Whenever you have no cards in your hand, you must automatically Focus. If your last card is played or discarded during a task, you Focus after the task (see Perform a Task). Outside of a task, you Focus after the effect that discarded your last card.
When you Focus, perform these steps in order:
- Recover cards.
- Lower your Endurance by 1.
- Select a number of Action cards from your discard pile equal to your new Endurance. Take these back into your hand.
- Purchase Tools and/or Allies from your tool kit. You can purchase any number of cards as long as you have enough Resources.
If you discarded your last card due to Stress and there is still excess Stress, you must spend Hope to ignore that Stress. If you have no Hope left and there is still excess Stress, you must trigger 1 Surveillance, regardless of how much excess Stress remains. After that, the excess Stress is ignored.
If you reach 0 Endurance, you become exhausted. (See details under: Becoming Exhausted.)
Focus Voluntarily: You can also Focus voluntarily during your turn by discarding all cards in your hand. This is not an action and can be done at any time while you are not performing an action.