- Q: Can "I'm outta here!"" be used to resign during The Endless Stairs regardless of whether or not the bottommost location is revealed? A: No, you cannot! The bottommost Mysterious Stairs location does not gain the “Resign” ability until it is revealed, as per the text on act 2. Essentially, the resign ability only exists while the bottommost stairs is revealed; until then, there is no scenario card with a “resign” ability in play, so you cannot play I’m outta here. (February 2024)
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A small joke about this: the "Spirit" trait is translated to the word meaning "bravery" in Chinese localization. While it works fine on other cards, it is quite funny when you look at this one. To get out of shit do require some trick, but that comes nowhere near bravery (Well, I guess you can say that it takes a brave man to acknowledge his own powerlessness, maybe?)
: Resign. Heavy spoiler incoming, get outta here before it's too late.
Jokes aside, let's take a look at how many scenarios in each campaign have an escape option, and which ones are good for this. I will categorize every resign option into one of the 4 groups:
- Objective, where you win the scenario by resigning;
- Panic button, where you are required to do things and then resign, but if things go south you can always just say "I'm outta here!";
- Failsafe, where you technically can resign but gives a bad outcome (at least you are not dying from Obol);
- Non-option, where resign must NOT be used.
As of now I only completed NotZ, Carcosa, Innsmouth and EotE, so ratings for the other 5 campaign are only theoratical. Comments welcomed.
Night of the Zeal: 2/3. Conclusion: Hardly worth the deck space
- The Gathering: Failsafe, only available in act 3
- The Midnight Mask: Panic button
- The Devourer Below: Non-option.
The Dunwich Legacy: 6/8. Conclusion: Don't take it until you get to the finale; but in the finale, it's well worth a slot (and 1 XP, if you don't have Adaptable)
- Extracurricular Activity: Failsafe
- The House Always Wins: Objective; if the front door is gone, you need to find the back door first; extra points for securing the VP on back door (normally when retreating you will drop all your remaining clues on the location and thus deny that point of VP)
- The Miskatonic Museum: Failsafe
- Blood on the Altar: Failsafe
- Undimensioned and Unseen: Failsafe
- Where Doom Awaits: Non-option
- Lost in Time and Space: Objective, extra points for circumventing the "Spend 2 clues" restriction and for an extremly annoying map
The Path to Carcosa: 4/8. Conclusion: take at deck creation, drop after finishing Oath
- Curtain Call: Objective, only available in act 3; do note that you can't get out until the stranger is dealt with, because until then the lobby doesn't have ": Resign" (note the difference in wording compare to No Asylum)
- The Last King: Panic button
- Echoes of the Past: Failsafe
- The Unspeakable Oath: Objective, only available in act 4; extra points for circumventing the "no ready enemy" restriction and for a relatively big map
The Forgotten Age: 4/9. Conclusion: take at deck creation, keep it at least until finishing Eztli, drop no later after Elders Part 1
- The Untamed Wilds: Failsafe
- The Doom of Eztli: Failsafe (Act 1&2), Objective (Act 3)
- Threads of Fate: Panic button
- Heart of the Elders, Part 1: Panic button
- The Depths of Yoth: In the campagin guide it says there's a resign ("each investigator resigned or was defeated" in the resoultion section), but there's no relevant card
- The same goes for Shattered Aeons.
- Since Turn Back Time use the same locations with The Doom of Eztli, there is a resign option. Obviously, Non-option.
The Circle Undone: 5/8. Conclusion: take at deck creation, keep it at least until finishing Doorstep
- At Death's Doorstep: Objective, only available in act 3
- The Secret Name: In the campagin guide it says there's a resign ("each investigator resigned or was defeated" in the resoultion section), but there's no relevant card
- The Wages of Sin: Panic button, extra points for circumventing the "above resign ability cannot be triggered" restriction on the spectral side.
