Fear and Loathing in New Angeles v0.1

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Do journalism, take lots of drugs, wreck things.

This started purely as a jokingly-named concept for a drug-fueled Val deck. The idea is that you compensate for the slower set-up of Investigative Journalism with explosive, Amped Up turns of Keyhole and Apocalypse. Account Siphon, Itinerant Protestors and Blackmail allow you to keep pressure and threaten remotes in the meantime. Post-Apocalypse you want another Keyhole and Eater (hence 3x), but you will have a hard time if you don't win soon and the corp can recover. 3x Kati are there to ensure you can build up a huge windfall from her for right before your binge.

Problems are that you can't control what the brain damage from Amped Up will hit, which could knock out something you wanted to hold onto. Public Sympathy is there to mitigate this slightly, but it's inelegant. Stim Dealers are another possibility I considered, with Career Fair there anyway, but they seem like a risky commitment. Same Old Thing can pull back your Apocalypse for a slight loss, but I might want to switch to Deja Vu for greater flexibility.

It's an early pass, but I like the idea. Well...mostly I like the name, and that dictates an embarrassing amount of my deckbuilding decisions, but I've loved Val Keyhole since O&C came out, and wanted to try the archetype again.

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