How to Survive a PK Attack

## In Town

A red cannot attack you in town (protected zone) without guards being called on them to strike them down. However, if you attack them first, they are free to do as they please with no consequence. If you are being attacked near a town, your best bet is to run into town and say "guards." If they are foolish enough to follow you in, they will be guardwhacked.

## At Your Home

It's a common misconception that you are safe from PKs inside of your home. Spells like Earthquake can travel through the walls of your home and kill you from outside, up to a certain distance. It is advised to that if they make it inside your house, you ban them using the house menu to prevent them entering again.

## In The Wild

You're minding your own business, mining/logging/taming out in the wild, and a red shows up looking for an easy kill. It's not great. But you needn't lay down and be taken to the netherworld- you CAN survive a PK attack or even fight back! Let's start with a checklist of things you should do before you head off into the world:

1. Carry several pouches in your pack. Cast the Magic Trap spell on each of them. If the Paralyze spell is cast on you, double click one of these pouches and you will be freed, taking 1 damage.
2. Cast Bless and one of the following defensive spells on yourself: Reactive Armor, Magic Reflect, or Protection. Bless will need to be renewed regularly. This will give you crucial extra seconds when an attack begins.
3. If you're a mage, have offensive spells on your hotbar - Paralyze, Energy Bolt, Poison, etc.
4. If you're a dexxer, keep your weapons handy.
5. Set an escape rune (home or town) as your default rune in your runebook (click the star next to the rune). Right click on your runebook, select Change Hotbar Action, then drag the runebook to your hotbar. You should now have a hotbar action to use a recall charge to your default rune. Make sure to have recall charges in the book! Recall away if you're able to, though the PK will attempt to interrupt your cast.
6. Using cure potions to deal with poison can be the difference between life and death. Healing potions are also great. Refresh potions will refill your stamina while you're running.

Do as many of these as you're able and your survival chances increase dramatically.

### Fight or Flight?

You must decide based on your build and how advanced your skills are whether or not you should fight or run like the wind. A crafter should probably just run for the hills. A mage or dexxer has a better fighting chance. Your approach may be a combination of both- get the PK hurting or paralyzed and distracted, then run as fast as you can toward town, until you're able to recall to safety or you reach town, or recall away if you're able. The biggest mistake you can make is simply doing nothing- even a non-combat build can run away from a PK encounter with a cool enough head and a little luck.

### Avoid Common Gathering Areas

PKs will search for a kill at common areas where people congregate. Favored mines or taming areas are absolute kill zones. If you can avoid these areas and gather/train/etc in less conspicuous places, you'll be less likely to run into trouble.