Death

Death comes for us all. Some of us will die peacefully in our sleep. Some of us will die falling off an eighty foot tall sheer vertical cliff, or dragged into a crevasse by a tentacled horror. The latter is how characters tend to die in Rhizome.

Mechanically, death in Rhizome occurs when your character's health pool drops below zero. How far below zero you can drop and still have a chance to be rescued is dependent on your character's endurance, but once you're in the negatives, you're dying unless an outside force intervenes to heal or stabilize you.

Once your character has died, that character is removed from play. Barring major bugs or rule breaking from other players, your character cannot be restored. The font of life is only so sweet because it is so temporary, after all. The risks you take only matter due to the cost they can exact, and the dice will come up snake-eyes eventually. Plus, some deaths are objectively hilarious, as you'll find out.

When your character dies, you will be presented with a splash screen detailing the nature of their death and a few fun facts about how your character lived, including but not limited to:

The value in coin of your possessions when you died.
How many unique rooms you had visited on that character.
Most damage dealt in a single hit.
Number of skill checks failed/succeeded.

Once you're satisfied, you can choose to roll a new character, or enter the OOC lounge where a staffer, if one is available, will be along to lend a shoulder and some wisdom, or just jaw about what happened, if you'd like. Losing characters can be hard, especially ones whose stories we felt we weren't ready to leave yet, and the staff of Rhizome themselves are no strangers to that sensation.

A note: Rhizome has relaxed IC/OOC rules compared to many RPI MUDs. We do ask that if you do not discuss the nitty gritty of your death, particularly if it is at the hands of another player, but if you want to release your best howl of despair onto the discord, that's fine. Deaths are one of the most interesting topics in an RPI MUD.