Task Barriers and Shuffling Location Decks

[Casey Weston]

In my very first play of Skull and Shackles we had the following situation occur:

Someone encountered Lookout Duty.
That person failed the check.
That person ends their turn.
On the next turn a crocodile was encountered at another location.
A check to defeat the crocodile ended in failure.
The crocodile randomly picked the location with the Lookout Duty task.

I wasn't sure what to do, so I set Lookout Duty aside. Shuffled Crocodile into the remaining location deck, set it back down and put Lookout Duty back face-up on that location.

Is that what could happen here? I don't know if the rules address this, but I didn't see it.

[Andrew K]

Not knowing anything about Lookout Duty or Crocodile and what they do, I say the following assuming that the Lookout Duty summons a random monster elsewhere, and when a Crocodile is undefeated shuffles in somewhere randomly. Then, if the monster was undefeated, Lookout Duty stays face up on top of the deck.

You finish the Crocodile encounter in its entirety before you go back to Lookout Duty and follow its failed instructions. So, yes, it would shuffle in Crocodile and then Lookout Duty goes on top.

[Orbis Orboros]

Straight from the Paizo Blog (emphasis mine) -

Paizo Blog - Think Different: A Look at Some Changes to the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game wrote:

Faceup Cards: Sometimes a card is left faceup on the top of the location deck (for example, most barriers with the Task trait work this way). The card is still in the deck, but it can only be shuffled into the deck when the condition that caused it to be left faceup on the deck has been resolved. If such a card tells you that you must encounter it on your first exploration on a turn, then after that exploration, ignore it for the purpose of additional explorations that turn; however, it still counts as the top card of the deck for any other purpose. If multiple cards are left faceup on the same deck, you may place them in any order and encounter them in that order.

Seems cut and dry.

c:

[Vic Wertz]

See the rules sidebar about faceup cards on page 11.

[Malcolm_Reynolds]

If you reorder the cards in some way that doesn't involve shuffling (like Spyglass or Scrying for Barriers and putting them on the bottom (though I see Augury and Scry are not in S&S)) do faceup cards just go back on top of the deck?

[Hawkmoon269]

Yup. Until the condition for them to not be faceup is met, they stay faceup on the top. They also count as the first card(s) in the location. So with one card faceup, all Spyglass will do is let you see the second card. It won't let you reorder anything.

[Joshua Birk 898]

"I can't see much down that hole, too many damn rocks in the way."

[Ashram316]

Augury and Scrying are in the Class Decks. Scrying seems to be quite common among deck 3 spells, though I believe only wizards have access to Augury.