Friend or Foe

It is inevitable.

When you play a game for 10+ years, you are bound to make enemies.

I didn't have that many, but yes, I had people that didn't like me ingame.

After I moved to Louisiana, my good friend Shiga just suddenly hated me. He told my brother it was because I "abandoned my family and moved far away" which, I have no idea what the fuck he was talking about, but I wasn't going to argue. That guy wasn't the sharpest apple in the breadbox.

During the time when my Linkshell had the second most members in the entire server, one person resented the fact that I was king of kings in my own domain. His name was Proxyfiend, a self-proclaimed "hacker" and someone who was hitting on my sister, to which I gave a heartfelt "meh" because she never really liked him anyways, but he was buying her expensive things, so whatever.

He would talk shit to my sister about me, so I would come over to her computer and check out what he was saying, and we would both laugh and laugh at his stupidity when he would try to deny it when confronted.

One fateful day, he was talking about how badly his level 75 black mage could murder my level 75 samurai, so I challenged him to Ballista. Or PvP for those of you not cool enough to get your license.

This guy swore up and down he could destroy me. He even laid out several battle plans that were foolproof. And he did kill me.

One time.

I murdered his shit 12 times. His "big plan" was to put me to sleep and great magic me. Which he did do once, I'll give him that. But he really needs to skill up his enfeebling magic because I was resisting sleeps and binds left and right.

It was sad, really.

Needless to say, he left the Linkshell after that and I never heard from him again.

Later in the life of my LS, there came a time when a lot of people left, and only a few core members remained, some with other Linkshells they had created. A friend of mine named Erikson asked if I would like a pearl to his other shell, so I said sure and joined in, instantly making friends.

This one girl Lania took a liking to me because I was willing to help her out a lot, so she hung out with me. She was a good friend, and because she was underage, even in a game, that's as far as it went.

I might be an asshole, but I'm a gentleman first and foremost. A gentle asshole.

But another guy named Facrobien, who actually liked her, did not like that Lania was spending so much time with me. He spread rumors around the LS that I was a pedophile and that I was after an underage girl, and it got to the point I had to leave the shell because people were threatening to call the police, even though they didn't know how to find me.

Lania eventually quit the game because Facrobien was a mega creeper and wouldn't leave her alone.

A few months later, I heard through the grapevine that Erikson and his girlfriend had broken up, and Facrobien was trying to get with her, even though he was underage and she was 20-something, which was basically the reverse of what he claimed was going on with me and Lania, but it was totally okay for some reason.

Everyone in the LS eventually realized he was full of fuck-all-bullshit and kicked him. I was invited back and several people apologized for not getting my side of the story before jumping to conclusions.

So, I guess the moral of this story is don't be a fucking dick. Or you'll get what's coming to you.