Lose 2 levels even if you escape.

[Kirt]

Originally Posted by ArcadianRefugee

Erik:
What about monsters like the Space Probe that phrase it "...lose 2 Levels if they fail to defeat it, even if they escape"? Were she fighting Asmodeus and the Space Probe, would she have lost those two levels then?

In reference to Wight Brothers, Andrew ruled here that "If you die, you do not suffer ANY negative effects from monsters you haven't yet tried to run away from."

Thus, even if the level loss is not technically Bad Stuff, dying at the hands of one monster protects you from the level loss caused by another monster, and that seems like it would cover Space Probe.

An exception might be "the Evil" - I have not seen the text of that card. Grax, does that specify that the level loss occurs before combat?