From:	">>>>> Axlrose - ... <<<<<" <axlrose@**********.COM>
Subject:	Re: [FASA] CS and SoC (part 2)
Date:	Sun, 29 Mar 1998 18:33:50 -0500

At 12:53 AM 3/30/98 +0200, you wrote:

<Snipped FASA's Cement Shoes comment...>

>Possibly Cement Shoes should be errata´d to redirect the played Special
onto a randomly >chosen Runner. IMHO "valid" means simply a turned Runner.
---Felix

Why not just errata the Cement Shoes card to target an opponent's runners?
Therefore, the only way the tables can be turned would be through cards
like State of Confusion. It would cut out all this targeting one's own
runners then switching sides with the above SoC card. Plus, if you were
working for someone, as the runners per se are for the real life players,
would you be willing to work for someone that ordered to have you wear
special shoes before changing his/her/it's mind to another?

To clarify this some more before something is read into this. Using my old
example of 'real life' names, Jon/Mugsy paid Axlrose and Gumbo to take out
Loki. As Jim Nelson said before altering his view, the amount is paid out,
spent, whatever = gone! Because Jon/Mugsy is targeting his opponent, this
would be legal. Now Loki wants to save himself/his runner card so he plays
SoC on Axlrose and Gumbo to redirect us, errr the mafia runners back
towards Jon/Mugsy's characters - choosing Mugsy himself. It should not
matter Mugsy is 2 Nuyen cheaper (or 2 Nuyen higher or even payment). The
amount has already been paid; it is now the affect that is being redirected
with State of Confusion. The Cement Shoes card is brought into play
already. Let us not get more confused by "Well, considering I paid X
amount and now Y amount is spent, I am entitled to a refund..." or "Geesh,
I don't have enough to pay for the new cost of Cement Shoes so I will just
not use it this turn."

I think too many are getting too tied up with the exact wording of the
cards instead of the intended feel of the cards. Like with many of my card
ideas from the past, though they are wordy and would never fit all onto a
card, it is the feel I want to portray. We should stop trying to be so
precise and calculated in every possible combination of cards just because
the card might or might not insinuate what the original authors' intended.

My view on the whole,
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