Jaakuna Ubume - A Child's Cry

[snord]

Not sure if this was answered before, as the search returns nothing. A few questions about Jaakuna Ubume's action A Child's Cry:

(0) A Child's Cry: This model and a target model within 6" perform a WP->WP duel. If the target loses the duel, it receives a cumulative -1/-1 Wk/Cg at the start of each of its activations until it is in base contact with this model or its Wk is reduced to 1.

Assuming the target lost the WP duel, and so it is taking the cumulative -1/-1 Wk/Cg every activation:

1. If the target moves into base contact with Jaakuna, does it immediately cancel all the penalties and it gets its Wk/Cg back? For instance, if he moves into base contact with its first AP on his activation, can he try to disengage and move away at full walk speed with the second AP?

2. Is the effect applied to the target or to Jaakuna? In other words, if I want to Dispel Magic the effect, do I dispel it on the target or on Jaakuna?

3. What happens if Jaakuna leaves the game (killed, sacrificed, buried forever) while a model is affected by the ability? Since the model will never be in base contact with Jaakuna anymore, will it have its walk reduced for the rest of the game? Or does the effect ends as soon as Jaakuna leaves play?

Thanks

[nix]

Not sure about 1 and 2, but on 3:

it receives a cumulative -1/-1 Wk/Cg at the start of each of its activations until it is in base contact with this model or its Wk is reduced to 1.

Even if Jakuna leaves play, the reduction would stop once the target reached a Wk of 1.

[snord]

Not sure about 1 and 2, but on 3:

Even if Jakuna leaves play, the reduction would stop once the target reached a Wk of 1.

Hi Bill, thanks. The reduction would stop at Wk 1: but would it remain 1 for the rest of the game or would it immediately go up back to the printed Wk/Cg ending the effect?

[Sarsnick]

Hi Bill, thanks. The reduction would stop at Wk 1: but would it remain 1 for the rest of the game or would it immediately go up back to the printed Wk/Cg ending the effect?

Hi. Your question was answered by nix. The effect ends when one of the two is true. 1 he model touches jakuuna or 2 the Walk is reduced to 1.

So when the debuff processes, if that causes the model to go to 1 wk it will stop being debuffed and go back to full wk cg

For question Number 2 the effect is on the debuffed model so that will be the target of dispel from the wording of the action

[snord]

Hi. Your question was answered by nix. The effect ends when one of the two is true. 1 he model touches jakuuna or 2 the Walk is reduced to 1.

It is a "strange" effect IMO, as I have a hard time imagining someone getting "so slow" that he can barely move just to regain full speed again , but I agree that as written, it is probably the best "interpretation".

Thank you both