Lost in Time and Space AND Personal Stories?

By Verdict, in General Discussion

Kate Winthrop was Lost in Time and Space when Sefina Rousseau was defeated (zero health). This event should have triggered her failure and resulted in Kate gaining the consequence from her Personal Story, however since she was Lost in Time and Space, maybe this is not the case?

Does Lost in Time and Space cause an investigator to ignore the Failure condition on their Personal Story? (Or, ignore the success if they are able to gain the reward, but are Lost in Time and Space?)

Kate Winthrop's Personal Story reads "When another investigator is defeated or devoured, discard this card and gain the Not Again consequence."

Lost in Time and Space reads "You are unaffected by other game effects and cannot move or perform actions."

In the Masks of Nyarlathotep rule book there is a section explaining how the Reward/Consequence cards are not affected by in game effects, however it makes no reference to the actual Personal Story cards that tell you what your Reward/Consequence requirements are.

Has anyone else ran into this? How did you play it?

I would play it as the personal story doesn't trigger. There are a multitude of both positive and negative effects which you would dodge when you're Lost in Time and Space.

This personal story just seems to be another one of those cases.

Of course I'm not the definitive source of rules but I feel I do understand them quite well and that's how I would play it.