• Instigating Combat. Using Weapons, dealing Damage and any other related consequences of the Combat do not qualify as subsequent Instigations.
• Mailing a Mailable Possession (for instance, a Box of Dead Raccoons) to an opponent, or utilizing a Possession which contains the phrase “Counts as an Instigation” in its Catalog description (look in the “Some Restrictions Apply” section).
• Funding an Attack Campaign at the Network (see “The Network” in Glorious Progress).
• Taunting a Prisoner or Poking Them With Sticks (see “Jail” in Glorious Progress).
• Using your Special Ability to directly target an opponent against his or her will or to interfere with any of their non-instigative actions
• Playing a FATE card against your opponent’s will to directly target that opponent or interfere with any of their non-instigative actions
• Screwing an opponent (see “Screwing,” page 18)

If you are forced to do something bad to an opponent by a game effect, this isn’t really “willful” on your part, and conse- quently it isn’t considered an Instigation. (This includes things like giving someone a negative FATE card when on the “Sympathy Card” square, collecting money from opponents when on the “Out- of-Court Settlement” or “Con Game” squares, or engaging opponents in violent games like Forks or Bludgeoning For Bucks.)

Immunity to Instigations