Worst Corpse Run

[alexnoshinku]

What is the worst corpse run you have ever experienced?

The worst corpse run for me was when i died in MM and was bond in EC, then died like 3 times trying to get back to MM before a rogue friend of mine decided to drag my corpse to CY in MM and log (note i was only 29 at the time). This was so not funny trying to get it back. I ended up asking another friend who had a clicky cleric parked in the zone to come help me. They both laughed at me for days after that...

[skarlorn]

Lol that rogue is a dick.

My worst corpse run was back when I was on Filbus in his teens going to unrest for the first time. I was basically. Totally new to eq, only having watched it during live. I died in unrest and had to cross Dagnors all alone as a naked level 15ish warrior.

To make it worse I smoked a lot of weed, and basically had no short term memory. So I'd get turned around constantly in the cauldron due to all the little Peaks and valleys combined with my ignorance and weed stupor. My halfling corpse trailed the path to unrest, and even the fantastic four were too slow to save me from the goblins.

This marked the beginning of a game my friends Called "Find Filbus," where they would find my corpses randomly across Norrath like little hobbit waystones. Leveling a warrior first is rough, esp when you're a noob.

[alexnoshinku]

Lol that rogue is a dick.

My worst corpse run was back when I was on Filbus in his teens going to unrest for the first time. I was basically. Totally new to eq, only having watched it during live. I died in unrest and had to cross Dagnors all alone as a naked level 15ish warrior.

To make it worse I smoked a lot of weed, and basically had no short term memory. So I'd get turned around constantly in the cauldron due to all the little Peaks and valleys combined with my ignorance and weed stupor. My halfling corpse trailed the path to unrest, and even the fantastic four were too slow to save me from the goblins.

This marked the beginning of a game my friends Called "Find Filbus," where they would find my corpses randomly across Norrath like little hobbit waystones. Leveling a warrior first is rough, esp when you're a noob.

i still get turned around trying to go to unrest...everything looks the same (same for the Karanas and Lfay) I still laugh at all of my deaths and corpse runs because none will be as bad as the MM one.

[Endorra]

Way back on live, when I was truly a nooblet, my poor Dark Elf necro fell down the pit trap into the jail in Najena. I died twice more that night trying to get the body back, and then I had to give up and go to bed for school. I barely slept.

The next day after school, I had to beg and plead in EC tunnel for someone to help me. Eventually some higher level char in a guild took pity on me and helped me clear down to the corpse. No rez, just help getting to the body so I could loot all my cloth gear. I never set foot in Najena again until I was on p99 and knew what I was doing.

[Nibblewitz]

HS full wipe - shit still haunts me.

[alexnoshinku]

i dragged a tru noob's corpse under the ice into the caves in everfrost. he sent a lot of tells "the corpse tracker says i'm right on top of it WHERE IS IT"

^^^ omg that is way to good, if someone did that to me I would so laugh my ass off

[skarlorn]

HS full wipe - shit still haunts me.

The life of a posh wizard evacing to safety has made you soft

[Izmael]

Died to resists and summoners deepish in Chardok duoing with a cleric pal on my enc.

Unlucky dog spawns made it impossible to calm/invis past a certain spot and I died a combined total of 6 times trying to server tick my way down. The cleric died a couple times too, he ran his 60 enc in and died a couple times as well.

It was too embarrassing to ask for help so we ended up paying a random unknown necro for a bunch of corpse summons.

#rememberdok

[Nommis]

Good thread.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the well in Befallen...

[LostCause]

What is the worst corpse run you have ever experienced?

The worst corpse run for me was when i died in MM and was bond in EC, then died like 3 times trying to get back to MM before a rogue friend of mine decided to drag my corpse to CY in MM and log (note i was only 29 at the time). This was so not funny trying to get it back. I ended up asking another friend who had a clicky cleric parked in the zone to come help me. They both laughed at me for days after that...

that's it? i think ive died few times and ran from qeynos all the way back to ec since i never get ports if i die solo then its my fault i won't beg for a port or a rez or even a sow..

