by Guy Hail
Each Exotic Location will be addressed in turn, followed by a explantion of the means to arrive at and to leave from that Location. The Locations are listed alphabetically. This essay is complete for all Exotic Locations and all means of travel and all means of changing a player's Current Location through the New AEon edition of Mythos.
All Exotic Locations require some special procedure before playing that Location. In the New AEon rulesbook, page 36, the general rule for travel to and travel from Exotic Locations is given: You must Travel Through Space, Travel Underwater, or travel as otherwise indicated in the Special Effect Box both to and from an Exotic Location. Some Exotic Locations have other special requirements which must be met before they can be played. This rule means you must.
The general notes on travel which follow are applicable to all Exotic Locatons.
There is a difference between Walking and as if Walking. For both a Location card is played sideways across your Story Deck, then on a later turn rotated right-side-up. Unless a the Special Effect Box of an Artifact or of a Location permits it, Walking is forbidden as a means to play Exotic Locations or to leave an Exotic Location. Those Artifacts, Events, or Spells that use the phrase as if Walking are not forbidden by the rules that forbid Walking.
A Travel Requirement requires that a specific card or type of card must be your Current Location before the Exotic Location may be played. In most cases, this is a Travel Event. (Recall that a Travel Event becomes your Current Location when it is the top card of your Story Deck; pages 27-28 of the New AEon rulesbook.). For some Exotic Locations, the Travel requirement is Location card, for examples see Splendid Cathuria and N'Kai. A Special Requirement is a requirement for a card or cards to be in play, for examples see R'lyeh and Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath.
In general Transdimensional Travel does not circumvent Travel Requirements for going to Exotic Locations. It never circumvents Special Requirements. Only Travel Events that specifically allow travel to Exotics may be used. A few of these (Cats of Ulthar, The White Ship) may ignore Travel requirements due to their special effect boxes.
When leaving an Exotic Location, the Travel Reqirements for traveling from that Exotic Location are superceded by the Special Effect Box of the card used to Travel between Dimensions--due to the card conflict order.
Cards that permit Transdimensional Travel are: Silver Key, Time Machine, Cats of Ulthar, The White Ship, UFO, Gate of Oneirology, and Monatomic Translocation.
Some cards permit movement of a Location card from somewhere in your Story Deck to the top of your Story Deck, where the moved card becomes your Current Location. This is not travel. It is unaffected by all travel restrictions. Moving a card from your Story Deck to become your Current Location is playing the card. For this reason you must still meet special requirements.
At the Cavern of Flame, Nasht & Kamen-Thah may not be used to play an Exotic Location.
When there is a conflict between two card's special effect boxes, the last card played or used as a player's action takes precedence. You may use Silver Key to travel from an Exotic Location to a Location in another Dimension. Silver Key requires the use of a Gate, so if you've used the Exotic Location's gate to play a Monster, you may not use Silver Key. Some Exotic Locations have multi-use gates, however. Silver Key prohibits walking to Exotic Locations. You may use Time Machine to walk from an Exotic Location to a Location in another dimension. The Time Machine prohibits walking to Exotic Locations. These two Artifacts are exceptions to the rules that forbid Walking from because they require transdimensional travel.
Unless otherwise forbidden, the Sphere of Nath may be used to remove an Exotic Location from atop your Story Deck. You may not play the Sphere of Nath on yourself. See page 32 of the New AEon rulesbook for the consequences of having your Current Location buried or discarded.
You may bury Carter's Clock to re-play any Location buried in your Story Deck. Carter's Clock may be used to leave and to arrive at an Exotic Location. See page 37 of the New AEon rulesbook for how to move a Location from your Story Deck to become your Current Location. When you're moving a card from your story deck and putting it back into play, you're playing it anew. Because of this, Carter's Clock has some restrictions on which Exotic Locations may be played. See Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath and R'lyeh. Other than these two, any Exotic Location may be played without restriction. Playing an Exotic Location by burying Carter's Clock does not costs Sanity, as explained in the Special Effect Box of the Carter's Clock card. The Zanthu Tables: A Conjectural Translation does not forbid your use of Carter's Clock because of the phrase may not be used against you found in its Special Effect Box.
You may travel to or travel from an Exotic Location by play of The Cat Chieftan & The Cats of Ulthar combination. You may travel to or travel from an Exotic Location by play of The Captain of the White Ship & The White Ship combination. The Cats of Ulthar may be played only when your Current Location is in the Dreamlands. The White Ship may be played in any Dimension. These two Travel Events override the normal Travel Requirements for an Exotic Location (see transdimensional travel, above for why). They do not override the Special Requirements for an Exotic Location.
Without the Captain of the White Ship in play, the White Ship is a Travel by Sea Event. When the White Ship is played in combination with a Dreamer Ally, you may travel between Dimensions. Its destination, even with a Dreamer Ally, must be Water Location reachable by a Travel by Sea Event. Of all the Exotic Locations only R'lyeh may be reached by a Travel by Sea Event. See R'lyeh.
Although they aren't Travel, some cards may change the top card or Current Location of your Story Deck. Exotic Locations are not affected by Events or Spells that directly affect your Current Location or the Top Card of your Story Deck (page 32 of the New AEon rulesbook). The Cthulhu Rising Event may not remove an Exotic Location from the top of your Story Deck. Neither may the Earthquake Event.
Rude Awakening is not an Event that directly affects the top card of your Story Deck. You may not play Rude Awakening on yourself. When Rude Awakening is played on you, you may play a Waking World Location as your next Location. Any Waking World Location that does not have Travel Restrictions may be played. Special Requirements must also be met. In effect, the only Exotic Location that may be played when you are rudely awakened is R'lyeh (due to the fact that it is an Island, and thus only forbids certain types of Travel, including walking and Travel by Air), and then only if you have all three pieces of the R'lyeh disk in play. Rude Awakening may be played only on an opponent in the Dreamlands. See R'lyeh.
