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While usually creatures in Qud die only by taking sufficient damage, some methods of death bypass damage altogether and kill regardless of how much [[HP]] one has.


While usually creatures in Qud die only by taking sufficient damage, some methods of death bypass damage altogether and kill regardless of how much [[HP]] one has.
== Methods of Instant Death ==


==Methods of instant death==
Note: methods noted with {{Qud char|&R|(!!)}} will kill the player even if they are currently [[Domination|dominating]] another creature, and that creature is the one affected.
Note: methods noted with {{Qud char|&R|(!!)}} will kill the player even if they are currently [[Domination|dominating]] another creature, and that creature is the one affected.


* reaching higher than 10,000[[Temperature|T]], causing instant vaporization
* Reaching higher than 10,000[[Temperature|T]], causing instant vaporization
* losing your last remaining head to [[Decapitate|decapitation]]
* Losing your last remaining head to [[Decapitate|decapitation]]
* violating [[Achievements#The_Laws_of_Physics_Are_Mere_Suggestions.2C_Vol._1|the Pauli exclusion principle]] while [[Phasing|phasing]]
* Violating [[Achievements#The_Laws_of_Physics_Are_Mere_Suggestions.2C_Vol._1|the Pauli exclusion principle]] while [[Phasing|phasing]]
* getting hit by the gaze of the {{Favilink|lithofex}} (including your own if you are a lithofex and gaze at a {{favilink|mirror shard}}) {{Qud char|&R|(!!)}}  
* Getting hit by the gaze of the {{Favilink|lithofex}} (including your own if you are a lithofex and gaze at a {{favilink|mirror shard}}) {{Qud char|&R|(!!)}}  
* drinking {{Favilink|neutron flux}} (''specifically'' drinking it)
* Drinking {{Favilink|neutron flux}} (''specifically'' drinking it)
* being turned into a gem by a [[Transmute into Gem|gemming]] attack{{Qud char|&R|(!!)}}
* Being turned into a gem by a [[Transmute into Gem|gemming]] attack{{Qud char|&R|(!!)}}
* dropping below 1 [[Willpower]] while wielding the {{Favilink|amaranthine prism}}
* Dropping below 1 [[Willpower]] while wielding the {{Favilink|amaranthine prism}}
* being any temporary forcefield (such as from a {{Favilink id|StasisGrenade1}}, [[Force Bubble]], or [[Force Wall]]) who was animated with {{favilink|Spray-a-Brain}} and running out the duration of the effect that spawned you (or, in the case of {{favilink|Grit Gate}}'s entrance barrier, walking away so that you are disconnected from the originating {{favilink|force projector}}){{Qud char|&R|(!!)}}
* Being any temporary forcefield (such as from a {{Favilink id|StasisGrenade1}}, [[Force Bubble]], or [[Force Wall]]) who was animated with {{favilink|Spray-a-Brain}} and running out the duration of the effect that spawned you (or, in the case of {{favilink|Grit Gate}}'s entrance barrier, walking away so that you are disconnected from the originating {{favilink|force projector}}){{Qud char|&R|(!!)}}
* running out the duration of [[Temporal Fugue]] when one is a fugue clone{{Qud char|&R|(!!)}}
* Running out the duration of [[Temporal Fugue]] when one is a fugue clone{{Qud char|&R|(!!)}}


===Not normally possible for the player===
=== Not Normally Possible for the Player ===


The following methods of instant death are impossible for the player to do without [[Wishes|wishes]].
The following methods of instant death are impossible for the player to do without [[Wishes|wishes]].


* being shot with a {{Favilink|nullray pistol}} when one is {{Favilink|normality gas}}
* Being shot with a {{Favilink|nullray pistol}} when one is {{Favilink|normality gas}}


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Revision as of 17:48, 16 August 2020

The subject of this article or section has no official name presented in-game. As a result, a name for it was chosen at the discretion of wiki editors.

While usually creatures in Qud die only by taking sufficient damage, some methods of death bypass damage altogether and kill regardless of how much HP one has.

Methods of Instant Death

Note: methods noted with (!!) will kill the player even if they are currently dominating another creature, and that creature is the one affected.

Not Normally Possible for the Player

The following methods of instant death are impossible for the player to do without wishes.