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Dying
The art of dying.
Skill Type:	Other Skill
Max Level:	50
Requirements:	N/A
Skill Trainers:	N/A

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The art of dying.

Dying Overview

Dying is a skill that records the variety of unique ways in which a character has died. The skill unlocks small, but permanent bonuses to Max Health. It also gives access to a very useful ability, therefore it is actually a good idea for new players to try to get their characters killed in a variety of situations.

In-Game Description

The art of dying.

Training Dying

• Dying experience is earned the fist time your health falls to zero.

Connected Skills

Sub-Skills:

N/A

Secondary Skills:

• Necromancy - Necromancers should appreciate death!
• Compassion - When a character dies, a gravestone is left behind. Others may earn Compassion by mourning that tombstone.

Related Skills:

• Corpse Talking - This sub-skill of Necromancy involves communication with the deceased.

Synergy Levels:

Bonus Synergy Levels for Dying can be obtained from the following skills and levels:

Alcohol Tolerance

Level 90

Compassion

Level 20

Necromancy

Level 37

Dying Stat Bonuses

Dying Level Up Rewards

Dying Mechanics

Bonus Experience

The first time your character dies in a unique way rewards bonus death experience. To see a list of the unique ways in which you've died previously (and how many times each), go to Skills panel > Dying and select the button there.

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(Earned 50 Death XP)
(Bonus XP! First Death From This Cause!)

Entering the Light

At Level 10 the Dying skill grants a new choice in the Death dialog, to "Enter the light." This new ability grants access to a portal to random locations, along with portals to Serbule and Rahu. These last two portals have 8-hour cooldowns, however.

Tombstones

When a player character dies, a tombstone is left behind. If you are embarrassed about the way in which you were disposed of (which is minutely detailed on the tombstone for other players to read) you can remove it by interacting with it. Clearing your tombstone(s) is otherwise cosmetic, unless you play in Hardcore Mode.

A group of three or more Tombstones is considered a Graveyard for Necromancy.

Hardcore Death

Hardcore Death Penalty is an option available from the signpost near the well in Serbule Keep. When you die in Hardcore Mode, in addition to being sent back to a respawn point some of your items become broken. In order to use them again, you must take them back to the location you died. That is, you have to walk back to your tombstone(s).

Diseases

Occasionally when your character dies or gets attacked by a diseased animal there is a possibility that the monster will pass on a disease to the character. These are permanent unless cured in a very specific manner.

Another way to get a dangerous disease is through a Power Word, such as Power Word: Leprosy.

