I just casually used the phrase "bail for zone" and
do the kids even know what that means anymore? 💀
Oh gods it's so much worse than I thought.
Anyways "bailing for zone" is something you do when someone trains the mobs in a zone and you have to escape through the load zone before the train gets to spawn because the guy training the mobs ALWAYS panics and runs for zone.
This only raises further questions doesn't it. 💀 ⚰️ 👻
Ok, it actually makes me feel better to know that this MIGHT be less of an age thing, and more just a niche gamer crowd thing where some subset of EQ players called it one thing and others called it something else.
Which means I am very young, actually, yes. Phew.
Further explanation: Back in Everquest times, games didn't really have tether radiuses yet. If you pissed off a Gnoll at the bottom of the dungeon, and you ran, it would follow your ass the entire way back up.
So picture what happens if there's this bridge over a big chasm that you can fall down (but not die), and end up at the end of the dungeon, and then you panic and try to run from there back to the entrance to zone out and escape.
@glassbottommeg this tended to happen in Asheron's Call, too; at one point a griefer did it on purpose, getting the attention of every single Olthoi inside the Horde Nest and dragging them right to the exit portal.
Enemies can't go through the exit portal. But they _can_ wait there until somebody else shows up.
@wildweasel oh god I forgot about how it worked in Asheron's Call. I thought the mobs in dungeons tethered, oh noooooo.