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Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl
The proposed troll character would be better off with the latter build than the former build.
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Unkillable will also have Achilles heel (Fire), but what happens with that is clear so I didn't include it to try and simplify the question down to its mechanical core. We also have at least one spell caster as part of the game who can pump a ton of healing into the troll-ish character to get him above -5x if necessary. Maybe not entirely reliable, but dramatic and gives a chance for two characters to work together and show off their respective talents.
I suppose the question boils down to if death in GURPS happens:
A) As a result of an injury.
B) As a symptom of having a lot of negative HP.
The Berserk example leads me to think that it's option B. Being "too angry to die" let's you pass death checks that you would have failed, at which point you're stable even when the berserk ends (ignoring the single HT check, which at least shows it's not a 1-to-1 mapping. With Berserk you still auto-die at -5xHP, but Unkillable would bump that threshold up to -10x, as long as the damage you take is during it's duration.
In the narrative of the game the troll's body would be semi-regenerating, building new blood vessels, mini-hearts, proto-kidneys, ect. to keep their body just barely ticking along as things are destroyed. It can only keep up that process for so long, but unless he's hurt further he's stable at the end of unkillable duration.
A possible middle ground is to have the troll struck by a mortal wound if unkillable ends and they are beyond -5xHP. Their body is in a state unsuitable for sustaining life, but they haven't suffered any single injury that kills them. It's just a slow breakdown of processes that were previously super-charged with troll blood.
It doesn't seem like there's a strictly mechanical answer, so I'll be turning this over to the DM of the game to get their opinion.