So I just had a game where Ezren was at the Alchemist, explored and found the villain.  Then during temporary closure of the farm, a Harpy showed up.  Ezren failed his Wisdom check.  Fortunately, the game didn't then move him to the Farmhouse and then lose the villain, but I'm curious what's supposed to happen in a regular game?

So I just had a game where Ezren was at the Alchemist, explored and found the villain.  Then during temporary closure of the farm, a Harpy showed up.  Ezren failed his Wisdom check.  Fortunately, the game didn't then move him to the Farmhouse and then lose the villain, but I'm curious what's supposed to happen in a regular game?

Ezren should move to Farm; then he can STILL beat the Villain, and if he does - he will permanently close the Alchemist location. Basically, your encounter with the Villain is unaffected.

However, the bigger issue is if the Harpy moves one of your other heroes, that was supposed to tem-close, to the Fram - then they will be unable to attempt to temp-close their old location, so the Villain will escape, even if undefeated. (Which is the reason why you want to temp-close first your "sure thing" locations, before you go to the "random factor" locations)

Longshot has the card game rules right.

 

Note a character pulled to the Farm by the Harpy could still try to temp-close the Farm, if the character fighting the Harpy loses the fight, assuming the pulled character had not already attempted to temp-close a location (this is a change from an earlier rule).

 

Note also, if Ezren was fighting a villain with two or more checks, it is characters at the Farm, not the villain's location, who could take checks against the villain.