The Wreck of the Hellene may not be used to play Exotic Locations. The Basalt Pillars of the West may be used to play Dreamlands-Dimension Exotic Locations with the Space attribute; see Cykranosh, Far Side of the Moon, and Yuggoth.
When Hastur is in play, all Locations are treated as if they belong to same Region. Hastur does not create a single "Hasturian" region, nor does it change the Region of every Location into Lovecraft Country, New AEon, The Underworld, etc. The effects of Hastur are limited to the dimension you're in. The effects are not limited to the dimension the player of Hastur is in.
For example, if Alex plays Hastur at The Nameless Lake, his Enthusiastic Chorus Girl Investigator may use Hastur's presence to walk to any other Dreamlands Locations that does not have travel restrictions or special restrictions. His Investigator may not walk to a New AEon or Waking World Location. Libby, who is at the New AEon United Nations Location, may walk to any New AEon Location that does not have travel restrictions or special restrictions. Jeremy, who is at the Waking World Hangman's Hill Location, may walk to any Waking World Location that does not have travel restrictions or special restrictions.
No Investigator may use Hastur's presence to walk from one dimension to another. Hastur does not change how to travel between dimensions. Hastur does not remove any requirements for travel to or travel from a specific Location. While Hastur is in play, the region of an Exotic Location remains Exotic, the subregion remains Exotic, the Special Effect Box is unchanged, and the Dimension is unchanged. If an Exotic Location is an Island, the restrictions on Travel to Islands are still in effect. If an Exotic Location requires Travel by Air, then to travel to or from that Exotic Location still requires a Travel by Air card. Hastur will not help you travel to Exotic Locations because most Exotic Locations have travel requirements or special requirements that must be met before the Exotic Location may be played. These requirements are in the Special Effect Box of the Exotic Location and are unaffected by Hastur.
An Aside: What Hastur is Good For
After all that, you're probably asking when Hastur's Special Effect is useful. All Locations are treated as if they belong to same Region primarily affects the play of Allies, Travel Events, and Events and Spells which affect the play of Allies and Travel Events. For example, the Spell Keeness of Two Alike allows play of an Ally from the same Region. While Hastur is in play, an Ally from any Region in the same Dimension as your Current Location can be played by casting Keeness of Two Alike. While Hastur is in play, you may walk between Locations in different Regions, for example from Sarkomand to the Cavern of Deeper Slumber. Hastur will prevent the play of Travel Events that require play of a new Location in a different region, for example, Ship of Clouds or Titanic.
When Yog-Sothoth is in play, all Locations in all Dimensions are treated as if they belong to the same Region. Yog-Sothoth does not create a single "Yog-Sothothian" region, nor does it change the Region of every Location into Lovecraft Country, New AEon, The Underworld, etc. Yog-Sothoth does not remove travel or special requirements for the play of any Location. When Yog-Sothoth is in play, Investigators may walk to Locations in different dimensions. Yog-Sothoth does not remove any requirements for travel to or travel from a specific Location.
The Fly Spell may not be used to travel to an Exotic Location with one exception. The Fly Spell is not Travel by Air, Travel Underwater, Travel in Space, Travel by Sea, or Travel Underground or any other specific means of travel. It may not be used to travel to or travel from an Exotic Location which requires a specific means of travel. Of the Exotic Locations, R'lyeh alone, because it uses the Island travel rules, may be traveled to and traveled from by use of the Fly Spell.
Exotic Locations are not affected by Events or Spells that directly affect your Current Location or the Top Card of your Story Deck (page 32 of the New AEon rulesbook). Your opponents may not remove an Exotic Location from on top of your Story Deck, whether it is sidways or right-side-up by casting the Green Mist of Doom or Wave of Oblivion Spell.
Create Time Warp does not directly affect the Top Card or Current Location of your Story Deck. It may be used to re-play any buried Location. Create Time Warp may be used to leave and to arrive at an Exotic Location. See page 37 of the New AEon rulesbook for how to move a Location from your Story Deck to become your Current Location. This card has some restrictions on which Exotic Locations may be played. See Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath and R'lyeh for those restrictions. Otherwise, any Exotic Location may be played from your Story Deck by Create Time Warp. Playing an Exotic Location by casting Create Time Warp costs Sanity for the costing of the Spell but does not cost Sanity for re-playing the buried Location. Spells may be cast at no Sanity cost by a variety of means: when Nyarlathotep is play, when cast by an Ally, when cast from an Artifact, etc.
Should an opponent cast The Vortex of Far Journeying upon you, when you turn over the top card of your Mythos Deck, if that card is an Exotic Location, it becomes your Current Location. The placement of an Exotic Location atop your Story Deck by the Vortex of Far Journeying is not affected by Travel Requirements or Special Requirements. You must pay the Sanity cost (or delight in the Sanity gain) for any Location played by the Vortext of Far Journeying.
Monatomic Translocation is transdimensional travel. It does not directly affect the top card of your Story Deck. It may be used to leave an Exotic Location. The Special Effect Box of Monatomic Translocation forbids play of Exotic Locations. Gate of Oneirology may not be used to play an Exotic Location. It may be used to leave an Exotic Location.
