Being a ghost doesn't affect the kill count. I'll go out on a limb and say that if you manage to kill someone at all while a ghost via pk-countable means you get the kill. I got a few echoes while I was a poisoner of lowbies dying and deleting and I NEVER dropped a poison thingy. I bet I got a kill added to my count for that too.

Why?

Because when I played Victoria, my maladictions killed people out of my pk (e.g. when they altruismed the maran), and I never got an echo to my unholy (which might be because I never directly engaged them, given them being out of my pk) or any noticeable edge points.

I think altruism is somewhat of an odd duck, in that "your" maledictions are destroyed, and "new" identical maledictions are placed on the character from themselves. PBFs might actually manage to show it, if we find an Acolyte who killed themselves that way.

Well I don't know if this will help any, but One time in the arena not to long ago, I bet on my opponent, at the end I poisoned my opponent with my dagger, and then she defeated me with a pillar of lightning. Before she left the Arena she was defeated by my poison and I didn't get any money and ended up losing the gamble.

n/t