What's was your "dumb" EQ moment?

[Zigfreed]

Instead of absconding to zone in in SSRA and inviting folks to join our raid which was about to jump into the Emperors room I decessed the only mage we had. Hopefully you don't remember that painful zone but it really was quite a bit of work to get all the way up to the emperors port in spot, esp as a monk who needs to drag a mage corpses from the zone.. Sorrry Myrrdin

[Hottbiscuits Dreadmuffin]

I used to thank the Kelethin guards when they saved me from orcs. I thought there were real people behind them. Totally in roleplay style, too.

"Thank you, valiant Guardian Fayfear!! I really appreciate the rescue." /bow /thank /hug /cheer

/tell friendonlive Why don't the guards ever move or talk back to me?

[nocookiesforme]

A little embarrassing 'cause this happened to me just a couple of weeks ago, but oh well:

I made an Erudite Necro and leveled him up to 3 in a jiffy, picking up a ton of bone chips and my level 1 pet spell along the way. Once I hit 3 I figured it was time to venture out into Toxxulia Forest and see what it had in store for me - maybe there'd be some even conning MOBs out there to make my quick transition to level 4 even quicker. So I left the Paineel newbie area and zoned into Toxxulia, and what did I see when I got there? 2 Skeletons directly in front of me, parked right in the middle of the path. Now, this was the first evil character I'd ever made, and I was still getting used to the idea that Undead NPCs could sometimes be friendly. Sure, the Skelly guard in Paineel gave me a key for the elevator, but he was clearly labeled a guard! There was no way these generic Skeletons could be friendly too...

I selected one of the Skellies and immediately saw a red outline appear in my target box. Not bothering to read the contents of my chat window, I zoned right back into Paineel in a panic. 15 minutes later I zoned back out into Toxx to see if some higher level character had come along and killed the evil skellies - nope, they were still there. Damn! It wasn't 'til my 3rd trip out there that it occurred to me that they would never put a camp of level 7 KOS MOBs right outside the only entrance to a Newbie city with no guards nearby... I finally bothered to actually consider them, saw that they WERE, in fact, guards, and I immediately lost whatever faith I had left in my own intelligence.

[Groo]

When EQ first came out, I was exploring Butcherblock with my level 5 Half Elf bard. I climbed up to extreme edge of a steep cliff in a remote corner of the zone. I was stuck...I couldn't go back the way I came. The only way down was to go over the edge. I petitioned for help, because I thought I was going to die due to a bug. I waited for a considerable amount of time for a response. The guide patiently suggested that I try to go over the side. I felt like a fool when I saw that I was able to get down the cliff so easily.

[jarshale]

On live... I may have accidentally sold a jade mace to a vendor because I thought it was a fine steel one. And it didn't appear on the vendor table either so I couldn't buy it back.

[Zaren]

Waaaay back in classic live (I was like 13):

As a level ~12 half elf warrior, I decided to journey all the way to Tox Forest (since I was a badass level 12, doubted much could hurt me). This was about a 12 hour endeavor, since I died in highpass (and bound in freeport, had a long CR), then I died in North Karana and had to find my corpse, and then I finally made it to Qeynos. Of course, I didn't bother getting bound (since I didn't know anything about how binding worked), and I decided to take the boat over to Toxxulia.

Once in Tox, there was a roaming NPC enchanter that found me and charmed me. I dont think I ever ran into him again in my future playing, perhaps someone knows what level/where he is, but he kept me charmed for the better part of an hour. I was scared shitless that I would die in Tox and never find my corpse, much less have to make the run, AGAIN, from freeport all the way over to Tox. Eventually, after constant recharms, I was able to get away and zone in time. I still remember the anxiety of that day.

And I might be able to top it with my next story. You have to realize this was "back in the day", and I made it to level 17 or so on my half elf warrior. I had hardly even seen anyone around who was higher level than me, and I was getting some pretty sweet XP for the past 5 levels from killing the barbarian fisherman on the short in North Ro. Of course, I had no idea what it meant when my freeport militia faction went down every time. Nor did I realize what would happen when I died, and was bound at the freeport gates.

So, inevitably, I died at some derv camp or something and spawned at the freeport gates.. and died instantly.. confused, I waited for it to reload.. and died instantly, again and again. Finally I made a level 1 and petitioned, waited for GM help, and the guide that showed up was just terrible. He said he'd summon me to elsewhere in the zone when I logged in, so I logged in. I died instantly a few more times, finally was summoned away, only to have the agro'd guards come hunt me down elsewhere in the zone. This happened a few more times until he finally summoned me to another zone. Oh, and he didn't rez me at all. I bet I had 3 or 4 days played on my character to get to level 17, and I dropped all the way down to 12 again. Worst day in EQ ever. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[xshayla701]

I think nalkin already outed me on one (five) of my dumb EQ moments but here's another.

When I first started on P99 (completely new to EQ) I was running through Nektulos on my DE mage and I wanted to say /wave and say hi to what I thought was another player. Then he killed me [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] When I went back to get my corpse, I /shouted asking why he killed me when someone proceeded to tell me he was a bard.

I was like, "What does that matter?!? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]"

GD Travis Twotune...

[beentheredonethat]

Probably the silliest thing was:
Took invis off next to a guard because he conned indifferent while i was invis so I thought they liked me for some reason.

[hotstud]

My dumb EQ moment was playing EQ for years and then coming back to play it some more on an emulator.