- For the Greater Good: Failsafe
- Union and Disillusion: Panic button
- In the Clutches of Chaos: Failsafe
The Dream-Eaters: 3/8 (1/4 for Campaign A, 2/4 for Campaign B). Conclusion: take only if you have slots to spare, and drop as soon as you need one
- The Search for Kadath: Panic button
- Waking Nightmare: Failsafe; note that, like the case in Curtain Call, you can't play this once the room is infested and loses the ability
- A Thousand Shapes of Horror: Objective, only available in act 2 and after revealing the bottommost Stairs; do note that with the exception of those two Stairs, you can NOT resign with outta here while in each of the other Stairs unless that location's restriction is lifted.
The Innsmouth Conspiracy: 6/8. Conclusion: some situational use in the 1st, 3rd and 6th scenario, swap in with Adaptable if needed
- The Pit of Despair: Objective, only available after finding the place; extra points for circumventing the "controls the green key" restriction and for a relatively big map
- The Vanishing of Elina Harper: Failsafe
- In Too Deep: Objective, only available after someone reach the station; extra points in multiplayer for the option to split up in a huge and annoying map
- Devil Reef: Failsafe, extra points for circumventing the "in the Fishing Vessel" restriction
- A Light in the Fog: Panic button, extra points for circumventing the "If The Moon Room is unflooded" restriction (I would argue that Diving Suit is not essential in the finale)
- The Lair of Dagon: Failsafe
Edge of the Earth: 5/10 (or 3/5 if you go the shortest run). Conclusion: take at deck creation, drop whenever you need the slot after finishing 1-1
- The Crash: Objective, extra points in multiplayer for the option to split up in a huge map
- Lost in the Night: Panic button, extra points for a huge map
- Seeping Nightmares: Failsafe, extra points for circumventing the "spend 4 clues" restriction and for a huge map
- To the Forbidden Peaks: Failsafe, only available after someone reach the peak; extra points for an annoying map
- The Heart of Madness, Part I: Panic button. Extra points for a relatively big map
The Scarlet Key: 7/10. Conlusion: get one (buy or swap) before 56-Y if you have trouble with a or (4) test; otherwise, it hardly worth the deck space
- Riddles and Rain: Failsafe
- Dead Heat: Failsafe
- Sanguine Shadows: Failsafe
- Dealings in the Dark: In the campagin guide it says there's a resign ("each investigator resigned or was defeated" in the resoultion section), but there's no relevant card
- Dancing Mad: Failsafe, only available in act 1&2 for v.I, or act 2 in v.II
- On Thin Ice: Failsafe
- Shades of Suffering: Failsafe
- Without a Trace: Failsafe (act 1&2), Objective (act 3); extra points for circumventing the skill test
Side Stories: 4/9. Conclusion: good to have for Casino Heist
- Curse of the Rougarou: Failsafe
- Guardians of the Abyss: Failsafe, extra points for the option to resign whether or not the train is sabotaged
- Murder at the Excelsior Hotel: Failsafe
- Fortune and Folly, Part I: a resign option is available on Casino Floor location, sadly ADB don't have the card in the database. Panic button
- Fortune and Folly, Part II: Failsafe in act 2, Objective in act 3; huge style points for break into the vault, everyone else resign (in multiplayer), then you grab the key and vanish into thin air
Parallel: 4/5. Conclusion: a good idea to have one if the team decides to go any of the parallel except Baker's; a VERY good idea for O'Toole and Wendy Adams to bring one into their own parallel
- Read or Die: Panic button for everyone else; Failsafe for Daisy (or Non-option if you can't bear the advanced weakness)
- All or Nothing: in act 1, Panic button for everyone else; Failsafe for O'Toole (or Non-option if you can't bear the advanced weakness); In act 2, Objective
- By the Book: Panic button; Roland gets the upgrade as long as Grey is dead but he isn't, so you can resign the minute Grey is gone if you can afford the entry fee
- Red Tide Rising: Panic button; Wendy Adams gets R1 as long as she doesn't die, so you can even resign right at the begining if you can afford the entry fee
Final conclusion:
- If you are not taking Obol, most of the time this is just a worse Manual Dexterity, with some situational shine
- With Obol (and ideally in multiplayer), it's a good failsafe that well worth a slot considering the consequnce for dying
- If your investigator have an annoying weakness that spawns way out of reach, this can be include as a solution
- Save for one exception, it's always a good idea to swap this to at least a Manual Dexterity in the finale
Admittedly, I have not used this card in a deck yet.
