House ends on Dark Arts: both stun, then recover in order

Starting situation

Hypothetical example: an unstunned House pawn legally finishes a move on a space with one Dark Arts pawn. No card overrides the normal encounter rule. The recovery steps below occur on the respective players’ later turns, before the final phase.

Resolve it step by step

1. 1

   Identify the moving pawn as a House pawn. This direction invokes Stunning, rather than the Dark Arts Bumped procedure.

2. 2

   Lay both pawns sideways to mark them as stunned.

3. 3

   The House player chooses an adjacent space and moves the Dark Arts pawn there, as specifically required by this encounter rule. Both pawns remain stunned after this relocation.

4. 4

   Until a stun is reversed, do not move the stunned pawn using a card’s movement or effect. The encounter’s prescribed relocation does not grant a continuing permission to move stunned pawns.

5. 5

   On the House player’s later Replenish turn: optionally discard cards, draw until the hand contains five cards, stand all of that player’s stunned pawns, then advance the Dark Arts Marker one space and resolve any triggered event.

6. 6

   On the Dark Arts player’s later Replenish turn: stand all of their stunned pawns first, then draw until their hand contains five cards. The Dark Arts player cannot discard cards to refresh the hand, and this Replenish does not itself advance the Dark Arts Marker.

Common mistakes

• Do not confuse Replenish with an ordinary card draw: a draw effect does not by itself stand stunned pawns.
• The House sequence is draw, stand, advance; the Dark Arts sequence is stand, draw. A later event may change the resulting board state.
• Check the actual card text whenever an effect expressly changes a normal rule.