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Seismic Quake

    Seismic Quake

    While on a scientific mission to planet L-S VI, Dr. Mora Pol's away team experienced a volcanic disturbance. The quake released noxious gases which cut short their research.

    Dilemma Dilemma - Planet dilemma Planet

    One Away Team member (random selection) is "stopped" if opponent's score is odd, killed otherwise. Cannot get past (shuffle back into seed cards here) unless Geology present.

    Characteristics: killer dilemma, wall dilemma.

    Rule hint for this card

    This card has an clarification:

    See zero.

    Taken form Glossary - Version 1.9.5.

    Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
     

    Seismic Quake

    This Card-Review article was written by Kathy McCracken and was published first on "Decipher's Website (decipher.com)" at Jul 11th, 1998.

    With no conditions, this dilemma is bound to at least "stop" one personnel, and if you, the opponent, are lucky enough to have an even score at that time, you get a kill. But the really unusual part is what happens if you don't pass the "wall" part of the dilemma (no Geology present): rather than just replacing the dilemma under the mission at the bottom of the stack, you shuffle it into the seed pile. This will disrupt any combos you have, so use dilemmas that will work in any order. And if your opponent happens to seed Changeling Researchimage, be sure to take advantage of its doubling of the effect of Seismic Quake to two personnel.

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