One night when Nate was in The Hulks, a tavern for the Phraxminers, Grint ordered his Hammerhead Goblins to kill Nate. However, when one of them fired their phraxpistol, Rudd jumped in front of Nate, taking the bullet and giving his life to save his friend. When Nate ran off and discovered Grint's stash of stolen stormphrax crystals, he adjusted the Phraxlamp brightness, blowing it up. Later, Nate Quarter told the whole story to Galston Prade's head clerk, Felftis Brack.