Worst DDoS experience gets 20k

[Nirgon]

Worst DDOS experience:

Sirken logging in to the petition queue every time it happens.

I'll be on tomorrow night around 9pm for my 20k.

[hikeon3]

So I started a druid like everyone else to make money and twink an eventual melee. I've been playing a good bit for a few months now.

On Saturday morning I hit level 34. A milestone because we pick up a slew of new group ports including... that's right... DREADLANDS!

So what does any curious young Druid who just hit 34 and whose camp just turned light blue (giant skels in rathe) do? Ports to DL and goes exploring! No sooner do I enter the ice cave than a yeti decides to make friends.

Yeti cons blue and hit me like a wimp to start, so I root and try out my new Drones of Doom spell. It's super effective!

Well after about 30 seconds of root-rot excitement, his HP stops moving and my cast bar gets stuck. Uh oh. Here I go, running for the BW zone line! That will save me!

I hit the zone line and nothing happens. The window freezes. I kill the window and log back in.

You know what comes next. Naked halfling at character select, the panic at the fact that it says "33" above his head, and then you log in and mem "Circle of the Combines"

*You are too low level to use this spell*

Frick.

Dead, de-levelled, can't cast the spell that got you to where you died, and no idea where your corpse actually is in one of the largest and least friendly zones in the game.

So I find a wizard to drop me into DL (thanks Bacondrapes!) and off I go to find my corpse.

First I check the tunnel. No such luck. Every nook and cranny searched and one near death experience with camoflauge wearing off in the midst of our good friend murderer yeti.

So off I run naked across the tundra to the BW zoneline expecting my neatly folded little halfling tush lying dead right at the line but to my dismay it is nowhere to be found.

I zone to BW to see if maybe I zoned over and died on the other side... NOPE!

So I zone back to DL and start the needle in the very dangerous haystack search. After re-tracing my steps for about 45 minutes I find the corpse in the Northwestern giant house. Apparently I LD-ran right into it and got murdered.

In the process of dragging my corpse backward to the north wall apparently some drachnid who can see through invis saw me and came after me. One final panicked zone-out and run back and I was looting away.

Back to giant skels I went for a few more hours of on-off killing.

[Rhambuk]

who knows when this ddos will stop, I will be accepting stories up to saturday and making my decision that evening. Announce the winner sunday and hand the plat out then.

[Flamewraith]

Originally Posted by Shinko [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

i went to log on my main and it turned in to a ranger

That's some scary shit, don't joke about that.

[phacemeltar]

lvl 36 (now 35) enchanter just died on the bottom level of Dalnir. i lost my pixels i guess..

[sysion]

My story isn't HORRIBLE, but it was pretty funny.

So I started P99 this past week, and I'm in Blackburrow leveling my very first character.

I've just made it brave enough to actually go downstairs, and I'm pulling to that first little room.

I hear "TRAINS A'COMIN'!" so I turn tail and book it upstairs.

Suddenly, DDoS! And what does it do? Not let me open the door!

So I'm stuck there standing in front of the door, waiting for this train to come. It comes, the guy who made it dies, and I just have to stand there and watch, frantically banging on the door as if the gnolls on the other side will open it, until they turn on me and kill me.

It was a shame.

[Enygma]

Lv 18 DE cleric... lost my red dragon tooth pet because of DDoS....

sadface.

[thufir]

Originally Posted by phacemeltar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

lvl 36 (now 35) enchanter just died on the bottom level of Dalnir. i lost my pixels i guess..

Let me explain.

We have a little group of regulars within the Knights Who Say Ni who like to see and do things that we haven't seen and done before during our time on Live. The dungeons are the best part of EQ in my opinion so we try to go to those. Our little core group of Grallos the 35 shadow knight, Phacemeltar the 35 enchanter, Messie the 35 monk and Twotons the 35 shaman has scrapped its way to level in places like Upper Guk, Permafrost, Solusek's Eye, Cazic-Thule, and Splitpaw, crawling in the best old school fashion that we can manage. These are all our mains and we're all new to the server.

Cazic-Thule, in fact, has its own story. We fought our way up to Archon pyramid and were at the top when we wiped due to an unfortunate 3 pull at exactly the same time Phace's charmed lizard page decides to show his true colors and turns traitor. Messie manages to FD out of the carnage and a 60 druid named Mothernature hooks him up with some buffs as he half-fights half-feign-flops his way down with our corpses to the wizard spire. We loot up, determined to try again, and fight our way back up to the top of the Archon pyramid (even finding the very same page along the way, who we charm *again* - never let it be said we learn our lessons the first time). This time we kill the Tae Ew Archon and Phace, ghetto geared that he is, claims the Lizardscale Belt with need. By this time it's getting late and back down we go, fighting through the various lizards and we're at the last floor from bottom when, well... this is a thread for DDoS wipe stories so, yeah. Everything slows to a crawl, 3 lizards pop on us as if in a dream, Phace is the first to go down in the scuffle. DDoS lets up enough for me to grab aggro on popped adds while Two, who is at 10m, mems gate and gets out (at my request). Messie FDs in time. I die heroically, on the opposite side of the Archon temple from the way in, with several see invis mobs in between me and my corpse. Messie subsequently dies retrieving Phace. I'm able to retrieve their corpses, which are closer to the entrance to Archon pyramid, but I still can't get myself despite repeated attempts so I log for the night.

In the morning I roll up a level 1 Halfling rogue who I walk down to CT to retrieve my corpse successfully. Aristulian of the DDoS Relief Team rezzes me up and all is well. No idea if this trick will work again now that sneak/hide's been patched, though...

But anyway. Back to Dalnir.

