Completing the Circle Keeper Guide

Story Choices
Answer the following questions, and record your answers on a scrap piece of paper:
1. The reason that the investigators were pulled through the painting was:
A. The house is a real place, and theres a baby trapped in the house calling out to the
investigators to free it before the witches do something horrible to it.
B. The house only exists in the painting, but it feeds on humans and creates the illusion of
a baby crying in order to get people to stay a while so it can feed.
C. The house exists in a different dimension, the baby is actually an otherworldly horror
trying to manipulate the investigators into completing the ritual to let him into our
world.
2. There are fragments of the ritual circle hidden in: (pick a number of answers equal to the
number of investigators in the game)
A. The tower
B. Buried in an underground coffin
C. Locked with the cleaning supplies
D. Under the floorboards of the porch
E. Behind a painting in the Dining Room
F. Hidden in a false book

Component Setup
Perform the following steps:
1. Clue Cards: Claim the storys clue Exploration cards matching the choices you made in Story
Choices.
2. Exploration: Claim the following cards Axe, Baby, Elder Sign, Knife, Lantern, Saturnian Wine,
Sedative Kit, Shotgun, Nothing of Interest x3. Also claim cards based on the Variable Card Setup
Table.
3. Obstacle (?): Claim the cards you are instructed to based on the Variable Card Setup Table along
with Ritual Circle.
4. Lock (L): Claim the following cards Dark Room, Dreadful Passage, Guarded Passage, Jammed
Door, Padlocked Door, Runelocked Door, Sealed Door.
5. Build Mythos Deck: Build the Mythos deck with cards containing the following icons: Down
Stairs, Up Stairs, Bat
6. Claim Keeper Action Cards: Command Minion, Darkness, Evil Presence, Uncontrollable Urges,
Witchcraft. (Note that this refers to the Witchcraft provided with the scenario)
7. Claim Objective Card: Take the card matching your story choice for question 1.

8. Starting Cards and Threat: Draw 1 Mythos and 1 Trauma card and gain 1 threat.

Variable Card Setup Table

Obstacles

1 Investigator: Lockbox, Manhole Cover, Power Failure, Puzzle Box, Short Circuit, Suitcase
2 Investigators: Locked Cabinet, Manhole Cover, Power Failure, Puzzle Box, Short Circuit,
Suitcase
3 Investigators: Locked Cabinet, Magic Box, Manhole Cover, Power Failure, Puzzle Box, Suitcase
4 Investigators: Closed Safe, Locked Cabinet, Magic Box, Manhole Cover, Puzzle Box, Suitcase

Keys

1 Investigator: Crowbar
2 Investigators: Brass Key, Crowbar
3 Investigators: Brass Key, Crowbar, Magic Phrase
4 Investigators: Brass Key, Crowbar, Magic Phrase, Silver Key

Tomes

1 Investigator: Crucifix, De Vermis Mysteriis, Nameless Cults, Ruby of Rlyeh, Startling Evidence
2 Investigators: Crucifix, De Vermis Mysteriis, Nameless Cults, Ruby of Rlyeh
3 Investigators: De Vermis Mysteriis, Nameless Cults, Ruby of Rlyeh
4 Investigators: De Vermis Mysteriis, Nameless Cults

Treasures

1 Investigator: Ceremonial Skull, Colt .38, Cult Robes, Torch, Whiskey

2 Investigators: Ceremonial Skull, Colt .38, Cult Robes, Whiskey
3 Investigators: Ceremonial Skull, Cult Robes, Whiskey
4 Investigators: Ceremonial Skull, Whiskey

Other

1 Investigator: 1x Circle Fragment, 5x Nothing of Interest

2 Investigators: 2x Circle Fragment, 4x Nothing of Interest
3 Investigators: 3x Circle Fragment, 3x Nothing of Interest
4 Investigators: 4x Circle Fragment, 2x Nothing of Interest

Note: Keys, Tomes and Treasures are all regular Exploration cards, but labeled this way so that you know
what cards are in what groups for when you seed them.

Seed Cards
Nursery

Foyer
Clue 1, Ritual Circle (?)

Baby

Attic Loft
2A: Tower Room Key, Lock (L)
Else: Treasure, Lock (L)

Tower Room
2A: Circle Fragment, Clue 2A, Obstacle (?)
Else: Nothing of Interest, Tome, Obstacle (?)

Storage Shed
2B: Chasm Key, Lock (L)
Else: Treasure, Lock (L)

Chasm
2B: Circle Fragment, Clue 2B, Obstacle (?)
Else: Nothing of Interest, Tome, Obstacle (?)

Kitchen Storage
2C: Bathroom 2 Key, Lock (L)
Else: Treasure, Lock (L)

Bathroom 2
2C: Circle Fragment, Clue 2C, Obstacle (?)
Else: Nothing of Interest, Tome, Obstacle (?)

Master Bedroom
2D: Front Porch Key, Lock (L)
Else: Treasure, Lock (L)

Front Porch
2D: Circle Fragment, Clue 2D, Obstacle (?)
Else: Nothing of Interest, Tome, Obstacle (?)

Cave 2
2E: Dining Room Key, Lock (L)
Else: Treasure, Lock (L)

Dining Room
2E: Circle Fragment, Clue 2E, Obstacle (?)
Else: Nothing of Interest, Tome, Obstacle (?)

Hallway 1
2F: Library Key, Lock (L)
Else: Treasure, Lock (L)

Library
2F: Circle Fragment, Clue 2F, Obstacle (?)
Else: Nothing of Interest, Tome, Obstacle (?)

Secret Passage
Sealed Door (L)

Remaining Exploration Cards

Place 1 random card in each empty room.

Notes: When seeding an Obstacle, if that room has a clue in it, that obstacle must be Closed Safe,
Locked Cabinet, Magic Box or Manhole Cover. If that room does not have a clue in it, then you must put
one of the other obstacles.
When seeding a Key, you seed the card that can bypass the Obstacle in the indicated room.
When seeding a Lock, you may place any lock from the ones claimed.
When seeding a Treasure or Tome, you may place any one from the cards claimed in that category in the
Variable Card Setup Table.

Prologue
As you wake up, you find that you are not alone in this foreign foyer. A couple other people are beside
you on the floor. After a couple introductions, you realize that you are all investigators who were also
called to investigate paintings at different museums in the Arkham area. Youve just barely introduced
yourself when the cry of a baby comes from behind the wall behind the pedestal. You may not yet know
whats going on, but finding that baby certainly could help.