Blights serum & forming posses

Rules Questions: Doomtown
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If some dudes move to join a posse at a Location with blights serum attached are they affected by the serum. If so who would choose which member of the posse is affected?

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According to the rulebook, all dudes moving to join a posse do so simultaneously, so I’m not sure. I’d ask the question on the official rules questions forum, which can be found here.

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For now, I’d assume it works the same as Tummy Twister which has the following text

While attached to a deed, this card attaches to the first dude to move here (the winner chooses in case of a tie).

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Blight Serum reads, in it’s entirety:

While this card is attached to a deed, after a dude moves here, move that dude home booted and ace this card.

So - repeating the OP’s question - what happens when posses form? Does the “winner” choose? The card’s owner? Random?

This has the potential to be a cool card depending on the ruling. Cheers!

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Passed along to RT!

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Excellent question!

The Leader is the first, per end of p. 19/beginning of p.20 in rulebook.

Posse formation occurs in the following manner:

  1. First, the player who is the leader has their dude who initiated the call-out join their posse automatically.
  2. Then, the player who is the leader sequentially selects additional dudes to join the posse in the following manner: a. A dude is declared to join the posse, and any costs associated with the dude joining the posse are paid. b. Then, if the dude is unbooted and adjacent to the location of the shootout, the dude boots and joins the posse.
  3. Once the player who is the leader has completed forming his posse, the player who is the mark follows the same structure, with the dude who is the mark joining his posse first automatically, and then sequentially having dudes join his posse (following the same structure).
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For further follow up:

The formation of the leader’s posse follows a special routine for jobs. Note all of these steps happen sequentially and before any opposing posses are formed.

  1. First, unbooted dudes at the location of the leader can join the posse by booting. Once you’ve selected all of these dudes, you move to the next step.
  2. Second, any unbooted dudes adjacent to the location of the leader, may boot to join the posse (but do not move to the location of the leader). Once you’ve selected all of these dudes, move to the next step.
  3. Third, all dudes currently in the leader’s posse move sequentially to the location of the mark. Once your current posse is at the mark, you move to the next step.
  4. Fourth, any unbooted dudes adjacent to the location of the mark may boot to join the leader’s posse and move to the location of the mark. Once you’ve selected all of these dudes, you move to the next step.
  5. Fifth, any dudes at the location of the mark may join the leader’s posse (even if booted) and do not need to boot to join the leader’s posse. Once all of these dudes have been selected, the leader’s posse is considered to be fully formed.

One way to remember this is the following: The leader gets people at his location to join him first, then “yells” to dudes adjacent to his location that there is a job to be done and those dudes join if they can.