My little story
So I started a druid like everyone else to make money and twink an eventual melee. I've been playing a good bit for a few months now.
On Saturday morning I hit level 34. A milestone because we pick up a slew of new group ports including... that's right... DREADLANDS!
So what does any curious young Druid who just hit 34 and whose camp just turned light blue (giant skels in rathe) do? Ports to DL and goes exploring! No sooner do I enter the ice cave than a yeti decides to make friends.
Yeti cons blue and hit me like a wimp to start, so I root and try out my new Drones of Doom spell. It's super effective!
Well after about 30 seconds of root-rot excitement, his HP stops moving and my cast bar gets stuck. Uh oh. Here I go, running for the BW zone line! That will save me!
I hit the zone line and nothing happens. The window freezes. I kill the window and log back in.
You know what comes next. Naked halfling at character select, the panic at the fact that it says "33" above his head, and then you log in and mem "Circle of the Combines"
*You are too low level to use this spell*
Frick.
Dead, de-levelled, can't cast the spell that got you to where you died, and no idea where your corpse actually is in one of the largest and least friendly zones in the game.
So I find a wizard to drop me into DL (thanks Bacondrapes!) and off I go to find my corpse.
First I check the tunnel. No such luck. Every nook and cranny searched and one near death experience with camoflauge wearing off in the midst of our good friend murderer yeti.
So off I run naked across the tundra to the BW zoneline expecting my neatly folded little halfling tush lying dead right at the line but to my dismay it is nowhere to be found.
I zone to BW to see if maybe I zoned over and died on the other side... NOPE!
So I zone back to DL and start the needle in the very dangerous haystack search. After re-tracing my steps for about 45 minutes I find the corpse in the Northwestern giant house. Apparently I LD-ran right into it and got murdered.
In the process of dragging my corpse backward to the north wall apparently some drachnid who can see through invis saw me and came after me. One final panicked zone-out and run back and I was looting away.
Back to giant skels I went for a few more hours of on-off killing.
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