had something similar. I died to a troll because of sillyness, after picking up my portal far away from home.
I took my second best gear and tried to recover the corpse to build the portal. I sneaked to the corpse while the troll was looking in a different direction. But I couldn't pick up everything, because too much stuff ... then the troll discovered me and i managed to die again. §"$%/&R%%&/$
Third time, i sneaked the whole way without weapons and slowly recovered my portal from the corpses, then recovered the my weapons and brought my stuff home. Then with my good gear i finally killed the troll.
Lesson learnt: Don't pick up a portal and start a fight afterwards.