Death

Dying, the corpse run, and what it costs.

THE SHAPE OF IT is that the cheapest way back is the one that takes effort. DYING (thirty seconds): you are down, not gone, your gear is on you, and a cleric standing over you can resurrect you outright with no penalty, which is what makes a healer worth the slot. GHOST: nobody raised you in time, so your spirit rises at the nearest graveyard and your body stays where it fell with everything you carried. A ghost is incorporeal: it cannot attack or be attacked, cannot pick anything up, and does not bleed. THE CORPSE RUN: walk back to your body and retrieve it (also reclaim, body); you come back whole, with your gear, with almost all the experience dying took, and no sickness. This is the good ending, and it is deliberately the one that costs time and nerve. GIVING UP: wait out the timer or surrender to the graveyard spirit, and you are returned to your body's contents but raised badly, with RESURRECTION SICKNESS, half of everything you are for five to ten minutes, and what dying cost stays lost.

WHAT IT COSTS. The experience penalty is taken in full the moment you die and held on the corpse; retrieve the body and most of it comes back with you (85 in every 100), leave it and the loss stands. corpse tells you where yours lies. Corpses decay, so it is a clock as much as a place, and whether anyone else may loot it depends on the ground.

WHERE YOU RISE. Your bind point if it is on the continent you died on, else the nearest graveyard there, so a death never costs a ferry crossing before you can act (help recall). Two places will not keep a corpse because they will not be there later: a SHIP sails on and an INSTANCE collapses when the last player leaves, so die in either and the body is carried to the graveyard with you. Die in the Remembered and you are carried back through the portal at Kelda.

See also: help recall, help combat, help party.

Syntax

retrieve
surrender
corpse
resurrect 

Examples

corpse
retrieve