I had that too; kind of shocking.

I've never had the "gong takes life" before kind of lucky don't you think.

i've only had gong takes life once, and it was rather shocking!!
on minute they're there,the next GONE and a little skelly is all thats left

Does the villager just die there on the spot?

well, when I had gong takes health, a few villagers died, and when it happened to me, they were in the place where the skellys always are. You know how, some villagers don't observe the gong, it was one of those that died.

Yep. Skeleton is right there at the foot of the gong.

what a bad way to die!

I had that happen to me too and it kind of ticked me off. Not to mention that it suprised me. I'm getting to the point where I don't want to ring the gong because more often than not it turns out to be a negative outcome and when it does do something like "Gong grants food" it doesn't give very much. I wonder if I don't ring it for a few days if that will have an effect on it does?

At first I rang the gong everyday - now it can go two or three days before I will ring it again and I have not noticed a change in the good or bad that it gives. It is still about 50 -50. I have had more trouble with the island events taking my food. In the past three days I have lost my food twice to two different events. made me mad

That happened to me i lost 1500000 food really ticked me off!!