Quick question about the confusion of the confusion spell in S&S

[Demon Knight1434]

So we are playing thru S&S and stumbled what I believe to be the most op spell and i just wanted clarification on it

Confusion

-Magic
-Arcane
-Attack
-Divine
-Mental
-Basic

Discard this card to evade a monster. If there is another character at your location, that character may encounter the monster.

After playing this card, if you do not have the arcane or divine skill, banish it; otherwise, you may succeed at an arcane or divine 8 check to recharge this card instead of discarding it.

at first glance im thinking ok it allows me to escape if im at my location and if im with some one cool it lets me let them fight it.

Im just a support toon i dont really want to fight if i dont have to.

But after looking more into i noticed a few key words missing. ..."Your Location" is missing for the first power. was this meaning that the power alows you to use it for say the lonely gunslinger who dose not have the magic pistol for the ghost.

But make the magus who dose at my location have to fight it.

Or dose that mean i can if the player wishes to allow them to evade a monster but not allow that monster to come over and fight me it seems vary unclear about this first power part.

I could easily overview the fact that a monster would be swimming hundreds of yards in sea water just to fight some one else be a little silly but i don't worry about that if the card says it ....should it?

Just a little clarification on this card be nice

[Dave Riley]

Since you can only evade a monster you're encountering, the "at your location" in the first sentence is implicit. You can't play the card to let another character evade a monster. Check the side bar of the rule book that labeled along the lines of "No One Else Can Resolve Your Encounter For You." Things that let you evade/defeat something can only be used on YOUR encounter unless they otherwise specify.

[James McKendrew]

Demon Knight1434 wrote:

Discard this card to evade a monster.

The implied subject of the statement (grammatically, it's a command) is "you". Therefore, the first power only applies to the caster. If the caster manages to encounter a monster at a different location from where he/she is, then I guess this applies just fine. But the circumstances where something like that would happen seem pretty spectacular.

[Frencois]

Vic said once in April 2014 and then we all understood the meaning of life wrote:

"Encounters happen where the characters are"

This means if somehow a character could encounter a monster at another location (Alahazra can do it for boons, maybe someone will be able to do it for banes one day), Confusion would allow someone else at the charcater's location (not at the monster's location) to encounter that monster (I predict fun collateral effects the day we will be able to have that).

[Michael Klaus]

Frencois wrote:

Vic said once in April 2014 and then we all understood the meaning of life wrote:

"Encounters happen where the characters are"

This means if somehow a character could encounter a monster at another location (Alahazra can do it for boons, maybe someone will be able to do it for banes one day), Confusion would allow someone else at the charcater's location (not at the monster's location) to encounter that monster (I predict fun collateral effects the day we will be able to have that).

As you already noted what Vic said, I would like to point out that Alahazra encounter card from another location deck, but at her location. I always think of it like she learns to not only look at the stuff but basically rips a whole in the fabric of reality and pulls it through.

For the Confusion:

The first power is limited to the character who plays the spell. Other evasion powers have wordings like "a character" or "a character at your location" which include you but do not exclude others.
Then the second power would most probably not list "your location" but "her location" or possibly say something like "you may encounter the monster instead". And for the thematic explanation part I would assume that the spell has some sort of divination, teleportation component.
(Now I wonder if there are divination items in the Oracle Deck that let you use "at your location" spells even if you are not at the location of the target.)

[Hawkmoon269]

Compare it with Sanctuary for an example of a card that you can play to let someone else evade a monster:

Sanctuary wrote:

Discard this card to choose a character at your location to evade a monster he encounters; put that monster on top of its location deck.

After playing this card, if you do not have the Divine skill, banish it; otherwise, you may succeed at a Divine 8 check to recharge this card instead of discarding it.