by attackback » Tue Oct 19, 2004 12:46 am
It was an early morning. The sun had just come up, the birds were singing and the crickets were still chirping. I had been camping the OC in Valor for about 2 hours. Since I’m a Necro, I really don’t need any help with that camp and I was simply enjoying soloing some easy experience at a relaxing location.
I ran heartily into the cave to grab a mob and have it follow me around to its eventual doom when I noticed that a druid was now standing atop of the hill watching my performance. My mob dropped quickly so I was wondering what this strange visitor was up to. I mounted my horse and stood by the edge of the river near the rock trail that leads to the entrance of the OC. Obviously claiming my camp.
I then watched the druid, Loxleebay, (his name was Loxlee but I’ll forever refer to him as Loxleebay) charm a frog from the top of the hill. He came down to where I was medding and sat beside me.
He didn’t say a word. No “Hello”, no “May I join you?”…nuthin. In my mind I was thinking of ways to turn this guy down as it seemed obvious he came to camp the OC and I just wanted to be alone. But he said nothing to me and I had my mobs timed so I headed back into the cave to grab my next victim.
I emerged with a Razorfiend hot on my tail to find Loxleebay kiting a frog around in my camp spot! The Razorfiend following me died in about 50 seconds so I watched Loxleebay fight this frog. Man, he was awful. He came so near death about 6 different occasions it was kinda cracking me up. Then I thought, if he dies while I’m kiteing around one of my mobs & his mobs then agro me…well, that would just suck. I could also envision him wandering haplessly too far up the hill and bringing down a gaggle of skellies upon my camp.
But really that’s beside the point. Have any of you ever heard of someone doing this? Is this action anything other than a blatant disrespect of a fellow EQ player? Would you invade someone’s camp and start fighting monsters right there on their feet? I think not so I sent him a tell…
The following is a re-enactment of what transpired…
I said, “Hey there, OC is camped bro, please find another place to fight today.”
Loxleebay says, “I haven’t touched an OC mob.”
I said, “Sigh, No, but I was obviously camping this spot before you, and your kiting (I said “kiting” but you can substitute “lack of skill”) can endanger me so please just take it elsewhere.”
Loxleebay replies, “lol, no.”
So now I’m starting to get pissed.
I said, “Look, you’re interfering with my camp. Why don’t you go to Storms or somewhere else and kite”.
Now, I realize that it is sooooooo hard for a druid to find places to kite. I can only think of about 30 different kite-camps but this guy just had to be a thorn in my side.
Loxleebay says “Nope, I’m stayin.”
So, as my blood begins to boil, I see that the Razorfiend that pops at the very front of the cave had spawned. Well, my evil necro wheels started turning in my brain so this is what I chose to do…by the way, he was still kiting that single frog.
I said, “Well, I did ask you nicely…”
I walked up to the cave entrance and shot a lifetap at the Razorfiend. It came running after me so I wandered right to where Loxleebay was kiting (I wandered into my normal camp spot actually…that’s where he was fighting you see…at the spot I had been fighting for the last 2 hours) and feigned death. The Razorfiend wasn’t too worried about me after that but he sure noticed Loxleebay. The Razorfiend then proceeded to chase Loxleebay out of my camp to the Tombstone where he cowardly escaped. I thought to myself well, here it comes and Loxleebay didn’t let me down!
Loxleebay: “So you trained me??!!?”
I said, “What are you talking about??!!&&??!*??!!%#!???!!”
I just love following up ridiculous punctuation with even more ridiculous punctuation.
Loxleebay: “You just trained that Razorfiend on me!!”
I said, “No, I didn’t train you. I accidentally pulled a mob that I couldn’t handle and I had to feign death. Are you ok? I guess if you had been fighting at your own camp, you wouldn’t have got in trouble at mine.”
Loxleebay: “You asshole!”
I said, “Wait a second, YOU invade MY camp and messed up my spawns. This would make YOU the asshole pal. I asked nicely for you to leave and you laughed at me and said NO. What did you expect, I would just roll over?”
Loxleebay: “I laughed at you??”
I said, “Yes genius…earlier you said, and I quote, “lol, no”. Now, on this planet, the phrase lol means “laugh-out-loud”. So not only did you laugh at me, you did it out loud for all to hear. Which is quite rude. Is this your first day playing this game Loxleebay?” (I actually called him Loxleebay too…I don’t think he liked it much)
So there were really no surprises as to what transpired next. Loxleebay tells me “you don’t have that camp for long” and then he disappears. Suddenly, about 10 mins later, someone named Loxness (Oooo, clever…he’s got two characters with similar names…how original captain obvious!) runs full speed into the cave. He then comes out of the cave with the entire IC in tow…about 12-15 mobs. I simply Gated back to POK as I was wanting to play a game and not “play games” if you catch my meaning.
He tells me “It’s my camp now you asshole….yadda, yadda, yadda.”
My reply was simple…
/Ignore Loxleebay
/Ignore Loxness
End of re-enactment.
It’s really disappointing that after years & years of this game being in existence, childish antics like this still take place. What’s with these 14-year-old kids that have no regard for anyone but themselves? It makes me sad. But what can we do? He got what he wanted, he got my camp. For the simple fact that I didn’t feel like wasting an hour of my life fighting with this loser. Ah well, It was fun while it lasted.