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It's been many times requested to be able to have special handling of character's death and I came up with a neat solution:

1. A new command Run label ... on ..., which will allow you to select a label to run and a list of situations where it runs. For this case let's discuss only "On Death".
2. When a character that has registered On Death command is killed, instead they are turned invisible and they are marked.
3. After every monster's move is processed. All marked characters then do the equivalent of "Go to label" and are processed normally. Actually removing the character from the room will be on the architect.
4. At the end of turn processing, somewhere after bombs explode, fire traps burn and spike traps pierce, all of the characters that were killed by the above.
5. A character killed by a character during this processing will be immediately marked and added to the end of the list of marked characters.

Potential problem: #5 means we can have infinite loop of characters reappearing and killing each other, so there will have to be some kind of upper limit of how many times it can happen per turn and it will be 1,216 - the total number of squares in a room.

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