[Sillyturtle]

Worst run for me was when I died in Permafrost on my Iksar that was bound in Cabilis. I couldn't find a port at the time and so ran from Cabilis, to the Boat, to the raft, from Oasis through ECT, through commonlands and the forest, through the Karanas (fuck the Karanas) through Blackburrow and back through Everfrost into Permafrost.


Took a long time.

[alexnoshinku]

that's it? i think ive died few times and ran from qeynos all the way back to ec since i never get ports if i die solo then its my fault i won't beg for a port or a rez or even a sow..

Mines not as great as others,my other bad corpse run was being ported in my a wizard to skyfire, kitting mobs around for 3 hours trying to find a zone line, dying. Not being able to find my corpse till someone in aftermath comes along and asked if I needed help then rezzed me at OT zone line. I don't ask for rezzes but I don't turn then down either

[branamil]

Worst run for me was when I died in Permafrost on my Iksar that was bound in Cabilis. I couldn't find a port at the time and so ran from Cabilis, to the Boat, to the raft, from Oasis through ECT, through commonlands and the forest, through the Karanas (fuck the Karanas) through Blackburrow and back through Everfrost into Permafrost.


Took a long time.

This is about the worst possible. You win

[Spyder73]

Ocean of tears death - I would discuss the details but I have them buried deep within my brain and my face muscles start spasming if I concentrate on it for too long.

[Canelek]

On live. HoT disaster when we were first getting the hang of it. No porters available so a mage summoned armor and weapons for a small strike team. Amazingly, we were able to make it through SG, Sontalak, etc. Good times!

[skarlorn]

On live. HoT disaster when we were first getting the hang of it. No porters available so a mage summoned armor and weapons for a small strike team. Amazingly, we were able to make it through SG, Sontalak, etc. Good times!

Cute

[kjs86z]

HS South - full wipe zero chance of a corpse summon

what a fkin nightmare...we got some peeps together to clear for us...was a 4 hour shitfest

[Cleetis]

think I have you all beat one PoF raid way back in 2000, we had an entire raid wipe so many times our corpses were stacked like cordwood. Must have been at least 8 of mine alone, all told maybe 400 from the raid force.

[Kesselring]

Why is this even on rants and flames? I guess it is a rant.

I took a PUG group that I arranged through going through like 50 tells into droga for a few hours, we crawled all the way to chief and then we had to leave and we didnt have gate pots/wc caps because this was everyones first char on the server and we were n00bs. So we crawled all the way back to entrance and right before we got to the path to the exit, one of our really tired party members decided to go around a corner and aggroed like 8 mobs when everyone was low mana. We died when we were so close to the exit.

Corpse running with no high level help was gruesome, luckily our rogue stayed up to drag everyone. Nobody knew anything about the zone, we didn't know you could just invis throughout the whole zone. It was bad.

[Kesselring]

Why is this even on rants and flames? I guess it is a rant.

I took a PUG group that I arranged through going through like 50 tells into droga for a few hours, we crawled all the way to chiefn then camped him for a few hours and then we had to leave and we didnt have gate pots/wc caps because this was everyones first char on the server and we were n00bs. It was also very late at night (even though it was a weekend). So we crawled all the way back to entrance (well the exit I should say since the entrance and exit is not the same path) and right before we got to the path to the exit, one of our really tired party members decided to go around a corner and aggroed like 8 mobs when everyone was low mana. We died when we were so close to the exit.

Corpse running with no high level help was gruesome, luckily our rogue stayed up to drag everyone. Nobody knew anything about the zone, we didn't know you could just invis throughout the whole zone. It was bad.

[Kesselring]

I fucked up, thought quote was edit. Realized there is no edit. RIP. Fucking old ass style forums.

[kotton05]

I fucked up, thought quote was edit. Realized there is no edit. RIP. Fucking old ass style forums.

We're all allowed a double post every once in awhile.

The worst CR for me was the old CT battles in fear during an off hour. His old mechanic would chain fire DT's and as people died went LD camped out and desync'd the bodies would pile up. Sometimes the CR would last all day if people would just bounce afterwards while dead. Thanks tmo.

