My dumbest death so far...

[SeveralFaces]

So I was standing at the brew barrel in Rivervale, making what I hope is the last batch of Heady Kiolas I'll need (RNG willing). Nillipuss runs by (Brownie parts ahoy!) So I wheel and cast a snare on him. He runs toward me and starts whacking me. I realize I have my steins in my hand duh, so I open my inventory to switch out, and this Barbarian Warrior appears out of nowhere and starts hitting the brownie.

What? OK so I get my weapon equipped and start chasing as he runs toward the inn. Barb runs into the inn in hot pursuit of Nillipuss. I run in behind him, trying to reaquire my target, which I lost when I closed inventory using esc key (baddddd habit). I use ` to target nearest NPC most often (another darn bad habit) and managed to hit it and 1 at the same time, thus targeting...the INNKEEP...and hitting autoattack at once. NOOOOO....I am wailing at my keyboard. Succor. Interrupt. Gate. Interrupt. Succor. Interrupt. Gate. You have just been slain by An Innkeep! NOOOOO.... You have lost a level! You are now Level 48!

/t DumbBarbLvl33 Hello, why did you attack my target?
DumbBarbLvl33 replies: U were dying.
/r No, I was getting my weapon out, and thank you, I just lost the level I had just dinged.
DumbBarbLvl33 replies: It was attacking u.
/r You need to be careful about attacking things other people are fighting, when you are not in their group. It's called Kill Stealing and will get you a very bad reputation very fast.
DumbBarbLvl33 replies: Can u buff me?
/r No, because I just lost my level so can't cast my good buffs til I get that level back.

*no response*

I then proceeded to go try and solo a couple wyverns to get my level back, got ambushed by a cobalt drake and lost even more exp. It was NOT a good night. Plus I never did get back to my tailoring. *sniffle*

3 more skill ups needed to finish Wu's...yay.

[LadyAnnaAnna]

Yeah, that is a pretty stupid way to die
Think I might be able to one up you though.

Was giving Gnoll Fangs to Captian Tillin in SQeynos the other night.... and somehow wound up attacking him instead. Don't know how THAT happened. I'm at least glad it took him more than one hit to kill me

[Zaephod]

You're not allowed to join the Serverwide Quadders association until you have run off the edge of the CS cliffs with 4 (or more) wyverns hot on your tail only to realize you have forgotten to re-levitate yourself

[Maevenniia]

You're not allowed to join the Serverwide Quadders association until you have run off the edge of the CS cliffs with 4 (or more) wyverns hot on your tail only to realize you have forgotten to re-levitate yourself

Or you realize that you have just kited right through the bulthars. EEEP


......not that I've ever done that......

[PatzyCakes]

I saw a great stupid death the other day.

Boyfriend and I are hunting in Natimbi (I'm a 58 Barb Shm, he's a 65 Half Elf Warrior)..

We were heading over to the turtle pond and we came across the big drop off into the ocean. I say "want a lev?" and proceed to cast it on myself. He says "nah, if you just jump out far enough you'll land in the water".... He jumps.. Him:"I died".. Me:"Yeah I see that, you didn't give me a chance to tell you it was a 20k fall".

MY stupidest death. Way back in my youngin day I was out in EK hunting hill giants. Things got out of hand, I decided to run for the guards. So I'm running with auto attack on and I target a guard just to make sure it's a guard and not someone else standing around... I run up and yup, attack him *DOH*. *whack whack* dead.

I'm sure have many others those are just what came to mind first.

[Silverfish]

"Simple Mistake" to "Dumb as a Stump" in One Easy Death

Here's a dumb death that's sure to make you feel better, with an added n00b moment worthy of eBay.

I'm fighting in the Netherbian Lair, and I'm level a 24 shadow knight. It goes as follows:

Pull a Netherbian out of the tunnels to the pillar. My useless skeleton starts flailing uselessly away, and I start swinging. Just as it drops, another Netherbian shows up, chasing someone. It breaks to aid its buddy, and I go to work on it, along with my uselessly flailing skeleton. I notice that I'm very low on health, and click "heal".

