Nemesis

Nemesis: Lockdown - Stretch Goals contains all of the Kickstarter Stretch Goals from the Nemesis: Lockdown Kickstarter, except for the Hacker & Xenobiologist Character Packs which are included in the Lockdown box. Includes: New Alien Race - Chytrids: 12 Minis (8 Chytrid Stinkhorns, 3 Chytrid Deathcaps, 1 Chytrid Queen), 15 Spore plastic markers, 8 Mycellium plastic markers, 5 Purple Chytrid Germinator plastic markers, 5 Green Chytrid Germinator plastic markers, cardboard tokens, cards for using the Chytrids and cards for using the Nemesis core game expansions Aftermath, Carnomorphs, Void Seeders, and the Medic in Lockdown. 1 Gate and 11 Door Plastic Tokens Mars Rover Plastic Token Mini Space Raccoon 1st Player Marker Mini Untold Stories #3 Comic Book with 6 Cooperative Campaign Missions and Cardboard Tokens

"Everything happened because of a single cat. It had to get on board during our rendezvous with the Adrastea science vessel, orbiting the DB-198 protoplanet. Soon after, we took samples from DB-198 and made our jump back with everyone tucked away safely in their stasis pods. Everyone, except the cat. Even its nine lives couldn't save it. As the ship accelerated up to 1000G, poor critter turned into a four-kilogram projectile that smashed several sample canisters and turned into a thin layer of protein soup on the bulkhead door. Nothing too bad, right? Well, it turns out something weird was hidden in the damaged samples. A voracious, parasitic form of XNA that could attach itself to many different genetic molecules, including DNA, and rewrite them to grow carrier organisms. This strange virus recombined the cat’s remains. Then, it went through all the biomass in our kitchen supplies. Finally, it found us, locked away in our stasis pods; pieces of canned flesh waiting to be opened. Soon, all hell broke loose. We tried to fight these things, but the more we bled and the more of us died, the stronger and larger they became. The last of us now plan to destroy the ship, but the road to control room is blocked by the original carrier, now a lumbering hulk of flesh that still has a disfigured cat’s head. I volunteered to fight it with a jerry-rigged flamethrower. I know it’s irrational, but this damn animal has to pay for everything that happened to my crew!" Rules: Now lets get some more detail on the rules. Again, this is just a general idea, that we will be developing hard in the upcoming time! But we hope it will give you enough feel to give you decision to get it or not ;) Larvae (Metagorgers): Biggest change will be larvae stage - at the begging of the game this will be the ONLY thing that will be in the alien bag (no other stronger aliens), but whenever you will happen to get one, you will roll a die to determine how many there will come (probably 2-4). They will be able to only give you light wound, but if they do, they will try to run (with the part that they have bitten off and your DNA). So if at the end of the round they will not be killed, you take them off the board and put one Shambler token into the alien bag (so Metagorger escaped, evolved and now is somewhere in the ship). Shamblers: Shamblers will be much stronger opponent and be able to hit you pretty strong. In addition they will try to find and eat whole body to evolve into next stage. We are thinking about giving players possibility to burn bodies to prevent this from happening. Fleshbeasts: Evolved Shambler. They will be the strongest opponents in the game - stronger then Intruder Queen - they can come into being only after eating whole corpse so there can be more of them on the ship at the same time. Generally, they will be designed in a way to create amazing pressure on players to do everything they can not to make Flashbeast creation possible, or they will be really screwed. Butcher: With the pass of time, one of the shambler can eat another and Butcher is created - it is also really strong opponent, but there can be only 1 Butcher in time at the Board. Overall combat: As you probably can tell, combat will be very different from Core Box. It will force players to take much more active approach - you need to make sure that whatever will be on this ship will not evolve beyond its current state. It will still not be a combat game, but a survival one, but the feeling will be very different. You will want to fight and make sure to kill (and then double kill just to be sure), instead of mostly run. Mutation cards: Infection cards will be changed into mutation and once again they will come with some serious disadvantages. They might be instant one-time thing or they might be a permanent setback. What can also happen, that with some major disadvantage, you can get some small buff (for example you will not be able to hold any weapon, but you will be a little bit better in close combat). We will try to keep mutation in very cinematic fashion. Corpes: We will also probably want to add heavy impact at corpses left on the ship and introduce more then just one starting and you will discover them during ship exploration. You will either waste resources and time to burn them (but meanwhile you can also burn very important parts of the ship) or ignore them, but it will fire back at you. All in all this expansion will be designed in a way to give you constant pressure between trying to meet your goal and managing Carnomorphs on the ship. —description from the publisher

