Here's what happened:
I had two characters, Axiom (a LA char) (who was last logged out just outside the gaits to the Ancient Ones), and Villanova Maggot Brain (an AO char) (who was last logged out in the Sleeth Compound I think.
So, after realising I'd totally screwed up my stats for Villanova, I decided to rewrite his character file and start afreash - with the same name, and still with AO. I hook up with some weapons/armour, and go hunting rats. I'm at the entrance to the Slave pits where the rats tend to hang out, and as I portal through, the server crashes.
I log back on - and to my dismay I get (what seems to be the common symptom) the cycle of 'generic' loading area window which then takes me to the black screen stating the problem of portaling to a certain location. I click the Enter NS tab, and it goes through the cycle again - area loading, to black screen. If I click disconnect it says I've been booted.
So I thinks it may be a bug regarding the overwriting of a char with the same name.
Frustratingly I decide to tap my imagination and come up with another character name: Mesa Boogie.
Again, I give all the same stats/class/faction as the original Villanova.
I try to log on.
Again, the cycle of doom.
Panic and fear hits me as I curiously test to see whether Axiom is stil digging the realm. But NO, now my 17lvl char is getting the same stick! Can't connect!
Wassup?
