Eve Of Midnight

Lore and other documents for the Eve of Midnight game

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Eve of Midnight: Reimagine Calamity - Win / Loss / Stalemate

Canonical for Spec 007. This supersedes the earlier multiplayer-era rules (Victory Points, World Cards, “next player”). Eve of Midnight is a single-player roguelike: one player making a run against a sequence of AI Encounters.

The sole loss condition — hero depletion

A run is lost when the player’s Hero zone reaches zero surviving heroes.

Heroes are subject to permadeath: a fallen hero is greyed out and ceases to exist for the rest of the run (it does not go to The Abyss or The Void).
When the last surviving hero falls, the run ends. This is enforced at the run level (Run.IsLost becomes true when the roster hits zero).

Running out of cards is NOT a loss

Unlike many card games, decking out is harmless here.

When the Archive empties, The Abyss is shuffled to reform it (deterministic; The Void never feeds the reshuffle).
If both the Archive and the Abyss are empty when a draw is required, the draw is simply a no-op — the player skips it and takes no penalty. There is no deck-out loss.

Winning & progressing

The player advances the run by surviving and clearing Encounters, moving across the run map and (rarely) visiting special Sanctum and Forge nodes between fights. The detailed run-completion / victory rules and the run-map traversal are governed by the run progression and Sanctum/Forge specs; within a single match the player’s job is to keep their heroes alive and defeat the Encounter.

No stalemate

Because deck-out is a no-op and the loss condition is hero depletion, a match cannot stall into a draw-by-exhaustion. The run continues until the heroes fall (loss) or the run is completed (win).