Out trapping in gob swamp last week or so, I stumbled upon a team of yellows who battered me into the ground. When they forced though, I was in the process of checking traps and something weird happened.
Combat went mostly as usual, but with a trap in the middle of the screen (happens in arena occasionally too, unless that was fixed).
I died.
It was after I died that confused me. I got sent back to town, but my screen didn't show Ustenar.....it showed this.
After a while, when this showed no signs of clearing, I hit space and got the normal "only after creature combat" message.
Clearly this would be a boring story except for that scorpion tail whip image. I tried to loot that so hard.
So yeah, geef whip or buff BMs or something.