by Tineren » Fri Aug 26, 2005 9:23 pm
Once upon a time, I was a monk twink xping in PC in the low teens with my brother. We were pulling a tunnel with mushrooms and bugs. The second tunnel seemed to be camped by someone, so we left those mobs alone. After a while, I noticed that the the other mobs were not being killed anymore, though there was still a player down there. So eventually I pulled 1, then when he didn't say anything, I pulled some more. Figured he was just afk for a bit, so I would get some xp of the mobs he wasn't killing. Thats when I noticed that /who showed him a level higher than he had been. Yet he still hadn't moved. So now I went over to see what was going on. As I got close.. I got the everyone's favorite bard spam.. so and so tries to cast a spell on you but you are protected. Soon enough.. a mushroom spawns, and immediatly aggros on the bard.. but suprise suprise.. the mushroom can't seem to path to him. So it just stands there while the bard's song kills it. Well, this doesn't seem fair at alll to us, so the next time one spawns, we KS the bard. The bard is still just standing there, and we decide he has probably gone to bed for the night, and expects to wake up 4-5 levels higher. After stealing a few more of his mobs, I decide to test something. The next mushroom that spawns, we position ourselves opposite the bard, and do our best to melee push it up towards its AFK oppressor. At about 20% life, we back off, and are overjoyed to see it turn and start beating on the bard (seems he hadn't been getting many skill ups on defense). It took one more mushroom, but we were successful in helping the poor mushrooms work out their frustrations, and send their oppressor back to the soulbinder in PoK. The icing on the cake was that since he was standing on a sloped wall, his corpse was hidden inside it, so he might have had some difficulty finding it later. He was still in PoK 4 hours later when the servers came down for a patch, so he wasn't able to rez any of his ill gotten xp back.