Excellent Story, kudos for your integrity Kenross.
-Faras
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth E. Bachman [mailto:kbachman@...]
> Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 11:33 AM
> To: eqbards@onelist.com
> Subject: [eqbards] Weekend
>
>
> From: "Kenneth E. Bachman" <kbachman@...>
>
> Sometimes my faith in humanity gets restored:
>
> On Saturday night, I woke up camped at Mistmoore. I had spent a long
> time the previous weekend waiting for gloves that never showed up, and
> figured I would stick my head inside to see if I could get lucky. I
> zoned in, and what did I see at the top of the ramp but a named Gypsy
> carrying a Lute (and her pet). She conned blue to me. Now, I wasn't
> prepared to whack a blue and a pet, so I /ooc'ed to ask if
> anyone would
> be willing to help me out. As she started to leave, two guys
> showed up
> and started to hit her. "Great!", I figured, here's the help I asked
> for, so I piled on. Through some miracle, I actually got the
> experience, and looted the Lute of the Gypsy Princess. This
> is cool, of
> course, but not particularly useful - I had really wanted the
> Gypsy Lute
> for my armor - but, as a Bard, I was very happy to get it.
>
> I did /tells to both of the others to thank them. One sent
> back a short
> grumble, the other said, essentially, "Sure, anytime you want me to do
> damage to something so you can KS it from me, just ask." Apparently
> they weren't responding to my /ooc. After some /tells back
> and forth, I
> determined that they had been camping the music room for four hours,
> their group had just been trashed, and the two of them had gone back
> into MM to get the Lute that they knew was at the top.
>
> So what do I do? I gave him the Lute. Kind of a bummer, I go from
> being really elated at my extraordinary stroke of fortune to being
> depressed at being thought of as a KSer, but it seemed the honorable
> thing to do.
>
> As I'm wandering away, I get a /tell from the guild leader of their
> guild, who was a member of the group they were in. He tells
> me to come
> back; they were retaking the music room and, in thanks for my
> consideration, he intended to have them give me the first
> lute that they
> found. And they did! Not only that, but it was the Gypsy Lute that I
> had really wanted anyway! Sometimes life makes you smile, after all.
> ;)
>
> Kenross Cantoforjado, 35 songs, Innoruuk
>
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