Unscheduled Maintainence??
Well, I’m not an ANet employee, but it’s late, and I’m tired and caffeinated, so I’ll just pretend I know the answers to your questions.
In a nutshell, something went boom. :-)
As to your second question, I actually saw what you’re talking about in one of the press beta videos on YouTube. There were a couple developers along with the commentators, and the comentators used that trick to separate the lovers. The devs said they hadn’t realized the encounter could work that way—they hadn’t really designed it that way—but they liked the cleverness of the solution. Sounds like they liked it enough to leave it in the game.
could you please link the title of that video so i can show it to someone please =D will help win an argument that i was saying if they didn’t want it in the game they would have taken it out