The Necronomicon, Dreamlands Edition permits your Investigator to Walk between Waking World Locations and Dreamlands Locations as if two Locations were in the same Region. It does not alter the travel restrictions or special restrictions for travelling to or from a Location. Unlike other methods of travelling between dimensions, the Necronomicon, Dreamlands Edition does not have the except Exotic restriction. However, no Exotic Locations in the Dreamlands permit an Investigator to Walk to them except Splendid Cathuria, which may be Walked to only from Basalt Pillars of the West. Every Exotic Location in the Waking World has travel restrictions that the phrase as if they were in the same region does not over-ride. The Necronomicon, Dreamlands Edition may not be used to Walk to or from any New AEon Dimension Location. See N'Kai.
| Notes | Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath | Celaeno | Cykranosh | DBZ Spacelab | Far Side of the Moon | Lost Temple of Atlantis | N'Kai | R'lyeh | Splendid Cathuria | Tycho Base | Y'ha-Nthlei | Yuggoth |
Title: Castle of
the Great Ones on Kadath
Attributes: Artifact, City, Gate, Palace, Tome
Region & Subregion: Exotic
Public Attributes: Outside
Sanity: -2
Dimension: Dreamlands
Unique: No
Edition: Dreamlands
Special Effect Box: There must be a Star Event in play to play this card. You must travel by Air to reach Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath and Travel by Air to leave it. While this is your Current Location, all Spells cost no Sanity for your Investigator to cast.
Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath does not specify who must have played the Star Event. Unlike the play of Great Old Ones and Outer Gods, to fulfill the Star requirement for Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath, the Star Event may have been played by any Player, and it must still be in play when you play Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath card. Mythos Star Events are: Aldebaran Moves in the Sky, Algol, Cthulhu For President, Nemesis, Polaris, Sirius, and The Stars are Right.
You may use Anti-Gravity Harness to travel from but not travel to Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath. With Anti-Gravity Harness you may walk to any non-Exotic Dreamlands Location or to any Exotic Dreamlands Space Location: Far Side of the Moon, Yuggoth, or Cykranosh. Unlike Silver Key, Anti-Gravity Harness is as if Walking and so may be used to travel to Islands.
Carter's Clock may be used to play Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath. When using Carter's Clock, Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath may not be played from your hand. It must be played from your Story Deck. When you're moving a card from your story deck and putting it back into play, you're playing it anew. Because of this, a Star Event must be in play when using Carter's Clock to play Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath from your Story Deck.
You may use Silver Key or Time Machine to leave Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath.
Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath may be reached by Travel by Air Events which are playable in the Dreamlands. These Travel by Air Events are: Closed-Cockpit Monoplane, Dirigible, Seaplane, Ship of Clouds, and Sky Galleon. 747 or Helicopter cannot be used because they may be played only in the New AEon Dimension, and neither permits changing Dimension from New AEon to Dreamlands. You may not use UFO to travel to Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath because it is not a Space Location. You may not use UFO to travel from Castle because it is not a New AEon Location.
The sentence There must be a Star Event in play to play this card is a special restriction on play of Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath. This is not a travel requirement that some travel cards override. To travel to Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath by either The Captain of the White Ship & The White Ship combination or The Cat Chieftan & The Cats of Ulthar combination requires a Star Event in play. See The White Ship and the Cats of Ulthar for use of these cards to travel to or from Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath.
Rude Awakening requires an Investigator to leave Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath for a Waking World Location. This card does not directly affect the Top Card or Current Location of your Story Deck, so it may be played on you when your Current Location or Top Card is Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath.
You may not walk from Basalt Pillars of the West to Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath because it is not a Space Location.
You may travel to or travel from Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath by using the Special Effect Box of some Monsters. These Monsters may be used with the sub-type specific Summon & Control Spell (for example, Angles of Tagh Clatur) or by the Song of the Stellar Larvae, which is not a Summon spell but does permit use of a Monster's travel abilities. The Monsters whose Special Effect Box states that they are Travel by Air Events are: Byakhee (Limited Edition), Nightgaunts (Dreamlands Edition), Shantaks (Limited Edition), and Shantaks (Dreamlands Edition). No other Monsters may be used to travel to or travel from Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath.
You may use Carter's Clock or Create Time Warp to play Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath. When you're moving a card from your story deck and putting it back into play, you're playing it anew. Because of this, a Star Event must be in play when using Create Time Warp or Carter's Clock to play Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath from your Story Deck.
| Notes | Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath | Celaeno | Cykranosh | DBZ Spacelab | Far Side of the Moon | Lost Temple of Atlantis | N'Kai | R'lyeh | Splendid Cathuria | Tycho Base | Y'ha-Nthlei | Yuggoth |
Title: Celaeno
(the card is misprinted Celeano)
Attributes: Gate, Library, Site, Space, Tome
Region & Subregion: Exotic
Public Attributes: Inside
Sanity: -2
Dimension: Waking World
Unique: Yes
Edition: Limited Edition Cthulhu Rising
Special Effect Box: Beginning each Turn, you must be able to Survive in Space or lose 5 points of Sanity. Celaeno is not affected by Events or Spells that directly affect the top Location card of your Story Deck. May use this Gate more than once, but must pay this card's Santiy cost for each subsequent Gate use.
You may use Anti-Gravity Harness to travel to and travel from Celaeno. You may use Silver Key or Time Machine to leave Celaeno. Carter's Clock may be used to play Celaeno from your Story Deck, or play another Location atop Celaeno.
Celaeno may be reached by Travel by Space Events which are playable in the Waking World. There are no such Events. Shuttle Icarus is a New AEon Event. UFO may be used to travel to Celaeno from a New AEon Location. See The White Ship and the Cats of Ulthar for use of these cards to travel to or from Celaeno.
You may not Walk from Basalt Pillars of the West to the Celaeno because it is not a Dreamlands Location. Silver Key may not be used to change dimensions at Basalt Pillars of the West then walk to Celaeno because it may not be used to Walk to Exotic Locations. You may walk to Celaeno from any Great Library of the Dreamlands Location. Celaeno does not permit you to walk from Celaeno to any Great Library of the Dreamlands Location. By Walking from a Great Library of the Dreamlands Location to Celaeno, your Investigator has moved from the Dreamlands to the Waking World. The Investigator will need the Silver Key or other means to return to the Dreamlands.