Those in the know realize the bad here, and I get that sinking feeling that comes from realizing that I'm not playing my main (a cleric), so I don't have a heal. I am rent asunder by the Netherbian. My useless skeleton fails to mourn my passing.

This is bad enough, but is not the sad part of the story. The sad part is that react the way I always do when someone in my guild dies; I log in my cleric and run all the way to the Netherbian Lair, so I can stand over my alt's corpse and /facepalm myself repeatedly.

Sigh.

Silverfish

[Melinia]

Stupid Death I've witnessed:

1) Running about in Felwithe gathering baking supplies I came acrossed a newbish male high elf (green con). He stopped to hail me... then...

MHighElf: Hail Melinia.
Me: Hail MHighelf
MHighElf: Want to see something neat?
Me: Sure
Mhighelf turns into Dark Elf.
Mhighelf: That was just an illusion!
Just then a guard turns the corner.

Mhighelf never made it to the zone line in time. He sent me a tell a few moments later laughing hysterically. So was I. At least he had a good sense of humor about the whole situation.

2) I recieved an email from my RL brother. Apparently he died some where in EKaranas on the path to HHP. He needed me to get his corpse for him since he wasnt going to be on for a few days.

He claims: He was running along fine until his RL son decides to make a scene so he turned his head away. when he turned back all he seen was his corpse from the above view. He had to log just then to take care of his son.

Next day I log on to start begging for a Summon Corpse. Finding a friendly Necro to save the day I get the summon. Whats on the corpse? Beer! Beer! Beer!
He still swears it was his son. ya right.. I think he was sampling the Home Brew!

[Eowenna Celerdain]

Embarrassing defeats 101

Embarrassing defeats 101*

Rooting / snaring self instead of enemy.

Having Divine Aura running when the Dru succored / Wiz evac'd party, and getting left behind.

When Lay Hands gets interrupted.

Getting succored in Feerott and appearing among the Ogres when playing a KoS race... (before PoK book was in that area).

Not noticing that the healer had gone AFK.

Failing to assist Main Tank and waking a mezzed enemy.

Not noticing that the healer said, "OOM" and pulling again anyway.

Not noticing that the group was GG'ing out and running out of range.

Using an area effect attack on enemies when there were guards in range.

Getting too close to the edge of a drop-off, looking another direction, then moving the wrong way.

And perhaps the most infamous: the Lemmings Dive from Paineel into the Hole. Nutty as it sounds, this was actually a recommended raid tactic. Theoretically, if folks had an invulnerable up (Divine Barrier, Divine Aura, Harmshield, Rune, etc) they could land safely when levitate wore off and they dropped into the Hole. Nice idea, but zoning times varied too much. Result: there were not enough characters battle-ready when the enemies came rushing in to welcome the new arrivals... That led to a 4-hour corpse run, using level 1-5 Brell-following rogues. And yes, you guessed it - lots of expired rez timers when bodies were finally recovered. (So how much do you trust *your* raid leader? )

*NOTE: several of these are things I witnessed, rather than things that I experienced. And no, in case you wondered, I'm really not inclined to point out which is which.

[Obina]

Farming velium in crystal cavern. Some random stupid act. Corpse in Frostone. Run back. Before they changed the faction hit on illusions, I used to use air elemental as a levitate to down the well in Crystal cavern to get corpse. Who has a bat wing when naked? Invis is up. Loot corpse = invis down. Elementals are evil according to frostone guards, so ... they put corpse 2 next to corpse 1. Doh! Overall I was pleased when they removed faction adjustment on illusions. I died as elemental too many times.

By the way the DA dive into the Hole is fun. Make a brand new paineel cleric. Put all traing points into divination (to avoid fizzle). Buy DA(or get from shared bank). Jump into the hole. Press DA after you zone into the hole. Good fun. A fun thing to do as a guild for pure laughs.

