Waiting, basically.

PANDEMIC

To weigh in with my thoughts: especially with my turn being right after the Dispatcher's, it's going to be very easy to pass my Yellow card(s) to the Scientist, even at a future date. If it's a choice between the Jo'burg handoff and the Bogota handoff, I suggest make Bogota happen, because that hand-off probably can't happen later on (not so easily, at least). If you go with that, I'll make the trek to Tokyo to defuse it myself. On their turn, the Scientist could burn Beijing to get to Seoul.

PANDEMIC

So that would mean on this turn the Dispatcher:
1) moves to Bogota (2 actions)
2) moves the Scientist to Bogota (1 action), and
3) "shares knowledge" with the Scientist, giving up the Bogota card (1 action)

Correct? Just trying to get a handle on how much is possible on one turn.

PANDEMIC

Yep, those would be valid orders.

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I like the Bogota plan. With the Dispatcher in the game, getting together with the Researcher will be really easy.

PANDEMIC

OK, then. I will:

Double move to Bogota

Dispatch Scientist to Bogota

Pass Bogota card to Scientist

Hit it, Gud!

PANDEMIC

It has been hit!

The Dispatcher gives the Scientist a drink in an Altanta bar and the next thing she knows the Scientist is waking up in the back of a refurbished Douglas C-47 flying to Bogota. Once there the Dispatcher takes the Researcher to a nearby town where despite exposure to the yellow plague nobody has succumbed to it.

The Scientist gains Bogota and then the Dispatcher draws Buenos Aires (Yellow) and Shanghai (Red). Meanwhile plague spreads to Bangkok and Mumbai.

The situation:

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The Researcher is up next...

PANDEMIC

Ok, I figure I make my way to Tokyo and take the edge off. Anyone have other suggestions?

By the way, I think Shanghai (which the Dispatcher just drew) would be a great location for a research station. It's adjacent to two of our hottest hot spots, and not far from a couple of other trouble spots. The problem is getting the Dispatcher there; their power works on everyone except their own good self.

You could do so on your next turn by moving to Buenos Aires, discarding the card for a Charter Flight to Shanghai and then discarding to build the station. You'd have one action left to do your puppetmaster thing or move or whatnot. That'd cost a Red and a Yellow card; the Yellow card especially I think we can easily afford at this point.

The problem is getting the Dispatcher there; their power works on everyone except their own good self.

This is not my reading of the description. The first part says the Dispatcher can move any pawn, if its owner agrees, to any city containing another pawn. That would include the Dispatcher's own.

I think that's true. If the Dispatcher wants to give it a go on her turn, I can try and report the result. Since I'm using the computer version there's not much ambiguity about what is permitted.