Expansion: The Plague

The Plague for Orléans: corpses that clog your bag and market, the plague doctor, the infirmary, indulgence cards, plague cards, 26 new events, new Beneficial Deeds and three place tiles.

Short tag: [Plague]

What it adds

The plague has reached Orléans. Almost every event now throws corpses into your bag; drawn corpses block your market. Your plague doctor and the indulgence cards are the remedy.

Component	Count
Corpses	46
Plague doctors and infirmary tiles	1 each per colour (5)
Hour glass tiles	26
Indulgence cards	40 (A, B and C backs)
Plague cards	15
Beneficial Deeds board	“The Plague” side
Place tiles	Cemetery, Back Door, Medicinal Spring

Setup changes

Set up the base game with these changes:

1. Use the Plague side of the Beneficial Deeds board.
2. Use the 26 Plague hour glass tiles instead of the base ones. Set Outbreak and Victory over Plague aside, shuffle piles A, B, C and D (6 each) and build the stack: Victory over Plague at the bottom, 4 D, 4 C, 4 B, 4 A and Outbreak on top — 18 tiles.
3. Put all the corpses within reach.
4. Deal each player one random A and one random B indulgence card, kept face down; return the other A and B cards. Shuffle the C cards into a pile and turn up 2.
5. Shuffle the plague cards, turn up 3 and return the rest.
6. Place tiles: never use Sacristy, Brasserie or Gunpowder Tower. Add the three Plague tiles to the others, then lay out 10 random tiles per category (12 with 5 players).
7. Each player connects an Infirmary tile in their colour to the player board and sets their plague doctor aside.

Plague cards

The 3 face-up plague cards change the game: some only alter the starting position (resolve them, then set them aside), others hold all game and stay face up. All 15 are listed on Cards & Components.

Corpses

Each event tile shows how many corpses every player takes from the supply at the end of phase 6 and throws into their bag. If too few are left, give everyone the same smaller number.

• Corpses drawn in phase 3 go onto the market like followers but cannot be placed on any action space: they just take room.
• Corpses gained through an event, a place tile (Bathhouse) or a deed (Alchemy) by drawing go straight back to the supply.
• A corpse that should go on a full market goes back to the supply.

Getting rid of corpses

1. After phase 6 you may throw all corpses on your market back into your bag — all or none. They may come out again next round.
2. 6 or more corpses on the market: before phase 3 you may throw back enough to keep at most 5 (the Cemetery’s corpse does not count).
3. Indulgence: fulfilling an indulgence card sends every corpse on your market back to the supply for good.

The plague doctor

From round 2 (after Outbreak), your plague doctor waits on the upper space of your infirmary. Each round he is available in addition to your draw and can stand on any action space — even a monk’s. After the action he returns to the infirmary, ready for next round. He never goes to a Beneficial Deed.

Indulgence

Reveal an indulgence card the moment you actively meet its condition, then return all corpses on your market to the supply. Keep the card face up: it scores its points at the end.

• A condition met before you held the card does not count (already 5 stations: “Build your 5th trading station” is lost). Donations and deliveries are fulfilled by paying, so goods you already hold are fine.
• Reveal cards during your turn, before or after your action — several at once if you like, even with no corpses — or in phase 6 if the event lets you meet the condition. It is never an action.
• A card that can no longer be fulfilled stays with you and scores nothing.

More indulgence cards

The Infirmary action (activated by a monk or the plague doctor) takes one more card: a face-up one (then turn up a replacement) or the top of the pile. A drawn card you cannot use goes face up on display and you draw again — you must keep the second.

Beneficial Deeds The Plague

Usual deed rules; the plague doctor can never be sent. With 2 or 3 players only the upper deeds are used. Alchemy II opens only once Alchemy I is complete; Alchemy I gives no citizen, every other deed (Alchemy II included) gives one on completion.

Events

Events marked with a round symbol apply at another moment or all round. Unpaid forced payments mean torture. Every tile’s picture shows the corpses it adds.

Tile	Start and end
	Outbreak (round 1) — put your plague doctor on the infirmary (usable from next round) and a corpse on your market.
	Victory over Plague (round 18) — no event.

Tile	A
	Training — pay 2 coins to advance on a track of your choice with its bonus, no follower.
	Harvest — return 1 food or pay 5 coins.
	Income — 2 coins per development status.
	Taking to the Road — draw one from your bag: a follower goes straight onto an action space, a corpse to the supply.
	Consolation — you may buy a face-down indulgence card for 2 coins.
	Indulgence — you may buy any follower except a monk for 2 coins, into your bag, no track move.

Tile	B
	Bon Voyage — in turn order pay 2 coins to move your merchant one connection, taking a good.
	Sabotage — no actions with a gear wheel on them this round.
	Trading Day — 1 coin per trading station.
	Exorcism — turn up another indulgence card on display.
	Closing Day — no indulgence card may be fulfilled this round.
	Rat Infestation — draw 5 from your bag: corpses go to the supply, then return one non-personal follower drawn to the supply.

Tile	C
	Malfunction — discard a gear wheel (none: no effect).
	Goods Tax — 1 coin per 3 goods.
	Curfew — no merchant may move this round, by any means.
	Grave Goods — pay 2 coins per corpse to return any number from your market to the supply.
	Retraining — spend a good to advance its point value on the development track, or pay 3 coins.
	Peasant Uprising — in planning farmers replace any follower but monks; in phase 6 such farmers return to the bag.

Tile	D
	Rat Infestation — as in B.
	Arson — remove one of your place tiles from the game (none: no effect).
	Development Tax — 1 coin per development status.
	Fast Travel — you may move your merchant 1 or 2 towns, taking no goods.
	Wake — no corpses back into the bag this round unless you have more than 5 on the market (then down to 5).
	Quarantine — your plague doctor cannot be used this round.

Scoring

Score as usual, add the points on your fulfilled indulgence cards, then lose 1 point per corpse on your market and in your bag.