Causes of Death

Cause of Death	Initial XP	Repeated XP	Hints
Alcohol Poisoning	50	0	Hint
Anti-regenerated	250	0	Hint
Arrowed	50	5	Hint
Attack reflected back at self	100	5	Hint
Bashed with a shield	50	5	Hint
Bashed with a stick	100	5	Hint
Battered by Hail	50	5	Hint
Battered by a tsunami	50	5	Hint
Bit by a Fiery Animal	50	5	Hint
Bit by a Fox	50	?	Hint
Bit by a Pumpkin	?	?	Hint
Bit by an imaginary fox	50	0	Hint
Bitten by a dinosaur	50	5	Hint
Bitten by a skull with wings glued onto it	?	?	Hint
Bitten by diseased animal	50	5	Hint
Bitten repeatedly by swarms of insects	50	0	Hint
Blasted by Sonic Waves	50	5	Hint
Blasted by a sandstorm	50	1	Hint
Blasted with dark energy	100	0	Hint
Blood sucked out of body	50	?	Hint
Body temperature spontaneously lowered	50	?	Hint
Bombed with toxic chemicals	100	?	Hint
Bones Shattered	50	?	Hint
Brain aneurysm due to terrible music	50	?	Hint
Brain replaced by fungus	50	?	Hint
Breathed Mummy Fumes	50	5	Hint
Burned by otherworldly flames	50	5	Hint
Caught a thrown knife in the chest	50	1	Hint
Caught a thrown sword in the chest	50	?	Hint
Caught in Pumpkin Bomb	50	5	Hint
Charmed by a lamia	?	?	Hint
Choked on spores	50	5	Hint
Clubbed On The Head	?	?	Hint
Coated in Toxic Grease	50	1	Hint
Coated in electrified dragon spit	100	?	Hint
Complications from soul damage	50	5	Hint
Consumed by Dark Energy	50	?	Hint
Consumed by insects	50	?	Hint
Crossbowed	50	1	Hint
Crushed by a giant pincer	50	5	Hint
Crushed to death	?	0	Hint
Cut By Small Thorns	50	?	Hint
Deadly Gas	50	5	Hint
Dehydration	50	0	Hint
Died from mysterious illness	50	?	Hint
Discomfort	1000	5	Hint
Drowned	100	?	Hint
Drowned in Blood	50	?	Hint
Eardrums Exploded	50	?	Hint
Eardrums exploded due to extreme screaming	100	?	Hint
Eaten by a worm	100	?	Hint
Eggs exploded out of abdomen	50	1	Hint
Electrocuted By a Portal	50	?	Hint
Electrocuted	100	?	Hint
Engulfed by Sentient Ice Slick	50	5	Hint
Engulfed in ticks and biting fleas	50	5	Hint
Entangled By a Mummy	?	?	Hint
Exposure to freezing temperatures	50	?	Hint
Extremely Loud Music	50	5	Hint
Eyeballs Melted	50	5	Hint
Fatal Fever	50	?	Hint
Fatal Levels of Shame	500	5	Hint
Feet Crushed by Rocks	50	5	Hint
Fell from great height	100	?	Hint
Fell from short distance	100	1	Hint
Fell off the world	100	?	Hint
Filled with otherworldly shrapnel	50	?	Hint
Filled with red-hot bone fragments	50	5	Hint
Filleted	50	?	Hint
Fire spell backfired	50	1	Hint
Flesh sloughed off	50	?	Hint
Food Poisoning	50	?	Hint
Forgot how to breathe	50	1	Hint
Frozen by flame	?	?	Hint
Frozen to death	50	5	Hint
Gobbled up by your own might	50	?	Hint
Headbutted to death	50	?	Hint
Heart Attack after attacking a cow	50	5	Hint
Heart attack	200	5	Hint
Heart became undead	50	1	Hint
Hit by a Fungus Bullet	50	?	Hint
Hit by a rock	100	5	Hint
Hit by a whip-like tail	50	?	Hint
Hit with a Shovel	50	5	Hint
Hypnotic Suggestion	50	5	Hint
Impact from being thrown	100	?	Hint
Impacted with large opponent	100	?	Hint
Impaled on Flying Bones	50	0	Hint
Incinerated by a stationary flame source	100	5	Hint
Incinerated by an Inscrutable Intelligence	50	0	Hint
Incinerated	50	?	Hint
Injected with wolfsbane	50	5	Hint
Infested with fungus	100	5	Hint
Inhaled too much water	50	5	Hint
Innards teleported into a distant cloud	50	?	Hint
Innards teleported into a distant volcano	50	?	Hint
Innards teleported into the sea	50	5	Hint
Internal Organs Removed By Ghost	?	?	Hint
Internal bleeding	?	?	Hint
Ironically killed by a restorative arrow	50	1	Hint
