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You Were Told to Duck and Malevolence


Virtus

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Imagine Parker shoots into engagement against a Kirai crew, and Kirai is within 6" for her Malevolence ability.

What happens if Parker ditches Coordinated Heist to get the "You Were Told To Duck..." ability, and Kirai responds by triggering her Malevolence ability? Would the summoned Ikiryo show up after all the shots have been taken since "You Were Told To Duck..." was triggered off of one projectile action? Or can Ikiryo get summoned before all the attacks resolve, thus engaging Parker and stopping him from shooting more than once?

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Kirai can't respond to "you were told to duck" with Malavolence. 

What she can do is wait until Parker damages a friendly  living or undead model, and then discard a soulstone or card to summon Ikiryu in base contact with Parker. That would then mean that he isn't able to make any more attacks. This might be whilst he still had more attacks ready to go. Other abilities such as butterfly jump or squee could also end the number of attacks early

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Parker takes a number of Sh actions, she is triggering malevolence on one of those, not off You were told to duck... If any one of those individually declared actions damages a model that could fulfill the requirements of malevolence Kirai is allowed to use her ability after the damage happens but before you move on to the next attack. If Parker is in engagement he can't declare any more :ranged attacks so Ikiryo is very effective against this. You could try to find a way to not be within LoS of Kirai or start by attacking models that might not have LoS to Kirai so the aura doesn't affect them.

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"You Were Told to Duck" is worded in such a way that Parker gets all his shots off of one action. That's where my question lies. If Ikiryo pops up in the middle of an action that is a projectile attack, what'll happen to the rest of them?

Edit: It was ruled by a Henchman that all of Parker's attacks will go off. I just wanted to clarify because they still are projectiles and Ikiryo could have been blocking LOS.

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1 hour ago, Virtus said:

"You Were Told to Duck" is worded in such a way that Parker gets all his shots off of one action. That's where my question lies. If Ikiryo pops up in the middle of an action that is a projectile attack, what'll happen to the rest of them?

Edit: It was ruled by a Henchman that all of Parker's attacks will go off. I just wanted to clarify because they still are projectiles and Ikiryo could have been blocking LOS.

Nothing is truly simultaneous, you always need to decide an order of resolution that will have consequences such as this. Even when taking a free action granted by another action one step of the resolution is to declare it, at that point the action needs to be legal. Even when resolving a pulse that explicitly effects everything at once you cvoose an order to resolve completely against one model at a time. These are even declared individual attacks.

A TO will need to make quick decisions during tournaments and their ruling will stand for that tournament so it's important to respect that. It's never wrong to go here and discuss after the tournament.

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