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, 3 February 2010
Mirumoto Kondo: Battle: If any enemy units are at the current battlefield, you may bow a Weapon in Kondo's unit: Move your target unit there. If you bowed a Weapon and the unit moved, straighten the unit.
Moshi Chuuna: Limited: Bow Chuuna or one of her Spells: Target a Personality. After the next time this turn he assigns or moves to a battlefield, bow him.
So if Moshi Chuuna targets Mirumoto Kondo with her limited action, and Mirumoto Kondo has a weapon attached; If there is a normal battle where there are enemy units. Can Kondo, from home, activate his ability and end up in the battle unbowed, by paying the optional cost?
I said yes, since the bow effect from Moshi Chuuna would occur when he moves, but owing to the period (.) the straightening would occur after that. Since each sentance and subsequent effect triggering happens one at a time during the effect resolution of the action procedure.
Some of my more vocal Mantis opponents were not convinced.
Dan Jacobson (rules official), 3 February 2010
Mirumoto Kondo: Battle: If any enemy units are at the current battlefield, you may bow a Weapon in Kondo's unit: Move your target unit there. If you bowed a Weapon and the unit moved, straighten the unit.
Moshi Chuuna: Limited: Bow Chuuna or one of her Spells: Target a Personality. After the next time this turn he assigns or moves to a battlefield, bow him.
So if Moshi Chuuna targets Mirumoto Kondo with her limited action, and Mirumoto Kondo has a weapon attached; If there is a normal battle where there are enemy units. Can Kondo, from home, activate his ability and end up in the battle unbowed, by paying the optional cost?
I said yes, since the bow effect from Moshi Chuuna would occur when he moves, but owing to the period (.) the straightening would occur after that. Since each sentance and subsequent effect triggering happens one at a time during the effect resolution of the action procedure.
Some of my more vocal Mantis opponents were not convinced.
You are correct. Why? Order of effects.
Moshi Chuuna hits Mirumoto Kondo has the delayed effect that activates after he moves.
Mirumoto Kondo uses his ability, bowing a Weapon as the optional cost. He moves to the battlefield. Moshi Chuuna's effect bows him. His unit straightens per his action's text.
He ends up unbowed at the battle.