Kicked by a Rabbit	50	0	Hint
Kicked to death	50	?	Hint
Killed by a Class 4 Nature Spirit	50	?	Hint
Killed by a Droach	100	1	Hint
Killed by a haunting spirit	75	5	Hint
Killed by a mollusc	100	?	Hint
Killed by a rune of power	100	?	Hint
Killed by a self-destructing automaton	100	5	Hint
Killed by a sentient weather phenomenon	?	?	Hint
Killed by a spider	50	0	Hint
Killed by a worm	100	?	Hint
Killed by an Orc	?	?	Hint
Killed by an aberration	?	?	Hint
Killed by an angry insect	50	5	Hint
Killed by an enraged humanoid foe	?	?	Hint
Killed by an enraged mollusc	?	?	Hint
Killed by an enraged undead	50	5	Hint
Killed by an exploding animal	100	5	Hint
Killed by an insane cultist	50	?	Hint
Killed by an insane swordsman	50	5	Hint
Killed by an insect	50	?	Hint
Killed by cattle	100	5	Hint
Killed by the living dead	50	5	Hint
Krakened	?	?	Hint
Leg bones snapped by zombie hands protruding from the ground	100	5	Hint
Licked by a Frog	50	5	Hint
Loss of blood	50	5	Hint
Loss of motor control	50	0	Hint
Lovetapped Too Hard	50	5	Hint
Made to Feel Totally Irrelevant	50	5	Hint
Mangled by a gigantic skeleton	100	5	Hint
Mauled by a pack of wild animals	50	?	Hint
Mauled by a wild animal	50	5	Hint
Mauled by an animal's rage attack	50	?	Hint
Melted by Acid	50	5	Hint
Mind Jellified By Psychic Ghost	50	5	Hint
Mind shattered by a burst of incredible pain	50	?	Hint
Murdered by a humanoid foe	?	?	Hint
Murdered by seafood	500	5	Hint
Muscle Spasms	200	20	Hint
Organs liquified by poison	?	?	Hint
Panic-attack while ensnared	50	5	Hint
Pecked by a Hippogriff	?	?	Hint
Pecked to death by an angry bird	50	?	Hint
Perforated	50	?	Hint
Physical contact with raw unlife	?	?	Hint
Played with a Sentient Ooze	50	?	Hint
Poisoned weapon	200	10	Hint
Poisoned with Iocaine	100	5	Hint
Poisoned	50	5	Hint
Psychic Encephalitis	200	?	Hint
Pulverized by a Golem	100	?	Hint
Pummeled partially into another dimension	50	0	Hint
Punched to death	?	?	Hint
Pushed the wrong button	50	?	Hint
Ravaged by forces of nature	100	?	Hint
Ravaged by unnatural winds	50	?	Hint
Realized that life is meaningless	100	?	Hint
Rebuked by the Goddess of Warmth	50	5	Hint
Ripped apart by giant hooks	100	5	Hint
Rotted From Within	50	??	Hint
Scapegoated	100	5	Hint
Scolded by the Goddess of Hope	50	5	Hint
Scratched by a Rabbit	50	0	Hint
Shot by a Pumpkin	50	5	Hint
Shot by a ballista	50	1	Hint
Slain by own magic	?	?	Hint
Slashed by a Treant	50	5	Hint
Slashed by an illusion that was somehow all too real	50	5	Hint
Slashed to death by angry plant	50	?	Hint
Slashed to pieces	50	?	Hint
Slowly cooked alive	?	?	Hint
Smote by a God of War	50	0	Hint
Smote by Admin	200	10	Hint
Soul absorbed by dark altar	100	5	Hint
Soul consumed by giant bat	50	5	Hint
Soul pummeled to tatters	50	5	Hint
Soul ripped from body to fuel another	100	?	Hint
Splashed with acid	50	?	Hint
Spontaneously exploded	?	?	Hint
Stabbed with Ice Shards	50	??	Hint
Stabbed with a knife	50	1	Hint
Staked through the heart	100	?	Hint
Stroke	200	5	Hint
Sudden Freezing Temperatures	200	5	Hint
Suicide by Immolation	100	?	Hint
Suicide by Poison	100	1	Hint
Surprised by Tragic Lullaby	50	5	Hint
Swam in acid	50	5	Hint
Terrified to Death	200	20	Hint
Torn to bits by a dinosaur	50	5	Hint
Touched by a tingly tentacle	50	0	Hint
Touched by a word of power	500	0	Hint
Touched Something Electrified	50	5	Hint
Unknown cause of death	0	0	Hint
Unnaturally Aged	?	?	Hint
Vines In Veins	50	?	Hint
Willpower consumed by a plant	50	?	Hint

