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A player, 12 March 2008
Can a personality without the samurai or courtier triat commit seppuku via the card "Wheels Within Wheels"?
Wheels within wheels:
Open: Target one of your honorable Human Personalities: He commits seppuku. You may rehonor one of your Personalities. Gain 2 Honor.
Seppuku:
Reaction: Any number of times per turn, before you lose Honor from an action that targeted or was performed by one of your Courtier or Samurai Personalities: He commits seppuku. If the seppuku destroyed him, reduce the Honor loss to one.
Thank you for your time.
Martin Lund (rules official), 12 March 2008
Can a personality without the samurai or courtier triat commit seppuku via the card "Wheels Within Wheels"?
Wheels within wheels:
Open: Target one of your honorable Human Personalities: He commits seppuku. You may rehonor one of your Personalities. Gain 2 Honor.
Seppuku:
Reaction: Any number of times per turn, before you lose Honor from an action that targeted or was performed by one of your Courtier or Samurai Personalities: He commits seppuku. If the seppuku destroyed him, reduce the Honor loss to one.
Thank you for your time.
Yes.
The Reaction in the rulebook is not Seppuku, but an ability that Samurai and Courtiers can use to "commit seppuku."
Wheels within Wheels has another ability that allows any of your Huamn Personalities to "commit seppuku."