Losing your equipment due to a game crash is an occupational hazard and outside our ability to fix. Therefore you will not get your lost XP or equipment back in those cases. It's considered a good idea to typesave after you pick up some good equipment.

The classic mistake is when you have made an alias by mistake or forgotten an old alias which conflicts with what you are trying to do. So if you are typing get all from corpses and you are getting a strange response, type alias get, this will tell you whether you have aliased get to something stupid by mistake. A common error may be typing alias get all from corpses.. if you didn't spot the mistake in that then you have probably made it yourself a few times :-) The moral of the story is always check your aliases before asking for help when something strange appears to be happening.

Nicknames can cause similar problems, see the next question.

Nanvaent is an ever changing world, things change from day to day, also many things behave in a random manner. So if a monster you kill often suddenly slaughters you don't start complaining about it as it may have been changed, or it may be different every day and you were just lucky on the previous occasions.

As a last resort report it as a bug, or talk to a creator to try and resolve the problem.

The second reason is that you have made a mistake while nicknaming the person. You may have made a nickname called alex for someone called alexander, then a new player called alex starts playing, and when you try to talk to him Nanvaent thinks you are trying to talk to alexander. Another common error is typing the wrong thing when you create the nickname, for example, typing nickname burty b will cause you some problems. You cannot use b or burty now, as b means nothing and burty points to b. The correct usage of the nickname command is nickname b burty.

So if Nanvaent tells you someone isnt logged on when you try to talk to them, type nickname <the name you tried to talk to> and see if you have made a mistake.