What's the stupidest thing you ever done on your character? - Page 16

Tanstaafl · #1 01-10-2015, 02:57 AM

I was 12 in early 2000 when I first started. I have a few embarrassing memories.

One of my first characters was a halfling. Someone cast invis on me so I thought I could attack whatever I wanted and it couldn't and therefore couldn't hit me. I ran into Kithicor at night and attacked a red skeleton general of some sort. After to coming to in Misty, I thought the invis must have just ran out at the wrong time, so I asked for another and tried again. I asked everyone in Misty why my invis kept running out when I attacked things and felt like an idiot afterwards.

I few characters later (I made dozens, if not hundreds of alts) I managed to get a druid to level 19 in East Karana. I was so excited about getting ports, but it was 3 or 4 in the morning and I was passing out. I was bound near one of merchant houses for quick selling. Bad idea. I fell asleep in my chair, and when I woke up I was level 14ish. That character was promptly deleted.

And finally the all too common: I gave a friend my password. I was 14 now and finally stuck with a character. My level 50+ ranger (yeah I know awful choice) was semi-decked out from selling so many fish bone earrings. One day I logged on and all my gear and Plat was gone. I assumed it was my "friend" but he wouldn't admit it. This next part sounds bad, but his parents were awful and I told him he could no longer come over my house unless he admitted to it and gave me my stuff back. He did, but then I never talked to him again. I still feel bad about that.

Clark · #2 01-11-2015, 02:42 AM

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I was 12 in early 2000 when I first started. I have a few embarrassing memories.

One of my first characters was a halfling. Someone cast invis on me so I thought I could attack whatever I wanted and it couldn't and therefore couldn't hit me. I ran into Kithicor at night and attacked a red skeleton general of some sort. After to coming to in Misty, I thought the invis must have just ran out at the wrong time, so I asked for another and tried again. I asked everyone in Misty why my invis kept running out when I attacked things and felt like an idiot afterwards.

I few characters later (I made dozens, if not hundreds of alts) I managed to get a druid to level 19 in East Karana. I was so excited about getting ports, but it was 3 or 4 in the morning and I was passing out. I was bound near one of merchant houses for quick selling. Bad idea. I fell asleep in my chair, and when I woke up I was level 14ish. That character was promptly deleted.

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Pyrocat · #3 01-10-2015, 07:39 AM

Gambling 100k.

Tanstaafl · #4 01-10-2015, 11:28 PM

Oh yeah, he took my gear. It took a few weeks but he eventually gave it back. I think if he immediately gave it back I would have forgiven him, but I was addicted to the game and denying me of my hard earned items for weeks was too much. At least for me at age 14.

fiveeauxfour · #5 01-11-2015, 02:04 AM

When I finally got my Tear of Quellious from PoSky, I got down to the turn in area and spawned Wu. I had just gotten a rez for a key corpse, when during my typing out the conversation with Wu, I started to auto attack him. This occurred because I did not hit "enter" before I began to type in say. I immediately FD'd but it failed, and Wu killed me. I had to wait for the quest mob to respawn to get my Golden Sash-- not to mention eat a full exp death at 59.

iruinedyourday · #6 01-11-2015, 02:10 AM

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When I finally got my Tear of Quellious from PoSky, I got down to the turn in area and spawned Wu. I had just gotten a rez for a key corpse, when during my typing out the conversation with Wu, I started to auto attack him. This occurred because I did not hit "enter" before I began to type in say. I immediately FD'd but it failed, and Wu killed me. I had to wait for the quest mob to respawn to get my Golden Sash-- not to mention eat a full exp death at 59.

when i started playing p99 -- remembering the myriad of times I did this in classic, I would be VERY careful to make sure I had hit enter when I was talking ton an NPC... I still get shakey when I do it haha

So classic. such feels.

Clark · #7 01-11-2015, 02:37 AM

I remember a long time ago I did something by mistake and a lot of people got owned on [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]. Was a 100% unintentional one time misunderstanding of a particular mechanic. Thankfully it didn't mess anything up for my guild or I would have fessed up from guilt.

Clark · #8 01-11-2015, 02:50 AM

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luno · #9 01-12-2015, 06:08 PM

I was 14 when I made my first character on Kunark live, a dark elf mage.

After half an hour of wandering around Neriak looking for the exit, I drowned in a fountain somewhere because I couldn’t figure out how to change the camera angle to swim out (mouse-look was either disabled by default or not available at this point).

I ended up in Nektulos, and managed to get a rusty dagger by punching a decaying skeleton to death. I then proceeded melee my way to level 5 over several hours, wondering when I would finally get any spells.

Much of this was accomplished by joining some small groups at the newbie log, as I’m pretty sure everyone just assumed I was a rogue or something since I had no robe or spells and I was still wielding this rusty dagger.

Eventually I discovered that you could use merchants by right clicking (the game didn’t really make this clear at the time). Needless to say, things got a lot easier once I bought my first pet spell.

All that rusty dagger business must have really left an impression on me though, because after playing the mage to 56 I ended up re-rolling as a gnome rogue (I was mostly interested in the hilarious ramifications of the gnome plate helm graphic making you look like a ninja).

Enderenter · #10 01-12-2015, 06:30 PM

When I first started playing EQ, in 1999, I was a kid and didn't know what I was doing. Back then you could allow someone else to not only drag your corpse, but also to loot it. Another newbie died (from guards in town, I think they were KoS) and asked me to loot their corpse and bring the contents to them. I looted the corpse, with every intention to bring it to them. They were a few zones away, sending me tells. I was replying to them in /ooc, not knowing how to use tells at that point (and thinking for some reason that ooc had a few zones distance). After about 10 or 15 minutes I think they thought I was trying to steal everything, and logged off. It wasn't anything special, a few pieces of cloth armor and a small bag, but I still felt really bad about it.

On that same character, a Human Warrior, at level 5, I died in East Commonlands to a snake of some sort that poisoned me and soundly defeated me. I came back but couldn't find my corpse. Gave up looking after twenty or thirty minutes, and rolled a Half-Elf Bard.