You may travel to or travel from Celaeno by using the Special Effect Box of some Monsters. These Monsters may be used with the sub-type specific Summon & Control Spell (for example, Angles of Tagh Clatur) or by the Song of the Stellar Larvae, which is not a Summon spell but does permit use of a Monster's travel abilities. The Monsters whose Special Effect Box states that they may be used to Travel to a Space Location are: Byhakee (Limited Edtion), Larvae of the Other Gods, First Stage (New AEon), Shantaks (Limited Edition), and Shantaks (Dreamlands Edition). No other Monsters may be used to travel to or travel from Celaeno.
You may use Create Time Warp to arrive at or leave Celaeno.
| Notes | Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath | Celaeno | Cykranosh | DBZ Spacelab | Far Side of the Moon | Lost Temple of Atlantis | N'Kai | R'lyeh | Splendid Cathuria | Tycho Base | Y'ha-Nthlei | Yuggoth |
Title: Cykranosh
Attributes: Artifact, Country, Gate, Space, Tome, Underground
Region & Subregion: Exotic
Public Attributes: Water, Outside
Sanity: -2
Dimension: see Special Effect Box
Unique: No
Edition: New AEon
Special Effect Box: Saturn. May play this card in any Dimension; assumes the Dimension Indicator of previous Current Location. Beginning each Turn you must be able to survive in Space or lose 5 points of Sanity. Increase the value of your Formless Spawn by one point. This card also fulfills the Blackout requirement for playing Tsathoggua.
You may use Anti-Gravity Harness to travel to and travel from Cykranosh. You may use Silver Key or Time Machine to leave Cykranosh. Carter's Clock may be used to play Cykranosh from your Story Deck. When Carter's Clock is used to play Cykranosh from your Story Deck, Cykranosh adopts the Dimension of the prior Location atop your Story Deck. It does not recover its former Dimension. Carter's Clock may be used play another Location over Cykranosh.
Any Travel in Space Event that is legal to play at your Current Location may be used to travel to Cykranosh. In the Dreamlands, this Event is the Sky Galleon. In the New AEon these Events are Shuttle Icarus and UFO. Once played, Cykranosh acquires the Dimensional indicator of your previous Current Location. When a travel event is played atop your Story Deck, it becomes your Current Location. Cykranosh assumes the dimensional indicator of the travel event used to reach Cykranosh.
When using the Alternative First Card rule (page 57 of the New AEon rulesbook), you may begin play of a game of Mythos with a card other than a Location. If the first card you play is a Sky Galleon, and it is used to travel to Cykranosh, then Cykranosh becomes a Dreamlands Location. If the first card you play is Shuttle Icarus, and it is used to travel to Cykranosh, then Cykranosh becomes a New AEon Location.
See The White Ship and the Cats of Ulthar for use of these cards to travel to or from Cykranosh.
When Cykranosh is a Dreamlands Location, Rude Awakening requires an Investigator to leave Cykranosh for a Waking World Location. This card does not directly affect the Top Card or Current Location of your Story Deck, so it may be played on you when your Current Location or Top Card is Cykranosh.
The Special Effect Box of Basalt Pillars of the West overrides the normal Island travel restrictions printed in the rulesbook. You may Walk from Basalt Pillars of the West to the Cykranosh. Cykranosh then becomes a Dreamlands Location.
You may travel to or travel from Cykranosh by using the Special Effect Box of some Monsters. These Monsters may be used with the sub-type specific Summon & Control Spell (for example, Angles of Tagh Clatur) or by the Song of the Stellar Larvae, which is not a Summon spell but does permit use of a Monster's travel abilities. The Monsters whose Special Effect Box states that they may be used to Travel to a Space Location are: Byhakee (Limited Edtion), Larvae of the Other Gods, First Stage (New AEon), Shantaks (Limited Edition), and Shantaks (Dreamlands Edition). No other Monsters may be used to travel to or travel from the Cykranosh.
You may use Create Time Warp to arrive at or leave Cykranosh. When Create Time Warp is used to play Cykranosh from your Story Deck, Cykranosh adopts the Dimension of the prior Location atop your Story Deck. It does not recover its former Dimension.
| Notes | Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath | Celaeno | Cykranosh | DBZ Spacelab | Far Side of the Moon | Lost Temple of Atlantis | N'Kai | R'lyeh | Splendid Cathuria | Tycho Base | Y'ha-Nthlei | Yuggoth |
Title: DBZ Spacelab
Attributes: Artifact, Gate, Port, Space, Tome, Town
Region & Subregion: Exotic
Public Attributes: Inside
Sanity: -2
Dimension: New AEon
Unique: No
Edition: New AEon
Special Effect Box: Space Station. Your Investigator automatically survives in Space at this Location. You may play this card immediately after playing Shuttle Icarus. You may Walk to Tycho Base.
You may use Anti-Gravity Harness to travel to and travel from DBZ Spacelab. You may use Silver Key or Time Machine to leave DBZ Spacelab. Carter's Clock may be used to play DBZ Spacelab from your Story Deck or play another Location atop DBZ Spacelab.
You may travel to DBZ Spacelab with any Travel in Space Event playable in the New AEon Dimension. These Events are Shuttle Icarus and UFO. See The White Ship and the Cats of Ulthar for use of these cards to travel to or from DBZ Spacelab.
The Special Effect Box of Basalt Pillars of the West permits Walking to any Space Location, but does not permit changing your Dimension. You may not Walk to DBZ Spacelab from Basalt Pillars of the West. You may not combine Basalt Pillars of the West with Silver Key to Walk to DBZ Spacelab. Silver Key would be played (used as your action) after play of Basalt Pillars of the West. Its Special Effect Box would supersede the Special Effect Box of Basalt Pillars of the West. Silver Key may not be used to Walk to Exotic Locations.
