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

Some methods will kill the player even if they are currently dominating another creature, and that creature is the one affected. Those methods have a “Yes” in the second column.

Method	Kills dominator?	Message
Reaching higher than 10,000°, causing instant vaporization		You were vaporized.
Losing your last remaining head to decapitation		You were decapitated by [someone].
Violating the Pauli exclusion principle while phasing		You violated the Pauli exclusion principle.
Getting hit by the gaze of a lithofex (including your own if you are a lithofex and gaze at a mirror shard)	Yes	You were turned to stone by the gaze of a lithofex.
Drinking neutron flux (specifically drinking it)		You were crushed under the weight of a thousand suns.
Being turned into a gem by a gemming attack	Yes	You were transmuted into [a gem].
Dropping below 1 Willpower while wielding the amaranthine prism		You had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars did wander darkling in the eternal space.
Being any temporary forcefield (such as from a stasis grenade mk I, Force Bubble, or Force Wall) who was animated with Spray-a-Brain and running out the duration of the effect that spawned you (or, in the case of Grit Gate's entrance barrier, walking away so that you are disconnected from the originating force projector)	Yes	You die! (good job) [This is the fallback death message for when no message is specified in the code.]
Running out the duration of Temporal Fugue when one is a fugue clone (Domination works on other creatures' fugue clones but not your own)	Yes

Not Normally Possible for the Player

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

Method	Kills dominator?	Message
Having one's fusion reactor deactivated, such as by becoming broken from examining oneself, when one is a norm core(favilink error!)		Your flywheel failed catastrophically.
Being shot with a nullray pistol when one is normality gas		You were cancelled from existence.