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![Threat](/Images/threat-small.png)
When Revealed: Each copy of Rolling Plains gets +2 until the end of the phase.
Travel: Raise each player's threat by 2.
The falling stream vanished into a deep growth of cresses and water–plants, and they could hear it tinkling away in green tunnels, down long gentle slopes...
–The Two Towers
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![](/Images/Cards/A-Shadow-in-the-East/Rocky-Outcrop.jpg)
![Threat](/Images/threat-small.png)
While Rocky Outcrop is in the staging area, characters cannot be readied by player card effects.
Travel: The first player exhausts a hero he controls.
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![](/Images/Cards/A-Shadow-in-the-East/Weary-Lands.jpg)
When Revealed: Each exhausted character gets -1 until the end of the phase.
![Shadow Effect](/Images/ShadowDivider.png)
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to the defending character.
![](/Images/Encounters/A-Shadow-in-the-East/Rolling-Plains.png)
![](/Images/Cards/A-Shadow-in-the-East/Painful-Fatigue.jpg)
When Revealed: Each player exhausts a character he controls and deals 1 damage to it.
![Shadow Effect](/Images/ShadowDivider.png)
Shadow: Either exhaust a character you control, or return attacking enemy to the staging area after this attack.
![](/Images/Encounters/A-Shadow-in-the-East/Rolling-Plains.png)
![](/Images/Cards/A-Shadow-in-the-East/An-Arduous-Journey.jpg)
The lonely plains appear to stretch endlessly in each direction, and you tire just from looking at them.
Each player cannot ready more than 6 characters he controls during the refresh phase.
Response: When this stage is defeated, each player may ready a hero he controls.