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			=== DT INSURANCE ===
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			You can now insure your stuff from death trap loss. Buy DT Insurance at any hometown innkeep. For more information regarding DT Insurance, [[click here]].</blockquote>

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== Deathtraps Explained ==

There was a time when you couldn't protect yourself from losing all of your coveted gear to a deathtrap, a room that instantly kills you when entered. In the early days, you would remain inside the death trap, surrounded by all your shit, and any action instantly poofed all your gear and transported you to the Welcome to JediMUD home prompt.

It was great. At least you could see what you had just lost in an instant.

Here's the in-game help re: DEATHTRAPS

DEATHTRAP

Deathtraps are one of the few _true_ dangers of exploring the JediMUD world. Although monsters may kill you, you are always free to return and gather your belongings from your corpse.
When you enter a deathtrap, you will instantly lose everything in your inventory, permanently. You lose no experience, hit points, mana or gold... just your equipment.

Deathtraps are designed to punish careless exploration. If you enter a zone that you do not know well, you may pay a high price for running around without looking where you are going.

Read room descriptions carefully and don't wander aimlessly when you map out a new zone.

Deathtraps are fairly uncommon. There are less than 100 of these dangerous rooms scattered throughout the 10,000+ rooms of the game as a whole.
Deathtraps can be avoided very easily if you know about them and take basic precautions to avoid random movements (errant speedwalking has killed many a foolhardy adventurer).

New features of Death Traps as of Jedi 5.8

All newbies level 5 or below will automatically be saved. They must have no remorts to have this automatic feature save them. You will be given a polite message as we transport
you back to your home town.

The "Get Out of DT Card" will instantly protect your equipment from the effects of a deathtrap, keeping any existing per object DT insurance intact. Your card must
be in your possession at the moment you hit the deathtrap for it to be placed into effect.

Per object DT insurance may be purchased from receptionists or cryogenicists for 200,000 gold pieces per item.

