Pour Time Sideways (Fractured Days Split the Sky)

Frequently Asked Questions

Event Cards

• Can the "3 or fewer Towns/Cities" effect of Bureaucrats Adjust Funding cause a Build Action in a land without Invaders?
  Yes, and the resulting Build Action will usually Build a Town in that land.

  Bureaucrats Adjust Funding only checks if the land matches the Build Card, not if it contains Invaders. This is different from Pour Time Sideways, which checks where Invader Cards are already creating Invader Actions.
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• Does a Spirit have to pay for the Power Card played via Ethereal Conjunction?
  No, since the card is put directly into play without needing to pay its cost.

  However, the Spirit still needs to pay any costs associated with using the Power, whether that's a mandatory "Cost to Use" (e.g., for Absolute Stasis) or a cost associated with a particular choice (e.g., for Hazards Spread Across the Island). You can pick a Power Card with a Cost to Use that you can't afford; in that case, you fail to use the Power and then Forget the card.
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General Play

• Is there an ordering or priority for action modifications? It seems weird that you can get a benefit from something being destroyed even if you save it from destruction.
  Yes:

  • First change quantity (eg: Pour Time Sideways);
  • Then do any canceling or replacement (eg: Flowing and Silent Forms Dart By / A Year of Perfect Stillness);
  • Finally do any other sort of additional or altered effects (eg: threshold on Instruments of Their Own Ruin).

  The practical upshot of this is mostly "you can't both prevent something from happening and do extra stuff because it's happening" - eg, if Volcano Looming High's Presence would be destroyed, but it's saved somehow, you don't get to deal damage.

  If a modifier cancels just part of something, modifiers to that part don't apply. Eg: Entrap the Forces of Corruption doesn't stop Blight from being added, but it does stop it from cascading, so another modifier which changed how cascades worked wouldn't apply.

  As before, if you have multiple modifiers with no clear order, you get to pick which happens first. For instance: you play Infestation of Venomous Spiders with threshold on a land with Dahan about to Ravage. A Fear Card says "Invaders do not Ravage in lands with Dahan". When that Ravage would happen, there are two different "skip this Ravage" modifiers. You get to decide which one to do first, so can choose it to be the Venomous Spiders. This wouldn't be true if the entire Ravage Step got skipped, or if the Ravage Card were changed to match different lands - those happen before you ever reach the individual Ravage Action – but as of JE, the only Fear cards that work this way are Explorers Are Reluctant and Immigration Slows, levels 2 and 3.

  This is an addition to published rules – the intent is that it will be included in the rulebook of a future expansion.
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Invader Actions

• Are the extra Builds from Bureaucrats Adjust Funding part of the normal Build for the purposes of Panicked by Wild Beasts?
  Yes, if it's the first Build Card that turn, Panicked by Wild Beasts level 2 or 3 skips any additional Builds caused by Bureaucrats Adjust Funding.

  Bureaucrats Adjust Funding modifies how the Build Card works, and thus any additional Build Actions it causes are considered part of the normal Build Card.
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Power Cards

• When exactly do you have to pay a "cost to use" on a Power Card?
  Before targeting it - "using" / "resolving" a Power includes choosing a target land and verifying that it's legal.

  This can be relevant for cards like Scream Disease Into the Wind, which set up a triggered action after a Power is used on a land.
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Spirits and Innate Powers

• With Pour Time Sideways and Dream of the Untouched Land could you use "skip actions on one board" on the "extra time" board (the board that Fractured Days' moved presence to)?
  Yes. Dream of the Untouched land skips all Build Cards and "Each land"/"Each board" Adversary actions on one board, even if that board has had Time poured to it.

  If this proves horribly abusive it'll be revisited, but that doesn't seem likely, it's pretty niche.
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• When playing Fractured Days Split the Sky solo, is Pour Time Sideways useless?
  In a one-board game, yes, it's nearly useless. (JE p. 31) This is why you get 1 Time as compensation during Setup. Solo games are no longer strictly single-board, however, with the addition of "use an additional board" as a Play Option.

  In a one-board game, Fractured Days Split the Sky is apt to want at least one Major Power if not more, so it can be useful for Forgetting.
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• How exactly does Pour Time Sideways work?
  It affects each individual Invader Action – so if they’re Ravaging in Sands, on the board you move Presence to, each Sands with Invaders will Ravage twice. (Then similarly for both Build and Explore.) On the board you moved Presence from, each Sands with Invaders will Ravage zero times. It’s phrased as “one more time” and “one fewer time” instead of “twice” and “zero times” so it works properly if the Power is Repeated.

  If you use a Power like Infestation of Venomous Spiders that lets you skip a number of Invader Actions in a land where they would Ravage twice, it has to skip each of the two individually.

  The phrase ‘“Each board/Each land...” Actions’ refers to any Action (generally Event Actions, Fear Actions, or Adversary Actions like Escalation) which does something on each board or in each land, even if there are qualifiers (e.g., “In each land with Beasts...”)
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