First things first, EMERALDGLARE. It stole that def from you.
Secondly, combat effects are broken, they don't apply at start of round, they apply when applied by creatures during rounds. Meaning you will see that round thingy countdown on effects but nothing will happen unless it actually gets reapplied by creature. Also that round countdown will always be larger by 1 than it should be. And yes some lines just keep printing once triggered. There's all sorts of fun and weird with effects. Especially with end of effects (regen kills for example). It also depends on how many times it got