Talk:Blades of Light and Shadow, Book 1 Choices/@comment-5023122-20200227003335/@comment-37484301-20200227134310

The "effect" vs "no effect" comes from previous walkthroughs where no effect means no achievement unlocked / no pop-up words that say + or - romance or relationship or anything that is put in a hover-code.

So, yes, "no effect, but you get injured" is correct. If the injury turned into a pop-up, like "- life" or "damn that hurts!|MC took colossal damage because he wasn't wearing the Titan armor" then, "no effect" would change to what appeared.