Run Lola Run!

Two crystalline elder signs! That's bravado, bravo!

I like it.

I really like Lola, very underrated in terms of fun to play (not necessarily easy). Totally agree that skills and events are the way to maximise her versatility and minimise the issues. I realy love that crystalline elder sign / dark horse pairing! She turns into a near-death Calvin Wright, but doesn't need the health management cards!

Not one for a 4-player (or even 2 player!) campaign with those two nice tokens removed! I guess the next upgrade could be Another Day, Another Dollar to further improve what looks to be an incredibly fast start (and chances of playing two of Crystalline Elder Sign and Dark Horse)?

Lola having access to all the 3-xp permanent cards opens up so many options and reduces her deckbuilding restrictions too. Higher Education; Streetwise and/or Scrapper would be great options for spending resources to enable the Dark Horse bonus.

I'd like to play this deck. I see nicely that you have used 19XP and one additional weakness, so its already compliant with a standalone investigator build. Nice!

I love it.

Thanks for the kind messages folks!

You're quite right @SolarJ; the bravado of a thespian superstar!

This deck was inspired by a recent Calvin run in which he consistently maxed out his stats and was amazing throughout (though, obviously rather dependent on the scenario: “can someone please let me into the Miskatonic Museum?”)

For maximum pop, I think you're right @Phoenixbadger, you do want to go Another Day, Another Dollar. I think loading up with all the static boosts may be too many weaknesses to handle though, given the intense Seeker card draw engine! Either way, there's a lot of fun to discover with Lola around the "bank your static boosts and stay away from their class" concept of building. Crisis of Identity goes from disaster to wasted card draw if it has no targets!

This Lola is definitely too highly strung for other investigators to hang out with, but working out how to get her from 0XP to this in a solo campaign will be a fun puzzle!

(and by "loading up with all the static boosts" I meant "Permanent cards that wrack up your XP costs)

I had a similar lola deck. Mr. "Rook" helped immensely to filter out Crisis of Identity.

Add 1x Timeworn Brand for combat and some Backpacks to get your items out quicker.

Granny Orne also works as another dark horse once Crisis of Identity is out. She and Lucky! 3 are also amazing team support (add Resourceful).

How has this deck performed?

I feel frustration looking at it. The Seeker cards give a big boost to finding your key cards but no soak and the desire to stay at 0 resources for Dark Horse but having several events that need 1-2R. Perhaps swap Preposterous Sketches for Lab Assistant. You lose 1 card but gain a little soak.

I really like the Sharp Vision and Brute Force addition to the deck.

My latest deck for True Solo (unplayed) is using the Dreameaters Mystic events, Rogue and Seeker. (Mag Glass) and get boosts with Crystalline Elder Sign and Seeker/Guardian Tarots using Anna Kaslow. She can get clues, evade and if needed kill (Knife). 19XP gets me Easy Mark, Crystalline Elder Sign and Anna Kaslow plus 4 tarots.

Isn't Dark Horse limited to one per player?

The limit means you can have only 1 in play but you can have 2 in your deck for higher chances of drawing it.

Ohhhh, because it's not unique, you could theoretically stack it if it didn't say that?

Well, gosh darn it to heck. My Dark Horse decks are now going to be just that much better.

@DjangoBut drawing Crisis of Identity with Mr. "Rook" discard your Mr. "Rook", doesn't it ? So how did you play it ? Minimal search and then maximal for the last one(s) ?

I don't care as long as crisis is out. Bonus if you can get both with 1 search (you can target a weakness with rooks first search as well). Or target your basic weakness if you only have 1 crisis.