Close encounters of the neon kind

[Malaikat]

I've been meaning to tell this story for a while now, and the recent posts from Felix to Cave have reminded me of it.

RJ was the first character I interacted with on uosa. It was my first day and I had previously been on a shard where neons were common. A gray sprints into the theater in Jehlom where I'm setting a macro, and I halfheartedly call guards. He drops dead...

I walk over and casually loot an unblessed neon jester hat...then promptly start my macro up and alt-tab. It just never occurred to me that I should bank it. Minutes later I of course come back to black & white and RJ telling my ghost that I just missed out on (what at the time was) 3 Mil...

Thanks for nothing Felix

[Menkaure]

Can't jester hats be dyed any color ? Or was this one like the white cloth type?
Either way its still pretty funny

[Still Standing]

Yea I dont get it, neon jester cap? plus didnt r- have like 2900 short term murders i just wouldnt see someone rushing into jhelom on a red that deep

[Malaikat]

Was rj not r- and I meant to specify he was gray.

[Still Standing]

Oh my bad in that case please inform the shard i am selling hazy blue neon jester hats for 500k each

[Menkaure]

*waits for reply from Mala on the jester hat*
Im curious about this hat, was it ice white Mal?

[Malaikat]

Naw it was before the ice white fad. This would have been december 2010. From my recollection it was an event neon, but I didn't pay it much attention so it only registered with my consciousness for a brief moment. I pm'd Felix. Maybe he'll be kind enough to jog my memory and further explain what actually happened.

[son]

Are you talking about unblessed neon hair dye? Because I was doing that scam for about 3 months. Either that or silver. No amount of clothing was worth 3m when I played except neon sandals.

[Malaikat]

Maybe that was item. Whatever it was, you were crim flagged when you got to me.

[son]

I was pulling silver scams off nerds for months. I was playing nondescript new looking chars who had just "inherited" large sums of silver. It was easy, I would advertise 50+ silver for sale nearing half price of its value, because I was new and had no idea of its value. Herds of assholes tried to take advantage of my apparent newbienesss in an attempted lowball, but that was what I wanted. I would do a transfer with a pre armed steal, and do steal last target steal last target. I also had another thief ready to rock. Idiots would sometimes try and hide behind 1 tile blockes, but a tele ring worked to get around that. You could also log out, if you knew the idiot's patterns, where he would be behind.

But I was obsessed with pulling 1m+ scams for every transaction, as the silver one was too expensive in time as well random in value. So I traded silver to get 1 hair dye and beard dye from D. The dye functioned the same as normal dye except it was not newbie. It weighed one stone. I would offer the dye at banks and sell it for a castle deed, if guard whacked after transfer, I had the other thief also on the ready with last item. I only lost 1 dye in the lifetime of the scam, and it was not to a gw, it was actually because I fucked up the steal. The idiot used the dye, and it was worth 2 times the value (because trading in silver for dye was a sucker's bet, as silver at the time made it cost twice as much as the dye was worth.) I even tried to buy the shit back at 1.5 the value, but the idiot just used it, so I lost 1m.

This scam, I was most proud of. No one knew who my 2 thieves were, they were named Mike and Steve, a cardinal sin in my naming convention, I used expensive outfits and rode a mare often (why would a thief risk losing unblessed bridals)?. Only Matron and ns knew I pulled this scam, and I could never gloat about it because I was pulling it off near my ending UOSA career, and it continued to be effective, until I quit. Truly proud of it, even better than the singing ball scam, because on that event, I just lucked into an idiot being an idiot.

Only real idiots would actually leave town to pull this scam off, from memory only 1 or 2 people did it. Nightshark actually convinced Jen to come to a vendor to buy the unblessed hair dye for a million, which I easily and almost risk free stole off her. Jokes on us as she ended up with a ton of my pixels when I quit, including hair dye.

I likely had just pulled the scam off and you called guards on me, but I honestly cannot remember. I may have had a weird outfit on, including maybe a lep hat to make my char look like a mule who never was intended to die. Lep hats were not worth 3m. The dye, to me, would have been worth 2m in silver, and perhaps you never looted it.

[Malaikat]

You town killed me while afk shortly after. So, whatever the valuable item was I had it. Also, I know the toon was RJ. At least RJ was the one you used to town kill me. Was 3 years ago, so I'm also a little hazy on the details.

[son]

Your post made me nostalgic and I've been reading forums all morning, I love this game.