Unstable location

Unstable locations are locations where gates to Other Worlds may appear. They are denoted by a red diamond at the top of the location's image.

Standard investigators are never placed on an unstable location at the start of the game (though Luke Robinson, the Dreamer, starts the game in an Other World) because of the chance that an unlucky mythos card will cause them to be delayed in an Other World on the first turn, when investigators are generally ill-equipped to survive most of the harmful Other World Encounters.