Is this a glitch in game?

I'm a level 10 ranger/nec in post searing and was doing one of the quests. I think to bring supplies to someone. Anyway, I had some goons with me, however whein I got to a certain area we met this guy who said to follow him, so I did as I was told and just started following the guy.

Well I followed him through this water, (mud as a matter of fact that slowed me down), and we trudged around a bit, but when I turned around my whole party was gone? Even my pet. They just didn't follow, so the two of us just kept going and we eventually ran into some critters that were too strong for us and we both died. After dying I just lay on the ground and nothing happened. I had to log out, log back in and of course was back in askalon.

Is it normal for a quest to go like this, and also when you die, don't you usually resurrect in a new area? This happens to me quite a bit where I can't do anything but log out of the game after dying because I'll just lie on the ground forever if I don't just leave and log back in.

Thanks for any info.

seems like a pathfinding bug, happen sometimes. one day 2 of my henchy got stuck in a chest, the protector and the healer ^^

If your henchies were still alive then you wont rez, you whole group (including NPCs) have to be dead. It is something that needs to be addressed I think.

That's happened to me a couple of times also. Instead of logging out though, simply open your map and warp back to the nearest city. That's basically what you're doing by logging out but it's quicker using map travel.