Well, my continuing saga of exploring this game now has me on the far side of a rock from a fox - minus my pants and armor. There's also a deer looking for me with violent intent. Worse, perhaps, I'm quite lost, and tried logging off to get back home, only to reappear in the same place with Zzzz over my head.
I think I basically understand what's happening - there's something implemented to prevent people escaping combat by logging off. That's fine, but I had well and truly escaped from the deer - and couldn't get home. I ran in random directions, after having already wandered out of my normal landmarks scavenging, and the area I'm in has nothing I recognize. (The fox was just foolishness - I'd taken out two already that evening, didn't expect a third to be too much for me - so continued my hunting.)
My problem is that no one I know is on, and I want to go to bed. I'm concerned about getting really hungry, stuck behind this rock not fully logged off. (Or not stuck, since with my stamina recovered I'm pretty sure I can break contact with the fox.) Somehow I suspect the thing to do is to get knocked out, so it stops hunting me, but that's not a solution I like. What _is_ one supposed to do in a situation like this?