Help for death

When your hitpoints fall to zero or less, you are downed. While downed, you will slowly bleed out, losing hitpoints every 12 seconds. At -6 hitpoints you fall unconscious. Once you reach -10 hitpoints, you will die.

While downed and still conscious, you can take limited actions:

  crawl   - Crawl to an adjacent room using the normal movement commands.
  bandage - Bind your wounds with a bandage. It stops the bleedout and slowly heals you back up.
  use     - Use a potion or consumable from your backpack.
  drink   - Drink a potion from your backpack.
  eat     - Eat food from your backpack.
  look    - Look around the room.

Once unconscious, you can no longer crawl, bandage yourself, or use, drink, or eat anything. Only someone else can save you now. Another player can bandage you or revive you with the aid skill, right up until the end.

Hostile creatures that downed you will watch over your body. They won't attack you further, but their presence prevents most actions. Crawl away to safety before using a healing potion to recover.

If you heal above 0 hitpoints, you recover from the downed state and can act normally again.

Your Spirit Essence:

When you die, part of your experience is banked into a spirit essence at the spot where you fell. It holds your progress into your current level, up to half of what the level requires. You can never lose a level to death, and you keep all of your gear and gold.

Only you can see your essence. Return to where you died and type recover essence to get all of the banked experience back.

The essence fades after about a day and a half of real time. If you die again before recovering it, the new essence replaces the old one and the old experience is lost. New adventurers are protected and stake nothing.

Where You Wake Up:

Your spirit sinks into the Aetherdrift, where Caedhriel's Embrace heals you. Type follow roots to climb the roots of Tathann back to the living world. Where they set you down depends on where you died - near the village you wake on the square, and wilder places have their own return points.

Ending It Yourself:

  suicide
  Immediately end your own life, dying where you stand. This carries the same
  death consequences as any other death, so use it with care.