Dead

Intrinsic Details

Gain Notice:	You die.
Lose Notice:	You return to life.

Intrinsic Purpose

This marks creatures which have died or been petrified, and can thus take no further actions or damage.

Gaining the Intrinsic

This intrinsic can be gained in many ways in POWDER, but most of them boil down into one: The monster or avatar is reduced to zero or negative hit points, by any means. It also applies to creatures successfully stoned by a cockatrice or Petrify spell.

Note that a corpse or statue can be revived... this is in fact why neither corpses nor statues stack in your inventory, as they hold the original monster data, which makes them fundamentally individual. All pets of a deceased creature are released after 5 rounds ("the imp's inner animal escapes!"), as are any victims of Soul Suck.

Source-code comments indicate that author Jeff Lait has considered the possibility of a well educated pet reviving the avatar, but in fact, the AI doesn't yet provide for that.

This intrinsic is countered (once) by Life Saved.