Instant death

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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.

Methods of instant death

• reaching higher than 10,000T, causing instant vaporization
• losing your last remaining head to decapitation
• the gaze of the lithofex
• drinking neutron flux (specifically drinking it)
• being turned into a gem by a gemming attack
• dropping below 1 Willpower while wielding the amaranthine prism
• animating a force barrier with a Spray-a-Brain, dominating it, then stepping away from the originating force projector

Not normally possible for the player

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

• running out the duration of Temporal Fugue when one is a fugue clone
• being shot with a nullray pistol when one is normality gas