Targeting as an effect?

L5R CCG Rules board, 14 March 2014

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, 14 March 2014

(tangential to viewtopic.php?f=59&t=107240 )

If I play Holding Cells on my opponent, and he interrupts with Investigation, and I interrupt my own action with The Sun Returns, do I still target my opponent's personality and lose 5 honor from Investigation, or has my targeting been negated by The Sun Returns?

A player, 14 March 2014

Although they now occur during the action's resolution and are integrated within the effects, targeting itself is still not an effect. Negating the action's effects won't change the fact that you must carry on with the targets.