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Wiccan. Currently trans Moon, trans Healing. Wicca to Mother. Currently no trade skill (used to have Herbs). Used to fancy learning Combat just to smack people with Shield Riposte but dunno if that skill may be changing in the near future.
Edit: Have Tumble ability.
Willing to pick up a system if that's a recommendation. When I was more active, my plan was to gather triggers and hodge-podge one together to mechanically reflect how Xiran was learning from each encounter. But with the smaller population and my variable hours, I'm a bit embarrassed when kind folks go out of their way to revive her.
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can set up an alias/trigger to scent and auto walk to someone.
Of course, learning how to interrupt timed instant kills helps so that when you see the rare chance to get away, you are in the right state of mind to grab it and get away. It also helps you to react to your ally being the target by doing things that can interrupt the enemy using the instant kill.
Most timed instant kills are channels, which means to say, if the user enters any command, the kill is canceled. This means they can't cure. The most universal way (and possibly amongst the hardest) is to kill the person before the timer finishes. If that is not possible, most timed instant kills have an interrupt coded into them, that will ensure the instantkill fails. For chasm, blindness is one such interrupt - if the chasmer is blind when the chasm ends, the chasm fails. Blindness and paralysis are interrupts that work on many instant kills, but not all. For deathsong, the target being deaf is also an interrupt. Naturally, there are a number more interrupts, and different kills have different conditions.
Perfectfifth is the bard's anti-run ability, which is arguably the strongest such ability in the game, blocking literally all voluntary movements - including tumble. It costs power and requires target to be undeaf, though, and it drops once the target successfully moves away from the bard's presence. This means there are a number of ways to counter it normally - one of which is to not keep yourself deaf. When you are not deaf, and the bard blanknotes you, you won't be ear-ached. That means, at any point in time, you can eat earwort to become deaf and immediately walk out with no delay. The downside is, naturally, you are subject to the enemy bard's passive song effects all the time. Perfectfifth also cannot guard against involuntary movement, which means, if someone gusts you successfully, perfectfifth will be broken regardless of whether you're deaf or not. Similarly, if the bard is gusted, the same thing happens. Bards usually invest in ways to stop gust, though, like icewalls. In which case it can be fairly difficult to escape unless you have an ally who knows what to do, and quickly.
But on theory, yes, stun should stop instantkills - though I'm not sure if it's actually coded into the game, given how rarely such a situation would occur.
Both paralysis and blindness are available as poisons. Which is technically available to everybody via envenom (anyone can wield a weapon and swing it, even if they don't have knighthood) but of course, beast poison is likely the most reliable way to give poisons that is available to everyone who doesn't have more reliable ways to do so.
Gusting once will hit summon resistance occasionally, but double gusting is something that should 100% of the time work unless there's a wall of some sort in the direction you're gusting (because it bypasses summon resistance if you gust them twice in a small window of time (also, gusting should be a physical movement with both gusts, bypassing bonds too)). Double gusting is achieved via beastmastery and your own enchant or spell. Pacifism or lovers is a way to stop instakills as well, and can be achieved with hexes. Putting the instakiller to sleep in some way is excellent at stopping instakills, because that's something that's not readily cured unless metawake AND it sprawls the enemy (which will stop a lot, but not all).