EverQuest II servers are down for an emergency hotfix. According to Holly "Windstalker" Longdale, it's "because a designer broke...uh...death... ."

Here's the update notes:

POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION
F.S. Distillery: The Rum Cellar [solo]

• Fixed a crash that would occasionally happen in the rum cellar solo zone.
• The radius in which some of the guards will see you along the Rum Run and near Kildiun before sending you to jail has been slightly reduced.
• Portia Rumuffin should no longer be stuck with her secret recipe buff.

F.S. Distillery: Distill or Be Killed [Heroic]

• Any party members still within the sugarcane press will be freed upon defeating Yipnik.

ITEMS

• The Fishbone Earring's water breathing effect is no longer removed upon zoning, relogging, or death.