Kineticists and Overflow Impulses

[andreww]

Using an Overflow impulse switches off your Kinetic aura and therefore turns off any aura effects gained from Junction. All Overflow says is that it switches off your aura when you use an Overflow impulse.

It doesnt say what the timing of this is. If it happens as you activate then your Overflow Impulse cannot benefit from aura effects (such as the fire Impulse Junction or Gate Aura Junction). If it happens after the Impulse is resolved then it can.

The natural language of "use" would suggest the former but that feels really poor. How are people interpreting this?

[Ravingdork]

I suspect it is intended to apply after the impulse in question resolves. Otherwise, you end up with a paradox of being able to use the impulse even though your aura shot off first, but wouldn't have shut off if you hadn't used the impulse to begin with.

Best to avoid those sorts of quantum entanglements.

[Cordell Kintner]

The Gate Junction still applies when using an Overflow Impulse. Gate Junction effects do not rely on your Kinetic Aura, they rely on you using an Impulse.