Nemesis: Aftermath & Void Seeders is an expansion for Nemesis. It contains all of the stretch goals from the Kickstarter campaign except for Medic: the Aftermath expansion and the Void Seeders expansion. —user summary "Every spaceship has a voice; a melody of machinery and subsystems its crew learns intimately during long travels. The problem is, ever since the last mission our ship sounds WRONG. There’s something foul in the way it’s speaking to us. Barely audible murmurs. Strange whispers no machine could make. The dark corridors and vast halls almost seem to SING. Some of us have tried to locate sources of this interferences, but they always seemed two steps ahead. Stalked by their never-ending presence, we soon started cracking. Our engineer has cut some words on his flesh. When we asked why, he replied:‘Incandescent secrets need to be written in blood’. Then, our navigator took a spacewalk without her suit. When we pulled her in, her entire face frozen and cracked, she grinned in a way I will never forget. Now, it got even worse. Noises turned into voices, sharing tales of slaughter and terror. They do not run from us anymore. They encircle us and herd us through the ship to some dark purpose. I need to UNDERSTAND them before it’s too late. I put my hand on the pistol grip, looking at the backs of my last two crewmembers. I see dark mysteries swirling under their skulls. It would only take two bullet holes to release them..." Rules: Overlook: Voidseeders are a race that can interact with the minds of crew members. They will have few nests instead of one, but only one strong fighting presence at given moment. Once killed, new one will be awakened from the most developed nest. This race will focus on whispering and controlling minds - people who will be near them will start to hear voices commanding them to do different destructive things. Nests: On the board, there is normally 1 Nest as a room token, but there are additionally 2-3 smaller nests. Those are places where new Voidseeders will born. At the moment of discovering main Nest, you should put a Stalker miniature in it (this is the model that is on the ship from the beginning. He is very dangerous, especially when faced by people with a high Insanity level). Other Nests will start showing up on the board together with discovering certain Exploration tokens. Those nests will be especially dangerous. They will not move, but if a crew member will happen to end the turn at the tile with a nest, he will get a serious wound. Voidlurkers They will spawn in nests, and their objective will be to spread insanity and try to move players to Nests. Whispersers They will work very similar to Voidlurkers, but with the difference that they will have the main goal of defending the main nest. Stalker He is a main guardian. He takes advantage from fear / insanity of the crew members and will focus on them. Despoiler Equivalent of the Queen. Actually, it is hard to say if she is real or if it is a mass hallucination. One way or the other, she will only emerge when all Insanity tokens are on players (number of tokens will be specific for different numbers of players). She is extremely strong. Contamination card Here it will change a little bit - players will normally get a contamination card every time they will get an insanity token. They will be easier to discard (you don't need to check if it was infected or not). Effect of the card will only take place at the very end of the game, and it will be the same as in the normal version - if it will turn out it was indeed "infected," it will mean that your character, even if escaped, went mad and lost the game either way. Whispers mechanic This mechanism will change the noise mechanic. Whenever you move (or an event card will tell you to), you will need to roll for whispers. If you would get a corridor with an whisper token already in it (you hear something more) - you need to draw a Card from the Insanity deck. Those cards will apply to you or not based on the numbers of insanity tokens your character has. Effects might be very different - from one-time action to permanent disabilities. Combat In combat, Voidlurkers will only try to add insanity tokens to you and then run away to the closes nest. Whisperers will be harder to kill, as well as present some portion of actual physical danger, but their main weapon will still be giving you insanity tokens. Things will change with Stalker and Despoiler - those two will be huge opponents who will give you real wounds, so you will not want to be near them. Event phase In the event phase, one additional step that will be added is checking your insanity tokens and numbers of Voidlurkers and Whisperers in all rooms next to yours. If the number of them is higher than the number of insanity tokens, you add one insanity token and draw one contamination card. But whenever you will be in a room with other people, this effect will be less harmful. (they can help you calm down) Overall feel Overall feel we will be going for will be way different from what you will have in the base Core Box. We have a lot of cool ideas how to get Insanity cards in a way, that it will be an additional layer of you not trusting your friends - not only because of their objective but perhaps because of the Insanity cards. Additionally, interaction with Voidseeders will be way different, you will need to think very carefully where to move or place your hero to not go insane. —description from the publisher

Originally available as part of Promo Pack A from Dice Tower 2019 Kickstarter Campaign. Adds a new Basic Action called Crawl and a 10 card Crawl deck. Crawl lets a character move between any two rooms connected by Technical Corridors for an Action cost of 1. When a character crawls, they have to draw a card from the Crawl Deck and resolve it.

