<3 <-clearly lips in kissing position. The Kiss of Death to be more smart. This is far worst then mocking! Run for your life Kuritza! The long hand of the Mafia is already chasing you! "Don Jim non perdona"!!
I do not see what the fuss is about a pretender killed by VotD. Each cast is 3 pearls and requires a S3D1 mage turn. You also need to add penetration items to make it effective. The max achievable is +5 pernetration. For that you need thau4+const4. But with just const4, you can equip your pretender with rainbow armor+ amulet of antimagic, which moves his base MR to 25. Then you stay in your own domain, even a 4 domain means +2 MR. +5 penetration vs. 27 MR succeeds around 2% of the time. So you spend an average of 150 astral pearls and 50 mage turns to kill a single target. That must be quite unbalancing.
I would rather take my 150 pearls for something more useful, and the mage time alone is like 350 RP.