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, 5 October 2010
Distractions in court Text Political Reaction: After another player’s action is announced, bow your performing Courtier or Magistrate: Reduce all Honor losses by 5 until the action ends. Open: Discard the Imperial Favor: Bow a target Personality.
Isawa Fosuta Text Spider Clan • Shadowlands • Shugenja • Inquisitor • Experienced • Unique • Onyx Champion After Fosuta enters play, Lose 8 Honor. Maho Open: Bow Fosuta: Lose 6 Honor. While Fosuta remains bowed, you may negate his straightening and, at the start of each turn, you may target a Personality and give him a -1F/-1C Curse token. After the next time this game Fosuta straightens or leaves play, destroy all Curse tokens.
if my opponent is running Isawa Fosuta and uses his action and i react with Distractions in court, does this reduce all honour losses by 5 until Fosuta straghtens?
if so, if i then used control on Fosuta could he cancel his action without killing Fosuta or breaking the Control by killing bowing etc my personality?
Zen Faulkes (rules official), 5 October 2010
if my opponent is running Isawa Fosuta and uses his action and i react with Distractions in court, does this reduce all honour losses by 5 until Fosuta straghtens?
No.
http://rules.l5r.com/CE_Abilities_and_a ... ction_ends: "An action ends after its last effect is applied, if that effect is not a delayed effect. If an action's last effect is delayed, then the action ends instead after that effect is activated."
I suppose the first part could be clarified to say, "...after its last effect is first applied." The key point is that actions don't end when the very last effect they generate is over; they end before that.