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Stella is an outsider with the courage to gape, who can emerge victorious even from the most hopeless situation. Her ability allows her to retry a skill test that she narrowly failed, or to take an additional action to make up for time lost when she failed a skill test on a treachery card. Along with other cards that give her an advantage on failed skill tests, she proves to be a surprisingly versatile, low-risk investigator.

Stella's deck contains various asset cards with abilities that can mitigate the disadvantages of a failed test, such as B. her 18 Derringer and her old bunch of keys. Both cards only use up their resource tokens if you succeed. You can safely take a combat or investigate action without fear of failure. Better yet, if you fail a skill test on your turn, Stella's deck has plenty of event cards that can take advantage of that failure. Try this fancy card combo: you can attempt a test you know will fail, then play "Look what I found!" Oops! or luck in disguise to "pass" the test, so to speak. At the same time, you can also trigger the rabbit's foot, take heart and/or trigger its investigator ability. Finally, you can play Man Never Stops to try the test again!

If you are confronted with a skill test that you really don't want to fail, then No matter what the weather is the skill card of choice: In addition to a considerable improvement in chances (3 joker symbols), the card can completely nullify the consequences of a potential failure.

As Stella stumbles forward with the principle of "failing successfully," she will sometimes have trouble actually succeeding at skill tests like other investigators. This is particularly evident when her weakness, Call of the Mist, appears in-game. In this case, you should avoid high-difficulty checks entirely by using the Mysterious Raven asset card or the A Trial of Will event card.