Death from Old Age

[Scarecrow]

Okay, so Zalanthan characters usually die (and messily) long before they are wrinkled and aged and withering away in the bed, surrounded by family and such. But, has -anyone- ever seen what happens when a PC dies of old age? Do they just drop dead all of a sudden, have a stroke, heart-attack, last agonised death rasp before shuddering to the ground etc etc?
There has to be some sort of prize for dying of old age in Armageddon. You'd be a statistical miracle.

[MeTekillot]

Que a flurry of "Find out IC" responses.

[Barzalene]

There have been a few ancient pcs but they're very few and far between. I'm not quite sure how they died.

[spawnloser]

As far as the more coded effects go, as you age, your endurance goes down.  (See 'help age'.)  This is progressive and really has no end.  Eventually your endurance will be 1 and you will have 1 hp.  A stiff breeze would knock you over.  (A slight bug resulted in every NPC in the game suffering from rapid aging at one point.  It was funny.  For a short period of time, huge sections of the NPCs had only 1 hp.)

[Gunnerblaster]

So Absolutely Incredible endurance means you'll live for an absolutely incredible long time?

[FightClub]

So Absolutely Incredible endurance means you'll live for an absolutely incredible long time?

If you're a half-giant, or a mul, or a dwarf. Probably not so much for a human, AI endurance would probably render like 120-130 hp?

And as far as the average players are concerned, AI stats mean you'll die quicker, because you do more stupid crap.

[Scarecrow]

Okay, thanks for your responses. Somehow though I doubt I'll ever get a chance to become a 1hp "drop a baobab twig on my head and it'll snap my neck" old fellow. 

[Qzzrbl]

So Absolutely Incredible endurance means you'll live for an absolutely incredible long time?

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I'd imagine the older you get, the more quickly your endurance drops....

Don't think even AI endurance could save you. x]

[shadeoux]

I did have an ancient elf once, with a mature aged desc - needless to say, yea, I was away from the game many years RL and came back to him and stored him almost immediately I believe.

[Bogre]

The only super aging character I had was before the aging-stats thing came in.

And I had sick stats.