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A player, 6 June 2007
I thinks it works but I still want to check with you rules guys.
Let's say that at the begining of my turn I'm at 42 honor and that my opponent play a The People's Champion.
I accept the challenge and lose it.
I play a Gold to prevent my Personality's destruction and then make him make seppuku since The People's Champion produce an honor loss in which he is implicated.
Am I correct to think that in this case I only lose 1 honor from the seppuku.
Reaction: Before a player is about to win an Honor victory: Any one player may step forward one unbowed Personality to challenge that player. That player may accept the challenge with any Personality (including bowed Personalities). Unless the challenge is accepted and won, that player's Honor is reduced to 39.
This card's Gold cost equals half the target's Gold cost, rounded up. Reaction: Before a Personality you control is destroyed by another player's action: Target the Personality. Negate all Chi penalties on him. Negate his destruction.
The People's Champion
* The reduction of honor to 39 is an ordinary, preventable honor loss. [DW] * The reduction of honor occurs after any honor-gaining Reactions played during the duel. * Can be used by Shadowlands players because it only causes an honor loss if the challenge is refused or lost.
Thanks for your time and sorry if the question has been already asked.
[Mod edit: Slang removed. -ZF]
Zen Faulkes (rules official), 6 June 2007
(A)t the begining of my turn I'm at 42 honor and that my opponent play a The People's Champion. I accept the challenge and lose it. I play a Gold to prevent my Personality's destruction and then make him make seppuku since The People's Champion produce an honor loss in which he is implicated. Am I correct to think that in this case I only lose 1 honor from the seppuku.
The action for seppuku (Lotus rules, pg. 62) says it can be played when "before you lose Honor as a direct result of an action or effect that targeted this Personality..." Your personality was not targeted, as the word never appears on The People's Champion.
"...or from an action he performed." Did the Personality meet any of the performance criteria (Lotus rules, pg. 47)?
"1. Actions on a Personality or Follower are performed by that card." No.
"2. Actions on an Item or Spell are performed by its Personality." No.
"3. Actions that involve one or more Personalities or Followers in their costs are performed by those cards." No.
"4. Actions that cause a Personality controlled by the player who took the action to issue a challenge are performed by that Personality." No.
"5. All other actions are performed only by their player."
Seppuku is not legal in this case.