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From: Jeffrey Nuremburg <xanatos@********.NET>
Subject: Knuckles, Wanted and Bulldog Van
Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 01:12:34 -0400
> From: "Bourgault, Patrick" <pbourgau@***.CA>
>
> I have two unturned runner in the safehouse. One of them is Knuckles
> (guard traits), and the other has the Bulldog Van. Now, my opponent
> attack the other runner with a Wanted card. There's the plot: I want to
> use Knuckles to save my other runner. To do this, I have to turn
> Knuckles.
>
> Q: Do Knuckles benefits the (A+1) from the Bulldog Van ?? (the card says
> that the armor is given to all unturned runners in the safehouse.)

The answer to this question is two fold:

1) The Bulldog van only affects Runners who are "present" in the
safehouse. In the instance of a Wanted! the targeted Runner (and
the Runner attacking him) are in some indeterminate place in which
only the two of them are "present". Since they are no longer in the
safehouse, the Bulldog Van has no effect on the targeted Runner.

2) And this leads into the second answer, which is that Knuckles is
unable to affect a Runner who is target by a Wanted! Knuckles would
be "present" in the safehouse, the Wanted! Runner is in the midst of
combat in that indeterminate place I mentioned earlier. Due to this
situation, Knuckles would not be able to use his guard ability to
protect the other Runner.

The big issue here, is that Knuckles is unable to protect a Runner targeted
by Wanted!. That's just the way it is (this came down officially from Fasa
at some point in the past).

Hope this helps clarify.

--
Jeffrey Nuremburg / System Administrator
xanatos@********.net
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"I've been an atheist - I had found it difficult to
have religious beliefs and scientific ones, but I've
accepted that I have a duality - there's a human
way of interacting with people but also a mechanistic
explanation of what people are and how they work."

- Rodney Brooks, Director of MIT's AI Lab

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