Deleted Characters
 

Does anyone know if deleted characters can be restored? Is this as easy as getting a rotted corpse retrieved?

Fairly sure they can, try a petition in the petition forum.

http://www.project1999.com/forums/announcement.php?f=25

A friend, somewhere out there in the vast cyberspace, lies in wait. Must you persist in your sleep? Everyone anticipates your return. Realize that it is a quick fix to return to Norrath. You must come back to your guild!

Took me a few months to get it done with one of my characters

Kind of a side question, but related. What happens to the names of deleted characters? Are they still flagged as taken, or can someone else pick them up?

I'm fairly sure they are still flagged.

Dunno, I have deleted and moved names to other accounts a number of times over the years

Not flagged after deletion on P99. I've created a char, deleted it, recreated it with the same name, and the name was allowed the second time around.