From:	Matb <mbreton@**.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:	Re: More questions (hopefully the last)
Date:	Wed, 17 Dec 1997 10:22:57 -0800

Crane wrote:
>
> Some challenge cards read...do X damage owner decides how to divide
> it...yadda yadda yadda...AND the challenge has a threat rating.
> If you have a shaman with a city spirit can the damage (lets say from a
> fusion gate) be assigned to the shaman directly given it is not combat? or
> is it considered combat damage?

Amazing what a pumped-up Fusion Gate can do, huh? (Gotta love
Crossfires!)

The damage specifies a Runner -- you can't send the City Spirit crashing
through the gate to suck up the juice. This is clarified in the FAQ 2.0
(at http://www.FASA.com/ ).

Fusion Gate (and Electrified Fence) are pretty easy: You either sleaze
the Challenge or you don't. If you don't, you take damage, then enter
combat. (Under *most* situations, Fusion Gate won't deal extra damage.
Dealing the damage first does make it a tougher Challenge to trash.....)

> If so...is damage from, say, a Sabotaged Controls treated the same way or
> differently (directly to the runner)?

Yup. Cards that read "Runner takes x damage" must target a Runner card
-- and Spirits and Droens are both Gear cards, not Runner cards.


-Mb