A topic from AEG's L5R CCG Rules forum, copied for Oracle of the Void from a copy of the forum saved in October 2015, so pages it didn't save are missing. Players' names are left out; the rules officials are named. Rulings are as they stood on these dates; later rulings, the rulebooks and the Rules Archive may differ.
A player, 6 October 2012
Hi,
need a claryfication.
I play a Desperate Mediation: Battle: In turn order, starting with you, each player targets and moves home one of his Personalities at the current battlefield. Then, gain Honor equal to the number of Personalities this moved.
and on the battelfild is an opposed Oni personality. Can my opponent target his Oni and nagate this ation by undetectable enemy? If he can than I gues that the whole action is nagated and My personality eityher wont move from battelfield, and I wont get any honor.
undetectable: Reaction: After another player's action targets your Oni: Negate its effects.
thx for reply
Jon Palmer (rules official), 7 October 2012
Hi,
need a claryfication.
I play a Desperate Mediation: Battle: In turn order, starting with you, each player targets and moves home one of his Personalities at the current battlefield. Then, gain Honor equal to the number of Personalities this moved.
and on the battelfild is an opposed Oni personality. Can my opponent target his Oni and nagate this ation by undetectable enemy? If he can than I gues that the whole action is nagated and My personality eityher wont move from battelfield, and I wont get any honor.
undetectable: Reaction: After another player's action targets your Oni: Negate its effects.
thx for reply
Because the targeting on Desperate Mediation is part of the effects, it happens in order. Therefore, the person playing Desperate will first target their Personality, and move them home. Then the Oni is targeted, and Undetectable Enemy is played. This negates the remainder of the action, which is the Oni's movement, and the honor gain.