Vigo's Shroud seems to be bugged

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Does anybody tried this offering recently? 

Yesterday a friend of mine got mad because he use it and it didn't work, he spawned near the killer, and today I tried and same thing, barely touched the gen and already got Oni on my ass.

How does this offering work? Is it just rng in the end?

Because in the description it says: "You start the trial as far as possible from the Killer". But it ain't working in that way in my experience.