Idiotic Things I Did With My First Character
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My first character was an elf engineer called Jenasto. He almost reached level 5, twice!
One of his unfortunate encounters was with the NPC in the Three Bars who was later known as Lady Marigold. Yeah, we've all been there. We've all thought 'Ooh, they wouldn't possibly put a killer NPC in a public house on a PvP server'.
Turns out, of course, that they did. And she's still my fave NPC :)
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Let's see…. wandered into a slums invasion with a low level (I think, 1/1 at the time) Paladin/Wizard. Thought to stick it out and help fight, until a certain little blue halfling talked some sense into me.
Had a drow bard/cleric (with a 10 WIS) who wandered the city unmasked for most of the first few months of her existance in Arabel.
She ended up getting her staff pickpocketed for that, accused of being a liar when the thief tried to blackmail her for its return, and then having it stolen again by another halfling who walked by when the first thief set it down as a way of "returning" it. A certain halfling? guard who was a paramour of another certain dwarf (iirc) told her to get out of town, and when asked where she where she was going, replied "Out of town." The guard insisted on accompaning her, and once out of town (still unmasked through all this) had arrows shot in her back.
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Okay, let me see. When I first came to CoA, I was fairly new to NWN having not even finished the solo mission. My extensive knowledge of online gaming ended at Diablo II. Suffice it to say, I was a quintessential Noob, and had not even yet learned that the forums (and those helpful rules/guidelines) even existed.
My first character (name lost to history, lets call him Bob) arrived in town and faced with the expansive checkerboard, decided “Aha! Adventure must lie outside the city!” and proceeded to about-face and march into the wilds. He made it maybe east down the road past the windmill and south into the ‘wilderness’… before meeting the Dire Wolf. Ack okay, respawn… run naked thru town… crap, dire wolf still there, respawn… ask someone for help! (also a low level char it seems)… out into the wilds… we get his stuff! and meet the second dire wolf. We both respawn….
Okay, waste of a character, but he had some XP and no gold/equipment. Don’t want to start over… I know… take Bob.. and make Bob2… even though I had not been to the forums, part of me instinctively knew this was bad, but I was frustrated and foolish. Bob2 sneaks into the sewer... drops all his items and logs… Bob comes back in, heads to the sewers, and gathers up the items....
Mere seconds pass before Bob finds himself on a small green field, facing a DM. “Well?” is all the DM said… “Um... yeah....” Fortunately the DM was merciful to my noobness… I could have easily been banned for that action. I agreed to erase Bob & Bob2 and start over.... My next character was Talia... the rest is history.
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Partially read the forums, decided I had a concept that was just amazing. Sent in application for custom l00t, and a faction area with no real justification, aside from it being part of his background. Was even bold enough to include the stats that said custom l00t should have. Did I mention that the application was a rambling mess of paragraph with no real structure?
Money transfer, yep did that one.
Spammed Illiandrin's and the puzzle box after every reset, regardless of time. (When the server was less stable, it wasn't uncommon to have multiple resets in a row)
I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch of n00biness that I perpetrated. Those were the days. Some of the shared experiences are extremely amusing.
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Made an evil elf named Thrar Gener. Killed the poor fisherman NPC in Wyvernrest for no reason while romping about with other evil folks (no DM present), but karma instantly struck when I transitioned back to an area with NPC guards, who were happy to kill my faction bugged rogue with one chop.
Thrar would also occasionally claim to be a priest of Chesfrys, a made-up deity. But this was actually intended to be a made-up deity in-game, i.e., Thrar was lying IC and making up a deity, so it wasn't so much against the rules as it was just stupid.
Had some fun with the character, but eventually, long after I knew better, I logged out to avoid some hostile spawns (at least I assume they were NPC spawns, I don't really know with complete certainty), and was justly banned for it. I wisened up and came back almost a year later, and the DMs saw fit to lift the ban after I confessed and basically explained that I was a moron.
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Spammed Illiandrin and the puzzle box (Agmar?) after every reset - check
Item transferred - check
Wondered why the spellcasters kept 'crashing' every 20 minutes - check. Not to mention people would log to avoid death all the time. Then log on with their alts 30 seconds later. Subtle.
Got powerlevelled in north sewers and the graveyard - check
Read the magical name tags above people's heads - check
My first character was a cleric, not only did they have illegal domains but they didn't even have a god. In fact I didn't know the names of any of the gods (eventually some guys helped me settle on Talos since I had air domain and liked casting lightning).
Eventually he died when I got exiled from the city for attacking a PC guard and then I got bored and tried to kill all the east way veterans. I don't think I even knew what roleplaying was back then.
CoA v2 was such a wonderful place … I miss the jump bug. One time I got to be that Trent Patson for a few glorious seconds before I crashed.
