Bit of a sidetrack, sorry. But I had never heard of corpse hiding before this or hadn't seen it in any other server. And reading it, I'm having some questions that might help any other newbies reading, too.
- How often does this happen? How likely it is going to happen if I just play normally?
- How is this moderated? Is it possible that PvP-optimized character Edgelordus Mortus The Third will just jump up in and practically perma-kill me just because someone had a slow day at work? Is it going to happen now just because I made this post?
- How likely is it that playing on this server, this is going to happen eventually? Because it sounds incredibly tedious and anti-RP just from the descriptions here.
I would love to hear this since it would make it easier to figure out how much I actually want to mentally invest here in long-term stuff.
Fresh eyes with a fresh perspective! Thank you for asking these high-level questions, as sometimes it's real easy for us longer-timers to forget to look at the forest through the trees.
It's not a super-common thing, but if you intend to engage in antagonistic role play with other PCs, (A)MPCs, Factions, and on occasion with certain NPCs, it is a possible outcome.
Players should generally be exercising restraint with this, but ultimately it is the DM team that will deal with any foul-play here, both literally and figuratively. Corpse hiding should never happen as a result of OOC discussions, opinions, metagaming, etc. One of the server rules is to NOT engage in IC PvP with someone with whom you are having OOC problems. Murders, assassinations, and corpse-hiding ultimately all require IC RP build up with opt-outs given. If you persist in your antagonizing IC behavior, though...
If you think you have been wronged as a result of an improper PvP action, get screenshots of any dialog/actions and report it to a DM ASAP. If you can't get a hold of a DM, a Community Counselor (CC) can pass it along to the DM team as well.
How likely it is depends on the kinds of role play you intend to engage in. If your play style is generally just to do some dungeoning and basic RP, then the likelyhood you will ever be corpse-hidden is very low.
The more involved you get with factions-at-odds, (A)MPC hunting, or generally antagonistic role play (including behaving in a manner where some local law enforcement puts a bounty out on you), the higher the risk you run of your character being slain and "corpsenapped."
You should NEVER just be randomly killed and corpse-hidden without an IC justification, though. Because there is a shared narrative in progress and there may be degrees of separation between characters, sometimes there might appear to be a disconnect between your actions and the consequences:
--Maybe the aggrieved party waits a couple of months in the hopes you let your guard down.
--Maybe the IC complaint doesn't appear directly - such as if you engage in IC slander/libel and word gets back to the aggrieved party indirectly
--Maybe you choose to not answer the summons of the law
There are a thousand reasons this could happen, but there should always be an opportunity offered to deescalate the situation on PotM.