

To satisfy this plot, Floyd must collect

at least one dark card of each opponent

then travel to Father Michael’s location,

encounter him (see “Encountering NPCs”

above) and sacrifice those cards. If he does

this before the end of day 3 of the first week,

then Floyd places Are you alright? in play

immediately and transfers any baggage he

has accumulated so far over to it.

If Floyd fails to do this by the end of day 3then I could not save him will enter play at

the usual time.

What makes a soul?

Dark cards played by other detectives on

Floyd do not satisfy the negative condition

of this plot.

Are you alright?

Floyd only gains good baggage for eachdifferent opponents’ dark card he holds at

is being moved from; the next colour in

sequence signifies the type of location the

lead must be moved to. Leads on residential

locations are moved to religious locations.

Some plot cards instruct players to movean NPC “as if they are a lead”. When

moving NPCs in this way, the moving

player must adhere to all restrictions

normally associated with leads, placing the

NPC marker at a valid location in a valid

district. Sometimes such a plot will allow

a player to ignore certain restrictions when

moving an NPC:

“…ignoring district restrictions.” – the player may move the NPC to any valid

location in any district, even the district

the player is currently in or an adjacent

district.

“…ignoring location type restrictions.”

– the player may move the NPC to any

location in a valid district, even if the

location is out of sequence.


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the end of each day. For example, if he

were holding three of Raymond’s cards and

one of Rachel’s, Floyd would gain 2 good

baggage (1 good baggage for holding a dark

card of Raymond’s, and 1 good baggage for

holding a dark card of Rachel’s).

Raymond’s plots

Raymond’s plots no longer take an entire

week to resolve. They are now resolved at

the usual time, just like any other detective’s

plots. Therefore, Raymond will always go

through both of his plots in every game –

only the order of his plots will change.

You were right, Ray!

The full conditions for this plot are as

follows:

Raymond may encounter Keene and

sacrifice any number of dark cards from

his hand to gain 1 good baggage for each

card sacrificed. Raymond may encounter

Parsons and sacrifice any number of

dark cards from his hand to gain 2 good

baggage for each card sacrificed.

Let’s talk about this later

When Raymond moves away from Kate’s

location he must spend 1 Time at her

location to perform the act of moving

away. Therefore, the net gain effect of

moving away from Kate’s location is 1

good baggage.

Caprice’s Descent Into Madness plot

Although Caprice’s Descent Into Madness

plot still cannot be chosen during the first

week of the game, it is no longer mandatory

to have this as her second week plot. Instead,

simply mix the Descent Into Madness card

with whichever plot was not selected during

the first week and choose one randomly, as

with any other plot selection.

Compatibility with The Director’s

Cut – Alternate Rules

These plots are designed to be fully

compatible with The Director’s Cut

– Alternate Rules v2.1 which can be

downloaded from the Android page on

boardgamegeek.com. If not playing with

these rules, or if only playing with some of

the variants found in that ruleset, it may be

necessary to remove some alternate plots

before playing for balance reasons or due

to incompatibility with the base rules. A

list of the plots affected by this and the

variant rules required or suggested for them

to function correctly appears below.

Louis

The Krausey Case – Conspiracy required

This one’s for Jim! – Fights required

On The Take – Days and Time suggested

I finally caught a break – Days and Time

suggested

Raymond

What are you really after? – Murder or

Conspiracy suggested

We can’t keep searching – Twilight

suggested

Additionally, if ever a plot card refers to

a detective having a “minor encounter”,

take this to mean uncovering a piece of the

conspiracy instead. Any other terms on

plots that are not covered by the original

rules (such as the “Bring It All Together”

action) can be ignored.


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