Harmless Post-Death Effects

After experiencing death, one may be revived with a harmless role-play effect applied to their character for an hour.

Phobias

Phobia: Rats - You're terrified of rats!

Phobia: Spiders - You're terrified of spiders of any size!

Phobia: Cakes - You're terrified of cakes and similar baked goods!

Phobia: Goblins - You're terrified of goblins, as well as anything associated with goblins!

Phobia: Dogs - You're terrified of dogs, wolves, and other canines!

Phobia: Reptiles - You're terrified of snakes and other reptiles!

Phobia: Opposite Sex - You're terrified of members of the opposite sex!

Phobia: Portals - You're terrified of magical portals!

Phobia: Bovines - You're terrified of cows!

Phobia: Trees - You're terrified of trees and other large vegetation!

Phobia: Water - You're deathly afraid of getting wet!

Phobia: Bridges - You're terrified by the idea of crossing a bridge!

Phobia: Dairy - You're deathly afraid of milk, cheese, or any food containing dairy products!

Phobia: Meat - You've become terrified of eating meat!

Delusions

Delusion: Invisible Demons - You've become convinced that invisible demons are tracking you and obstructing your every effort.

Delusion: Candy Lands - Text

Delusion: Invisible Demons - You believe that everything around you is made of candy, cake, or other sugary treats!

Delusion: All Kings - You just realized that you're in the presence of nobility. In fact, EVERYONE around you is a King (or Queen) except you!

Delusion: Flight - You believe you can fly!

Delusion: Invisibility - You believe you've become entirely invisible, except to demons. Anyone who can see you must be a demon in disguise.

Delusion: Dance Party - You believe you're at a vast, world-encompassing dance party! Why isn't everyone else dancing? They're being so rude to your host!

Delusion: Dragon Assassin - You just remembered that you are a dragon in disguise, sent to assassinate a certain target!

Delusion: Third Arm - You seem to have an extra arm! How convenient!

Delusion: Face Fell Off - Oh no, your face fell off! You're hideous now!

Delusion: Secret Codes - You think everyone around you is speaking in a code language you can barely understand. What are they trying to hide?

Delusion: Loose Teeth - All your teeth are loose! You have to be really careful or they'll all fall out!

Delusion: No More Yellow - You lost the ability to see yellow things. They're completely invisible to you!

Delusion: No More Green - You lost the ability to see green things. They're completely invisible to you!

Delusion: Body Swap - You believe you've swapped bodies with another player. No doubt this is their fault!

Delusion: Unassailable Beauty - You've become the most beautiful person in the world!

Paranoia

Paranoia: Working With Goblins - You've just realized that everyone you know is a goblin spy!

Paranoia: Stealing Your Money - You've just realized that everyone you know is trying to steal your money!

Paranoia: Look The Fool - Everyone you know is trying hard to make you look like a fool. The most frustrating part is they won't admit it!

Paranoia: Eye Beams - Everyone is trying to get you to make eye contact so they can steal your soul!

Dementia

Dementia: Rhymes - You find that you can only speak in rhyme! (Whew, good thing slant rhymes are okay!)

Dementia: Riddles - You find that you can only speak in riddles!

Dementia: Mute - You can't speak! You can only pantomime!

Dementia: Pronoun Trouble - "When you say a pronoun (like 'him' or 'her' or 'me' or 'them') it comes out as a gibberish word!

Dementia: No Number Three - You can no longer understand the concept of the number three! Even the word has no meaning to you!

Dementia: Gender Swap - You now perceive all males as females, and vice versa!

Dementia: Molly-Coddle - You keep saying molly-coddle all the time! What does that even mean?

Dementia: Counting - You feel compelled to count everything you see. Out loud!

Dementia: Hopping - You can't walk; you can only hop!

Dementia: The Queen - You believe you're the Queen of a distant land. You expect to be treated like visiting royalty.

Dementia: Money Is Fake - You just noticed that all of your money is counterfeit! You're broke!

Dementia: Ostrich - You believe you are a large flightless bird with a dangerous beak.

Dementia: Sasquatch - You keep seeing a hairy ape-man in the corner of your eye. Is he friend or foe?

Dementia: No more R - You lost the ability to say the letter R or pronounce an R sound.

Paranoid Delusion

Paranoid Delusion: Bats - Tiny bats are flying everywhere. They keep trying to fly down your throat and choke you to death!

Other Innate Effects

Manic Laughter - Everything is hilarious! You can't stop laughing!

Depression - Everything is so sad! You can't stop crying!

Dying Experience Table

Trivia

• At one point, all players shared the same tombstone model.