Untold Stories #1 provides several additional co-op game scenarios for Nemesis. They are presented in a graphic-novel/comic-book style, over 80+ full-color pages. 80+ A5 pages Punch board of special tokens A lot of additional gameplay.

Promo cards containing Achievements - special actions which become available to the players when they meet their requirements. —description from the publisher

First available at Multigenre Fan Convention Pyrkon. It was part of promo set called "Krewni Pyrkonu", which was given as a reward for blood donation. Then as part of the Dice Tower 2020 Kickstarter Campaign. The Blood Test deck will allow your characters to get another way of checking their Contamination cards. As you probably know by now, positive results are not always nice for your life expectancy. Contents: 6 Blood Test Action cards, 1 Rules card

Untold Stories #2 provides several additional semi co-op game scenarios for Nemesis. They are presented in a graphic-novel/comic-book style, over 80+ full-color pages. 80+ A5 pages 10 script "triggering" cards A lot of additional gameplay.

Nemesis: Aftermath & Void Seeders & Medic is an expansion for Nemesis. It contains all of the stretch goals from the Kickstarter campaign: the Aftermath expansion, the Void Seeders expansion, and the Medic. —user summary "Every spaceship has a voice; a melody of machinery and subsystems its crew learns intimately during long travels. The problem is, ever since the last mission our ship sounds WRONG. There’s something foul in the way it’s speaking to us. Barely audible murmurs. Strange whispers no machine could make. The dark corridors and vast halls almost seem to SING. Some of us have tried to locate sources of this interferences, but they always seemed two steps ahead. Stalked by their never-ending presence, we soon started cracking. Our engineer has cut some words on his flesh. When we asked why, he replied:‘Incandescent secrets need to be written in blood’. Then, our navigator took a spacewalk without her suit. When we pulled her in, her entire face frozen and cracked, she grinned in a way I will never forget. Now, it got even worse. Noises turned into voices, sharing tales of slaughter and terror. They do not run from us anymore. They encircle us and herd us through the ship to some dark purpose. I need to UNDERSTAND them before it’s too late. I put my hand on the pistol grip, looking at the backs of my last two crewmembers. I see dark mysteries swirling under their skulls. It would only take two bullet holes to release them..." Rules: Overlook: Voidseeders are a race that can interact with the minds of crew members. They will have few nests instead of one, but only one strong fighting presence at given moment. Once killed, new one will be awakened from the most developed nest. This race will focus on whispering and controlling minds - people who will be near them will start to hear voices commanding them to do different destructive things. Nests: On the board, there is normally 1 Nest as a room token, but there are additionally 2-3 smaller nests. Those are places where new Voidseeders will born. At the moment of discovering main Nest, you should put a Stalker miniature in it (this is the model that is on the ship from the beginning. He is very dangerous, especially when faced by people with a high Insanity level). Other Nests will start showing up on the board together with discovering certain Exploration tokens. Those nests will be especially dangerous. They will not move, but if a crew member will happen to end the turn at the tile with a nest, he will get a serious wound. Voidlurkers They will spawn in nests, and their objective will be to spread insanity and try to move players to Nests. Whispersers They will work very similar to Voidlurkers, but with the difference that they will have the main goal of defending the main nest. Stalker He is a main guardian. He takes advantage from fear / insanity of the crew members and will focus on them. Despoiler Equivalent of the Queen. Actually, it is hard to say if she is real or if it is a mass hallucination. One way or the other, she will only emerge when all Insanity tokens are on players (number of tokens will be specific for different numbers of players). She is extremely strong. Contamination card Here it will change a little bit - players will normally get a contamination card every time they will get an insanity token. They will be easier to discard (you don't need to check if it was infected or not). Effect of the card will only take place at the very end of the game, and it will be the same as in the normal version - if it will turn out it was indeed "infected," it will mean that your character, even if escaped, went mad and lost the game either way. Whispers mechanic This mechanism will change the noise mechanic. Whenever you move (or an event card will tell you to), you will need to roll for whispers. If you would get a corridor with an whisper token already in it (you hear something more) - you need to draw a Card from the Insanity deck. Those cards will apply to you or not based on the numbers of insanity tokens your character has. Effects might be very different - from one-time action to permanent disabilities. Combat In combat, Voidlurkers will only try to add insanity tokens to you and then run away to the closes nest. Whisperers will be harder to kill, as well as present some portion of actual physical danger, but their main weapon will still be giving you insanity tokens. Things will change with Stalker and Despoiler - those two will be huge opponents who will give you real wounds, so you will not want to be near them. Event phase In the event phase, one additional step that will be added is checking your insanity tokens and numbers of Voidlurkers and Whisperers in all rooms next to yours. If the number of them is higher than the number of insanity tokens, you add one insanity token and draw one contamination card. But whenever you will be in a room with other people, this effect will be less harmful. (they can help you calm down) Overall feel Overall feel we will be going for will be way different from what you will have in the base Core Box. We have a lot of cool ideas how to get Insanity cards in a way, that it will be an additional layer of you not trusting your friends - not only because of their objective but perhaps because of the Insanity cards. Additionally, interaction with Voidseeders will be way different, you will need to think very carefully where to move or place your hero to not go insane. —description from the publisher

