Great story Bob. If only someone had been willing to help me the way you
helped your friend. Instead, I sat on a rock for 4 hours trying to get a gm,
spoke to guild members and no one knew what to do, and the next day after
reading suggestions here started swimming. Swam for nearly 4 hours without
sighting land because I didn't know the zone was backwards before giving up
and didn't get out of OOT untill the next day after reading about the /loc
command. 2 whole days of what I did not consider very fun. I certainly don't
play EQ to spend days futiley trying to get out of a situation that a game
bug put me into. I love to roleplay, enjoy it immensely, but this ceased to
be fun long before I used the /loc command and no desire to roleplay could
possibly justify my spending a minute longer in that futile situation.
Before you pass judgement try actually putting yourself in that position.
Zendarin
The Wandering Minstrel
Fennin Ro
>
>Tonight my friend and I owe a debt to the collected bards of Norrath.
>Riding the boat from Freeport to Butcherblock, just before he entered the
>Butcherblock area, he suddenly found himself stranded on a rock in the
>company of aqua goblins. He got a message to me and I remembered the
>advice I'd heard hear about swimming for an island with a dock. He
>preferred to pray to the bitwise gods, but none seeemed to be listening.
>
>So we hatched a plan. I would take the boat on the same path he did,
>reporting to him where it was. I told him the boarding technique I learned
>so recently in this scrying pool, swim for the boat as if you're going to
>climb its prow, and find yourself in the hold by the bar. I called out the
>landmarks as they passed, in detail as we entered, sailed through, and
>beyond the aqua goblin rocks.
>
>Then I heard my friend's exultant shout! He was aboard. A rescue at sea.
>And we owe it all to what I learned here from my fellow bards.
>
>My deepest gratitude for your help in rescuing my friend.
>
> Thrush
>
>We weren't even tempted to use /loc. And now we have an in-game story of
>fear, frustration, anticipation, and rescue, even though it was caused by a
>stupid software bug.
>
> Bob