Death (no ontology)
From Mazeworld
Not to be confused with one of the Four Horsemen of the same name.
Death is the complete termination of one's vital functions. In Mazeworld, depending on who or what is dead, this can either mean good news, or the worst possible news.
When a dead creature is found in the Mazes, it is disposed of by automated claws, which take the body away to an area known as the morgue zone. Off-limits to all personnel, the morgue zone is a hidden area where the automatic disposal of dead organisms is conducted; there, they are incinerated, and any usable items, equipment, weaponry, or other such objects are taken away and either destroyed or reinserted in the Mazes. Waste organic material, which dead bodies are classified as, is generaly ferried out of rooms in which it has been detected by automated robotic arms, which prop from the ceiling, or more rarely the floor, using claws, cages, buckets, or some other method of containment to remove them from the room.
More rarely, personnel may flag cadavers if they die in their care or under their supervision, such as in the case of death in prison rooms, hospitals, or military bases; in such cases, bodies are typically carried out of the relevant sectors and to an extraneous room (typically, an empty, featureless room, or some other manner of unused or "safe to use" area) where the robotic arms may proceed to extract the organic waste without risk for any living being in the vicinity.
In the game
Preferably, contestants will want to save their own lives, and eliminate those who threaten their own. Killing enemy encounters is the usual way to deal with them and what most contestants go for, and in some situations it is the only choice.
Contestant death is what you, as a player, will want to avoid. Given Mazeworld's nature as a dangerous place full of things and traps that want you dead, it is evidently the #1 priority of things to avoid.
Most of the time, contestant deaths happen during combat, although a wide variety of other causes do exist. It is also very possible that death was due to physical ailments (dying of blood loss or poisoning illustrate best the example), intentional (in which case, the cause of death will be listed as a suicide), accidental, due to a trap, a critical failure with certain weapons, or some other form of bad luck, or failing that, Bad Ideas.