A set of 5 promo cards available as part of the Man V Meeple Season 3 Kickstarter. These promo cards are also available from the BGG Store (as was previously confirmed by Awaken Realms support). Feat Card Description (credit to col_w for transcribing them): DODGE Discard this card to ignore the effect of the Intruder Attack card you just drew. [1] HACKING If you are in a Room with a Computer: Choose a Room. Open/Close any Doors in the Corridors connected to that Room. (OR) If you are in a Room with a Computer: Choose any Room with a Computer. You may use its Room Action without paying its Cost. [0] HANDYMAN Discard a Malfunction marker from the Room you are in. (OR) Discard Tools and Duct Tape items to pick a chosen Blue (crafted) Item. [1] HEADSHOT Discard 1 Ammo marker to deal 2 Injuries to an Intruder in the Room you are in and roll the Combat Die. [1] THIEF You may take 1 Item from the Inventory of any Character in the Room you are in. You choose this Item at random. These cards are obtained differently than the BGG cards. Quoting David Waybright on the KS page: "They are 'Feat' cards, and they work in a pretty cool way. During setup each player randomly takes one, and places it face down in front of them. Once they accomplish whatever is on the back of the card, they take the card and place it on top of their action deck, and it is now part of your deck."

The Medic Character Pack is a Kickstarter exclusive expansion, which was first part of Nemesis: Aftermath & Void Seeders & Medic Stretch Goal Box. It was offered as a separate add-on during Nemesis: Lockdown Kickstarter campaign. It includes: Medic Miniature with Pink Plastic Ring Medic Action Cards (10) Medic Hero Board Medic Starting Items(3) Medic Trait Card Medic Draft Card

