Little question some friends here are debating.

The Rumor "Mysterious Lights" prevents Portals to be closed.

All the "Void Between Worlds" Special Encounters say (if you succeed in the proficiency tests): "close this Gate AND put an Eldritch Token on the Active Mystery".

If both are active ingame and a suceed in a VBW Encounter I...

1) can put the token on the Mystery even with "Lights" preventing me from closing the Gate; or

2) cannot put the token, since the Gate wasn't closed and the sentence have that nasty "AND" ?

Little question some friends here are debating.

The Rumor "Mysterious Lights" prevents Portals to be closed.

All the "Void Between Worlds" Special Encounters say (if you succeed in the proficiency tests): "close this Gate AND put an Eldritch Token on the Active Mystery".

If both are active ingame and a suceed in a VBW Encounter I...

1) can put the token on the Mystery even with "Lights" preventing me from closing the Gate; or

2) cannot put the token, since the Gate wasn't closed and the sentence have that nasty "AND" ?

It's 1)

These two effects aren't dependent on each other. Otherwise the text would look more like "close this Gate. If you did close the Gate put an Eldritch Token on the Active Mystery" The similar template is used pretty often.