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What happens when the Culexus Assassin wounds a psyker character in close combat who then LOS the wound to a multiwound non, psyker, model? Does the attack still inflict ID?

Has the attack been "allocated to a Psyker"? If yes, then it does ID. If no, then it does not have ID.

I would say that it WAS allocated to the Psyker, and then LOS! re-allocated it. The attack had already gained ID at that point, and re-allocating a wound does not strip ID from it.

If it was "re-allocated" to a non pskyer, then it was not allocated to a Pskyer.

But I'm thinking he would make the test at a minus 2

When a wound is allocated, it goes to the closest model. If that model happens to be a Psyker, then the wound gains Instant Death.
How does the wound lose the special rule ID after that point?

I would like to point out that the attack must be allocated to a Psyker, not a Wound.

As near as I can tell the only time you would allocate attacks directly to a Psyker, would be if the Psyker is its own unit. If, you have a unit of grunts with an attached Psyker, you would allocate the attacks to the grunts, as that would be the unit you are attacking. As such, since the Psyker would have to be his own unit, the only way to LOS the Wound is if there are ICs attached to the Psyker's unit. And even then, the attack was allocated to a Psyker, even if the Wound was not.

That's a good catch, thanks for the correction!

So mainly this would be important in challenges, since the attacks go directly against the character and don't care about the rest of his unit.

Yay for yet another Target: Model specific Rule that triggers during actions which are resolved against Units as a whole....

What I was thinking what if you got the assassin in combat with a screamerstar, you allocated all your hits to the grimore bearer, who then LOS's most of them them to the sceamers. Do the screamers if they fail a save suffer instant death?

Screamers have the Brotherhood of Psykers Special Rule, do they not?

@Rynner
The problem HappyJew points out is that Hits are against units, not against individual models. That's why you use the majority WS of a unit. (Right?)

@JixDragon
The only thing in the Daemon book with BoS is Pink Horrors. Screamers (ie Discs of Tzeentch) do not have the Psyker rule in any form.

Elric,
Thanks, was curious about that as I don't play Deamons.