Yet another time when niceness screwed me. This will probably be a TL
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I was in EC /ooc-ing to try and pay for a port to NK. My end destination being Qeynos. Another Guy (not his name, obviously) piped up that he was also looking for a port to NK. We were both /ooc=ing for it, and /auctioning for it for a couple minutes. After a bit I figured, screw it, if I'm going to run cross-country I have to go through WC anyways, so I could check and see if there were any druids there while I'm running through.
I check who is in the zone, and see Another Guy is there, along with a druid from his guild. Another Guy must have zoned in just a few seconds before me, because I had just seen him /ooc in EC. So, I /ooc for the port again, offering to pay, etc. And get no response. I slowly make my way across the zone, being low level and all, have to be careful. Even though I have Gather Shadows, there's always some undead around. I keep checking who is in the zone, and Another Guy and Druid Guildmate eventually vanish. I knew they'd ported out. They were going to exact same place I wanted to go. Why couldn't they have let me hitch a ride?
A little miffed, I make the slow, tedious, slightly dangerous trek across the continent. I am finally in WK and just to the last guard tower before the QH zone when I get a tell from none other than Druid Guildmate. He asked if I could locate his corpse. I very briefly toy with the idea of ignoring him or telling him to fuck off. After all, why should I help him after he wouldn't help me? But, being the nice guy that I am, I say "sure" and ask where he's at. He halfway back the way I came in the zone. A good 4-5 minute run.
Not wanting to have to run all the way back to this guard tower again, I bind myself there. I tell him I'm on my way and set out. I'm just about there when I get a tell from him saying something to the effect of "Nevermind, found it." At that very instant, I get attacked by a werewolf. I don't know where he came from. I was watching where I was going. I try gating back to the guard tower, twice, but it gets interrupted both times and I die, losing a level in the process.
I tell him something like "I died on the way anyways." And he apologizes and asks where I am, etc. Oh he's real helpful now, yeah. But I just tell him I'm good, bound in the zone, nothing to worry about. You know, being the nice guy that I am.
As a result, more babies were punched last night.