You're the one who compared it to dying to a team.    And this is about whether it should be or should not be, not about which similar abilities exist.

I find it highly ironic Narsrim and Amaru are talking about cheap ways to instantly kill people, when one is the master of Cannibalize/Toadcurse, and the other Shieldstun/Trueheal/Soulless or Hangmana/Trueheal/Soulless like crazy.

Introduction

You begin to struggle free of your entanglement.
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Amongst quiet laboratories.
You see exits leading up and down.

Here it comes...
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Nokraenom begins to chant in a deep and baleful voice, and an iron cross rises
up from the ground before you. Vicious spikes slam into your flesh and nail you
to the cross. You scream in pain and agony as blood is splattered in all
directions.
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CRUCIFIED!
You have recovered balance on all limbs.
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A merian bravo mutters and traces a cobalt blue pentagram in the air that
remains hovering before him.
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Sparkling water splashes up over your body, healing your wounds.
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Daevos whips a hellish night mare into a fury, bucking and racing dangerously
in a circle, trampling the ground in a frenzy.
A hellish night mare breaks your left leg.
A hellish night mare crushes your right leg.
A hellish night mare pulverizes your left arm.
A hellish night mare smashes your right arm.
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Narsrim takes some salve from a vial and rubs it on his legs.
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You are too stunned to be able to do anything.
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Nokraenom shivers particularly intensely.
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You are too stunned to be able to do anything.
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You are too stunned to be able to do anything.
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You twist and turn as you attempt to escape from your entanglement.
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You feel an aura of rebounding surround you.
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Nokraenom takes a drink from a bloodstone vial.
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You are no longer stunned.
apply mending to legs
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You have writhed free of your entanglement.
writhe
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You are impaled, which makes movement impossible.
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You must regain equilibrium first.
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Your crucified state makes that impossible.
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You begin to writhe furiously to escape from the iron cross.
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You are impaled, which makes movement impossible.
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You have recovered equilibrium.
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You are impaled, which makes movement impossible.
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Alger looms over you and plunges his hands into your chest, ripping out your
heart. As the last drops of your life trickle away, you watch helplessly as he
offers up the bloody organ to the Demon Lords of Nil, and then laughs
ecstatically as monstrous dark shadows wrap around him.
You have been slain by Alger.
Variables reset.
Active mode.
The corpse of a pooka falls out of your inventory.
The corpse of a banshee falls out of your inventory.
The corpse of an enormous gorgog falls out of your inventory.
The corpse of the crone falls out of your inventory.
The corpse of Aloldyne Blontine falls out of your inventory.
The corpse of a hideous archdemon falls out of your inventory.
As your soul leaves your body, the elixir vitae courses through your spirit and
suddenly bursts in a bright light, forming a new body around your soul.
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Balance police please? A 3 person unavoidable instakill?

Surely that's a bug? Only the person who crucified should be able to sacrifice, come on...

You can, Jack.

Just a little sidenote... IRE combat will never be balanced for group combat. It's literally impossible to consider the nuances of every possible combination of combatants. This is something that has been stressed in every IRE mud. Yes, on a general basis, if you have Three trans, semi-intelligent people hitting you, you're probably going to die. Whether you die to vivi-cripple or trample/vivi or someone webbing you constantly while someone cleaves... it doesn't matter. You're going to die. Thus, the only arguement available would be if you feel you wouldn't have died to those three people.

EDIT: Jack, if it's done fast enough, it could be done before the stun ends.  Plus, even if you do get a restore off, the balance from restore plus the writhe time (you have to have balance to writhe) is more than enough time to be trampled again.

He was able to writhe while stunned in that log.

EDIT: Jack, if it's done fast enough, it could be done before the stun ends.  Plus, even if you do get a restore off, the balance from restore plus the writhe time (you have to have balance to writhe) is more than enough time to be trampled again.

Just a little sidenote... IRE combat will never be balanced for group combat. It's literally impossible to consider the nuances of every possible combination of combatants. This is something that has been stressed in every IRE mud. Yes, on a general basis, if you have Three trans, semi-intelligent people hitting you, you're probably going to die. Whether you die to vivi-cripple or trample/vivi or someone webbing you constantly while someone cleaves... it doesn't matter. You're going to die. Thus, the only arguement available would be if you feel you wouldn't have died to those three people.

Unless I'm mistaken, isn't the balance time on trample insanely long?

Regardless of specifics, I still hold that the sacrificer should have to be the crucifier, power feats should not be forceable and trueheal should not give balance/eq back, thus solving all three problems in one fell swoop.