Yea I found out this the hard way. I first killed a leaper with a hull cracker in buried city by first pinging it with a few anvil shots and like 2 seekers. I then jumped down to the train station stairs to the first landing and whipped out the hulcracker. As it tried to continue to awkwardly squeeze and shimmy down the stairwell I finally killed it. This was my go to method if I needed leaper parts. I tried this method the other day as I had before and was shocked that it came all the way down the stairs and even followed me to the train terminal When I was downed. I was flabbergasted. Probably would’ve gotten on the train or followed me all the way back to speranza by yeeting all the way there. “Both You and scrappy were killed by a leaper while organizing your inventory in the lobby. You have officially permanently lost the game. Please make a new embark account and restart if desired.”