I was playing CoC with my friends on the weekend and encounter some contentious issues.

Question 1: Itinerant Scholar and Sequence of Play

Is it possible for me to sacrifice Itinerant Scholar to move a drain token from my domain to my opponent's undrained domain during my his operation phase before he used any of his domains to play any cards or triggered ability? What is the proper sequence? The reason I ask is that we had some minor arguments. I saw my opponent had 5 resources attached to one of his domain and was anticipating him to play a 'big' character. To stop him doing that, I sacrifice my Itinerant scholar and move my drain token to his domain with five resources. However, he argued that he should be given a the opportunity to play first and only after that I sacrifice my Itinerant Scholar.

Question 2: Blind Submission

After an opponent character's commit to a story, can we use Blind Submission to control a commited character and bring it to our side? For example, it was my opponent's turn. He committed his Undercover Security to one of the story. I was not defending the story and this would mean that my opponent would get three success tokens. However, I use Blind Submission to bring the Undercover Security to my side and this resulted my opponent getting nothing and I received a success token due to the investigation icon. Is this legal?

brightknight_216 said:

Active player always has the first dibs on taking an action each phase. However, you could IS one of his domains before the Operations Phase, there are Action Windows during the early part of the turn as well.

brightknight_216 said:

You can take control of an opponent's character during the Story Phase, but its status remains the same as it was, so exhausted, meaning you can't then commit that character to a story. Further, even if you somehow readied the character, you can only commit to stories where the active player has a character. You stole his US that was the only character in that story, so you can't commit to defend that story.

Dam said:

I see. But what if the character I want to take control off is not exhausted. For example, it is my turn and I take control of my opponent's Undercover Security at the operation phase and decided to 'attack' a story only with him with no other characters. Is this possible?

Blind Submission only works for a single phase. If you took control during the Operations Phase you would have to return the character before the Story Phase.

But, at the start of the Story Phase you could "steal" an opponent's ready character and commit it to a story on your turn.

Oh oh! You can also, during your opponent's turn, you can steal a ready non-commited character your opponent controls and then proceed to block with it.

Blind Submission is fun.