I dabbled in some PvP today, only to have my character reset after backing out after successfully defeating a bandit.

It happened like this:

only 2 of us in the room

see guy

kills guy

loot him

back out of server in a safe location (to make coffee IRL)

come back and my character now has a spawn time counter

each other lobby I visit now has a spawn count and I back out just before it ends

This is the 3rd time this has happened.