Ha ha ha. Yes it does. That's why you see dmg1006 above. I'm guessing the mage had a pendant though.
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Whether he submitted the post, or whether he did not, made no difference. The Thought Police would get him just the same. He had committed— would still have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper— the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. http://z7.invisionfree.com/Dom3mods/index.php?
I was testing out Magic Duel a while ago and I saw in a very small percentage of cases someone just wouldn't die even though the graphic comes up. It might be Luck or Twist Fate, or there might just be a 1% survival chance.