[Danny]

If my Devoras is at my opponent's mission, and more than one of their personnel gets killed by a single dilemma (e.g., Tsiolkovsky Infection, Whisper), am I able to drop multiple personnel with equal costs to personnel being killed, or just the one?

[Mugato]

When is a once per trigger, so you'd get one for Tsiolkovsky Infection & Whisper. But you could get two for Necessary Execution

[Danny]

Cheers. I thought that was the case, but needed verification.

[Cmdr Xym]

When is a once per trigger, so you'd get one for Tsiolkovsky Infection & Whisper. But you could get two for Necessary Execution

But isn't each kill its own trigger?

[jadziadax8]

Nope. The kills from Whisper or Cheeto Infection happen simultaneously, so they are one trigger. Decipher ruled them that way in the Bad Old Days where Tragic Turn + Cheeto could net you 6 kills. The NecEx kills happen individually, so are their own triggers.

[Cmdr Xym]

Nope. The kills from Whisper or Cheeto Infection happen simultaneously, so they are one trigger. Decipher ruled them that way in the Bad Old Days where Tragic Turn + Cheeto could net you 6 kills. The NecEx kills happen individually, so are their own triggers.

That's completely counterintuitive. They cards should do what they say they do.

Since TT was errata'd to prevent those shenanigans (a LONG time ago), it would seem that antiquated ruling isn't really needed anymore.

[Danny]

I did find the relevant entries in the rulebook to clear things up (?):

Response actions – The game text of a response action always begins with the word ‘When’ and has a trigger describing the situation that allows you to use that game text. Any time the trigger is met, you may use the text one time.

and

Some dilemmas cause more than one personnel to be killed, stopped, or placed in a brig. A dilemma that does this will kill, stop, or place those personnel in a brig as one action, unless they are listed as separate actions. Any response actions will only trigger once when multiple personnel are affected by a single action during a mission attempt. For example: if Tragic Turn is on a mission and three personnel are selected to be killed by one action, only one additional personnel will be killed.