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Well, wasn't on CoA, but I used to run about on a slightly less RP oriented PW, sort of RPing without knowing what it was… I made it to level 11 (Not that hard on the server really). Then some woman said '//AFK a tick' during some quest.. I asked (Without the '//' or anything), what the '//' meant.. Needless to say I then had to ask what 'OOC' meant as well when it was explained, then had to ask what 'out of character' and 'in character' meant..
Well, fun..
Lots of things like that on that server. Eventually I did become one of the great RPers of the server (Where maybe 70% of the people actually RPed).
And yet, when I moved to this server, i still sent in a horrible application for my half-orc ranger to become a weapon master.. And robbed Parner's room without asking a DM. A DM thankfully did see me though (Thanks to that DM, by the way.. I just can't recall who you are!), and Parner almost found me. After that I got told off for starting it without a DM, and.. I think that was the last greatly stupid thing I've done. :D
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I still run almost everywhere, I'm impatient. Fortunately, I don't remember the first time I played NWN multiplayer. I'm sure it was embarrassing.
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I forgot the very best mistake I made when I was a newb. And this is a known one which earned me not only a costum forum title, but also a sudden understanding from many people.
I made a chaotic good halfling follower of Helm. The problem was, I didnt know the difference in meaning by the words vigilant, and vigilante. It was well over a year after I got thrown out of Fezznick for following what I believed was Helms dogma, that I learned that Vigilant means alert, and vigilante means taking the law into your own hands.
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Well, mines much of the same, but I thought it was decent to add, so here:
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Let's see, came in, with a Barbarian of Chaotic Evil alignment, and immediately ran around threatening people to tell me things, all while wearing no clothes except maybe a thong.
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When that didn't work, I talked nicely with people, offered to help them, and befriended every Paladin I could. Most, I think, just felt so bad for my noobish questions that they forgot to use the detect evil on me. Later on, this led to numerous, otherwise well-played Paladins, being threatened to lose their class for being friends with someone that was evil (most claimed they had no idea until a DM told them)
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Created a background, not quite as awesome as being 5000 years old, but I was the vassal of Gargauth himself. I was hoping to recruit away all the adventurers of Arabel to fight for the DemonLord in a war in Thar. Why Gargauth wanted to fight small barbarian tribes, only a Demonlord would know O_O.
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Said adventurers now out of Arabel, I also planned to move in and take over, and install myself as king on the dark throne.
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Got my character the pre-reqs for a blackguard, then started bitching to everyone about why the option wasn't available. Later learned of applications, and in a fit of rage, died numerous times in a row so I could rebuild without losing all my stuff.
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Created a character with multiple personality disorder and post-traumatic stress syndrome. He liked to have flashbacks in the market. By all rights, the war wizards should have killed me for the trouble I was starting. Only SocMajor saved the concept from utter destruction.
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Created a Tiamatan, and constantly recruited OOC, despite numerous posts by people showing the stupidity of such things from an IC standpoint. They were right, and I, well, was wrong
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Filled my character vault with numerous characters. I think at my peak I had 2 accounts for a total of around 20 characters. Most had not been played for more than 5 minutes. Character ADD
That might be it. Actually, I'm sure there are more, but most of those aren't very good. Actually,
- Added a post in this thread, which wasn't as entertaining as I originally thought.
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My first char was one an I-have-no-idea-what-to-call-it server. It didnt have a true setting, people acted like their chars at times but there was no line between IC and OOC, metagaming and powergaming EVERYWHERE, griefing with no consiquences, and more.
I named my char "shadowy man". He mostly ran around Pickpocketing everyone. Since I didnt have HotU back then I only powergamed to 20 and all the 40s kept killing me when I PPed someone.
I joined a guild of theives whos leader used his DM connections for almost everything. We liked to lock the gate to town(the only town on the server) and snipe people from above and not unlock the doors inless everyone droped their gold.
Some guy found a way to buy an item from one store and sell it at a bar for 50 times more and had my char get in on it and the whole time I thought of it as a smuggling type thing.
Being a noob is bad enough but imagine being a noob where I was?
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These have been some really great stories, and it's amazing to see how many of us did the same type of crap!
I forgot a few things about Relch that you've reminded me of, so he's a few more:
Relch went from 100exp away from level 7, to the midrange of level 2 in about 10 minutes I was on the warehouse quest, something that I always seemed to die on. I felt very confident this time however, because I knew that I had a scroll of invisibility, and invisibility memorized.
Naturally, I start getting attacked, go to cast Invis, and the AoO's send me to the Fugue.
That smart thing would clearly have been to ask someone nicely for an invis potion, but since there was a scroll with my stuff in the warehouse, I figured "Dur, I can just go and get that scroll and use it before they kill me!"
That didn't work.
I Communicated ICly Though Tells. Another character and I were sitting in the basement of the Three Bars and wanted to have a covert conversation. We were paranoid as hell and thought that everyone on the server must clearly be hiding right next to us and listening to our conversation! Everybody panic!
