I was doing fine up until that stupid scorpid nest (I was actually on my third death there when I lost the chicken), and, judging from the path after the nest, I would have been fine after, too, if I'd survived it. The problem was that I managed to aggro two of the bastards onto me from my cat/the chicken, and then everytime I had to rez, the bastards were still right on top of me, so it was 'rez, try to run/feign death/kill at least one of them, die, rinse, repeat'. If I'm a little more careful with the aggro and/or the feign death, I should be better off next time around. :P