Aggressive and Rapid Fire

[Shepard]

As I understand it, if a character with the aggressive innate superpower is damaged by an attack with the rapid fire trigger (or any trigger that generates an additional attack after the attack is resolved), the second attack from rapid fire would be resolved before the short move from aggressive.

Does this mean that the character with the aggressive superpower has "lost" his/her ability to make the advance?

Can a character with aggressive advance twice in a row if he/she was damaged by both the first and second attacks of a rapid fire attack?

Thank you.

[Thoras]

29 minutes ago, Shepard said:

As I understand it, if a character with the aggressive innate superpower is damaged by an attack with the rapid fire trigger (or any trigger that generates an additional attack after the attack is resolved), the second attack from rapid fire would be resolved before the short move from aggressive.

Correct.

After the attack is resolved effects from the attacker resolve in step 14a and from the defender in 14b

30 minutes ago, Shepard said:

Does this mean that the character with the aggressive superpower has "lost" his/her ability to make the advance?

 

No.

When you are resolving an ability and then have to pause that resolution to resolve another, you go back to where you previously paused once the “interrupting” ability is finished resolving.

This means you pause the first attack in step 14a, finish resolving the rapid fire attack (steps 1-14) and anything triggered by that, then go back to 14a of the first attack and continue resolving triggers from that sequence.

32 minutes ago, Shepard said:

Can a character with aggressive advance twice in a row if he/she was damaged by both the first and second attacks of a rapid fire attack?

Although if often appears that this is what is occurring, technically speaking, it’s not actually twice in a row.

You would resolve the aggressive from the rapid fire attack in 14b of that sequence. You then go to 14c of that attack. You then return to 14a of the first attack and then proceed to 14b of the first attack (and resolve the aggressive from the first attack here).

So although it often appears to be twice in a row due to a lack of other effects occurring in the mentioned windows, there is a chance of effects occurring between the two resolutions of aggressive.