Does an undefeated villain get shuffled back into the location deck?

[Bla Bla 728]

Hello everyone,

almost all the rules were very clear to me, but there has always been a question in the back of my mind.

Does the undefeated villain get shuffled back?

I wondered about this rule because the rules state: "IF you defeated the villain, count the number of open locations etc, etc...". So my guess was, that this rule will not work when he is not defeated and instead is treated like a normal monster.

Am I right?

on a side note: ...If he DOES get shuffled back, wouldn't it be easier if you lose against the villain the first time you encounter him? Then you know where he is hiding...

Thanks for your time and I shall await your responses!

[h4ppy]

I just answered this on another thread!

In short, you need to read one more sentence from the rulebook to find out what to do when the villain is undefeated! :)

No, he does not just get shuffled in to his current location. You lose blessings from the timer and he runs to hide.

Here's what I wrote there:

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Um... one thing.

If you found the Villain on your first turn in a four player game then how did you know where the Villain would run to?

Even if you temp closed three other locations, the Villain would still have had a choice of 3 locations to run to and you would have lost two blessings from the timer deck.

There's no mention of temp closing locations in your tale so I'm not sure if you just forgot how to deal with undefeated villains? They don't stay in one place!

Rulebook, p18 wrote:

If any locations are not closed, the villain escapes. If you defeated the villain, count the number of open locations, subtract 1, and retrieve that number of random blessings from the box. Shuffle the villain in with those blessings, then deal 1 card to each open location and shuffle those location decks. If you did not defeat the villain, do the same thing, but retrieve the blessings from the blessings deck instead of from the box.

(Note that if you did not defeat the villain, there is always at least one open location: the one in which it was just encountered.)