On Tallon Zek a gnome offered escorts to BB in Greater Fay. I was on my brand new wood elf ranger.
On a blue server I had played a few levels on a barbarian shaman, making me more experienced with the Everfrost area. With my limited knowledge, I thought this was a great opportunity to return to the more familiar Black Burrow.
So, I meet the gnome at the lifts, he starts taking me down a path.
While isolated, we are suddenly attacked and rooted by a named Earth Elemental!! I get rooted and the gnome refuses to help me. To make the matter worse, someone was hitting me with magic nukes!
Disgusted at his apathy I did the only thing I could think of, I started unloading all of my VERY expensive arrows into the gnome. If he was going to let me die, I would not let him live either! I didn't care that I was burning through coppers worth of ammunitions!
It was only much later I realised I had actually been duped.
Indeed, this magician was trying to trick newbs into following him to BUTCHERBLOCK so he could PK them.
He was not the apathetic bystander I had believed, it was his earth pet and nukes that had attacked me! When he saw a young ranger not knowing the difference between bb (butcherblock) and bb (blackburrow) he must have thought he struck gold!
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