I have a headcannon that a minecraft server's firewalls can sometimes get confused about what is and isn't a threat, leading them to attack their own players. This can happen to anyone, but it especially effects players who use exploits, administrators working on security code, people testing the firewalls - basically anyone who does something weird enough for the firewalls to flag them. That player exhibits signs of regular illness at first - fever, body aches, exhaustion, which turns to code instability as things get worse. If the condition isn't treated their code will be ripped to shreds by the server's protections systems, leaving the little that's left of them stuck floating through the server forever.
















