[MUD-Dev] Maintaining fiction.

[Madman Across the Water]

Matt Mihaly wrote:
 
> You guys keep throwing around concepts like "If you die and don't
> come back it's permadeath." Define 'you' first, otherwise the
> statement is pretty meaningless. Permadeath revolves around the
> definition of a character, and so far, I haven't heard any
> persuasive argument that a character is held exclusively in a
> database.

Your avatar. 

And if the MUD doesn't have a way of letting the player know the
avatar has died, and has been or not been resurrected, it probably
doesn't have a way to make permadeath a useful concept.

Madman
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