A) Rasputin most certainly created and enabled a protocol to hit the traveler if it tried to leave. We're not told whether or not that happened, but we are told in a different card that all the conditions were met for Loki Crown to be put into effect. Meaning the "if" was met. B) I'm skeptical about Rasputin talking about the traveler when he discusses the Gardener. For one thing, he says "IT won", but if IT is the darkness, it doesn't appear to have actually won since the traveler still still have exists and humanity wasn't wiped out. We don't have a clear yes or no either way, but there are more cards supporting that Rasputin had a plan, placed the weapon, enabled the protocol, and then the conditions of the protocol were met.