Let's say I have Ryoshun's Guidance out (giving my personalities +1 Chi while not in a duel), a Cursed Relic on one of my personalities, and have used the Ranged Attack action on the Relic a number of times equal to the personality's base Chi (leaving him with only the one Chi from the Guidance). If my personality is challenged to a duel, and loses that one Chi, I'm assuming he dies immediately to Chi-death. But what happens with the duel? Does the action that created the duel still resolve? Will the focus/strike stuff still happen? Is there a winner/loser?
Ryoshun's Guidance + Cursed Relic + Duel
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Let's say I have Ryoshun's Guidance out (giving my personalities +1 Chi while not in a duel), a Cursed Relic on one of my personalities, and have used the Ranged Attack action on the Relic a number of times equal to the personality's base Chi (leaving him with only the one Chi from the Guidance). If my personality is challenged to a duel, and loses that one Chi, I'm assuming he dies immediately to Chi-death. But what happens with the duel? Does the action that created the duel still resolve? Will the focus/strike stuff still happen? Is there a winner/loser?
Challenges and duels: If a Personality involved in a challenge or duel leaves play during it, the challenge or duel ends immediately without resolution. In particular, Focus Effects that have not yet resolved at that point do not resolve at all.
If a duel ends "without resolution", skip immediately to Step K: Duel Cleanup.