If I were planning on using Charon's Obol, I might plan to use "I'm outta here!" more, since surviving a scenario without being defeated is that much more important in that case. However, I'm not sure how often I'd use it outside of that.
For investigators who can take it, I think that Elusive is the better alternative. Resign effects are normally printed on either Act cards or Location cards. If the Resign option is on the Act card, then there's no reason to use "I'm outta here!", since you could just use the Act's action normally. If the Resign option is on a Location card, you can use Elusive to get there (since it has the Fast keyword) and then resign. Elusive does cost 2 more resources, but it gives you a lot more flexibility in how you can use it. I think it is probably the better pick in most cases.
The two icons are situationally useful. If you're going to use card for 2 icons, though, you're probably better off just using Manual Dexterity for the card draw.
(Spoilers for the Carcosa cycle)
An interesting rules query for this Path to Carcosa Act card - would this card work for the card's Resign action regardless of the location of monsters and clues? My gut instinct is "yes" because the ability is "in play" - it exists constantly but is only useable under certain conditions. If that's true, then that would be the dream use for a card like this one.
(End Spoilers for the Carcosa cycle)
Ultimately, I think "I'm outta here!" is situational, and Elusive is able to cover those situations on its own (as well as quite a few more). For investigators like Rita Young that have access to "I'm outta here!" but not Elusive, it might be worth considering for those edge cases, but even then I would say there are probably cards that would be more regularly useful than this one.
Spoilers for The Dunwich Legacy:
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..... In the last scenario Lost in time and space to get best ending you have to resign so you have to spend 2 clues. But not with this card. You not only resign from anywhere but you don't have to spend the 2 clues, which is awesome if you are some kind of fighter.
I love this card.
At first I figured I would just play it for the boots. But then, while playing a game, swarmed by monsters, some with really high agility, I was like, "man! I am screwed!"
And then, as if by fate and chance, I discover a Resign card on the board. The very goal to the game. And then you realize just how amazing this card is in a pinch. It costs nothing and you don't have to pull a coin. You just get out! That's an alive and fine investigator.
Wanna do some last minute clean-up, take an extra risk? This card let's you do that. You can spend your turn trying to milk XP or just try crazy stuff, and then get outta dodge.
10/10. Love this card. I would run 1 and just hope I can draw it when the situation calls for it.
Initially this card seems kind of useless. Honestly I can't really comment on its applicability to your typical investigator but I do know of two investigators who can benefit a lot from it.
Zoey and Jenny can both get really screwed by their weaknesses if they drop in the last few rounds of the game. Zoey can get caught traveling all the way across the map in order to kill some jerk monsters and Jenny searching for Izzie in far off lands. This can be especially problematic in large maps or ones flush with monsters. If you only have a couple turns left in the campaign before the final Agenda procs you may not have that many actions to spare, and especially for these weaknesses they are on-par with being defeated anyway (which is significantly worse than any other investigators weakness penalty). In this method you can almost halve the number of actions required to fulfill these without screwing over your win condition.
It's not a perfect fix, but I'd consider a 1-of for these investigators to help them out alongside action-investments like Police badge or action-compression items like Cat Burgler.
As some people mentioned, this card is a good replacement for Manual Dexterity. Same number of icons. It's worth remembering that Resigning does not provoke attacks of opportunities. If you are engaged with ennemies, have low health/sanity and are about to die, you can play this card even if you have no resources left to avoid getting a Physical or Mental trauma. That said, will not work with all scenarios. Would be interesting to see stats per campaign.