Please also see [[Crash Insurance|INSURANCE]], DTCARD

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!Area
!Room Desc
!Notes
!Bitch Ranking
|-
|Arctic Empire
|Impaled
|You've run out of luck in your flirtation with the trampoline, and though you found the key north to the Wizard, you were just so curious about what could be above! Congrats, you found out. Sneaky bitch.
|8
|-
|Abandoned Cathedral
|East Stairway
|It's easy to get confused about which stairway leads up and down. There are two entrances to this sneaky DT, one from the upstairs floor and one from below. You'll hit it, you'll see.
|
|-
|Old Thalos
|Collapsed Home
|Sure why not? You're mapping the endlessly non-entertaining ruins of Old Thalos looking for the odd mimic to extract some OG potions from, cuz your sack says "POTIONS" and poof! Good-bye quest gear! Totally worth it. Sneaky. Bitch.
|8
|-
|Rhyoden
|Rhyoden Death Train
|No longer a DT.
|n/a
|-
|Weeden
| Well
|No longer a DT.
|n/a
|-
|Great Dragon Sea
|Tempest
|The tempest pretty much eats everyone at some point during their playtime, mostly because of mis-applied speedwalks. Veteran players suggest never using Fred as a speedwalk starting point.
|10
|-
|Rome
|Lion's Den
| This was my first DT.
|2
|-
| Northern Plains
|High Cliff
|No longer a DT with a series of entrances ringing the north eastern expanse of the plains. Apparently too many noobs were throwing themselves off the cliffs.
|n/a
|-
|Dwarven Village
|Pit
|This isn't a DT. But it's !magic and soundproof. Use tells to extricate yourself. Hlep me.
|
|-
|Deep Forest and Abandoned Ship
| Jaws
|My favorite. Easy go one too many rooms east on that big swing to the Shadow Storm.
|10
|-
|Ravenna / Goth Camps
| Alaric's Tent
|All north from the river crossing is this ultimate bitch DT.
|10
|-
|Sanctuary
|Quicksand!
|Just south of the swamp of Night Secrets, this tricky bitch has claimed its share of priceless eq.
|10
|-
|Sesame Street
|Chef's Oven
|Yep. Truly hard to believe folks end up in here, cuz you have to open the door to get inside.
|1
|-
|Sesame Street
|Oscar's Can
| This one is tricky. One too many downs and your stuff is vapor.
|8
|-
|Galaxy
|Supernova!
|Easy to hit while stumbling about in the wrong part of the Galaxy.
|6
|-
|Metrorail Station
|Oncoming Traffic!
|Easy to hit with a mis-applied speedwalk from anywhere other than the Skara Brae docks.
|10
|-
|Abyss
|Dark River
|There's a bunch of these in the Abyss. Basically if you're not on a stairwell in the Abyss, never go down.
|10
|-
|Deep Forest and Abandoned Ship
|Broken on the Rocks!
|When stumbling about in the Deep Forest maze, beware these nasty reminders of why you should quit playing this stupid game.
|10
|-
|Bardic Colleges
|I'm a DT and I'm OK!
|This is a mean one. Since players returning from the Colleges simply move down to their hometown from the Bardic Lobby, this crafty Anstruth DT is down from the first room in Anstruth. You have to work for it though, opening a door down to get to it.
|2
|-
|Underworld
|Death
|Yep. It's says Death. Probably 100% of all JediMUD players have hit this DT.
|10
|-
|Corsair Citadel
|Murder Holes
|Hey it said Murder Holes! and you passed through there once. I was so mad when I hit this DT, I rage quit for a week. This DT is truly a bitch of bitch DTs.
|10
|-
|Amusement Park
|Gears
|Yep. Easy to hit while rando exploring or align fixing in the carousel sub-zone.
|2
|-
|Great Eastern Desert
|Rickety Rope Bridge
|This is a must-hit DT. Just put all your best gear on and head due east from the tunnel exit to the desert from Midgaard. Just get it over with. A super-bitch DT that has reaped every player since it was added in 1996.
|10
|-
|New Thalos
|Chasm
|Easy to hit if you're not paying attention while blundering around the Monastery/ Wamphyr Aerie.
|3
|-
|River Island of Minos
|Reef
|On your way to the Island, this little trickery is just one additional west move on a run from the Goblin Cave launch point.
|7
|-
|Dragon City
|Dragon's Bath
|You just killed Zareef and now you're curious about the sulphureous flaming room to the northeast. Good-bye gear.
|8
|-
|Balor
|The Ultimate Maze
|Super easy to continue down into your latest mass eq loss.
|10
|-
|Parliament of Owls
|A Bright Light!
|You've been climbing this tower for awhile now, and haven't really been paying attention to the room descs. May as well explore the top level and lose all of your eq, hopes and dreams. After your rage quit, you'll be back.
|6
|-
|Parliament of Owls
|Feeding Pits
|Seems like a safe enough series of rooms, right? A once max level limited area purportedly for noobs wouldn't feature three DTs would it? Welcome to JediMUD bitch!
|7
|-
|Parliament of Owls
|Prison Well
|I've personally hit this DT more times than I'd like to admit. It's sneaky and, seriously, is this whole stupid zone just a single DT? Bitchy.
|8
|-
|Drake Island
|Volcanic Vent
|Easy to hit in this endless maze of Volcanic Vents. Say hello to my equipment for me when you get down there.
|9
|-
|Aralu
|Keep Entryway
|This is a timed DT, so just give it some time and you'll join the ranks of the completely naked. The irony is that you finally figured out how to make a key to get into this horrid place (once per uptime) and now all your precious shit is gone.
|10
|-
|Refuge and Asylum
|Lemmings Leap!
|A super sneaky DT just off the entry elevator to Zymosis.
|9
|-
|Drow City
|Sacrificial Pit
|Check out the pit below the Temple of Lloth for one of the better DT message adventures.
|3
|-
|Three of Swords
|Falling Endlessly to Your Death
|You've just navigated the Darkspine Mountains and now it's time to hit this sneaky DT around the small mountain town of Three of Swords.
|7
|-
|Three of Swords
|Bottomless Pit
|You've successfully avoided dumping all your shit into the first DT you came to, and now you have the opportunity to hit this sneaky DT in the bandit caves. You'll probably wish you had just hit the first DT.
|9
|-
|Three of Swords
|Aglandiir's Pit
|You've successfully avoided all the other million DTs in this tiny zone, and now you've just loaded the Kender Hoopak, and it's late, and probably you haven't slept cuz you're a hoarder, and your brain tells you you're still in Midgaard and ... Welcome to JediMUD! This DT is a bitch.
|11
|-
|Star Wars
|Digested For A Thousand Years
|You're looking for a way back to Obi-Wan's desert home to find the medallion on the floor and you just hit one too many downs.
|6
|-
|Star Wars
|Carbonite Chamber
|Wow! Is that Han Solo? He appears to be frozen in an ultimate moment of pain and hopelessness. Let me join him.
|7
|-
|New Thalos Dungeons
|Jail Cell
|You're the typical OG doofus, running xp down in the dungeon, endlessly bstabbing murderer and henchmen and cutthroats and shoot you're tired! So tired that you open a door west and walk right into complete eq obliviion. Congrats.
|8
|}
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