What's was your "dumb" EQ moment?

[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.