[aliciarose]

Ugh... I am the queen of stupid deaths..... When I dinged 55 (FINALLY!) last year I was hunting the second floor in the Coterie Castle in the Ten Mountains. I was OOC and so the group says bind, grab one and come back. Yeah...you know where this is goin right? Bind, gate, C3, gate, kill.
/g "Don't let me forget to bind back in Nexus guys"
Guildie #1,2 and 3 say kk no prob
So later that night guld is putting together a Shade raid in PoN, I group with cleric and start running across PoN. WHAM. Tree aggros I die and get caught in death loop. Being my 1st one I had NO CLUE so I lost about 2 levels before I snatched the power cord from the back of the comp since /q wasn't hitting the spot =/ Anyhow guild says wait in Nex once I logged in an alt. I waited. And waited. Then finally camped. When we finally did the CR all my corpses were popping as we walked in the front door.
Then I did the 20K jump from the tower in CS with 4 wyverns on my tail.
THEN I was doing the wizard quest for the spell that works on only like 4 giants in the game, spent hours with a friend figuring out the way through the Skyshrine maze, running ALL the way up to the top of tower falling through traps etc, get to the quest guy. Forgot I had bound my space key to make my ranger forage slot 1 earlier, hit my space bar cast a Draught on the big old dragon and ended up dead in Nexus. TOok me ALL day to get that darn spell after rounding up a cleric who would be jkind enough to make the long jaunt up to top of Skyshrine to rezz me =/

[Koru]

With group going to in deep into a zone. Cast foilage shield. Innate camo. Wait, didn't stick on the lowest lvl, mem normal Sup Camo, invis them. Innate camo. Person 3's invis is fading. Foilage shield. Innate camo. The lowest lvls's camo is fading. sSp camo. Go go go before anyone else loses invis... notice a few seconds later something is chasing us, oops yeah, with all that dropping my invis to reinvis everyone else I forgot to innate camo myself that last time. At this point I just said "eff it, let me die and drag me to camp and rez me there". At least that way I wasn't going to have to keep reinvising them every few seconds. Lesson learned, always make sure YOU are also invis after spending the last few minutes reinvising everyone else.

[Darknyss]

(Pre-PoP, Luclin era)

I tried to siphon strength from the Nexus Scion and it didn't work... she resisted it every time...

Guild wants to go somewhere on Luclin, so I go to ask the Scion for one of those handy little jewels that allow the portal to take you to the moon.

Nexus Scion hits YOU for 1429 points of damage!
Nexus Scion hits YOU for 1286 points of damage!
Nexus Scion hits YOU for 2113 points of damage!
You have been slain!
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I got a free trip to the moon... naked.

[xaanru]

Quote:

You're not allowed to join the Serverwide Quadders association until you have run off the edge of the CS cliffs with 4 (or more) wyverns hot on your tail only to realize you have forgotten to re-levitate yourself


Or you realize that you have just kited right through the bulthars. EEEP

You forgot the other part:

You suddenly realize, just as you run right through the middle of the othmir, that you're in wolf form.

[Kirstin Thornhill]

You forgot the other part:

You suddenly realize, just as you run right through the middle of the othmir, that you're in wolf form.

I did that once... After I got my rez, I went and killed a LOT of Ulthorks, and turned in a lot of tusks.

Now I can go into wolf form in a group of Othmir, and they scratch my ears and offer me cookies. Nice Othmir...

[muana]

fun deaths

AFK is always fun...autofollow is a killer...moving your innate camo=mistake

loved telling groupmate that I was gonna be afk in Natimbi...we were heading to barindu...oops didn't quite make it back to keyboard in time to get to zoneline.

Succor is the most fun way to die though, or Exodus.

HoH group tank dies cleric and I are left --> cast Exodus --> cleric says where did you go? good job on the exodus...while I sit at my bind spot going um well at least you survived.

I will never understand how a druid/wiz can cast exodus and leave themselves...wouldn't it leave the entire group if you can't get yourself to go?

Targetting a guard or merchant while talking to friends can be a bad idea...oops forgot to hit / or ' "have" (oops Hailed and then Attacked....doh)
nevertheless your question is never asked until after you are at your bind point.

Fun ways to die or get chased around