[Kekephee]

I dunno, man. The whole Machiavellian "sorry you didn't unstack your bone chips/turn in the fire opal before the other three pieces of the epic" thing is cool to a point, but there are some things with some of these quest turnins that are just arbitrary and begging for people to fuck them up. Plus, mistakes get made. Mistakes of varying degrees of reason- there's a lot of grey area.

One time i was trying to do a Lambent quest and I turned a piece in to the wrong npc because two erudites were standing next to each other and one of them said "give the gem to my brother" and I just assumed it was the other erudite. Turns out it was a high elf across the zone. That one's on me- I didn't read the wiki closely enough and perhaps my understanding of what it means when an erudite refers to someone as his "brother" was a little misinformed. I had already petitioned because I thought it was a bug when I realized what I'd done, so I followed up the petition and said look, this one was my bad, don't reimburse the shit. And they didn't. But there have definitely been situations where I or someone I know has made some terrible mistake that really, really wasn't their fault, it was just human error or a bad series of events, and the GMs have helped them out, and I've said, "yes, that was a time where I believe it was good for the GMs to help."

The cool thing about being on an emulated server rather than a corporately owned official one is that the people who run this thing can bend the rules a little bit in the right situations to make the game more pleasant for people. Imo. It's a fucking game, we don't need to be twisting peoples' arms and putting them on the rack because they got two items with a similar name and the same graphic mixed up.