Likely the something moves from the shadows... I believe a few senior staff do that when they're vanished. I know Simon does it for sure.
As I sink into the depths of the lava, certain that it was my time to die, a red spirit rises from the mists... Would he escort me to the land beyond? I squint at his face, but cannot make anything out under his helmet. But then I have this feeling, this certainty of his identity... "Daddy?" The figure nods slowly, solemnly. "Come, my son," he says in a resounding, comforting voice. "It is not your time yet." He begins to move back into the ocean of fire and, panicking, I follow him. I cannot lose him again. Slowly we work our way to the surface, and at last my head breaks through to the acrid air atmosphere of the Nether. I suck it in gleefully, suddenly realizing how much I enjoyed life. I turn to my spirit guide, my father, and see him a few blocks away, bobbing with his back to me. "Thank you, father," I say. He turns, moving his face around so that I may see it, and replies... "TROLOLOLOLOLOL." It's Uber_Corq.
Friday Night Mining, and I didn't end up dying... have you been secretly letting Uber_Corq use the TTMOF farms?
I think he tp'd to one to give me a birthday gift back in April while I was barring, fell off, and died.