You may walk to Tycho Base from DBZ Spacelab (and vice-versa).
You may travel to or travel from DBZ Spacelab by using the Special Effect Box of some Monsters. These Monsters may be used with the sub-type specific Summon & Control Spell (for example, Angles of Tagh Clatur) or by the Song of the Stellar Larvae, which is not a Summon spell but does permit use of a Monster's travel abilities. The Monsters whose Special Effect Box states that they may be used to Travel to a Space Location are: Byhakee (Limited Edtion), Larvae of the Other Gods, First Stage (New AEon), Shantaks (Limited Edition), and Shantaks (Dreamlands Edition). No other Monsters may be used to travel to or travel from DBZ Spacelab.
You may use Create Time Warp to arrive at or leave DBZ Spacelab.
| Notes | Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath | Celaeno | Cykranosh | DBZ Spacelab | Far Side of the Moon | Lost Temple of Atlantis | N'Kai | R'lyeh | Splendid Cathuria | Tycho Base | Y'ha-Nthlei | Yuggoth |
Title: Far Side
of the Moon
Attributes: Artifact, Gate, Space, Site, Tome
Region & Subregion: Exotic
Public Attributes: Inside
Sanity: -2
Dimension: Dreamlands
Unique: No
Edition: Dreamlands
Special Effect Box: Beginning each Turn, you must be able to Survive in Space or lose 5 points of Sanity. You may reuse this Gate. For each Turn that you remain here you may Bury one Star Event. You must Travel by Air to Leave this Location.
You may use Anti-Gravity Harness to leave Far Side of the Moon. When used, Anti-Gravity Harness would be played (used as your action) after play of Far Side of the Moon. Its Special Effect Box would supersede the Special Effect Box of Far Side of the Moon. Anti-Gravity Harness may not be used to Walk to Exotic Locations.You may use Silver Key or Time Machine to leave Far Side of the Moon. Carter's Clock may be used to play Far Side of the Moon from your Story Deck or play another Location atop Far Side of the Moon.
Far Side of the Moon may be traveled to by Travel in Space Events which are playable in the Dreamlands. There is only one of these, Sky Galleon, whose Special Effect Box permits Travel in Space. You may use UFO to travel to Far Side of the Moon from a New AEon Location.
You must travel from Far Side of the Moon by Travel by Air Events which are playable in the Dreamlands. These Travel by Air Events are: Closed-Cockpit Monoplane, Dirigible, Seaplane, Ship of Clouds, and Sky Galleon. 747 or Helicopter cannot be used because they may be played only in the New AEon Dimension, and neither permits changing Dimension from New AEon to Dreamlands. You may not use Closed-Cockpit Monoplane, Dirigible, Seaplane, or Ship of Clouds to travel to Far Side of the Moon because these Travel Events do not permit travel to Space Locations. You may not use UFO to travel from Far Side of the Moon because it is not a New AEon Location. See The White Ship and the Cats of Ulthar for use of these cards to travel to or from Far Side of the Moon.
Rude Awakening requires an Investigator to leave Far Side of the Moon for a Waking World Location. This card does not directly affect the Top Card or Current Location of your Story Deck, so it may be played on you when your Current Location or Top Card is Far Side of the Moon.
You may Walk from Basalt Pillars of the West to Far Side of the Moon.
You may travel to, but not from, Far Side of the Moon by using the Special Effect Box of some Monsters. These Monsters may be used with the sub-type specific Summon & Control Spell (for example, Angles of Tagh Clatur) or by the Song of the Stellar Larvae, which is not a Summon spell but does permit use of a Monster's travel abilities. The Monsters whose Special Effect Box states that they may be used to Travel to a Space Location are: Byhakee (Limited Edtion), Larvae of the Other Gods, First Stage (New AEon), Shantaks (Limited Edition), and Shantaks (Dreamlands Edition).
You may travel from, but not to, Far Side of the Moon by using the Special Effect Box of some Monsters. These Monsters may be used with the sub-type specific Summon & Control Spell or by the Song of the Stellar Larvae, which is not a Summon spell but does permit use of a Monster's travel abilities. The Monsters whose Special Effect Box states that they are Travel by Air Events are: Byakhee (Limited Edition), Nightgaunts (Dreamlands Edition), Shantaks (Limited Edition), and Shantaks (Dreamlands Edition).
You may use Create Time Warp to arrive at or leave Far Side of the Moon.
| Notes | Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath | Celaeno | Cykranosh | DBZ Spacelab | Far Side of the Moon | Lost Temple of Atlantis | N'Kai | R'lyeh | Splendid Cathuria | Tycho Base | Y'ha-Nthlei | Yuggoth |
Title: Lost Temple
of Atlantis
Attributes: Gate, Site, Tome, Underwater
Region & Subregion: Exotic
Public Attributes: Forest, Outside, Water
Sanity: -2
Dimension: Waking World
Unique: Yes
Edition: Limited Edition Cthulhu Rising
Special Effect Box: Beginning each turn, your Investigator must be able to breathe Underwater or lose 5 points of Sanity. The Lost Temple is not affected by Events or Spells that directly affect the top Location of your Story Deck. May use this Gate more than once, but must pay the card's Sanity cost for each subsequent use.
Errata: The Special Effect Box should read The Lost Temple is not affected by Events or Spells that directly affect the top Card of your Story Deck.
