[Fluxx] Zombie Fluxx Question

[Christopher Onstad]

Hello Joseph,

 It is truly a pleasure to be known by you.  and thank you very much for
your response.   On the one hand, I feel bad that you got trumped by the
emporer.  on the other hand who better to be trumped by?    Either way, I am
incredibly grateful that you put time and thought into my question, and
crafted a response.  The variety of responses actually helped me to feel not
so bad about asking what I originally thought was a weird and pointless
question.  Meaning, I thought the answer was obvoius to everybody else, and
I am so glad that other people disagreed with me and each other, showing I
wasn't the only one.

The best part of this whole discussion is that you and Carol, and bob, and
myself, and Carl are all correct.  While Andy has given his official opinion
of how repellent works, and I will accept it because it fits with my view of
things.  He also wholeheartedly believes in house rules.  (well judgening
from comments) and said he could see the split second victory arguments.   I
am just grateful that 1) I dont' feel so alone in my confusion.  2) that
several people took an interest 3) we got an official answer and 4) that we
can all keep playing in a way that makes sense to all of us.  Isn't that the
best result of all?

It was a pleasure to meet you and everybody, and again i thank you for your
time and thought and response.
Christopher
On Jan 4, 2008 1:33 PM, Joseph Pate <jpate at marvell.com> wrote:

> Hi Christopher:
>
> I think Bob's point is that even though passing out the Zombies could
> be considered a "single event", in that you finish doing that before
> anything else happens, the word "instantly" is pretty unequivocal,
> meaning that as soon as the creeper distributor gives you a card, you
> immediately give it to someone else.  Definitely more of a bounce than
> a forcefield; if Andy had intended it to act as a creeper barrier, he
> would have changed the text to something like "you can not receive
> creepers.  Any creeper you would normally get goes to another player
> of your choice instead".
>
> One possibly helpful way to look at it is that every goal is snapshot-
> dependent.  If you can take a snapshot that satisfies the victory
> conditions, even if someone is in the middle of a turn or the middle
> of a play, the game is over, and the appropriate player(s) [or
> zombies] win.  So, as long as there was a moment when every player
> had a creeper in front of them -- even though you were about to give
> yours away, the snapshot shows the victory conditions and the zombies
> win.  For this to happen, there just needs to be enough creeper cards
> to get back to you after the player on your left gets one.
>
> Does that clarify anything?  I'm known to ramble on a bit myself, so
> possibly I haven't actually said anything new at all.
>
> Welcome to the list!
>
> Cheers,
>         Joe (Ankhst)
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> > Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 01:06:09 -0800
> > From: "Christopher Onstad" <xofour at gmail.com>
> > To: rwinans at stny.rr.com, "Fluxx Discussion List" <
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