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A player, 2 August 2009
Let's say that Datsue-ba uses her effect. If a personality at the battlefield moves home and then moves back to the same battlefield, does it still have the force penalty?
Also, is Datsue-ba's effect a continuous style effect. IE if her effect is used and a personality who wasn't there at the time moves to the same battlefield sometime after her effect resolves, would it then receive the force penalty?
Brook Cunningham (rules official), 2 August 2009
Let's say that Datsue-ba uses her effect. If a personality at the battlefield moves home and then moves back to the same battlefield, does it still have the force penalty?
Yes. Because...
[I]s Datsue-ba's effect a continuous style effect[?]
No. It is an ongoing effect that gives a Force penalty to certain Personalities (the ones at the battlefield) at the time it is activated, and then lasts until the end of the turn (by default). So...
IE if her effect is used and a personality who wasn't there at the time moves to the same battlefield sometime after her effect resolves, would it then receive the force penalty?
No.