How to get your own corpse and Self CR (corpse retrieval)

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How to get your own corpse and Self CR (corpse retrieval)

Postby Choong » Fri Mar 25, 2005 1:13 am

This guide is written for the newbies who died and only knows how to gossip "Can someone get my corpse".

After you die, you will end up at the recall point of the continent you died on. You probably will start gossiping for help and wait for help to arrive. While waiting for help, you corpse maybe looted by mobs wandering around your corpse. In order to minimize looting, take some actions to get your corpse back as fast as possible.

Self CR 101

1. Using a familiar to get back your corpse. (Mage level 6 required)

Small mobs in town are best for familiar, rats, cats, dog, hamsters, sparrows/birds, well you get the idea. Birds are good for areas that need fly and bad for no fly area such as hive in AH.

To get a familiar, cast ‘familiar’ <mob name> e.g. cast ‘familiar’ cat
To use a familiar, order familiar <do something> e.g. order familiar gossip Choong is great!

If you died it a dark place, your familiar will need a light to see your corpse. Buy a torch or lantern from supply shop for the familiar. Which also means that you better have some money saved in the bank to buy a torch. I normally just give the familiar a light in case the rooms are dark.

Moving your familiar to your corpse – Your familiar most likely have 50mvs so making it run over a long distance is not a good idea. Instead you can run to the nearest safe spot where you die and summon or gate your familiar (cast ‘summon’ familiar). If you don’t have those 2 spells, then you’ll have to run your familiar and refresh them as you go along.

Now move your familiar into the room with the mob that killed you, use your familiar to carve your corpse, get your corpse, and then come back to you. Example:
Your corpse is in the room north east of where you are now, here’s what you do
order familiar north
order familiar east
order familiar carve corpse or order familiar carve <your name> (keep carving until there is nothing left to carve)
order familiar get corpse or order familiar get <your name>
order familiar look <mob> (to check if any of your things are looted)
order familiar west
order familiar south
order familiar give corpse <yourself>

Congratulations, you've just completed your first self cr

order familiar carve <your name> and order familiar get <your name> is useful when there are multiple corpse in the room, such as after a CF aka group death


2. Using your shapeshift cat form

If you have druid in your classo, CR is so much easier to do as you can use your cat form to get your corpse back safely, provided you still have mana left.


3. Using another char

You can logout you char after you corpsed and login another char to get the corpse and it is perfectly legal. Therefore it is good to make friends on the mud so that you can use their char to CR when you died. After getting your corpse, you can drop it in the inn/safe room. Looting players corpse is totally illegal so your corpse will be safe there unless a looting mob comes into that room or maybe a mud crash


4. If all the above fails, whine on gossip channel!

Some basic etiquette when gossiping for help to CR,
1. Wait a while for someone to respond before gossiping the same thing again. Some people might have seen it but is busy at the moment to respond. Some people may look free but they are busy in real life to help you (boss around)
2. Give as much information as possible to the person helping you as he/she might not know where exactly you died. Also the mud is so huge, not many people know all the areas. Information on which continent, and how to get there, is there any aggressive mobs there, etc
3. Instead of standing at recall point and waiting for your corpse, try to move to a closer place where you die, group with your savior, guide your savior, and sometimes assist your savior by blinding the mob.
4. Remember these people are doing you a favor and giving them a hand is always appreciated.
5. And don’t forget to say thank you.
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Postby 12345 » Fri Mar 25, 2005 1:38 am

Keep some gold in the bank on Valkyre and if you die there, it can be simple to get your corpse regardless of classo or levels. You'll show up at the South Gate.

1. Go nw, withdraw 2000
2. 4e2ne, buy cheap (scroll of familiar)
3. wne, buy torch/lantern/etc (food and canteen also helps)
4. w3n3w, look around for a ferret
5. Go to ferret, recite cheap ferret
6. Now you have a familiar :)
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