So I came up with the idea of emoting scribbles on a parchement and passes it across the table and then sending a Tell to the other player with what was written on the parchment.
Damn I was crafty, but a metagaming bastard.
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My first name of my char was "Destroyer", which i soon got a lecture from a dm.
MY second attempt of a char (And my idea of roleplay), was to create multiple chars, that all had green skin and hoods, and attack people randomly everywhere. I also left notes around with these green people, saying that they will soon meet the "Master", which was a lv2 green man, 1 level higher than all the other green people!
Cake then gave me yet another lecture XD
And then came along Eliphas, which i now enjoy playing (And play properly…or so i think, to this day :D)
I remember that well.
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Years ago, I made my first character on Arabel: a good-aligned drow whose master plan was to pickpocket all of the PCs in Arabel and then… I'm not sure what. Purchase a few good items and go out adventuring or something.
The most ridiculous characterization mistakes I've made, however, weren't on this server:
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An "immortal" elven cleric/wizard who was accompanied by a shadow (that represented his mortality) and a bat (that represented his past). I'd determined that the "big villain" of the server had captured him and made him immortal as part of a magical experiment, but the ever-resourceful immortal elf escaped, alas, not quite unscathed, since he'd suffer from amnesia forevermore. At the time I thought that all of this was the height of creativity, since it created an in character rationale for the respawn button.
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A halfling fighter/rogue with a shady past. She was once a dragon slayer and the leader of a powerful thieves' guild until her second in command betrayed her by leading her into a deadly trap: she was ambushed by a spider that injected her with lethal poison, which stiffened her limbs and crippled her to the level of an amateur adventurer. (From this point onward, she hated spiders.) The evil second in command then offered to let her live if she sailed to another continent and helped him conquer it by leveling up and murdering all of the high level NPCs.
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The bastard son of a rogue Red Wizard and a Rashemi witch-turned-slave with whom the Red Wizard had fallen in love. The rogue Red Wizard set the witch free and then lead a revolution against Thay. He was so skilled and so smart that he contended with Szass Tam himself, although in time he realized he was outmatched, so he fled to Rashemen to live the life of a hermit, but not before pawning his son off to a pair of jovial merchants. Once the heat had died down, and his name had faded into obscurity, the rogue Red Wizard returned in secret to reclaim his son and instruct him in the use of magic, although he did so in a less-than-generous manner since his son brought back such horrible memories of his beloved. The son never knew that his instructor was, in fact, his father; he had long planned on killing his mentor, and so one night when his father ventured into a far off land via portal, he followed with crossbow in hand. When the son arrived on the other side, he witnessed as his instructor/father was ambushed and slain by a pack of drow (blast!–revenge stolen from him!) and, as the portal he'd used was sealed afterward, the poor son had no means of returning home. He fled to the nearest settlement and was forced to take up the life of adventure in order to survive in this strange new land.
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MY second attempt of a char (And my idea of roleplay), was to create multiple chars, that all had green skin and hoods, and attack people randomly everywhere. I also left notes around with these green people, saying that they will soon meet the "Master", which was a lv2 green man, 1 level higher than all the other green people!
I actually like that idea. Pretty good for a noob :D
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MY first character was a min maxed half orc fighter
I just ran around shouting HEWWO, Had sword drawn all the time till i kept getting put in jail.
Lol it took me a month to figure out there were more gods then Tyr's alot of clerics never talked about there domains just hide from dms with plant/magic domain.
Ran in the sewers and hunted stag's Until some sorcerer kept casting stone skin on them.
Till i mostly learned my lesson rolled a new char and sailed under another PC's wing for a month or so learning as i go.
(What still made silly i saw so many characters in COA with green hair)
Ran to do as many quests as possible (Before the 24 hour limit was put on quests not they jresetted every reset)
Repeated did the (Selune/Tymora quest) before the Quest was updated, just form a new party and you could do that quest as many times as you want.
Rolled a cleric with wrong domains (But spells worked)
Every week there was a Balor or That damn Northeast tower portal broke or both.
hmmm what else.
Oh yeah remade the same character 3 times with different stats and got the points on my crafting skills transfered over to.
Asked for people to raise me from Fugue often
Rolled a purple evil version of my first character and did whatever i wanted.
All i can think of at the moment.
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My first character was a black skinned, white haired human. Not that it mattered.
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My first series of characters (As they were all the same) were min/maxed halfling rogues that would spam pickpocket, farm Beggars for xp and throw thunderstones at unsuspecting people in the market. <_<
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I committed suicide in the market out of frustration with being full-looted. I then remade the character with a strange description and said that he had just been away in Suzail.
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my first char when i figured out what role playing was i cut up a war wizards robe while he was wearing it not knowing what the hell i was doing :shock:
that char did not last very long :P