Lost Temple of Atlantis has the fewest means of travel to and travel from it. You must Travel Underwater to and from Lost Temple of Atlantis. Only one Travel Underwater Event exists, U-Boat. No Monsters may be used to Travel Underwater. No Ally, Artifact, or Spell can be used as a Travel Underwater Event. The only other means to travel to and from Lost Temple of Atlantis are The White Ship and the Cats of Ulthar. Both Carter's Clock and Create Time Warp may be used to play and to bury Lost Temple of Atlantis.
| Notes | Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath | Celaeno | Cykranosh | DBZ Spacelab | Far Side of the Moon | Lost Temple of Atlantis | N'Kai | R'lyeh | Splendid Cathuria | Tycho Base | Y'ha-Nthlei | Yuggoth |
Title: N'kai
Attributes: Artifact, Country, Gate, Tome, Underground
Region & Subregion: Exotic
Public Attributes: Outside
Sanity: -2
Dimension: Waking World
Unique: Yes
Edition: Mythos Standard Game Set
Special Effect Box: You may play this card only if your Current Location is Underground. You must Walk out of N'kai. While at N'kai, all Monsters in your Threat function as if it is Night.
There is a Card File for N'kai written by Shannon Appel. Most of the information here on N'kai is taken from that card file.
Because N'Kai is in the Country, you must walk to it. You can't use a Car, Train, or other mode of transportation because of the stipulation You may play this card only if your Current Location is Underground. When you play a Travel Event, it goes to the top of your deck, and becomes your Current Location. Thus, by the time you're ready to play N'Kai (even if you just played a Car), your Current Location is not Underground, and thus the play is illegal.
Note that N'Kai places no stipulations on where you must exit to. You must walk, but can go to any subregion or region in your current Dimension. The Location you're walking to doesn't even have to be Underground. You could enter N'Kai from Pickman's Apartment, and exit to The Office of Dr. Freud. This, of course, doesn't override regular restrictions on Locations (for example, you couldn't exit to Celaeno, which requires you to Travel through Space, or to any Island).
You may use Silver Key or Time Machine to leave N'kai. Carter's Clock may be used to play N'Kai from your Story Deck or play another Location atop N'Kai.
See The White Ship and the Cats of Ulthar for use of these cards to travel to or from N'Kai. No other Events may be used to Travel to N'kai.
You may not use any Monsters to travel to or from N'kai. No Monster has the Underground Attribute. A Dhole may not be used to Travel to N'kai.. When you play a Dhole as a Travel Underground Event, it is placed on the top of your deck, and becomes your Current Location. Thus, by the time you're ready to play N'Kai, your Current Location is not Underground, and thus the play is illegal.
The Necronomicon, Dreamlands Edition permits your Investigator to Walk between Waking World Locations and Dreamlands Locations as if two Locations were in the same Region. N'kai requires an Investigator to Walk to it from an underground Location.
The Necronomicon, Dreamlands Edition permits you to walk from any underground Dreamlands Location to N'kai, a Waking World Location. There are many underground Dreamlands Locations: Cavern of Flame, City of Gugs, Crag of Ghouls, Great Abyss, Peaks of Thok, Tower of Koth, Vale of Pnoth, and Vaults of Zin.
The Necronomicon, Dreamlands Edition permits you to walk from N'kai to any non-Exotic Location in the Dreamlands. This, of course, doesn't override regular restrictions on Locations (for example, you couldn't exit to Serranian, because it is an Island).
| Notes | Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath | Celaeno | Cykranosh | DBZ Spacelab | Far Side of the Moon | Lost Temple of Atlantis | N'Kai | R'lyeh | Splendid Cathuria | Tycho Base | Y'ha-Nthlei | Yuggoth |
Title: R'lyeh
Attributes: Gate, Island, Tome
Region & Subregion: Exotic
Public Attributes: Cemetery, Forest, Outside, Water
Sanity: -2
Unique: Yes
Dimension: Waking World
Edition: Limited Edition Cthulhu Rising
Special Effect Box: You can only play this card if your Investigator has all three pieces of the R'lyeh Disk. You must use a Travel by Sea card to get to this Location. May use the Gate more than once, but must pay this card's Sanity cost for each subsequent Gate use.
Errata: R'lyeh is an Island. The sentence You must use a travel by Sea card to get to this Location has been changed to conform to the the Travel to Islands rule on page 35 of the New AEon rulesbook: Islands are special Locations found within Regions. You can not Walk or use Travel by Land or Travel by Air cards to go to, from, or between Islands unless the Special Effect says otherwise.
R'lyeh is the only Exotic Location that follows the Island travel rule. Instead of requiring a special means to travel to and travel from R'lyeh, three means are forbidden. All other travel cards are acceptable cards subject to their own restrictions.
R'lyeh has a special requirement before it may be played: your Investigator must have in play (not in your Story Deck, or in your Mythos Deck, and not in your Hand) all three pieces of the R'lyeh disk before R'lyeh may be played. The requirement for all three pieces of the R'lyeh disk is not a travel requirement that some travel cards override. By itself, neither The White Ship or the Cats of Ulthar permits play of R'lyeh. To travel to R'lyeh by The White Ship or the Cats of Ulthar requires your Investigator have in play all three pieces of the R'lyeh disk.
Carter's Clock may be used to play R'lyeh. When using Carter's Clock, R'lyeh may not be played from your hand. It must be played from your Story Deck. When you're moving a card from your story deck and putting it back into play, you're playing it anew. Because of this, the three peices of the R'lyeh must be in play when using Carter's Clock to play R'lyeh from your Story Deck. You may leave R'lyeh by burying Carter's Clock to play a former Location. You may use Silver Key or Time Machine to leave R'lyeh.
You may use a Waking World Travel by Sea Event to travel between R'lyeh and a Waking World Location. These Events are: Mauritania, Titanic, Tramp Steamer, and The White Ship. If a Dreamer Ally is in play when you play The White Ship, you may travel to R'lyeh from a Dreamlands or New AEon Location, or you may travel from R'lyeh to a Water Location in the Dreamlands dimension or in the New AEon dimension. You may use a U-Boat to travel to R'lyeh. A U-Boat is Travel Underwater, which is not forbidden by the Island travel rule. You may not travel to R'lyeh from a New AEon Location by UFO. UFO requires the destination be a Space Location. R'lyeh is not a Space Location. See The White Ship and the Cats of Ulthar for use of these cards to travel to or from Celaeno.
