Amanda Sharpe: The Final Exam of Reality

Not an Intern, but a Human Search Engine

If you’ve ever thought that investigating in Arkham is a slow and tortuous process, it’s because you haven't seen Amanda Sharpe fueled by black coffee and a copy of Deduction. While other investigators read a book, Amanda is the book. This deck is designed for Amanda to not only pass the course but to redefine the laws of logic until the Great Old Ones are forced to ask for a private tutor.

**The Mechanics: The Academic Bermuda Triangle

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The deck revolves around three pillars that would make Abdul Alhazred himself rethink his study habits:

1. list text hereThe Infinite Loop: Thanks to Practice Makes Perfect, Amanda can fish for skills from her deck like a student hunting for a cheat sheet in their pocket. If you hook a Deduction during a test, you don’t just get the extra clue—the card returns to your hand so you can slot it under Amanda next turn! It’s a recycling of ideas that would put the Elder Things to shame.

2. list text hereThe Support Staff: Dr. Milan Christopher provides the funding (likely by embezzling archaeology grants), while the Grisly Totem ensures that even your academic failures grant some knowledge... or at least more doodles in the margins of your notes.

3. list text hereEuclidean Mobility: With Fieldwork and Shortcut, Amanda moves across the map with an agility that defies traditional geometry. She enters, investigates, vacuums up the clues, and leaves before the local monster can even correctly pronounce its own unpronounceable name.

**Notes (Dean's Warning)

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• list text hereHand Management: The Laboratory Assistant is primarily here to carry your books and increase your hand size. If they get devoured by a Hound of Tindalos, don't fret: there’s always more undergrads looking for extra credit.

• list text herePromise of Power: Placing this card under Amanda is like making a pact with Nyarlathotep to pass calculus. You get +4 to everything for three actions, but in exchange, the chaos bag fills with curse tokens. It’s the mystic equivalent of chugging five Red Bulls in a row: you feel like a god, but the subsequent crash will be legendary.

• list text hereDream Diary: Essential for when Amanda "blanks out." It provides a 2-icon skill every single turn, ensuring you never try to decipher pre-human hieroglyphs using only common sense (which, in Arkham, is a death sentence).

This deck is as solid as a basalt monolith. Its ability to clear locations is terrifying, and its draw speed is so high that you will see your weakness, Whispers from the Deep, more often than you'll see sunlight. But such is the life of the scholar: the more you know, the more you realize the librarian has far too many tentacles under the desk.