[Crimsonghost]

Worst CR? First Naggy raid ever, back in '99. Pickup raid (aka the debil). Casters were asked to bound in the 'safe hall', so when they died, they could mem a few nukes, pick up a coin on the ground (so your naked corpse wouldn't rot) then run in and try to get a few nukes off before you died again. We wiped hard as the raid was pretty clueless and under geared. Most of us casters died a few times charging back in. I don't even think we knew Naggy was a bellyl caster. We eventually gave up and were forming up for CR in the safe hall when the FGs repopped on us and put a lot of us in death loops. Fun, fun, fun. Those were the days that you got buffed up and had to log out to a chat room, since mana regen was so slow, so the raid probably was going on over 8 hours.

Anyway, finally got all 7 or 8 corpses back and rezzed by 3am, got up about 3 hours later for work.

Good times, right?

[Check12345]

From Live:

The Hole opens. I levi over the hole, zone in, die from falling.
/ all necro until I can find someone with the corpse summon spell, which was still relatively new.
Finally find one, finally get a coffin, whoops need a key.
Get necro into the hole, he summons his first corpse ever.
Only took 4-5 hours!

Veeshan's Peak
Fighting at the zone in pad for spells n such.
A wurm split on death, on the zone in pad, this is now his spawn point, one or both can see invis.
Hey at least it wasn't a 1500 double attack wurm.
Drama and more deaths ensue over the next several hours as more victims enter the fray.

That was the closest I ever came to losing a corpse.

[Check12345]

Almost forgot

Old Sebilis
Keys were not soulbound, you needed two, and to duel outside before entering.
We wipe in back disco.
We zone in with backup keys and CR gear.
We wipe in back disco on CR attempt.

We are now naked in trak's teeth farming keys.

It took multiple trips to get a necro with enough coffins to get us all.

Conclusion? Some nights you are just better off laying your sack (or boob) on the keyboard and hitting it with a hammer.

[Check12345]

think I have you all beat one PoF raid way back in 2000, we had an entire raid wipe so many times our corpses were stacked like cordwood. Must have been at least 8 of mine alone, all told maybe 400 from the raid force.

Early Fearplane, before they opened Hateplane and moved half of the armor over, was a server wide effort. No guild running it, just all the 46+ characters bound together to attempt it.

What Cleetis said happened, naked lvl 45's killing ogre guards just to get 46 back to try to start the CR process again.

Back then, you camped to chat to discuss possible approaches to getting a CR done.

You have entered Brell_Fear, 40 folks in there, 12 hours into the CR effort, omfg I miss chat server talks about CR.

Also, I would -never- do it again.

Eventually a GM came and depopped the zone for us out of compassion, while giving us shit the whole time.

[skwayb]

Worse CR for me was Fear. We had cleared Fear about 4 times over the last couple of months. On this run, we were 3/4 the way through clearing the zone when out of nowhere CT did a zone wide shout and the entire zone repopped. We were right in the middle of where a bunch of mobs popped. Next thing you know the entire zone is on us.

Try clearing Fear with No Armour worth a crap from your bank or naked is impossible. Also some people didn't bind anywhere near so they had to do long runs to even get there. We died some many times trying to get back to our bodies with no gear that I lost 2 levels even after being rezzed and probably from looting the bodies that weren't rezzed yet. It was such a complete cluster after 12 hours that we ended up asking some of the other guilds on our server to help us get our bodies back. Needless to say I didn't get any sleep and had to go to work. Luckily I got my body back before I had to leave.

[Check12345]

The Heavens Declared Against Us

Jesus what a perfect EQ nightmare right there.

Besides a CT pop repopping the whole plane, even if he was up, something as simple as buff or heal aggro could spread from the trash across the zone to CT, who started death touching those folks, and then sent the Amy temple to your raid buddies. This neato feature was removed at some point early on thank gawd.

A train of squidheads coming for you as you camp in desperation, duped corpses from getting DT'd on camp... lol early EQ...

