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I don't understand why people are afraid of losing PCs to the Withering like that.

Characters die to PvP all the time. They die and kill because the two-month Mayor is doing stuff they don't like. Because they have mugged someone or been mugged and want revenge. Because it's Caermyn or Aberdenn. They also die permanently when you get annoyed after a silly fugue in a quest.

Losing them to the withering really seems that bad? Or even getting badly withered... no curiosity about what the process entails, OOcly speaking?

I hardly doubt there's a cure to the withering just waiting in the safety of Mistlocke, and while your character doesn't find it he'll still suffer from the curse, unable to leave the island, and a gigantic undead army closing into town as the mist grows thinner...

And the boredom of just sticking to town, heh.

Personally, it has to do with the very short time I've been having to play. So I generally don't have the time to go out, explore, do a hard quest which takes a good time (and that's good!) and then come back.

Asside from that, I have noticed that it gets much easier when your character has assembled a group of characters he trusts and gets along with. It may well be that there's a bit of an individualist streak recently, which makes it very hard to be able to go out and explore when it is all quite dangerous.