Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island – Pearl Hunting Scenario Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Goal of the Scenario
• Setup Changes
• Special Actions
  • Hunting for Pearls
  • Offering to the Spirits
• The Ways of Water
• Sea Secrets
• Unfortunate Winds
• Cards
  • Shucking Knife
  • Pearl Necklace
  • Hunting for Pearls (reference card)
  • Offering to the Spirits (reference card)
• Transcription Notes

Goal of the Scenario

Build a Pearl Necklace and Offer it to the water spirits to win (the Scenario ends after the Night Phase in which you perform the Special Offering to the Spirits action).

Setup Changes

Place the water spirits pawn on the rightmost space of the Island. This pawn represents the location of the water spirits.

Create a Depths bag: place 5 white pearls, 5 black pearls, and 5 blue markers ("nothing") in the bag (or a cup).

Special Actions

Hunting for Pearls

To perform this action you must have previously Built the item shown by the swirl icon (see Transcription Notes).

To resolve, roll dice according to table below:

Depth	Pawns	Result
Shallow	1 pawn	Roll the brown die, and take 1 random marker from the Depths bag.
Moderate	2 pawns	Roll the brown die and the green die, and take 2 random markers from the Depths bag.
Deep	3 pawns	Roll the brown die, the green die, and the grey die, then take 4 random markers from the Depths bag.

• White Pearl - add it to the Future Resources space.
• Black Pearl - add it to the Future Resources space.
• Nothing (blue marker) - return it to the Depths bag.

Resolve this action at the end of the Action Phase, directly after the Rest action.

Offering to the Spirits

Perform this action on an Island tile with the water spirits pawn, and have previously Built the Pearl Necklace.

After you successfully resolve this action and survive until the end of the current round, you win!

The Ways of Water

When you Explore and reveal a tile with a Totem icon, place a random Number token on it and resolve the effect below:

1. You meet a less kind spirit. Get 2 Wounds.
2. Someone tries to steal your pearls! Roll the green die: if you roll the Adventure face, discard a black pearl / white pearl from the Available Resource space.
3. A monster from the depths has followed you. Draw 2 Mystery cards (resolve only 1 Monster and 1 Treasure).
4. Strong Currents. Place a pawn on the Special Hunting for Pearls action.
5. Reminders of the world beyond the sea. (Effect icon not identified, see Transcription Notes.)
6. A Beast has caught your scent. Add 1 Beast card to the Hunt deck.

Sea Secrets

• Abandoned Knife - Discard 2 blue markers ("nothing") from the Depths bag.
• Lost Bracelet - Resolve 1 Treasure Mystery card.
• Windshield - Ignore -1 (icon not identified, see Transcription Notes).
• Fruits of Ambition - Gain 2 food.

Unfortunate Winds

Although your resolution is strong, unfortunate winds seem to mess with your plans...

Place the weather token (icon not identified, see Transcription Notes) on the Weather space.

Cards

Shucking Knife

Discard 2 blue markers ("nothing") from the Depths bag.

Pearl Necklace

You may now perform the Special Offer to the Spirits action to win the Scenario!

Hunting for Pearls (reference card)

Shows the pawn counts for the three depths: 1, 2 and 3 pawns.

Offering to the Spirits (reference card)

Shows two pawns.

Transcription Notes

The source is a single landscape sheet, and several symbols are small picture icons with no printed name. Where the sheet shows an icon but the text does not name it, the icon is described in place rather than named. The following were read from the artwork and are not printed by name in the source:

• Dice in the Hunting for Pearls table are shown by colour (brown, green, grey) and are described that way here. The pawn counts for the Depth rows are taken from the pawn figures printed beside each row.
• The Adventure face on the green die in Ways of Water item 2 is a question-mark face.
• The Ways of Water item 5 effect icon, the Windshield icon, the Hunting for Pearls "Built the" item icon, and the Unfortunate Winds weather token icon are not identified by name in the source and are left as described.
• The Sea Secrets sheet does not print when the tokens are resolved; they are transcribed as printed.
• The Pearl Necklace card shows a swirl symbol and two white and two black pearl icons above its name. The sheet does not state how this item is built; the card is transcribed as printed.
• The Pearl Necklace card text reads "Special Offer to the Spirits action", while the action heading reads "Offering to the Spirits". Both are transcribed as printed.