I was playing in Central Shroud as a botanist, when my character's gather animation started acting weird. The arms would move, but the scythe wasn't in his hands and no gather sound effect would play. I tried changing character classes, and all my equipment disappeared entirely, and my skills wouldn't work. I then noticed that there were no player characters anywhere, and all the NPCs and mobs were gone. I figured that zoning would reload everything, but when I approached the entrance to Gridania, my character "hit a wall" about 15 yalms from the entrance blue dots. Panicking, I tried to teleport into Gridania, and my screen faded black and then nothing. I couldn't access any menus or commands. I pressed <alt>+<F4>, and it asked if I wanted to exit. I clicked yes, and nothing happened. After a few minutes and several attempts later, I minimized the game and force closed the game client and rebooted my computer.
Now when I log in, it launches the game client, but where you click "start" (the main menu where the options are start, opening movie, configuration, and exit), start is disabled and won't let me click it. I assume it thinks I'm already logged in, or still logged in from before.
Any suggestions?