You may play R'lyeh right-side-up on your Story Deck if your Current Location is Splendid Cathuria. This play, which uses Splendid Cathuria's Special Effect Box, is not forbidden by the Island travel rule. The three pieces of the R'lyeh disk are still required.
You may use a Dhole to travel from R'lyeh. A Dhole requires the destination be Underground. Travel Underground is not forbidden by the Island travel rule. The Dhole card requires no specific attributes for your Current Location. You may not use a Dhole to travel to R'lyeh. A Dhole requires the destination be underground. R'lyeh is not Underground.
You may use a Shantaks (Limited Edition) to travel to or travel from R'lyeh. The Shantak may be used as a Travel by Sea Event. Travel by Sea is not forbidden by the Island travel rule. The three pieces of the R'lyeh disk are still required.
The Island travel rule forbids use of any Monster whose Special Effect Box indicates it is solely a Travel by Air Event. You may not travel to or travel from R'lyeh by use of these Monsters.
Create Time Warp may be used to arrive at or leave R'lyeh. When casting Create Time Warp to make it your Current Location, R'lyeh must be played from your Story Deck. When you're moving a card from your story deck and putting it back into play, you're playing it anew. Because of this, the three peices of the R'lyeh must be in play when using Create Time Warp to play R'lyeh from your Story Deck.
| Notes | Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath | Celaeno | Cykranosh | DBZ Spacelab | Far Side of the Moon | Lost Temple of Atlantis | N'Kai | R'lyeh | Splendid Cathuria | Tycho Base | Y'ha-Nthlei | Yuggoth |
Title: Splendid
Cathuria
Attributes: Artifact, Country, Site, Tome
Region & Subregion: Exotic
Public Attributes: Forest, Outside, Water
Sanity: -2
Unique: No
Dimension: Dreamlands
Edition: Limited Edition Dreamlands
Special Effect Box: Spend a turn in Splendid Cathuria to gain 1 Sanity point. You must play a Waking World Location right-side-up on top of your Story Deck as your next Location.
You may use Splendid Cathuria's Special Effect Box to play a Waking World Location. You may play a Waking World island when leaving Splendid Cathuria. The play of a Waking World Location required by the Special Effect Box of Splendid Cathuria is not walking, and therefore it is permissible to play an island right-side-up on your Story Deck.
Carter's Clock may be used to play Splendid Cathuria from your Story Deck or play another Location atop Splendid Cathuria. You may not use Silver Key to leave Splendid Cathuria: it has no Gate. You may use Time Machine to leave and may walk to a Location in any Dimension.
When leaving Splendid Cathuria, its Special Effect Box prohibts play of all Travel cards except two. Once played atop your Story Deck, a travel card becomes your Current Location. Splendid Cathuria's Special Effect Box requires that your next card be a Waking World Location. There are no Travel Events with a Waking World Dimension symbol, so none are permitted. See The White Ship and the Cats of Ulthar for use of these cards to travel to or from Splendid Cathuria.
Rude Awakening requires an Investigator to leave Splendid Cathuria for a Waking World Location. This card does not directly affect the Top Card or Current Location of your Story Deck, so it may be played on you when your Current Location or Top Card is Splendid Cathuria.
You may walk to Splendid Cathuria from Basalt Pillars of the West. The Special Effect Box of Basalt Pillars of the West overrides the normal Island travel restrictions printed in the rulesbook.
You may not use any Monsters to travel to or from Splendid Cathuria.
You may use Create Time Warp to arrive at or leave Splendid Cathuria.
| Notes | Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath | Celaeno | Cykranosh | DBZ Spacelab | Far Side of the Moon | Lost Temple of Atlantis | N'Kai | R'lyeh | Splendid Cathuria | Tycho Base | Y'ha-Nthlei | Yuggoth |
Title: Tycho Base
Attributes: City, Gate, Space, Tome, University
Region & Subregion: Exotic
Public Attributes: Inside
Sanity: -2
Dimension: New AEon
Unique: No
Edition: New AEon
Special Effect Box: Space Station. Your Investigator automatically survives in Space at this Location. For each Turn spent on Tycho Base doing nothing else, gain 1 Sanity point. You may Walk to DBZ Spacelab.
You may use Anti-Gravity Harness to travel to and travel from Tycho Base. You may use Silver Key or Time Machine to leave Tycho Base. Carter's Clock may be used to play Tycho Base from your Story Deck or play another Location atop Tycho Base.
You may travel to Tycho Base by any Travel in Space Event playable in the New AEon Dimension. These Events are Shuttle Icarus and UFO. See The White Ship and the Cats of Ulthar for use of these cards to travel to or from Tycho Base.
You may not Walk to Tycho Base from Basalt Pillars of the West. The Special Effect Box of Basalt Pillars of the West permits Walking to any Space Location, but does not permit changing your Dimension. You may not combine Basalt Pillars of the West with Silver Key to Walk to Tycho Base. Silver Key would be played (used as your action) after play of Basalt Pillars of the West. Its Special Effect Box would supersede the Special Effect Box of Basalt Pillars of the West. Silver Key may not be used to Walk to Exotic Locations.
You may walk to Tycho Base from DBZ Spacelab (and vice-versa).
You may travel to or travel from Tycho Base by using the Special Effect Box of some Monsters. These Monsters may be used with the sub-type specific Summon & Control Spell (for example, Angles of Tagh Clatur) or by the Song of the Stellar Larvae, which is not a Summon spell but does permit use of a Monster's travel abilities. The Monsters whose Special Effect Box states that they may be used to Travel to a Space Location are: Byhakee (Limited Edtion), Larvae of the Other Gods, First Stage (New AEon), Shantaks (Limited Edition), and Shantaks (Dreamlands Edition). No other Monsters may be used to travel to or travel from Tycho Base.
