[dark acacia]

Fine, make the duration no more than, say, four weeks. That way they can't accidentally turn themselves into Rip van Winkle and be locked out for a hundred real years. Four weeks is plenty of time for someone to get their act together offline or at least make a lot of progress, and a person's own willpower is never enough to resist something for a long time.

If someone's roommate hibernates someone or otherwise interferes with their character, then the person who has control of the character should have known better than to leave password-protected things vulnerable to interference.

There's always a delete function, even if it means going to random.org and generating an impossible-to-remember password and logging off. I use it for games I can't otherwise easily quit.