[mickmoranis]

my worst corpse run was about a week into the game, lost in the gfay woods on my level 10ish ranger wood elf brandishing my precious mino axe I realized I was lost in these dark woods that became instantly scarrier than any environment I have ever been in before.

I felt the cold creep of death around every dark tree and as to be expected I wound up murdered by a wasp or a fairy or something totally silly, yet terrifying.

I searched and searched and searched and only after a couple days that someone told me they could use the magic of the land to locate my corpse did we find it.

Definitely my most brutal corpse run.

[Jimjam]

Kunark Release:

Rolled a human necromancer. Making gains. Strong enough to defeat orc pawns!

Headed into the harbourside bar in Freeport while waiting for a boat.

Curbstomped by unfriendly adventurer NPCs.

Didn't know/think about hotkeying /corpse; didn't know how to /target corpse; didn't know line of sight was not required; didn't know if I waited a little the NPCs in the bar would respawn as non KoS.

Had to walk in, manually target and type /corpse, move up and retype /corpse. Died a few time in the process.

Was worth it to recover that 2AC robe which was significantly worse than the 4AC cloth tunic I was going to vendor.

[Jimjam]

Fortunately I now know about macros, how to /target (name)'s to ensure corpse is targeted and can drag like 6 corpses at a time with ease! Only took like 20 years to figure that shit out.

[skwayb]

You have entered Brell_Fear, 40 folks in there, 12 hours into the CR effort, omfg I miss chat server talks about CR.
I was also on Brell. We had some friends from Silent Redemption come and help. We had meet them at the EQ Event in the Seattle Area the month before. This was around mid Velious release.

[Check12345]

I was also on Brell. We had some friends from Silent Redemption come and help. We had meet them at the EQ Event in the Seattle Area the month before. This was around mid Velious release.

I remember Vumil and Ganon. :)

We had a seriously chill server compared to the rest, no server firsts to mention but the unofficial roleplay server was just full of great folks.

I was in <Misericordia>, Repic, wizard.

[skwayb]

I remember Vumil and Ganon. :)

We had a seriously chill server compared to the rest, no server firsts to mention but the unofficial roleplay server was just full of great folks.

I was in <Misericordia>, Repic, wizard.

I was Zyrro, Shaman in several guilds. <GNV>, <Mythic Voyagers>, <Primal Honor> home of the famous Page 8 asshat that killed our guild, then Sphere of Honor which I was in for many years until it went poooof right as we got into Plane of Earth in PoP. Stopped playing after that.

[dafier]

Live...just after Kunark launched...or around there...

Falling in to The Hole. Hours later a lvl 1 rogue dragged me out to the underwater entrance.

[Check12345]

I was Zyrro, Shaman in several guilds. <GNV>, <Mythic Voyagers>, <Primal Honor> home of the famous Page 8 asshat that killed our guild, then Sphere of Honor which I was in for many years until it went poooof right as we got into Plane of Earth in PoP. Stopped playing after that.

SONOFABITCH!!

Lol Brell's big day in the sun, that incident.

[skwayb]

SONOFABITCH!!

Lol Brell's big day in the sun, that incident.


Yep here is the page 8 links... even a GU Comic on it.
http://brellrants.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2734
Here is the GU Comic that came from it too... LOL http://www.gucomics.com/sonofabitch.php

[Baa]

A few years back we were raiding Hate (it was already partially cleared and we were unsure of respawn timers).

As we wrapped up and ported out my group was slow in porting out for whatever reason when suddenly the re-pop happened on-top of our heads. My little rogue fought valiantly to keep us alive, everybody made it out alive except me and another.

Most users had already logged out for the night and we didn't have Whatsapp then so we had a ragtag group of 6ish left including the two of us that died.

I had to leave for the airport in the next 30 mins or so, so we tried to do a ninja CR, however as part of the respawn there was 3 golems at entrance - after a couple of port in and port outs (I was trying to ninja sneak hide to at least get corpses to ent) we had to give up for the night.

I ended up leaving for the airport and getting my corpse recovered on my return.