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, 30 November 2010
Hi,
I was wondering if we had played this combo correctly.
I used Jutsushi Exp to limited action dishonour a stacked enemy samurai personality then used Test of Sincerity on them. As they are already dishonoured they can't choose the "dishonour this personality, lose 2 honour" option as they can't pay the cost (dishonour) as they are already dishonoured. Does this mean that they have to choose the seppuku option and I can essentially limited/open kill any dishonoured Samurai/Courtier?
As an aside, if the targeted personality is not a Samurai/Courtier can they choose to seppuku through this card as they can't choose this action normally?
Zen Faulkes (rules official), 30 November 2010
I used Jutsushi Exp to limited action dishonour a stacked enemy samurai personality then used Test of Sincerity on them. As they are already dishonoured they can't choose the "dishonour this personality, lose 2 honour" option as they can't pay the cost (dishonour) as they are already dishonoured. Does this mean that they have to choose the seppuku option and I can essentially limited/open kill any dishonoured Samurai/Courtier?
No. Dishonor is not a cost, it's a choice.
http://rules.l5r.com/CE_Effects#Choices: "A choice may be made even if its consequences would be negated, prevented, or otherwise fail due to lack of suitable things to affect.
"Example: If a Personality is already bowed, or will not bow due to an effect, you may still make a choice to bow him. If you do not control any unbowed Personalities, you may also make a choice to “bow an unbowed Personality,” which just fails."
(I)f the targeted personality is not a Samurai/Courtier can they choose to seppuku through this card(?)
Yes. Each is a separate action.