Your xp is reset to level 6 plus 10,000.  However, if you deliberately kill your character for the purpose of getting a new one, you'll incur a 20,000xp penalty.  :-)<br/><br/>(at the rate your character is going though, he'll probobly get captured, and then I'll have (probobly a female player) play an NPC for your character's interrogation.  The interrogation scene will be worth 1000 xp if it results in failure, and 2,000xp if it's successful in making the journalist betray the party.)