Tim's question corner

Page 218, White Mist Exhalation.  Book reads "If you use any technique that lets you use the Poison effect, then that becomes an Area attack. Other parts of the attack do not become Area attack. This comes in the form of a deadly fog, so you can’t make this Area attack selective. You’re immune to your own attack." It doesn't say 'may become an area attack' so I want to know if that is something the Wulin can turn on/off or not.  If it is an on/off thing I can control, I'd take it but if it is not then I would not as it would attack everything in a zone.  I understand if I go 'mist cloud' it's not selective, but if I use a poison attack and have this technique, does it auto cloud?

Entanglement: I want to spend entanglement to raise my rank in the Pirate clan.  I am currently rank 3 and I had said it was 6 entanglement.  Is higher numbers better (rank 4 better than 3)? If so, I'm guessing it's 2 points to go up but can you please verify?

White Mist:  That would only become an auto attack if you were using that technique that round.  Since you spend the Chi for it when you use it, it's not going to auto-cloud any poison attack.  Only when it's in effect. Entanglement:  I think your extra entanglement came along with the Southern Dragon Princess stuff.  It's one point per point of Status.  5 is generally highest status.  (There's not an exact ratio in the game, but status 3 is pretty well up in the ranks, usually, though it could concievably go higher.)