=Death and dying=
When you die you will loose 0.25 points from each skill. With the exception of the newbie items you get when you first start, your items will be on your corpse. You'll need to find it to get them back. If the corpse has decayed, the items that were on it will be a pile of items on the ground.
Also, you will be on a red and black screen with a little box in the middle, you will have to choose where you want to respawn. If you are dead and you cannot see the little box, type /respawn in your chat window.