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[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (7 children)

This absolute bastard said he would give a rune platebody to the person that traded him the highest value item as a sign of trust... lost a DDP++ to that jerk.

Which sounds like a joke, but that was a real eye-opening experience for 8 year old me. Enough that 20+ years later I still reflect on it on an almost daily basis, to remind myself that if something seems like a bleedingly obvious scam it invariably is.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

When I was playing that game as a youngling, someone asked me to help get some wine from a cult temple. I did, which made the door slam shut and every cultist in the room attack me. I just barely made it out of there alive.

Then they told me to go get a second one. Yeah, they didn't need wine, they wanted me to die to a trap so they could take my stuff without killing me.

I'm embarrassed to say I actually went to get that second wine.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I fell for the same thing back in the day. Probably where my trust issues began….

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I don't have trust issues, and I think that might actually be worse. Like, if that happened now, I'd only shirk at going in twice, but I'd still go in once.

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