Guild Wars 2

I had finally reached my “home” area, a lab for my Asuran character (I forget the name of the instance) and I saw this giant root outside and a little bit below a window. I was in full explore mode, and figuring that there wouldn’t be a root there if it didn’t go somewhere. I jumped over the window sill, landed on the root, and started running down it excitedly thinking “Wow, where does this go?” when suddenly my little Asura gave yelp and dropped dead. A message appeared saying “Your party was defeated, return to outpost?” (one I am very familiar with from all those years playing Guild Wars 1).

I guess I ran past the edge of the instance, which I had no idea that it could KILL you.

It was my first death too. ~foreheadsmack~

I think Rata Sum might be set up to kill people who leave the map boundaries to stop people from going below the city and exploring around. People used to jump off the edge of the city and use revive orbs then explore underneath.

It is something of a special circumstance in the Asura player instance. If you go out of the area you just die.