Ricardo was a level 5 good bard -- in P99 Red EverQuest terms barely potty-trained and so low other players couldn't attack him. His only combat ability was running faster than a group of lumbering Sand Giants. But Ricardo had a plan. He realized that his simple, intimidating power could be turned into a devastating weapon could kill everyone everywhere. So in the middle of a battle that he had no right surviving for more than a minute, Ricardo provoked two dozen of the Sand Giants into attacking him. This probably looked profoundly stupid to anyone who bothered to pay attention, since Sand Giants can kill everything.
And then Ricardo started running. What he'd realized is that Sand Giants can only kill what they can catch. And since he was one of the only things in the game that didn't fall under that category, he could kill everything with Sand Giant while they tried to catch him. Ricardo annihilated vast swathes of the server by running away at them.
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You'll notice that one giant is 1) 20 times the size of a player and 2) screwing that entire building.
But Ricardo true exploit was making sure his victims deserved it. He'd wandered around the P99 Red server like a fantasy Forrest Gump being nice to people, wearing bright colors, and being called Ricardo, ensuring that everyone had called him a fag at least twice. Then he unleashed vengeance with a vast conga line of burly giants pounding everyone's asses. At which point the cool evil players suddenly decided "no rules" was unfair and whined until moderators arrived. The first moderator to show up said "cool," reminded Ricardo there were no rules, and enjoyed watching him do it.
The second asked him to stop, based on a rule on the no rules server (which hadn't existed earlier that day), and Ricardo acquiesced. All someone had to do was ask nicely! Which no one on red server had tried, although they had tried calling him a no-life 12-year-old basement-dwelling homo one million times. It's a little strange that people playing a fantasy game would hate him so much, since he's basically recreated the the exact plot of Lord of the Rings for them: a small, underpowered idiot using unkillable allies to defeat a land of evil. We're sure the irony wasn't lost on Ricardo, and that he was just too nice to point it out.
04-24-2013, 11:25 PM
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