I used to be a little scammer back in the day. Before the transfer slots in banks, I would pretend to buy items from people. The ol' meet up and say, "oh noooo, I have the rest of the plat on my other toon, but this item is for this toon." So, I'd give them like 100p for a 1k item, they'd trade the item, then I'd have a friend do a transfer for me to put the item on one of my actual characters. I was kind of stupid and thought if I deleted the character and deleted their file in the EQ folder, the GMs wouldn't be able to trace it. I never got banned though, so YEEHAW.
Anyway, fast forward a year or so since I started doing this shady stuff and I'm over at a buddies house who also plays EQ. He goes to watch a show and passes out on the couch, but left himself logged in on the character select. So I logged on one of his alts that had a Wurmy in their bank and transferred it over to one of my characters. I thought it was a fairly good plan since he hadn't used it in a while. Later that day, he gets back on (while I'm still there), logs on his alt and wanted to bring his other weapons to test the damage. Realizes right away that his Wurmslayer is missing and takes him about 5 minutes of searching to start thinking it was me who took it.
To settle it, I had to give the item back or the plat I got for it (can't remember if I sold it) and we did a 1v1 LARP battle, where we could choose what classes we'd be from EQ and duke it out. He chose monk with two plastic bats and I chose a druid, thinking I could kite him. Right away cast snare, he says resisted, then proceeds to beat the shit out of me with two bats. I don't steal or scam anymore. #lifelessons
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