Common Character Catastrophies

[Culinary Critic]

Assassinated/PK - 4
Lost in the sand/dehydrated - 1
Wildlife - 11
Suicide - 1
Stored - 2

[flurry]

I first read the title of this thread as Common Character Catchphrases. (Whatchu talkin' 'bout, Amos?)

I think about half my character deaths were to NPCs, and the rest to PCs. As for "plot based reasons," that's not always easy to tell.

[QuillDipper]

Of my three that have died...

1 - Vicious animals
1 - Fall damage
1 - Storage

[Fathi]

Accidentally turned to red paste by clanmember: 1
Plot related PK: 1
Critter: 3
Ate something bad: 1
Weird crash-related bug death I probably could have filed a rez for but didn't: 1
Gladiator: 1
Falling off shit: 1

Storage: 12

Died while linkdead so who knows what the hell: 3

Moral of the story: don't go linkdead in the desert. Think one of those 'critter' deaths was linkdead too but can't tell from my last account notes.

[Is Friday]

As a professional tryhard and character suicider (151 characters and counting), I voted for the NPC option. Gotta have dat death by random aggressive thing.

Okay, I counted them up. This is rough, since I might have messed it up a bit.

2   Dehydration
9   Unknown (no given reason in account)
54 NPC (gith, erdlu, mek, stilt lizard, kylori, jakhal, falcon, snake, magick thing, yompar, tembo, beetle, vestric, carru, elf, anakore, raptor, spider, gith, HG, halfling, scrab, gizhat, water elementalist, gortok, mantis, snake, mul, kryl, ox, hawk, human, bahamet, soldier. In no particular order. Some NPCs more than once, different breed, etc.)
18 PC
43 Stored
8   Environment (poison, fall, death flag)
5   Blood loss
1   Immortal Fury (thanks Rath!)
1   Alive

[Case]

1x PK'd (saw it comin' as a player, rolled with it IC - Elves don't betray tribe right?)
1x Rinthi NPC (wat)
1x Raptorrrrr (which I think I suicided to, lol wtf first PC, h/elf with -amazing- stats. IIRC, EG, VG, EG, AI)
1x Spiderrrrr (lag wassup)
1x Sparring accident (geez thanks Jihaen)
1x Clean Insides (Agent, that wasn't wine)
5x Stored ( Some I regret )

[bcw81]

1x Twitchy, slack jawed man (Bane of my existence)
2x Soldiers mang
6x Critters
8x Stored
1x Allanaki Templar rending my poor pregnant girl on the cuddler because I was a newb. Awesome death.
5x PK
1x Sparring Accident with clubs
1x Stored because I overstepped my bounds. (:c Sad to see him go, but it was probably for the better, I was doing stupid stuff in my early days.)
1x Gladiator
1x Awesome staff run plot!

[Gimfalisette]

This thread is making me feel less bad about all my storages.

ETA: A lot of my storages actually have been due to taking another role. So. Not so terrible.

[Cale_Knight]

I've only played a handful of characters total.

Out of those, maybe six of them last for more than a couple days played.

Out of those, five were stored and one died ignominiously somewhere south of Tuluk.

I did once lose an incredibly awesome character to the twitchy, slackjawed asshole, though. That was frustrating, because I think he had a ton of potential.

[manipura]

Alright, I'll play this game too.  It must be said though, in my earlier Arm days there was so much newb.  So much.  
And I was stubborn and did a lot of "Oh, I don't know what went wrong with -that- character, but I sure don't need any help.  I'm -suuuure- I can figure this game out myself it was just something wrong with that character, I'll make a new one and something will suddenly click and then I won't suck so much" type thinking.  
The result of this is a whole bunch of unmemorable characters that bumbled about haphazardly before something clicked and I managed to keep one alive longer than oh, a day.  
Of course, most of these bumbling characters died unmemorable deaths too, thank goodness for account notes to remind me.  

NPC people: 7 (Mostly templars/soldiers.  A walk in an alley in Storm that didn't work out.  Umm...one was the white robe in the water temple...really?)
NPC critters: 19 (halfling, sewage horror, few gith here and there, scorpion, raptor, scrab, cilops, some sort of forest gurth (I think?), kylori, couple different gortoks, kryl, dujats and carru)
No death listed: 5
Loss of blood: 4 (One of these I remember for sure was at the hands of the a certain Mr. Twitchy NPC.  Man that guy can mess you up good...)
Dehydration: 1
Falling: 1 (Wait, it wasn't the fall, the fall was just fine.  Was the real sudden stop at the end that didn't work out for me.)
PK: 1

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

Huh.  I should do this. I have no idea.

