The server keeps a heartbeat, checks every minute that it can still reach the outside world, and watches how many players are online. Four things open an attack window automatically:

Staff can also open, close or cancel a window by hand. A window closes on its own once the player count has recovered and stayed stable for five minutes.

While a window is open, a killing blow simply does not land. You are healed, cleared of burning, poison and paralysis, and returned to your temple with no experience, skill, magic level, blessing or item loss. You will see a message telling you the death was cancelled.

The only exception is inside a game event (Zombie, Capture the Flag, Rush and friends). Those events already have their own no-loss death rules and keep them.

Detection takes a minute or two, and the worst deaths usually happen in the lag that comes first. Every death on the server records exactly what was lost, so when a window opens, any death inside it that already went through is fully reversed:

• the experience you lost, including any level you dropped;
• the magic level progress and the skill progress you lost, in every skill;
• the blessings you were carrying.

If you are online when the window opens, this happens on the spot. If you had already logged out, it happens the moment you next log in. Either way you get a message naming the death that was restored.

The reward is the same for every affected player. Nobody is drawn a better or worse item than anyone else.