On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, JasonF wrote:

>
> The last time I saw this guy he was understandably upset, but swimming
> offshore to look for his corpse in the direction that I gave him. Believe me
> I wished him well, but I couldn't put my character in that potentially
> disarterous position.
>
> How would others have handled this situation? Given it's midnight, and you
> plan on logging within an hour or so and there's no bank on the island.

For those of you that do not know (and just click OK instead
of reading those update messages :-), a recent change allows
anyone you /consent to to drag your corpse around. So if you
get into a tough situation like this, there's no reason to put
your main character at further risk. Simply create a level 1
character, login with the main character and /consent to the
level 1 character, then login with the level 1 character and
go looking for the corpse. (This assumes of course that the
degree of risk is the same searching with either character -
e.g. the sharks are red, but sparsely distributed.)

When you find the corpse, target it, and type /corpse JoeBlow
to drag it to a safer location. I would not recommend looting
it with the level 1 because if he should die, his corpse will
only last 30 minutes.

Of course, this is much easier if you have a high level friend
you can trust and /consent to him.

--
John H. Kim
kim@...