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Reveal event card
The active player (with start player figure) draws the topmost event card and reads it aloud
2
Resolve immediate events
If the event has a tan background, carry out its effects immediately in clockwise order starting with active player
3
Note long-term events
Events with blue backgrounds remain in effect until chapter end and affect action card play
4
Orient the event card
The active player places the card face-up on the city council space, choosing its orientation from 4 possible positions
5
Determine personal income
Each player receives the resource shown on the corner of the event card pointing toward them
6
Substitute for unavailable income
If your personal income isn't available in supply, receive 1 victory point instead
7
Move favor marker
Move the marker along the favor track the number of spaces indicated by where the red arrow points (0-3)
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Receive favor award
The active player receives the benefit of the space where the favor marker lands (only if it moved)
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Queen
Receive 2 victory points if you have at least 1 loyalty
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Prior
Receive 1 piety from the cathedral
11
Guild Master
Receive 1 victory point per house you have built on the board
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Prioress
Receive 2 victory points if you have at least 1 medical knowledge
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Merchants
Receive 1 wool from supply
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King
Receive 1 victory point per loyalty you have
15
Earl of Shiring
Receive 1 grain from the field
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Bishop
Receive 1 victory point per piety you have
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Outlaws
Pay 1 gold to supply; card cannot be oriented this way if you cannot pay
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Play one action card
Starting with active player, each player plays one action card face-up and resolves its action
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Discard one action card
(Chapters II-IV) After playing, choose one card to discard face-down without effect
20
Maintain two piles
Keep an action pile (played face-up) and discard pile (discarded face-down), ending each chapter with 6 cards each
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Consider long-term events
All blue event cards along the board edge affect your action card play
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Grain
Take 1 grain from the field
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Piety
Take 1 piety from the cathedral
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Resource
Take 1 stone from quarry OR 1 wood from forest
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Building Project
Place up to 2 resources on one building project, receiving 3 victory points per resource placed
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Wool & Cloth Sales
Sell any amount of wool (2 gold each) and/or 1 cloth (4 gold) at the market
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Privilege
Repeat the action of your most recently played action card (top of your action pile)
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House Building
Pay 1 gold plus 1 matching resource (stone or wood) to build a house on a matching building space
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House Rent
Receive income from up to 2 of your built houses as indicated on those spaces
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Donation
Pay 1 gold and place one donation seal on an unfinished building project
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Cloth Production
Convert 1 wool to 1 cloth OR 2 wool to 2 cloth
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Medicine
Take 1 gold and 1 victory point OR care for plague-infected inhabitants (Chapters III-IV)
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Favor
Move favor marker exactly 1 space and receive that space's award
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Place resources on projects
Use Building Project action to add stone (grey spaces) or wood (brown spaces)
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Score for building
Receive 3 victory points per resource placed
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Complete donation bonuses
When all spaces are filled, donating players receive the indicated bonus (usually 1 VP plus a resource)
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Tower completion
When 8 regular spaces are filled, player with most loyalty places metal resource and receives 3 VP
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Hospital donation special
Allows immediate care for plague victim if you have sufficient medical knowledge
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Reveal plague locations
When event cards are drawn, flip the plague marker matching the card's number (1-11)
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Check medical knowledge required
The revealed number shows how much medical knowledge needed to care for those inhabitants
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Care for inhabitants
Play Medicine action with sufficient medical knowledge to treat locations
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Receive caring rewards
Gain 2 victory points plus the location's bonus benefit per location treated
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Keep medical knowledge
Medical knowledge is shown but not spent when caring for plague victims
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Treat multiple locations
Sum the requirements of all locations you wish to treat in one action
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Move long-term events
Place new long-term events on event card spaces along the board edge (maximum 2; third replaces oldest)
46
Pass start player
Give start player figure to the player on your left
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Progress building projects
Add 1 matching resource from supply to each building project (stone first if both needed)
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Remove covering tiles
Clear all event-related covering tiles from the board
49
Remove long-term events
Discard all blue event cards from the board edge
50
Pay piety duty
Return 2 piety to cathedral; lose 3 VP per missing piety and perform penance next chapter
51
Pay grain duty
Return 2 grain to field; lose 2 VP per missing grain and go begging next chapter
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Pay tax duty
Active player rolls tax die (2-5 gold); lose 1 VP per unpaid gold and go before royal court next chapter
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Use loyalty protection
Pay 1 loyalty to avoid one penalty (still lose VP but skip the punishment)
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Keep remaining resources
Piety, grain, and gold carry over to next chapter
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Penance
Another player randomly draws and discards one of your action cards at chapter start; no additional discard after first action
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Begging
Forego your personal income in the first round of the chapter
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Royal Court
Play and discard cards normally but skip the action in your first turn; only 5 actions that chapter
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After Chapter I
Add the 6 advanced action cards to each player's hand
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After Chapter II
Place Tower building project and 11 plague markers (number-side down) on numbered locations
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Chapter IV end penalties
Victory point losses are doubled instead of performing penance/begging/royal court