"Every spaceship has a voice; a melody of machinery and subsystems its crew learns intimately during long travels. The problem is, ever since the last mission our ship sounds WRONG. There’s something foul in the way it’s speaking to us. Barely audible murmurs. Strange whispers no machine could make. The dark corridors and vast halls almost seem to SING. Some of us have tried to locate sources of this interferences, but they always seemed two steps ahead. Stalked by their never-ending presence, we soon started cracking. Our engineer has cut some words on his flesh. When we asked why, he replied:‘Incandescent secrets need to be written in blood’. Then, our navigator took a spacewalk without her suit. When we pulled her in, her entire face frozen and cracked, she grinned in a way I will never forget. Now, it got even worse. Noises turned into voices, sharing tales of slaughter and terror. They do not run from us anymore. They encircle us and herd us through the ship to some dark purpose. I need to UNDERSTAND them before it’s too late. I put my hand on the pistol grip, looking at the backs of my last two crewmembers. I see dark mysteries swirling under their skulls. It would only take two bullet holes to release them..." Rules: OverlookVoidseeders are a race that can interact with the minds of crew members. They will have few nests instead of one, but only one strong fighting presence at given moment. Once killed, new one will be awakened from the most developed nest. This race will focus on whispering and controlling minds - people who will be near them will start to hear voices commanding them to do different destructive things. NestsOn the board, there is normally 1 Nest as a room token, but there are additionally 2-3 smaller nests. Those are places where new Voidseeders will born. At the moment of discovering main Nest, you should put a Stalker miniature in it (this is the model that is on the ship from the beginning. He is very dangerous, especially when faced by people with a high Insanity level). Other Nests will start showing up on the board together with discovering certain Exploration tokens. Those nests will be especially dangerous. They will not move, but if a crew member will happen to end the turn at the tile with a nest, he will get a serious wound. VoidlurkersThey will spawn in nests, and their objective will be to spread insanity and try to move players to Nests. WhispersersThey will work very similar to Voidlurkers, but with the difference that they will have the main goal of defending the main nest. StalkerHe is a main guardian. He takes advantage from fear / insanity of the crew members and will focus on them. DespoilerEquivalent of the Queen. Actually, it is hard to say if she is real or if it is a mass hallucination. One way or the other, she will only emerge when all Insanity tokens are on players (number of tokens will be specific for different numbers of players). She is extremely strong. Contamination cardHere it will change a little bit - players will normally get a contamination card every time they will get an insanity token. They will be easier to discard (you don't need to check if it was infected or not). Effect of the card will only take place at the very end of the game, and it will be the same as in the normal version - if it will turn out it was indeed "infected," it will mean that your character, even if escaped, went mad and lost the game either way. Whispers mechanicThis mechanism will change the noise mechanic. Whenever you move (or an event card will tell you to), you will need to roll for whispers. If you would get a corridor with an whisper token already in it (you hear something more) - you need to draw a Card from the Insanity deck. Those cards will apply to you or not based on the numbers of insanity tokens your character has. Effects might be very different - from one-time action to permanent disabilities. CombatIn combat, Voidlurkers will only try to add insanity tokens to you and then run away to the closes nest. Whisperers will be harder to kill, as well as present some portion of actual physical danger, but their main weapon will still be giving you insanity tokens. Things will change with Stalker and Despoiler - those two will be huge opponents who will give you real wounds, so you will not want to be near them. Event phaseIn the event phase, one additional step that will be added is checking your insanity tokens and numbers of Voidlurkers and Whisperers in all rooms next to yours. If the number of them is higher than the number of insanity tokens, you add one insanity token and draw one contamination card. But whenever you will be in a room with other people, this effect will be less harmful. (they can help you calm down) Overall feelOverall feel we will be going for will be way different from what you will have in the base Core Box. We have a lot of cool ideas how to get Insanity cards in a way, that it will be an additional layer of you not trusting your friends - not only because of their objective but perhaps because of the Insanity cards. Additionally, interaction with Voidseeders will be way different, you will need to think very carefully where to move or place your hero to not go insane. —description from the publisher

The main mode of Nemesis: Aftermath is the Epilogue Mode, a short (45-60 min.) 5-turn game, which is played after a regular game. At the start of this Epilogue, an unspecified amount of time has passed since the events that occurred in the Nemesis base game. The players use Characters (which haven't took part in base game) who enter the Nemesis to investigate. The ship bears many scars of its past tribulations, so any leftovers from your previous game will have effects on your Epilogue game. An Epilogue game is much shorter than a regular Nemesis game, but it is more difficult and offers a very dynamic playthrough. Instead of Objectives, players have to deal with seemingly simple Personal Requirements, while trying to cooperate in order to cope with various Alerts. In addition, players pursuing more selfish interests might accept the Lucrative Offer. The players also use the additional Shuttle board, which represents a new small ship (docked to the Nemesis) consisting of additional 4 Room slots. The Nemesis: Aftermath expansion also adds 4 new Rooms "2". You can play the Epilogue game with less players than the number that actually participated in the regular game. TRAITS Nemesis: Aftermath adds a Trait card for each Character (both from the base game and the expansion). Trait cards gives specific advantages and disadvantages during the game. The Trait card is placed face up next to the Character board, and its rule is in effect for the rest of the game. NEW CHARACTERS Nemesis: Aftermath adds 5 new Characters to the game. When the players choose their Character, the Character draft card they select allows them to pick either the base game or the Aftermath character of a chosen color. For example, the red Aftermath Character (the Convict) can replace the red base game Character (the Soldier). After choosing their Character, each player keeps their selected draft card, preventing any other player to choose the other Character of the same color. The two red Characters (the Convict and the Soldier) can never be in the same game together. The Aftermath Characters are very different from the base game Characters. —description from the publisher