Flooded Square - Retro

Luogo

Flooded Square is connected to the location in the clockwise direction.

With the rising tide of the acqua alta floods the square, you trudge through the numbingly cold water. The parade continues across a makeshift wooden bridge that spans the square, too narrow for your comfort.

Luogo

Venice.

Miti
Oscurità: 4. Indizi: 1.

Flooded Square is connected to the location in the clockwise direction.

: Automatically evade a non-Elite enemy at the location in the counter-clockwise direction. (Group limit once per turn.)

Matt Bradbury
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Flooded Square
Flooded Square

FAQs

(from the official FAQ or responses to the official rules question form)
  • Automatic Success/Failure & Automatic Evasion: Some card effects make an investigator automatically succeed or automatically fail a skill test. If this occurs, depending on the timing of such an effect, certain steps of the skill test may be skipped in their entirety.
    • If it is known that an investigator automatically succeeds or fails at a skill test before Step 3 (“Reveal Chaos Token”) occurs, that step is skipped, along with Step 4. No chaos token(s) are revealed from the chaos bag, and the investigator immediately moves to Step 5. All other steps of the skill test resolve as normal.
    • If a chaos token effect causes an investigator to automatically succeed or fail at a skill test, continue with Steps 3 and 4, as normal.
    • If an ability “automatically evades” 1 or more enemies, this is not the same as automatically succeeding at an evasion attempt. As per the entry on “Evade” in the Rules Reference, if an ability automatically evades 1 or more enemies, no skill test is made for the evasion attempt whatsoever. Consequentially, because no skill test is made, it is not considered a “successful” evasion. The investigator simply follows the steps for evading an enemy (exhausting it and breaking its engagement).
    • For example: Patrice uses the ability on Hope, which reads: “ If Hope is ready, exhaust or discard him: Evade. Attempt to evade with a base value of 5. (If you discarded Hope, this test is automatically successful.)” If Patrice chooses to discard Hope, the skill test automatically succeeds before chaos tokens are revealed; therefore Steps 3 and 4 of the skill test are skipped. However, the skill test still takes place. Cards may still be committed to the test, and the investigator’s total modified skill value is still determined, as it may have some bearing on other card abilities. However, if Patrice instead uses the ability on Stray Cat, which reads: “ Discard Stray Cat: Automatically evade a non-Elite enemy at your location,” no skill test is made whatsoever. - FAQ, v.1.7, March 2020
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There’s a couple reasons why the Flooded Square can be useful. Keep in mind that evading an enemy means two things: disengaging that enemy from any investigators, and exhausting that enemy. An enemy doesn’t have to be engaged for it to be evaded.

So, like you suggested, if you are in Flooded Square and have a friend in the location counter-clockwise from Flooded Square, and he is engaged with an enemy, you can spend an action to automatically evade that enemy.

However, another situation is, if you are in Flooded Square and you are being followed by a Hunter enemy, and that enemy is in the location counter-clockwise from Flooded Square, you can evade it which will exhaust it and prevent it from moving that round!

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