On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Daniel P. Sniderman wrote:

>
> This was QUITE some time ago - and perhaps a bug that was fixed... But
> my best-buddy and I were fighting in Befallen and he got killed. Bound
> naturally in West Freeport - he ran back and I tried to use Lyss's to locate

^^^^^^^^^^^
That was the first time he entered the zone after dying.

> the Corpse. It gave extremely confusing results. At the time I didn't
> realize that the corpse was in an un-reachable location (in a wall
> probably) - since I didn't know about that bug. He tried petitioning a GM -
> but none were online (this was pretty late on a Sunday night). I tried the
> chat servers - no GM or Guides. I even tried a char on another server. -
> just as I log in - a Guide logs out. No luck...
>
> We are wits end not sure what to do - he's getting real frustrated...
> So for some reason he decides to log out to create a char on another server
> and see if there are any GM's there. No luck - but he comes back - and the

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This was the second time he entered the zone after dying. I
don't know why, but when you run into the inconsistent corpse
location bug, entering the zone the 2nd time (i.e. "re-enter
the zone") seems to clear it up.

> corpse was moved to a reachable location.
>
> So again - perhaps things have changed - but if you do find yourself in
> this dilemma - a quick log-out and log-in is worth a try - it doesn't really
> cost you anything...

Or you can zone out and zone back in.

The question I have is did *you* also zone out and come back,
and when did the corpse appear in a new location for you?
Every time I've run across this bug, I've been the one to
re-zone first, and thus I end up seeing the corpse while the
others don't (and it's always been their corpse, not mine).
I don't know if it works the other way.

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John H. Kim
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