Dry up
Dry up verb - To stop talking.
Kill
Kill verb - To deprive of life.
Both terms in one sentence
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Minetown has guards that will simply stand by and watch as you and its inhabitants try to kill each other, but God help you if you dry up one of the town's two fountains, in which case every last one of them will be out for your blood.
Source: City Guards -
Their regenerative abilities are so strong, the only way to defeat one is to constantly barrage it with repeated damage (employing force that would kill lesser beings hundreds of times over) in an attempt to dry up their considerable magic stores.
Source: Fan Fic / The Immortal Game - If you kill or traumatize the god of a river — which, as an Exalt, is pretty easy and usually exactly the wrong thing to do — the river won't disappear or dry up, but it will suddenly become far less predictable.
Source: Magical Underpinnings of Reality
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