From: phaedrus@halcyon.com (Mark Phaedrus)
Subject: Re: 4 Questions
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 05:34:31 GMT

In article <1jqtcgINNfdu@life.ai.mit.edu> thomasm@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael J. Thomas) writes:
>Here's hoping this actually makes it to the net.  I HATE being a newbie...
> 
>Four questions for your enjoyment...
> 
>1)  The Vampire wins as an ally with the Fungus.  Powers state that the
>Fungus takes the opponents' tokens into his stack; the Vampire enslaves
>one token of each opponent.  Does the Vampire take one and the Fungus gets
>the rest?  Does the Fungus get them all and the Vampire then gets one token
>to enslave from OUTSIDE the challenge?

     The timing-conflict rules come into play here.  Since the Vampire is an
ally, his power kicks in before the main players'; Vampire takes his one token
from each opponent, and Fungus then takes the rest.
 
>2)  A Fungoid stack goes to the warp, and in that stack were some of the
>Grief's tokens.  Does Grief now get cards, or should he have gotten them when
>the Fungus assimilated them to begin with?

     Good question, and one I won't attempt to address without having the Grief
power available to read. :)
 
>3)  A wild Destiny card is turned over.  The offensive player chooses
>the Anamoly.  Can the Anamoly change his luck, or is the offensive player's
>decision considered a choice and the Anamoly has no power here?  ("Now go
>away, before someone drops a house on YOU!")  If the Anamoly can change
>his luck, does the offensive player choose another system or draw another
>Destiny?

     Another good question.  I could see arguments for both ways, but since all
the other powers that affect the destiny pile color exclude wild cards, and in
the interests of letting someone challenge Anomaly at *some* point, I'd say
that wild cards are immune from Anomaly.  After all, the random event of 
drawing the wild card itself did not involve Anomaly; it was the drawing
player's conscious, nonrandom choice of Anomaly's system that did.

>4)  The Plant grafts the power of the Machine, and at the end of the
>challenge the power specifically states that the Machine would then go back
>to the player from whom it was grafted.  Does this mean the Plant is unable
>to graft the Machine and therefore get more than two challenges?  Are there
>similar powers the Plant can't graft?

     Right.  The grafted power goes away before the interphase, and Machine
takes effect only during the interphase, so the Plant gains nothing by
grafting Machine.  As I recall, the Plant gets nothing from Symbiote either.

     Now, here's a question that came up in a recent game:  Void is down to
two home bases and is thus without his power.  He challenges one of his home
planets and wins, thus regaining the power.  Does he get to void the opponents'
tokens for this challenge?  It seems to me that he should; after all, if you
lose your power instantly when you lose the challenge that costs you your
third base (and thus if Zombie loses a challenge that costs him his third home
base, his tokens go to the warp), it seems reasonable that you gain your power
back instantly when you win the challenge that gets you your third base.
Comments?
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