Talk:James McAfee/@comment-99.203.118.147-20200303070333/@comment-38712986-20200303164013

Pretty sure that can only happen now if the body is never recovered and the character is never officially announced as deceased by a doctor at Pillbox. When a character permas at Pillbox, the doctor usually lets the public (rest of the server) know over Twatter so that anybody that knew the character can come to the morgue to pay their last respects/condolences.

The only example I can think of where a character that was announced as offically dead by doctors and then came back would be Breezy after his first perma, which was pretty much when the admins began stepping up on enforcing permas, due to a perma'd character's return having the potential to have a negative impact on the storylines of the characters that their death affected after it was announced, since it basically made all the RP that happened as a result of his death null and void.

Since McAfee died/perma'd at Pillbox, even if jdotfield had a late change of heart and wanted to bring him back, the admins almost certainly wouldn't allow it, since it would ruin the storylines of the characters that his death affected after it was announced, like Dexx and basically the entirety of GSF. McAfee coming back would basically make all of the storylines and RP that his death brought meaningless.

An example of somebody "soft-permaing" their character (where the character "maybe" permad by being put into a perma-worthy situation and chose not to play that charactor for a little while, but chose to come back since they never officially chose to perma at Pillbox) would be when when Raja shot Sonya in the chest and dumped her body in the ocean. Since nobody else knew of the encounter between the two she was able to come back since her body was never recovered by authorities so she was never announced officially dead at Pillbox.