[Cutthroat]

2x Tarantulas.
1x Murdered in the Gaj.
1x Killed by a silt-horror (also, the only character to die during an event on the History page).
1x Magic accident.
1x Sparring accident.
2x Stored.
2x Died in the Arena (they were special characters for the Arena).
21 completely forgettable deaths.
1x Alive.

[TheWanderer]

1 x Half-Giant Guard NPC STOMP
1 x Beetle chucking me off its back so I can get eaten by another beetle
2 x Storage
1 x Nosave combat off in my ten paces duel
1 x Falling down a pit and meeting da starving (at least, I pretend he was starving) elf npc in dat pit
1 x Falling off a roof.

[James de Monet]

1x Killed by a silt-horror (also, the only character to die during an event on the History page).

Haha, that was you?  

If there was a book about that RPT, your death would have happened at the beginning of the chapter titled, Shit Gets Real.

[Fujikoma]

1x put on bone helmet found in the rinth (first PC)
1x curse of the desc change app (second PC, that second bahamet came out of NOWHERE)
1x Arena death (Hey, breed, put on this robe and go dance for the crowd! 3rd PC)
1x huge black beetle on the way to Storm (4th PC)
1x tarantula I -couldn't- bribe for some reason (worked so well with the scrab and the previous tarantula. 5th PC)
1x killed by new boss (Bleh. 6th PC)
1x curious raptor who found my strange skin interesting (I was fine until I woke up! Damn auto-wake-up from a fall!)
1x freaking gith trench (they should move the trench closer to the Fist )
1x immortal fury (Oh wow, WTF?!)
1x killed by new boss again (Bleh)
1x intentional suicide by other player.

[CodeMaster]

1x intentional suicide by other player.

Your Byn sergeant walk off the shield wall or what?

[Saellyn]

1x intentional suicide by other player.

Your Byn sergeant walk off the shield wall or what?

Is THAT what every intentional suicide is?

[Cutthroat]

1x Killed by a silt-horror (also, the only character to die during an event on the History page).

Haha, that was you? 

If there was a book about that RPT, your death would have happened at the beginning of the chapter titled, Shit Gets Real.

It was a true redshirt moment for me.

[The Crimson King]

Over a hundred characters from an old account I cant include, but this is somewhat accurate for the current.

26 deadly creatures (tarantulas, halflings, beetles, gith mostly)
25 city people (random npcs and soldiers)
6 negative HP
5 entered a room and died from the death flag
2 PC
1 Terradin, yuck
1 Fall to the death

[RogueGunslinger]

1x intentional suicide by other player.

Your Byn sergeant walk off the shield wall or what?

Is THAT what every intentional suicide is?

Hard to imagine more that could get someone else killed as well. You'd think if they're going to do that they'd go off alone, not lure a Mekillot back to their buddies as well... Unless they wanted an audience for their suicide.

[Fujikoma]

1x intentional suicide by other player.

Your Byn sergeant walk off the shield wall or what?

Is THAT what every intentional suicide is?

Hard to imagine more that could get someone else killed as well. You'd think if they're going to do that they'd go off alone, not lure a Mekillot back to their buddies as well... Unless they wanted an audience for their suicide.

Ahaha! I was intentionally being vague because I didn't want to give away to the player who performed the act who I was playing, but no, I wasn't killed by another PC committing suicide. Still, the attempts at untangling the meaning were quite amusing so I was further discouraged from providing an explanation.

[nauta]

Hmm, of the ones that lasted more than a a couple RL days:

2x Mount (one undomesticated; the other domesticated)
4x PK (while sexxing, nosex: Arm of the Dragon, nosex: but I totally should have; absolutely nosex: Arena)

So, I think I'm doing fantastic.  Why do you hate me, mounts and players?

[Bogre]

Stored: 1
Imm killed on request: 1
Rinth NPCs: 6
Wilderness NPCs: 12
PK'd: 7
Self kills through magick: 2
Cleaning fluid: 1

Fell asleep after school/work, dehydrated: 5

Never been templared.

[Gimfalisette]

Fell asleep after school/work, dehydrated: 5

lol

<3

[Armaddict]

Honestly, I think most of the PK deaths in this game come from people who try to ride hard out of the gates towards a powerful character.  Not literally out of the gates, like leaving the city, but right out of character creation, they start trying to assert power.  People don't take kindly to that, and anyone who's more patient than those people will usually win.