When you die

[Wolfmane]

I hope the Netherworld idea get\'s into PS. Just dying and having to start afresh as an unexperience character could be very frustrating (though pretty reality true). Just respawning with no penalty will turn it into a \"shoot-em-up\" or rather  \"hack\'em-to-bits\" fps and then I\'ll leave.

So the netherworld idea with a chance to come back, though with some penalties is a nice middle-of-the-road solution.

Is there anyone who really knows?

Devs? It would be really nice to know as this is a question many people I have told about PS have asked me and I can\'t answer them.

[tygerwilde]

my brother died, he had to plug a lot of quarters into the machine for that one...

(on a side note, he did die of blood loss once, but the fancy machine the doctors had at the hospital pumped it back into him...)

[hook]

Originally posted by tygerwilde
my brother died, he had to plug a lot of quarters into the machine for that one...

(on a side note, he did die of blood loss once, but the fancy machine the doctors had at the hospital pumped it back into him...)

.... yea .... khmmm ...i hope he\'s ok now ... yea ...whatever ...

i like the quest idea ...at first i thought that you\'d just show up as a ghost and have to find your corpse ...but the underworld quest idea would probably be nicer ...but you can still do it as a ghost :] ...you know like \"help find her lost baby\" or similar ...i\'d think different quests would be cool ...you know, not that you die the third time over and you already know the quest you have inside out

[Tok'ra]

When you die you become bug food, and then the bugs poo you out, and then you fertilize the earth so other people can plant peanuts, and then they die, and peanuts live on forever.  

[Caldazar]

I think that peanuts are the spawn of Lucifer himself. They are fat, they are bad for your health, they taste good, and, you cant stop eating them. Damn you Lucifer!

[Iamthom]

lol .....same with bacon!!! i could eat endless numbers of pigs..... as long as its in bacon/ham form that is..... XD

[Xalthar]

Off topic... since I refuse to talk about peanuts... I might as well talk about apples...! mmmmh... ?bler....!

[Caldazar]

Oh no Xalthar, we wont walk down that road again

[Xalthar]

?bler... mmmmmh...

*wanders off in an apple-craving frenzy*

*eerie voice coming from something you can only discern to be an apple grove*

\"Thy true masters beckon thee to follow Caldazar! Let the apples embrace thee as thy multicolored-fresh-and-extremely-well-tasting sires!\"

...or something

[icosiel]

Death eh?, I remember when I was the queen of persia...no, sorry, that was when I was playing prince of persia, ah well......

When I die I hope that is it, nothing, bliss, the great abyss, unfortunately I have read/experienced a bit too much to accept that idea, damnit.

Maybe we have a soul, a great knowledgeable entity within, if reincarnation is a reality then that means we must therefore live again, blind to our past.

If you think about it this way, then aunty mavis who died in that plane crash can\'t be on the \'other side\' as she would have to incarnate again, this of course means all mediums are frauds, hmm, maybe that\'s what crowley was on about...

If this soul \'awakens\' after life, then the experience which would follow would be intense. You would remember countless lives, times and experience all flooding back in a fraction....this puts the wind up me :S

On the other hand, maybe the idea that god is everything/one/where/what?, in that case we are all shards of a bigger entity. Some believe that when we die we must let go of everything earthly so we may ascend, or join the great white thing. In this case you would bliss, loose all sense of self and be absorbed into a great pool of knowledge and xp.

That not your fancy?, then there\'s always Elysium, it\'s meant to be pretty sweet up there, lush rolling ethereal feilds etc.

You wake up and unplug yourself, this isn\'t really your life, you\'re not even human!, yeah, would you believe it, but this is all a game. Don\'t worry about the eight tentacles, no, you never had any legs, as I was saying, it was just a game and you\'re not really human......

Maybe I think about these things too much...

[zaphar]

Originally posted by icosiel
If you are a fan of christianity, you will either go to heaven or hell, probably hell because you haven\'t prayed every day of your life and been a good boy. Remember, only a certain amount of souls get into heaven and it sounds pretty dull there too (no offence meant to any christians)

Since I happen to be a fan of Christianity I must respond to this point:

First of all you don\'t get to heaven by praying everyday and being a \"good boy\". The thing is you see, You can\'t be \"good\" enough to get into heaven. No one can. The only way in is to accept Jesus. No action, way of life, or good deed in any quantity can get you in. In short you have to believe in Jesus\' Death and subsequent Resurrection. You have to believe He died to pay the price for your sin. You have to accept that payment on your behalf. That guarantees you salvation. (some christian beliefs have various spins on this but I personally believe this version is the correct one according to the Bible which is what I base my entire faith on.) Now of course once you have done all this He does expect certain things from you like giving Him total control over your life. If you fail to do so you don\'t lose the ticket to heaven but he does make your life here on earth miserable till you do. That is the subject of another sermon though.

Oh and no offense was taken just felt I had to correct you on a few points regarding the christian faith.

*dang this was  long post hope I didn\'t tick anyone off with it :-) Please no flames this isn\'t a direct attack against anyone elses religion. Its just that mine happens to exclude any belief in another. You are certainly free to believe I am wrong though. :-)

[Monketh]

All religions say every other religion is false, so many people are confused (like me).  I\'d have to say that there is no knowing what happens afterward.  Maybe life is just a video game run by a corporation.  It\'s as pluasible as any religion.

[Vengeance]

Religions are self-selected groups.  People end up in the religion they feel most comfortable in, around other people who also feel most comfortable in that religion and therefore are similar somehow to each other.

When you feel that a religion fits you and \"feels right\" it is only natural to start thinking and saying that you\'re right and others are wrong--and for you that is true.

That is my theory on why religions all say each other are wrong.  It\'s like EQ people saying SWG sucks and PvP people saying non-PK games suck.

- Venge

[hook]

[going back on topic]

i was thinking and i think IMO the best idea would be that it depends on whose ground you die on (laanx or talad) and ehn you die you have to make an offering to the god in order to be resurected ...the idea is that you\'d have to bargain with him/her and you\'d probably give him a few items that he wouldn\'t accept as proper payment before you found out what he wants ...of course every time you go to him/her he/she\'d want something else from your inventory (random - read bottom)
and let\'s say something really precious that he/she\'d always take as a proper payment would be always an option like a special item (rare jewelry for laanx let\'s say) or offering enough xp, your firstborn, pet, next crop...

the simplest thing to achieve this in the code itself would be a random pick from your inventory which you\'d then have to find, or even better that you\'d have to solve a riddle in order to find out what he/she really wants from you :]

[Caldazar]

The topic was death IRL hook

Just a small thing I\'ve been thinking about: If I dont believe in heaven or hell, not saying that I dont, since I do, how can I be sent there, since I dont believe it?