> -----Original Message-----
> From: Talies the Wanderer [mailto:snicker@...]
> Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 3:14 PM
> To: eqbards@onelist.com
> Subject:
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> From: Talies the Wanderer <snicker@...>
>
> At 10:00 AM 6/7/99 -1000, you wrote:
> >Here is what I would like to know:
> >
> >1) Was getting stuck in the zone barrier a bug or what was supposed to
> >happen?
>
> That sounds like a bug. Everyone else I've heard has told me that it
> simply stops you.
>
> >2) Since my corpse is right at the zone border, will I get
> stuck again if I
> >try to retrieve it? Can I use the /corpse command underwater to pull my
> >corpse away from the zone border?
>
> You should be able to /corpse it from anywhere. I've even heard that now
> you can /corpse out of Lava (perhaps they increased the /corpse range).
This is probably still only on the test server, like the /follow command,
and, what I read was that you can't /corpse from lava, but you can /loot.
>
> >3) Why did the locate song not lead me to the other player's corpse? My
> >theory is that his corpse was not in the Butcherblock zone but
> in the Ocean
> >of Tears zone. Will the locate corpse zone still point you in the right
> >direction even if you are not in the same zone as the corpse you
> are looking
> >for? If the other player's corpse was indeed in the Ocean of Tears zone
> >then I guess the answer to this question is yes. If his corpse
> was in the
> >Butcherblock zone then it makes the situation even more puzzling.
>
> MAJOR bug there. Unless his corpse was beneath the world - in which case,
> it DID lead you to him. Only his body was a million miles under you.
>
IF his corpse was in the OOT zone, then you should have received a message
like:
"There is no corpse by that identification in this zone" or similar. I've
gotten
that a few times, when a player has a) lost a corpse or b) was just confused
about
which zone they actually died in.
> >4) What is the most likely explanation for the character walking on the
> >bottom of the ocean? Another player or just another bug?
>
> Most likely an NPC, actually - probably one who was lost. Possibly a Bard
> with Tarew's Aquatic Ayre, but you'd have to ask around. FYI in weird
> situations, don't be afraid to hammer on the "Screenshot" key a few times.
> It's amazing what details you missed that you can locate later from a
> screenshot.
Some NPC's don't seem to have a 'swimming' animation. Once, at the docks in
Freeport, I was swimming around, and the girl that normally stands on the
end of
the dock was down on the ocean floor, still fishing. So this could have
been an NPC
that wandered off the beaten path. I'm not real familiar with the BB zone,
but I
don't remember any wandering human or elf NPC's, at least not near the
docks. There
are some elves there at the docks though they don't seem to walk around.
>
> >5) At the time I drowned, there were no GMs online for me to /petition.
> >Assuming one is online the next time I play, will they automatically
> >retrieve my corpse for me since it is at the bottom of the ocean? I sure
> >hope so because I don't relish the idea of having to go back to
> retrieve it.
>
> They will certainly retrieve his - but what I would do is petition a GM
> with the initial problem, and then offer to attempt the retrieval on your
> own, if they will watch to make sure that you do not get trapped
> again. It
> DOES seem to be a bug, but it's not verifiable (like a corpse under the
> world is) so they will be hard pressed to prove it, and the hard rule is
> "If you cannot prove it was a bug, you cannot help them." You can mention
> to them that the reason you want them to "watch over you" is because the
> bug will likely cause you to die before you can /corpse your body.
>
> Oh - and have you thought about using the jig o' vigor to restore
> your lost
> stamina? I never thought about it before...
>
Heh...I crashed in the OOT zone, once. My ISP dropped out from under me,
and
when I finally got back in, I was at the ocean floor. I swam over
hmm...half the
zone (I was halfway between the two dock islands). I kept the jig going the
entire time, and never once did my stamina bar drop. And, my swimming skill
went
from nearly nothing (5 or 6) to about 35 during that swim. Pretty boring,
actually.
>
> Talies the Wanderer
>
>
Good Luck and Song,
MacGrough, Solusek Ro