Stargazer at Wishing Well


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Question on Alahazra's Stargazer power and the Wishing Well

Alahazra (Stargazer) wrote:
When you use the above power to examine a card from a location deck on your turn, and it is a boon, you may encounter it.
Wishing Well's At This Location Power wrote:
You automatically succeed at your checks to acquire boons. When you acquire a boon, summon and encounter the henchman Pirate Shade Haunt, which may not be evaded.

If Alahazra has the above power and is at the Chapel (for instance) what happens when she uses her ability to examine a card at the Wishing Well and its a boon.

Does she...

A) Treat it as though she were at this location and automatically acquire it if she wants, gaining a Pirate Shade Haunt.

B) Treat it as though she were are her current location and have to make a check to acquire it, not gaining a Pirate Shade Haunt if successful.

Another way to think about it... does At This Location refer to the cards at that location or the character at that location.


See this comment. Encounters happen where the character is.

She is encountering the card at the Chapel, so, I'd say the "At This Location" power of the Wishing Well isn't in effect if Alahazra is at the Chapel, since during the encounter neither her nor the card at "at the location" of the Wishing Well.


Hawkmoon269 wrote:

See this comment. Encounters happen where the character is.

She is encountering the card at the Chapel, so, I'd say the "At This Location" power of the Wishing Well isn't in effect if Alahazra is at the Chapel, since during the encounter neither her nor the card at "at the location" of the Wishing Well.

The combination of Stargazer and Wishing Well can easily get out of hand. Alahazra can simply camp on the wishing well and use all of her divine cards to examine the top cards of all the locations and encounter the boons, and use the wising well's power to auto-acquire them (since that is where the encounter is taking place). Sure, she'll rack up a lot of Pirate Shade Haunts (I had a die-counter up to 12 and could have gone higher but the boon pickings were getting slim). At the end of each turn she discards all the non-divine cards and resets her hand (she can easily heal herself if necessary). Her teammates then use their turns to move to locations with banes on top and eliminate them so Alahazra has more targets for the next turn. When the boons start running out, have another player close the wishing well (because it would be really hard for Alahazra to do this with all the haunts hanging around), and then spend 1 dead turn for Alahazra to clear her own haunts.

Wishing Well's "at this location" instructions after closed wrote:
If you end your turn at this location, banish all Haunts next to your character card.

I wouldn't try this with a group of players unless they were all on-board with the strategy, but I don't mind doing this on solo games when playing multiple characters.

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