Death & Deities

Death

• Upon death, you will awake in the Temple of Notre Dame. See 'help map'.
  • To walk back to Darkhaven Square: #5 s; e; e; se
  • The Halls of Knowledge (where you may have been initially exploring upon first entering the game) is then: #3 e, s; d
• If you die while under level 10, you keep all your gear and can just get right back to doing whatever you were doing.

If you die after level 10, your corpse with all your gear remains where you died. You must retrieve your corpse so you can get your gear out of it.

Corpse Retrieval

Commonly called 'CR', you might chat "can someone help me with a CR?"

• Option 1: Walk back to where you died, get your shit from your corpse
  • You are naked. Go buy a light first. And maybe a recall scroll. You should save/quit/relog so that any mobs which were aggro on you drop aggro.

• Option 2: Use your deity to 'supplicate corpse'
  • Much easier. Read on.

Deities

There are 2 deities which make favoring/supplicating a joke, and you should pick one of those to get started.

Which Deity Should I Pick?

There's a bunch, and they each have minor advantages I will list below, but honestly if you are new don't bother with that shit yet, it's splitting hairs and not going to make a huge difference to your first characters (and you can change later). You just want the easiest deities to supplicate your corpse with, which are:

For Good align: [A'enari]       (Any classes besides the 3 evil ones below)
For Evil align: [Vl'aresch]   (Vamps, Nephs, Thieves)

How to Devote to a Deity?

You devote to a deity by walking to their room and using the command 'devote <deity>'.

View your current deity, and favor with that deity in the 'score' command output.

How to Gain Favor?

After devoting, you can check 'score' to see your current favor level with your deity. (See 'help favor_levels' for the full scale of favors)

• 'For A'enari/Vl'aresch: Just walk in/out/in/out/in/out of their room to gain favor (do it until you are "praised")
  • Each time you walk into their room you gain favor. You can simply walk in/out/in/out of their room a bunch.

Best Practices

Death is simple, and easily rectified. You shouldn't be afraid to die. You should just be prepared correctly and it will be no big thang.

1. Devote to A'enari or Vl'aresch

2. Go visit them and walk in/out until you are at "praised" favor

3. Go explore and die

4. Do 'supplicate corpse' and 'get all corpse; wear all' a bunch to get all your shit

5. Immediately go back to the deity and re-favor back up to praised.

6. Return to Step 3.

Supplication

The deity system allows you to use your deity to bring you a few things, via the 'supplicate' command:

See: help supplicate

Syntax: supplicate <THING>
         corpse   retrieves your corpse from supplicatable room(s)
         avatar   summons an avatar of your deity
         object   summons a sigil of your deity
         recall   sends you to your recall point (bypasses norecall flags)
         restore  completely restores hitpoints, mana, and movement

Some notes on those:

• Corpse: The most useful thing to supplicate. If you've died multiple times, ALL of your corpses will get brought to you.
• Object: Sigil's have 20AC, Affect AC -20, and have a +1 to a stat.
• Restore: If you're abouttttt to die.... try 'supplicate restore' to save your own ass
• Recall: If you're out of recalls, or also about to die... try 'supplicate recall' for a quick trip home
• Avatar: The avatar is like a pet NPC that will fight with you, but they suck. The more useful thing to do with them is use them to mark a room in a maze.

Then you can go and explore and die whenever, when you do, just use 'supplicate corpse' and get all your shit back. Then go re-favor again back to praised.

When you're ready for more overwhelming information, see https://rodpedia.realmsofdespair.info/wiki/Deity