Share the blame and seppukku

L5R CCG Rules board, 17 March 2008

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A player, 17 March 2008

My opponent targets my courtier with Shinjo's Courage. Before it resolves, I play Share the blame, dishonoring my courtier and losing 3 honor. Can I then seppukku, and kill my courtier thus removing the target of Shinjo's Courage, causing the Shinjo's Courage to fizzle/fail?

Brook Cunningham (rules official), 17 March 2008

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.

Emphasis mine.

Share the Blame neither targets nor is performed by your Courtier, and thus is not a legal trigger for the Seppuku Rulebook Reaction.

Zen Faulkes (rules official), 17 March 2008

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