How did this happen?
 

I engage a monster while at full health / mana and with pet, I land a spell and immediately crash to desktop. When I relog, the creature is dead and I have half health and no mana.

How did this happen? That would imply that my character was casting spells while I was essentially linkdead.

Pet probably died, mob attacked you, game AI took over and nuked it to death.

In classic EQ, when you go LD you basically become a NPC. You fight back, you cast, etc.

Haha the game doesn't really do that does it?

This is one of those times when you just tell the Universe "thank you" and move on with a smile on your face.

I thought you left.


That.

Sometimes it was even beneficial to go LD, as you'd have higher chances of survival. I remember casters going apeshit and dishing out nasty melee damage .. it mostly happened during raids, where if a caster went LD they'd engage the raid target. Hilarity ensued.

There was also a time when it was possible to dupe items using Linkdead players.

One of the few memories I have of playing EQ when I was 9, is thinking I was going to have an easy PK by hitting an LD character.



This did not end well for me.

I lol'd