Did you ever lose your gear on live through a corpse rot?

[azeth]

in 1999/2000 I rolled a Human Ranger named Onusin on the Druzzil Ro server, my first character.

My friends in real life told me I rolled the wrong server, and i was stubborn and decided to play him anyways.

Extremely early on into my adventures, lvl 4-5 tops, a lvl 40 something bard (wood elf) ran from Freeport to Surefall Glade ZL in Qeynos Hills specifically to find a newbie to hand items to.

I was a ranger and could not wear the ENTIRE SUIT of small and medium bronze he handed me in 8 slot backpacks. Instead I sold them (in 1999, at lvl 4, first character ever, for 1000 platinum).

I was rich.

Shortly after receiving this wealth I purchased a Polished Granite Tomahawk, and a piece of Ivy Etched etc etc. I was styling.

My luck continued... a druid and ranger of high level popped into Qeynos Hills from WK to shout "GHOUL MESSENGER UP, FIRST RANGER HERE GETS HELPED!"

i was the first ranger there.

We found, and hunted the messenger. I looted, and we begin a fully escorted run (hours, this is 1999) to Kithicor Forest to turn in for the Short Sword of Morin.

I received my Short Sword, had a PGT, at this point multiple Ivy Etched... I was level 6, just waiting for dual wield at 13.

From Kithicor I was told there was good hunting in EC for my level, I headed there.

I zoned in and started following the left wall, as I was told to, equipped with a nice SoW and invis.

I made it as far as the Nightfall Giant, who slayed me.

I arrived in Qeynos Hills naked, having died only a couple times prior to that and knowing I needed to retrieve my corpse.

In real life, as this realization occured, my dad yelled upstairs "Bud lets go, what the fuck!"

It was family vaca time... 7 days in Maine later my corpse was gone.

So I rolled Azeth on Rodcet Nife with my friends.

[mcoy]

Originally Posted by azeth [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

in 1999/2000 I rolled a Human Ranger named Onusin on the Druzzil Ro server, my first character.

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So I rolled Azeth on Rodcet Nife with my friends.

Hey fellow Nifer!

Somewhat similar. Worked at Circuit City - this new game was the rage. Picked it up and rolled a human wiz with a coworker as a human war on Karana. Didn't have much other than a lightstone, a runed totem staff someone gave me, and my newb robe. Now that I can look back on it - I'm pretty sure my corpse was at the derv camp in WC and I was just convinced it was in EC (was only level 5).

Anyway it worked out in the end; when I re-rolled (again human wiz [Qien]) on Rodcet I accidentally duped my corpse just after looting a greater lightstone so I was living the newb dream. (Apparently if you died at the right time as the server was being shut down, you'd end up with a corpse and your clothed self. I had no idea - I just really wanted that wisp to die and thought I could pull it off...)

Oh the times we had...

-Mcoy

[Brut]

Yes but didn't know GMs could give em back so didn't try petitioning.

Died zoning between Freeport and Commons and my corpse just poofed somewhere inside the zonewall. Don't think I knew about /corpse so didn't try that, not sure. Looked for a long while and just started over after. Years YEARS later they added the veteran AAs that let you summon corpses, and I swear I got my Bloodforge Hammer and set of Patchwork back at long last.

[Jimjam]

Great stories!

From this thread I now suspect restores may have been at the mercy of individual whims of which ever GM your server had?

[Llandris]

Corpse restorations make me happy. I brought one back the other day that rotted in 2010. Nothing like a 7 year break!

[Floraline]

Yes, I was in my early 20's playing a 40 something paladin. Cash was limited and I died just before my sub was going to hit and I didn't at the time have funds to cover it. Once I got everything squared away and logged back in, my corpse had rotted. My guild banded together and regeared me, and I think my gear was even better than before!

[dude]

I remember when they first introduced that corpse graveyard in PoK Think I was on my ranja at the time yeah it was ranja my necro never died. i had about 20 or so.

[Valdain]

Way back, my PC was having really weird issues where I'd be in a zone, zone somewhere else, and I'd pop up at the first zone in. For example, I would zone into BB from GFay, run to Kaladim, and after I finished loading, I'd be back at the Gfay zoneline. This happened to me when I was kiting at the Chessboard. Got my ass handed to me and respawned at Kaladim instead of my bind point. I ran to where I died and it wasn't there. No corpses in zone. I petitioned and the GMs had no account of a body of mine. Had to start from scratch.

Eventually got my epic on that same toon. Never give up!!!

[Darkatar]

Never lost gear to a rot on live, but I did accidentally delete a character.

Logged to char select, selected Toon A

Delete Toon A

Toon A still there....

Delete Toon A again..

Toon A and B disappear.

Thankfully the one that wasn't supposed to be deleted was restored by a gm after petitioning

[Whirled]

Once made a RZ Bard and tried to Selos him passed the Dwarf guards but they were having none of that melarkey.
I have also left a few to rot. No regerts It just a game.
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