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Pain and Suffering
Not quite sure What this is but it seemed like an in game quirk somebody might search for.
I think that might be the message you get when somebody dies of poison?
It seems on occasion, data packets from the server may arrive at the client out of order. Such data packets will contain the Entity ID to which it pertains. If this happens when either a mob or player (the entity) is no longer available (dead, camped or gated out), the entity name will be replaced by the client with 'Pain and Suffering'. This should be rare and will likely most often happen when a mob has just died.
Pain and suffering is a physical mob located in at least 1 zone that I've found (Lavastorm Mountains). You can F8 around and you'll eventually see the health indicator on your Target bar fill up, but no name will be present [Somewhere in the NE third of the zone, I think at the bottom of a pool of lava -- this was in classic, decades ago - I haven't verified this on p99]. I fought (and lost) to him in Lavastorm, as he was around level 50 if memory serves.
The rest is just conjecture, but I think he's got a global presence in each zone. You'll encounter combat messages with him whenever you're at 0 or negative HP (bleeding, unconscious). I'm not sure how many HP in the negative you need to be to physically die, but I think anywhere from 0 HP to [Loading, please wait], is a time where Pain and Suffering can actually kill you.
Doesn't seem to be related to my death. After searching my logs I see it hits me quite often, I just rarely notice. Every instance seems to be instead related to the NPC dying.
- [Sat Jul 03 16:26:41 2021] Pain and suffering punches YOU for 100 points of damage.
- [Sat Jul 03 16:26:42 2021] Abrile regards you indifferently -- looks like quite a gamble.
- [Sat Jul 03 16:26:43 2021] You receive 19 gold, 9 silver and 13 copper from the corpse.
- [Sat Jul 03 16:26:44 2021] --You have looted a Words of Incarceration.--
- [Sat Jul 03 16:26:44 2021] --You have looted a Rune of Attraction.--
- [Sat Jul 03 16:26:45 2021] --You have looted a Russet Oxide.--
