In some situations, you need to type /ep locate to be freed

[Lazersmoke]

From @GavJenks on March 3, 2018 23:26

Unfortunately I can't seem to nail down exactly the pattern for when this happens in EP, but on the old PP, it used to happen reliably whenever somebody threw your pearl to release it. You would be stuck in the end, even through restarts and logins, until you did /pp locate. So that might lead to finding the problem. Or otherwise, see what code is called on /ep locate, and reconsider whether it should be called more often as well such as on login.

Copied from original issue: CivClassic#34

[Lazersmoke]

This happens whenever some unhandled thing happens to the pearl. Off the top of my head, I know dropping it on a cactus will cause this. Possible soft-fix is to verify all pearls on restart/during decay task (don't know if this is feasible).

[Lazersmoke]

From @GavJenks on March 4, 2018 2:48

Can't you verify that person's pearl on login, and on death, personally, too? Maybe also ANY ep command

[dquist]

The /ep locate command calls pearl.verifyLocation() and frees the pearl if the check fails.

This verification code was pretty buggy in prison pearl and I tried to improve it but I obviously didn't get it perfect.