You may use Create Time Warp to arrive at or leave Tycho Base.
| Notes | Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath | Celaeno | Cykranosh | DBZ Spacelab | Far Side of the Moon | Lost Temple of Atlantis | N'Kai | R'lyeh | Splendid Cathuria | Tycho Base | Y'ha-Nthlei | Yuggoth |
Title: Y'ha-Nthlei
Attributes: Gate, Site, Underwater
Region & Subregion: Exotic
Public Attributes: Forest, Inside, Water
Sanity: -2
Unique: Yes
Dimension: Waking World
Edition: Limited Edition Cthulhu Rising
Special Effect Box: Beginning each turn, your Investigator must be able to breathe Underwater or lose 5 points of Sanity. Y'ha-Nthlei is not affected by Events or Spells that directly affect the top Location of your Story Deck. May use this Gate more than once, but must pay the card's Sanity cost for each subsequent use.
Errata: The Special Effect Box should read Y'ha-Nthlei is not affected by Events or Spells that directly affect the top Card of your Story Deck.
Carter's Clock may be used to play Y'ha-Nthlei from your Story Deck or play another Location atop Y'ha-Nthlei. You may use Silver Key or Time Machine to leave Y'ha-Nthlei.
You must Travel Underwater to and from Y'ha-Nthlei. Only one Travel Underwater Event exists, U-Boat. No Monsters may be used to Travel Underwater. No Ally, Artifact, or Spell can be used as a Travel Underwater Event. See The White Ship and the Cats of Ulthar for use of these cards to travel to or from Y'ha-Nthlei.
You may walk to Y'ha-Nthlei from Devil Reef. You may not walk to Devil Reef from Y'ha-Nthlei.
You may use Create Time Warp to arrive at or leave Y'ha-Nthlei.
| Notes | Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath | Celaeno | Cykranosh | DBZ Spacelab | Far Side of the Moon | Lost Temple of Atlantis | N'Kai | R'lyeh | Splendid Cathuria | Tycho Base | Y'ha-Nthlei | Yuggoth |
Title: Yuggoth
Attributes: Artifact, Country, Gate, Library, Space, Tome
Region & Subregion: Exotic
Public Attributes: Cemetery, Outside
Sanity: -2
Dimension: see Special Effect Box.
Unique: No
Edition: New AEon
Special Effect Box: Pluto. May play this card in any Dimension; assumes the Dimension Indicator of previous Current Location. Beginning each Turn you must be able to survive in Space or lose 5 points of Sanity. For each Turn spent on Yuggoth doing nothing else, may draw two cards from your Mythos Deck.
You may use Anti-Gravity Harness to travel to and travel from Yuggoth. You may use Silver Key or Time Machine to leave Yuggoth. Carter's Clock may be used to play Yuggoth from your Story Deck. When Carter's Clock is used to play Yuggoth from your Story Deck, Yuggoth adopts the Dimension of the prior Location atop your Story Deck. It does not recover its former Dimension. You may bury Carter's Clock to play a former Location when you are at Yuggoth.
Any Travel in Space Event that is legal to play at your Current Location may be used to travel to Yuggoth. In the Dreamlands, this Event is the Sky Galleon. In the New AEon these Events are Shuttle Icarus and UFO. Once played, Yuggoth acquires the Dimensional indicator of your previous Current Location. When a travel event is played atop your Story Deck, it becomes your Current Location. Yuggoth assumes the dimensional indicator of the travel event used to reach Yuggoth.
When using the Alternative First Card rule (page 57 of the New AEon rulesbook), you may begin play of a game of Mythos with a card other than a Location. If the first card you play is a Sky Galleon, and it is used to travel to Yuggoth, then Yuggoth becomes a Dreamlands Location. If the first card you play is Shuttle Icarus, and it is used to travel to Yuggoth, then Yuggoth becomes a New AEon Location.
See The White Ship and the Cats of Ulthar for use of these cards to travel to or from Yuggoth.
When Yuggoth is a Dreamlands Location, Rude Awakening requires an Investigator to leave Yuggoth for a Waking World Location. This card does not directly affect the Top Card or Current Location of your Story Deck, so it may be played on you when your Current Location or Top Card is Yuggoth.
You may Walk from Basalt Pillars of the West to Yuggoth. Yuggoth then becomes a Dreamlands Location. The Special Effect Box of Basalt Pillars of the West overrides the normal Island travel restrictions printed in the rulesbook.
You may travel to or travel from Yuggoth by using the Special Effect Box of some Monsters. These Monsters may be used with the sub-type specific Summon & Control Spell (for example, Angles of Tagh Clatur) or by the Song of the Stellar Larvae, which is not a Summon spell but does permit use of a Monster's travel abilities. The Monsters whose Special Effect Box states that they may be used to Travel to a Space Location are: Byhakee (Limited Edtion), Larvae of the Other Gods, First Stage (New AEon), Shantaks (Limited Edition), and Shantaks (Dreamlands Edition). No other Monsters may be used to travel to or travel from the Yuggoth.
You may use Create Time Warp to arrive at or leave Yuggoth. When Create Time Warp is used to play Yuggoth from your Story Deck, Yuggoth adopts the Dimension of the prior Location atop your Story Deck. It does not recover its former Dimension.
| Notes | Castle of the Great Ones on Kadath | Celaeno | Cykranosh | DBZ Spacelab | Far Side of the Moon | Lost Temple of Atlantis | N'Kai | R'lyeh | Splendid Cathuria | Tycho Base | Y'ha-Nthlei | Yuggoth |
