Events

Every Event chit: the ten Incidents with their terrain and Water Zone effects, the four kinds of Findings, the six kinds of Discoveries, and the 16 Special Discoveries at the end of a Rumor.

Events come from the Event bag. Their pictures are on Cards & Components.

Incidents

The Incident Chart crosses each Incident with your land terrain and with the Water Marker (if your region is a Water Zone); conditions below each column add more. Everything stacks.

Warband

Make an Ambush-roll — unless you are in a Jungle, where a Warband has no effect. Roll a d10:

• higher than your Askaris: a Porter is killed and you lose 5 Items;
• equal or lower: you chase them away, then make an Ammo-roll.

Modifiers: +3 in Savanna or Veldt; +2 if a Village Encounter is in your slot; −3 with Canoes; +1 if your Ammo Stock is lower than your Askaris, −1 if higher.

Malaria

Make a Health-roll, except in a Desert (no effect). In a Jungle, lose 1 Health without rolling. −1 in a Water Zone; −1 if a Plant Encounter is in your slot.

Taboo

Make a Sanity-roll, except in a Savanna (no effect); in a Desert or Jungle make two. −1 to each if a Healer Encounter is in your slot.

Accident

Roll a d10 (not in a Veldt) and lose that many Gifts. Add 4 more in a Water Zone and 4 more if a Tusk Encounter is in your slot — these apply even in a Veldt. If you can’t pay it all, pay what you have and a Porter runs off too.

Storm

Roll a d10 and lose that much Food. Add 4 in a Water Zone and 4 if a Wildlife Encounter is in your slot. If you can’t pay it all, pay what you have and lose a Porter.

Thirst

Suffer one loss of your choice: 1 Health, 1 Sanity, 1 Askari or 1 Porter. Two losses in a Desert; one more if a Missionary Encounter is in your slot. Then roll a d6 for each that applies — you have a Canteen, you are in a Water Zone — and each 1–3 removes one loss.

Lost

Lose 1 Time; 2 in a Desert or Jungle; 1 more if you are in an empty slot. Then roll a d6 for each that applies — Surveying, a Guide (even flipped), a Water Zone — and each 1–3 saves 1 Time (it never adds Time).

Success

Either return the Encounter in your slot (and any Finding on it), leaving the slot empty — useful when the next combination of Encounters would hurt — or choose, instead of rolling, the result of one die that a chit in your slot asks for. Or do neither.

Rumor

Place it on a Village Encounter or Kingdom Discovery with no Rumor (how Rumors work). First Event: not in your slot; second Event: only in your slot. Return it if it can’t be placed, or if a Rumor is already activated.

Impassable

• As your first Event: this Player Turn you can’t enter a slot with a Finding or Discovery, unless you have no other option.
• As your second Event: return the Finding or Discovery in your slot, and any Rumor on that Discovery — no DP. The Encounter, and a Rumor on a Village, stay.
• With a Pickax you may always enter.

Findings

A Finding drawn as an Event is placed in the Matrix (first Event: not your slot; second Event: only your slot; never with another Finding). When you deal with one: 2 DP, −1 Time, then it goes on your region.

Finding	Placed	Bonus
Culture (4 peoples)	On a Village Encounter	Books +1 DP; “Science” Patron
Flora (5 named plants)	On a Missionary, Healer, Plant or Tusk Encounter	Books +1 DP; “Science” Patron
Scenery (4 landscapes)	On a Wildlife Encounter	Painting +1 DP; “Exploring” Patron
Mineral (12 named minerals)	In an empty slot no more than two slots away (the Arrow’s slot is never empty)	Pickax +1 DP; “Finance” Patron

Discoveries

Discoveries enter your Matrix only through the Discovery Procedure. Dealing with one: 2 DP, −1 Time, then it goes on your region.

Discovery	Effect and bonus
Mountain	One of Africa’s great mountains. Altimeter +1 DP; “Exploring” Patron
Highest Mountain	The highest in Africa: 3 DP instead of 2. Altimeter +1 DP; “Exploring” Patron
Lake (4 shapes)	A great lake. Surveying +1 DP; “Exploring” Patron
Lost City (3 ruins)	An abandoned city. Machete +1 DP; “Exploring” Patron
Kingdom	Offer Gifts to the King (below). Bible +1 DP even if he dislikes you; “Politician” Patron
Warrior Nation	An Askari dies unless you spend a Quinine or lower your Ammo Stock by 1. “Politician” Patron

The King

First choose what you want — a Guide or Canoes (if any are in the pool) or Food — then how many Gifts to offer. Roll a d6: equal to or below your offer (and not a 6), he likes you: take the Guide or Canoes, or 3 × the roll in Food, and he activates any Rumor here. Otherwise you get nothing and any Rumor here is returned. Spending a Rifle instead counts as 6 Gifts, and then even a 6 succeeds.

Special discoveries

Drawn when you enter an activated Rumor. Each scores the DP shown, plus 1 with a Diary, plus the bonus of “The News” Patron. Afterwards your Time is up.