Carolyn for Scarlet Keys, Expert Difficulty, No Fun Allowed

This is specifically for Expert-difficulty with a three or four investigator group. Carolyn Fern isn't as incentivized to focus on healing horror as Vincent Lee is to focus on healing damage, but she's a strong investigator with powerful deckbuilding options. You can run Foolishness and an early Charisma if you want, but I wouldn't. Hypnotic Therapy is good, even if it doesn't work on allies. The choice between To Fight the Black Wind and Rational Thought is not a clear one, follow your heart. If To Fight the Black Wind goes bad, it's comically bad, but nine out of ten times it'll be fine. Carolyn doesn't really need Emergency Cache even if it's usually a good pull in the opener and certainly doesn't need the one Fearless, so if you have any pet cards, those are what I'd cut.

Experience.

• Add an additional Field Agent (2 exp), cut Fearless.
• Upgrade Living Ink with "Imbued Ink" (2 exp).
• Add two copies of Kerosene (1 exp each) or two copies of First Aid (3 exp each), depending on the party, cut both copies of Emergency Cache.
• Upgrade both copies of Stand Together (3 exp each).
• Take Relic Hunter (3 exp).
• Upgrade Hallowed Mirror (3 exp).
• Take Keen Eye (3 exp).
• Take Soul Sanctification (6 exp).
• Take Observed (4 exp).
• Take Sacred Covenant (2 exp).
• Add one Girish Kadakia (4 exp), cut one Grim Memoir.
• Take Charisma (3 exp).
• Add the second Girish Kadakia (4 exp), cut the remaining Grim Memoir.