Everybody's going on about swimming, saying things like "when i started playing, i took swimming". that's not really that stupid, for a start you're character will have been work like an hour at most, and it's not stupid if you had no knowledge of the danger, is it? merely unfortunate
Now, i was once out foraging/hunting when i came across a nooby settlement with an online hearth fire in it, so being kinda pissed off since half our village had just left us (
viewtopic.php?f=29&t=24453) so i decided to wait for him like some terrible noob haunting demon, he came back after not very long (i was hidden behind his house... damn noobs) and i engaged combat on him with lightning and let it go a few times, watching him panic was of course part of the fun, then i decided to go and start fighting him, he ran, but when he ran out of stamina and went to walking speed while i was still going strong he did something amazing...
the noob turned to fight me, having used most of my IP from the lightning on sidesteps whenever i got the chance i started to build more IP for the kill, when my client started to freeze up and crash, i thought for sure he would log out, or worse, have a burst of bestial strength and kill me while i was busy making things work again, but when i logged on, he was still there, even though combat had ended, and he said "you stole my cake!"(quite decent carrot cake, rather delectable) and engaged combat on me! so i punched him to the floor and told him he deserved to live since no one ever turns and fights if they know they're beaten
but, did he really stay logged on to confront me about having stolen his cake?!
Oh boy, here I go cheesemaking again...