For this little expedition it's just me (Grallos), Phacemeltar, and Twotons. We pick up a 30 druid along the way and hitch a ride with Mothernature (yes, she's awesome) to the Dreadlands and grab the subsequent evac to EJ from KC. We were actually going to go to Kaesora but after Twotons accidentally walked to Dalnir instead we decide that's probably better for our level range. We arrive and start killing, nearly everything is db and we are rolling. Druid has to leave, but we decide it's best to drop down a floor anyway, so we do that and crush the mobs at the drop point. OK, to the 3rd floor then. Down through the checkerboard tile into the pit, quick jaunt west into the corridor. Pulls commence, lots of Kly and coerced slaves die before whirling blades, their worlds dissolving into anarchy.

3 Kly are on us when the DDoS hits. I die in sad slow motion, watching my hp drop. Twotons and I are in teamspeak, but he can do nothing but watch as his heal spell never completes. Shortly afterwards they die in a similar fashion.

I'm bound in Field of Bone, next to Kaesora. Phace is too. Twotons is not. He spends a bit trying to find a port to OT from EC before he gets lagged into oblivion and doesn't log back in. His corpse is still down there.

Phace and I chance invising to our corpses. I scout ahead, checking for goo. None in the way on first, none in the way on second. All is well. We get down to corpses, loot up, invis. Now it's time for me to get out. Phace can gate, but I have to risk the run. I get to the coffin secret door and ...

Well, I'm an ogre. Duck, twist, duck, twist, can't make it through. No problem. I got an ant's legs potion (my "ogre tax" I like to call it). Shrink, get through. Re-invis. Dash up the ramp. Peer inside next room...

Gyrating goo hits YOU for 44 points of damage

FD! Failure! Get up! Run! Aggro more Kly! I try and find a good place to die and settle on an alcove near where I aggro'd the goo. No problem, I know where my corpse is...

... you can see where this is going. I get to the secret corridor. Can't get through. Not close enough to corpse for /corpse to work. No ant's legs potion. Shaman's offline.

Phace tries twice to get my corpse at least as far as the secret door; both times pathing goos get him. Once, he's able to gate out. Once, he isn't. He's able to retrieve his second corpse, thankfully. But apparently my carefully chosen place of death has been chosen very poorly, right near 2 pathing goos.

I permit myself a bit of despair.

While I'm wallowing in misery on the 3rd floor of Dalnir, terrified that my invis will pop during a DDoS attack and I'll get murdered yet again, Phacemeltar is sending tells to random people near us asking for help. A shaman named Zalg, may his name be forever blessed, offers to drop down and throw me a shrink. This is done, and I get through the corridor. However, /corpse only succeeds in getting my second corpse which I had left down there earlier - I can't seem to get the one with all the equipment on it. I figure, what are the chances a rezzing cleric will be on the 3rd floor anyway, so I loot it all the way up and /corpse again. This one gets the corpse with the good stuff, so I loot it all the way up too using the same logic, and am able to get out and to the zone out on the 3rd floor by some analysis of the goo pathers and a few good FDs.

Phace, BTW, has his corpse now, as the story implies. Twotons still doesn't, but I imagine he'll get it in the morning.

If this post wins the prize, I plan on spending just enough of the 20k to score an FBSS, and splitting the rest with my 3 buddies.

[Vaalkryst]

/ooc
I have recently returned to this server after a long hiatus and cannot (shamefully) remember the password for my 30-something druid. Rolled up a Shadowknight this time around and am enjoying myself very much. I can't wait to get my hands on a prenerf CoS after playing sk for a few years on live never being able to afford one.
/ooc

There I was, wading through the murky waters of Guk, slaughtering the cold-blooded alligators and venomous spiders that call it home. Disrupting my meditation, an ugly troll came upon me surrounded by the bloated bodies of my victims. "Me help you kill dem uglies gud", said my wart-covered new acquaintance. I sensed that, bolstered by the tribal powers of this shaman, I could spread the hatred of Innoruuk across this disgusting frog-filled dungeon. I accepted his offer and we continued the slaughter of spiders and alligators.
With renewed vigor I hacked, slashed, bashed, and even drained the blood from my helpless victims. Pieces of scale and blood flecked my flayed-skin armor with its delicious crimson hue, and being the insatiable hate-filled harbinger of death that I am, there was no end in sight.
It must have been on my twentieth, strike that, thirtieth target when things went terribly awry. The alligator that I had chosen to sacrifice to Innoruuk was dying swiftly, his innards flowing freely onto the cold stone floor of Guk. Sensing his imminent death, the cowardly alligator fled before my blade. Xenober, a corpse I had reanimated through the darkest of magics, chased after the creature clawing at it with his bony hands.
I knew that the frogs of Guk are no true friends of these pests and that without the presence of my necromantic servant, they would not seek out the bringer of his demise. I began to speak a command to my servant to tell him not to chase after the beast when, all of a sudden, I felt a stultifying presence come over me. It was as if Druzzil Ro herself had reached into the mortal plane and altered time and space around me.
I could do nothing to stop my (literally) brainless servant from crashing into a group of those wretched frogs! They ran towards us and beat me down as the invisible shackles stopped me from unleashing my hatred upon them. Who knows what happened to my ugly companion, presumably he was not as dumb as he first appeared and gated out of the unfortunate circumstance.
My eyes opened again as if for the first time in front of the gates of Freeport. I looked down and the wounds that had been set upon me by the frogs had vanished, though my naked form longed for the embrace of my blood soaked armor again. I have sworn vengeance upon those pathetic frogs and maybe, with the help of your platinum, will murder them even more mercilessly!

~Rimbaud
Shadowknight of the 18th order, servant of Innoruuk

[Gadwen]

ddos killed my dog and my children.

Where's my 20k?