Worst DDoS experience gets 20k

[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?

[LordSterben]

The following takes place between 1:00 AM and 2:00 AM on the day of the Miss Sunshine State inauguration. Events occur in real time.

I leaned forward in my chair and typed my login information. It was hot inside the van and sweat was already soaking my shirt through.

"Network's stable, Jack," said the agent beside me as she tapped out code into her own console.

Her own shirt was soaked through as well, and it clung to her heaving, ample breasts. I blinked and looked back to my character selection screen. The back of the van was barely large enough to hold myself and Agent Rhodes...adding my throbbing manhood to the contents of the vehicle would likely compromise the mission.

"I'm in," I muttered as my level 16 Hobbit warrior popped on screen.

Within seconds, an Erudite appeared followed by a message.
Democrit tells you, "target in place ur authorized 2 strike"
You tell Democrit, "tyvm mr preisdent"
Democrit tells you, "dont miss lolz"

With no further pomp, the Commander-in-Chief's avatar rushed off to MM to train newbs. I hastily turned to Shady and handed him the four requisite items. The drone control window opened.

"Drone online," Rhodes said, still typing furiously.

For years the NSA had been piggybacking communications and remote ordinance signals on the seemingly innocuous Everquest server. It was rumored that the devs even helped program in the back doors in the software that opened drone command consoles, orbital satellite links and the camera feed in the Lincoln Bathroom. The network provided a flawless, secure means to coordinate counterintelligence ops in North Korea and the middle east (few people know that the command to seize Bin Laden was hidden in an EC auction) and it never failed.

Until today.

"I'm seeing some strange activity on the network," Rhodes wiped sweat from her forehead.

"This drone is going slow. I clicked the Hellfire missile like five minutes ago and it's not firing," I said just as a message came through from the President.

Democrit tells you, "wtf....LAAAAAAGGGGGGGGG!!!1"

"It's a DDoS attack, Jack," Rhodes gasped, "it seems to be originating from that Taliban-backed guild that uses RMT to launder Al'Qaeda blood money."

"TMO? Should have known."

"They already have a Cleric by T1 disavowing any involvement in /ooc. Hows the drone?"

I only shook my head. The Hellfire missile still hadn't fired and I couldnt get a trade window to open for the bone chips that I was selling. All was lost.

"Jack...we missed the window. The nuclear materials are secured in Kim Jongs bunker."

Democrit tells you, "wtfnoob...now NK has da bomb gtfo"

I fled the van before the chain gun rounds tore it to pieces. Rhodes wasnt as lucky. The NSA has me blacklisted and I've had to go dark. Now North Korea will start a nuclear Armageddon. Worst day ever.

Tyreon / Wisdum

EDIT: Since I could really use the plat, I figured I'd better make this a more legit entry by adding the details and related the actual ways the DDoS has affected me. Firstly, I play on a cell phone hotspot when I'm at home. Long story, but it's my only option. Now, with the DDoS attacks, I can't play at all because the combination of crappy phone service and the DDoS makes it impossible. When you do see me, I'm at my favorite coffee shop playing. If you can call logging with your pants on "playing."

At the start of the attacks, I was still transferring my meager belongings from my "main" (16 WAR named Tyreon) to my new favorite character (Wisdum 9 Shaman). A spike while hunting bixies in Nek led to my char wandering backwards through the forest without my consent for several minutes. It took so long for me to recover from the slow-down and inevitable crash that it was nightfall when I logged back in. Instant undead sphincter-plundering....no idea where...and I had to forsake the half-loadout of gear that was on him at the time. So I'm a newb that's only been on server for 3 weeks...and that crappy low level gear took me hours and hours to get lol. Selling bone chips...wheeling and dealing EC.

But really, the worst part is not being able to play at home now.

[Lyra]

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

Her own shirt was soaked through as well, and it clung to her heaving, ample breasts. I blinked and looked back to my character selection screen. The back of the van was barely large enough to hold myself and Agent Rhodes...adding my throbbing manhood to the contents of the vehicle would likely compromise the mission.

LMAO

You COULD have had a winner here if you had continued this theme.

[LordSterben]

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

LMAO

You COULD have had a winner here if you had continued this theme.

What theme? This really happened.

Hah...but seriously I guess I could specialize in terrible '24' erotic fan fiction. It'll have to wait until after I finish shooting my Game of Thrones-based Indie porno flick though.

[LordSterben]

Bump....this thread was amusing me. More stories and/or a winner plz!

[Sithel1988]

5- Must post publicly here, with excrutiating detail (the worse the story the more likely your chances, if you have to take a shot and ripp 5 butts because your stressed post it!)




giving the attacker what he wants...........

[Numbers_]

I died 3 times in Oasis on 3 separate occasions due to this crap. I decided to pull my 3 corpses into the same area (incase a nice cleric came by).

Well, since then I've seen my corpses in 2 different popular live streams, so now my shameful naked lag-death bodies have now been seen by possibly hundreds of different people.

[thufir]

Woot grats Ripwind/Sicca/Soph!

[ahenfv]

Grats! worked out that I didn't win, ended up losing my corpse on my druid in another ddos and just rerolled to a mage instead XD