So after a frenzy of Blood Frenzies, Richardo’s starting location became Daunting, and I just realised it’s ambiguous how to interpret the wording of the Daunting-removal effect. We should probably have an agreement on what the correct interpretation is *before* the next Journey, because it’s inevitably going to come up then.

My own interpretation is that Richardo doesn’t enter the place he started at (unless he goes back there later), he just starts there. (This is consistent with the way that Features of Richardo’s starting location don’t trigger unless he moves away from it and comes back again; it doesn’t make much sense for him to think the room is safe to enter if he hasn’t done anything that would trigger traps there. It’s also consistent with the way that the effect doesn’t actually make him too afraid to enter the Crypt, not even in a “this is the only possibility” sort of way.) So this is a CFJ to say “yes, that’s the correct interpretation”.

As usual, if you disagree that this is the correct intepretation, the best move is to counter-CFJ to enforce your own interpretation; either way we want this rule to unambiguously say what the majority of people think it (ambiguously) says.

By the way, thanks to the BlogNomic Dice Roller for expressing Richardo’s likely feelings on the Crypt in such an apt and succinct way.