Community service fails

[Leopaz]

I hoped as we all got older playing this game, it would result in a community of people mostly glad it still just exists! I made a bad judgment call based on that recently:

I was generous and gave a bunch of cash to some newer players in Mistmoore, since for the past 9 or so years that is all I've pretty much done anyway- randomly plvl, Oprah-style hand out gear, or help monks back in Dalnir on their pilgrimage to get crescent gear before Velious hit. This time though, for the time I was on a work trip, I offered to let a small crew that was joining my guild borrow my fungi while I was gone, even after I already donated 20k pp to each of them. Sadly since then the characters Layerone, Layereight, and Pebkac disappeared. Did they just grab it and run? Maybe-- or I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they live in Ukraine or something.

Another one just sort of made me sad and actually was more of a bummer haha... Back on live 22 years ago, someone ran up to me and role played and handed me some bronze armor and an axe of the iron back saying I needed to use this gear to go on... it was like the ultimate quest. So recently I did all the ivy etched quests, camped an fbss, got a woodsmans staff, and good bow etc etc... all in efforts to run up to a newb and give it to them with some similar joke role play quest to take the gear and pay it forward. I tried to do some recon to see if they were actually a legit newb not just twink #231 of the top guild people. I found a candidate and approached them to give em the gear with a joke role play quest. i totally geared a new player, and they just said "cool thanks." [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What am I getting at? I guess I just hoped my actions overall would have been more fun and would have brought joy. And of course, per the internet, I expect some pretty nasty responses to this as well.