Death Emote

Ok I'm going back several years here but I never got a definitive answer on the subject.

My memory on this is still pretty clear and Willie Dynamite was able to "drop dead" by what seemed an emote. To my knowledge, this emote never existed and I don't recall any other effect other then the death animation. Has anyone else here ever seen this? I still have a pic of it where we were standing around in the Sunspear Great Hall watching this happen quite a few times.

The screenie was taken on 9/26/2006

Judging by the picture, this was the NF Demo?

was willie a developer? i know developers have some sort of extra set of commands

It's possible but there was no indication that he was. When he kept dying, people were asking how he was doing it. He kept silent the whole time I was there.

Back on the Chibi Gwen April Fool's day, Lindsey Murdock was in Marhan's Grotto, and used a dev command to kill herself.

I'd think that's what happened here.

I know there was a bug back a ways with one of the pvp flux where you could die in town.