LSJ: Final Loosening

[Juggernaut1981]

Can Final Loosening be played cross-table during a combat?

Example:
Methuselah A takes an action with a vampire and enters combat with
Meth B's blocking vampire.
Meth C has a vampire that can validly play Final Loosening.

During the combat Meth A plays Taste of Vitae to gain X blood.

Could Meth C now play Final Loosening immediately after the Taste,
gain one blood and restrict the gain from Taste of Vitae to 1 blood?

Final Loosening
Type: Reaction
Requires: anarch Auspex/Dementation/Fortitude
Requires an anarch.
[aus] Play when the acting vampire would gain 1 or more blood. The
acting vampire and this reacting anarch each gain 1 blood instead.
[dem] Gain 4 votes.
[for] Only usable when an ally is acting. The action fails and the
ally takes 1 damage. Tap this reacting anarch.

[LSJ]

Juggernaut1981 wrote:
> Can Final Loosening be played cross-table during a combat?

It cannot be played during combat. Cross-table or otherwise.
Reaction cards cannot be played in combat.

[OldFan]

Just curious - since Taste is played after the press step, if acting
minion A and opposing minion B both decline to press, then the combat
is over, right? (Barring a Telepathic tracking or some other "continue
to a 2nd round" effect).

So shouldn't it be legal to play a Final Loosening after a Taste, at
least in THIS situation? (no presses to continue, so combat ends?).

-AC

[Thrall of Arika]

Taste is played at the end of a round of combat, not after combat.
Even if there's no press, you still play Taste while in combat. So you
determine presses, then play Taste of Vitae, and then either continue
to the next round of combat, or end it.

Chris, Thrall of Arika

[LSJ]

No. Taste is still played in combat.