LogFAQs > #929057202

Permadeath is needed to give the game weight, otherwise people could just constantly throw themselves against challenges until the defeat it.

You lose your levels/stats/skills/spells but you do not lose any equipment etc that you have stored (you do lose whatever was on you at the time of death though). You also do not lose the skills you yourself have developed in playign the game etc (how well you use the skills spells etc), which you definately develop over time. Unlike many MMO's today, your real skill plays a drastic effect on how effective you are (since you control everything yourself just like in real life).

Entity, yes it's meant to allow the players to sleep with each other without any pregnancies as part of the mandatory exercise every day. All applicants would also be tested to make sure they have no STDs (wouldn't disqualify you from participating but would have to agree to allow all other players to know about it to participate).

You sadly could not have congical visits from loved ones (or booty calls) because of the secrecy, so if you/they were not ok with a "free pass" for 3 months, no sex for you 1 year!! (ok 3 months, but still...sex nazi).

Also, permadeath sucks, nobody likes it, but...death doesn't happen commonly or easily, especially the further into the game you go, and the better you get. At first, mistakes will happen etc, new players might die repeatedly before reaching a higher level (which does let them expiriment a bit as well), but as you get stronger, death is far less common, and you can often retreat before dying. There are items and spells that can be used to prevent death etc as well.

Still if a low level character goes up against a much stronger enemy, they will die....without permadeath, if 100 low level characters teamed up on something they might take it down without any real consequences.
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