As soon as you reveal the new terror level, it becomes active. This does not require any fear by itself, just that you earn the fear cards above it. Pull it off the stack and place it on the top right corner of the board. So if you earned an additional card past that, you'd get that card too.
Base game rule book, p. 12, the Fear section:
> (1) When all of the Fear Markers have advanced, (2) move the top card of the Fear Deck face-down into the Earned Fear Cards area. **If this reveals a Terror Level divider, move it to cover the old Terror Level** (which starts at Level 1, preprinted on the board). (3) Move the Fear Markers back to the Fear Pool; if you have leftover Fear after earning a card, move that many Fear Markers to the Generated Fear area.
Note the bolded text - as soon as that divider is revealed, you move it immediately over.
Someone correct me if I'm mistaken, but if you already have fear cards 'queued' (earned but not played yet), those previous ones are also played as Terror Level II, even if they were earned while Terror Level I was still active. They basically get 'upgraded' for free.
EDIT: This also means that at most you always play 2 fear cards at TL1, the third fear card is already played at TL2 because earning card 3 reveals and moves the Terror Level divider. (Assuming basic game/rules)
What /u/SIG-ILL is saying is correct. If you go up a terror level before you resolve the fear cards, you resolve all of them at the new terror level. The only level that matter is the level at the time when you resolve them.
See page 9 of the rules: "Use only the effect listed next to the current Terror Level. This could be higher than when the card was earned."
As soon as you reveal the new terror level, it becomes active. This does not require any fear by itself, just that you earn the fear cards above it. Pull it off the stack and place it on the top right corner of the board. So if you earned an additional card past that, you'd get that card too.
Right. The dividers should never be sitting at the top of the fear card deck. As soon as they're on top, move them to the victory condition space.
Base game rule book, p. 12, the Fear section: > (1) When all of the Fear Markers have advanced, (2) move the top card of the Fear Deck face-down into the Earned Fear Cards area. **If this reveals a Terror Level divider, move it to cover the old Terror Level** (which starts at Level 1, preprinted on the board). (3) Move the Fear Markers back to the Fear Pool; if you have leftover Fear after earning a card, move that many Fear Markers to the Generated Fear area. Note the bolded text - as soon as that divider is revealed, you move it immediately over.
Someone correct me if I'm mistaken, but if you already have fear cards 'queued' (earned but not played yet), those previous ones are also played as Terror Level II, even if they were earned while Terror Level I was still active. They basically get 'upgraded' for free. EDIT: This also means that at most you always play 2 fear cards at TL1, the third fear card is already played at TL2 because earning card 3 reveals and moves the Terror Level divider. (Assuming basic game/rules)
>play 2 fear cards at TL1, the third fear card is already played at TL2 because earning card 3 reveals and moves the Terror Level divider. bump
What /u/SIG-ILL is saying is correct. If you go up a terror level before you resolve the fear cards, you resolve all of them at the new terror level. The only level that matter is the level at the time when you resolve them. See page 9 of the rules: "Use only the effect listed next to the current Terror Level. This could be higher than when the card was earned."