Sweep Into the Sea

Frequently Asked Questions

Effect Rules

• If you change a Power's speed, which phase can you Repeat it in?
  Whatever matches the speed the Power was most recently set to, which will almost always be the speed of the original use of the Power.

  There are a few unusual cases:

  • If you use a Fast Power (or Power that was made Fast) in the Fast Phase, and then make that Power Slow with "Sky Stretches to Shore," it's now a Slow Power and can only be Repeated in the Slow Phase.
  • Fractured Days Split the Sky's "Slip the Flow of Time" Innate Power, the Air Marker of the Intensify Aspect, and a few Events ("Outpaced," "Ethereal Conjunction," and "Rouse the Spirits") all let a Spirit use a Power at a particular time without changing that Power's speed for any further uses of that Power.
  • The speed of a Power doesn't matter for Repeats immediately triggered by Relentless Gaze of the Sun's "Relentless Punishment" Special Rule, the Locus Aspect's "Strength of the Waking Island" Innate Power, or a "Repeat this Power" threshold — the power is repeated right after the original use no matter the current game phase.
    Tags: Repeat, Speed (Fast/Slow), Sky Stretches to Shore, Lightning's Boon (Lightning's Swift Strike), 22 more...
• When instructed to "Repeat this Power", do you have to obey the origin/range/target land restrictions?
  Only if it doesn't tell you where to Repeat it. If a Repeat specifies where to use it, you obey those instructions, ignoring the original Range and Target restrictions (p. 19) and using the same origin land (for the rare cases where the Power's effect references that land).

  For example, "The Land Thrashes in Furious Pain" could be Repeated on an adjacent land without Blight.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Repeat, Targeting, Range, The Land Thrashes in Furious Pain, 19 more...
• What does moving pieces towards or away from something mean? (e.g., Pushing pieces towards the nearest Ocean with "Sweep Into the Sea.") What if you move a piece Inland?
  Move the piece in a way that either decreases or increases (respectively) its Range from the key location. All game notions of "nearer" and "further" in effect text use Range – you never need a ruler, and a land that looks physically closer might not actually be at shorter Range!

  When you Push towards the Ocean with "Sweep Into the Sea," the land you Push to must be closer to the nearest Ocean than the land they're currently in. So, e.g., a land 2 away from its nearest Ocean could only Push to lands 1 away from that Ocean (Coastal to it). As with all ambiguous cases, if multiple Oceans are closest, you decide which one to consider "nearest".

  Similarly if you move a piece Inland, you move it further away from the Oceans collectively: each land it moves through must be further from the nearest Ocean than the land it came from. The piece can't move e.g., from a Coastal land on one board to a Coastal land on another board; even thought it's increasing its Range from the Ocean it was originally closest to (from Range 1 to Range 2), it's still just as close to an Ocean (Range 1).

  The routes most directly towards or away from something are an objective trait of the board layout and not affected by Isolate (just like how Isolate doesn't change which lands are Coastal), though the routes can be altered by something that changes the board topology for all purposes, like "Weave Together the Fabric of Place." Isolate can still stop Invader pieces from moving if they can't make progress on any of the shortest routes towards or away from something. Specific movement effects can overrule these restrictions, such as Isolate affecting which routes Thieves attempt to take to the coasts in the Despicable Theft scenario.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Range, Move, Isolate, Sweep into the Sea, 9 more...

Power Cards

• Does an "or" line on a power divide the entire card?
  No. The "or" line only applies to the clauses immediately above and below the line, without extra whitespace.

  For example, if you use Crops Wither and Fade, you always gain 2 fear and then you may choose whether you are replacing a City or a Town. On the other hand, on Tormenting Rotflies, you either choose everything above the "or" or everything below it.

  To be explicit, the following cards have clauses that are not part of the "or" choice (separated by whitespace): Crops Wither and Fade; Growth Through Sacrifice; Sacrosanct Wilderness; Gift of the Primordial Deeps; Gift of Flowing Power; Call to Guard; Vanish Softly Away, Forgotten by All; Thickets Erupt with Every Touch of Breeze
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Crops Wither and Fade (Shadows Flicker Like Flame), Growth Through Sacrifice, Sacrosanct Wilderness (Keeper of the Forbidden Wilds), Gift of the Primordial Deeps (Serpent Slumbering Beneath the Island), 15 more...
• If you repeat a Power, can you use another Power in between the two uses, or do the two uses have to go right after each other?
  That depends on what's letting you Repeat the Power.

  • If you can Repeat the Power "this turn" (e.g., from "Powestorm" or "Gift of Strength"), then you may use another Power between the two uses of the repeated Power.
  • If the Power repeats itself (e.g., "Creepers Tear into Mortar" or "The Land Thrashes in Furious Pain") or you are granted the option to Repeat a Power "After" using it the first time (e.g., from "Relentless Punishment" or "Strength of the Waking Island"), then resolve the Power and anything else it triggers (e.g., "Vengeance of the Dead") before immediately Repeating it – you don't have a chance to use another Power first.
    (Discussion elsewhere) (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Repeat, Gift of Strength (Vital Strength of the Earth), Powerstorm, Gift of Twinned Days, 20 more...

Scenarios

• What is prevented by the Invader benefit #8 of Powers Long Forgotten?
  The land cannot be selected as a target for Powers (Cards or Innate). There are no other restrictions.

  For instance, you could target an adjacent land and Gather Invaders there, or you could place Presence there as part of Growth. However, you cannot use a "Repeat this on an adjacent land" threshold to target the land, since that's still targeting the land with a Power even if it's not using the normal Range and Target requirements.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Powers Long Forgotten, Locus Aspect (Serpent Slumbering Beneath the Island), The Land Thrashes in Furious Pain, Sweep into the Sea, 2 more...

Spirits and Innate Powers

• With Sweep into the Sea, can you push Invaders into the Ocean on a board where Ocean's Hungry Grasp has presence?
  Yes, absolutely.

  If the Invaders are in a Coastal land, with Sweep into the Sea you can choose to either push them into the nearest Ocean (which is right there) or destroy them; with Ocean's Hungry Grasp in play, it will usually be better to push and Drown them.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Ocean's Hungry Grasp, Sweep into the Sea
• How does Relentless Punishment work with Power Cards that Repeat themselves (e.g., "The Land Thrashes in Furious Pain")?
  In order:

  • The initial use of the Power targets a land and resolves (along with any non-Repeat actions it triggers).
  • This triggers both "Relentless Punishment" on that land and the Power's own Repeat instruction. Since the order is ambiguous, you choose which one happens first.
  • After the Power Repeats itself, "Relentless Punishment" triggers again on the second land targeted.

  Because "Relentless Punishment" counts all prior uses of the Power, using that special rule a second time can get quite expensive (Power's Energy Cost + 1 Energy for the first use + 1 Energy per initial "Relentless Punishment" use + 1 Energy for the self-Repeat use)!

  The Locus Aspect works similarly, but instead of the cost increasing each time, each Repeat counts against the number of Repeats that Spirit gets from "Strength of the Waking Island."
  Tags: Repeat, Triggered Actions, Relentless Punishment (Relentless Gaze of the Sun), Relentless Gaze of the Sun, 12 more...
• For Powers that Repeat themselves on an adjacent land, can Finder of Paths Unseen use "Open the Ways" before the Repeat to change which lands can be targeted by the Repeat?
  Yes. Which lands can be chosen for that threshold is based on the adjacencies used for the Repeat, not the adjacencies for the original Power use.
  Tags: Repeat, Range, Open the Ways (Finder of Paths Unseen), Finder of Paths Unseen, 4 more...