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Fun practical jokes
Suvroc
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One thing I loved about SWG was the ability we had to be able to play practical jokes on friends.
I remember some time ago a guildie stopped playing suddenly and completely disappeared. After a few weeks went by I dropped a pile of gorax bones in our cantina with a pair of boots on one end and an armor layer titled "RIP Kaitana" for a headstone. Many of us had a good laugh over this.
I crafted a plant once (the one that looks like a tree) and dropped it in our cantina. I then used some old junk SEA's and decorated the tree with them, and place a plaque beside it labeled "Skill Tree".
Another time, back when Jedi had perma-death, I dropped some kind of electronic equipment that I labeled "Bounty Hunter Tracking Tool" beside my Jedi friend while we were standing in our cantina. Needless to say it scared the crap out of him.
Lastly, I would pick up one of those event NPC's and drop him outside a guildies merchant tent and I would have him shout insults about that guildie and wait to hear his reaction on Teamspeak. I don't think I ever heard anyone laugh so hard as that in 2 years of SWG.
I really miss those days 
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Imagine the damage you could have done with the Storyteller stuff, if they had added it into pre-CU.
There's a sucker born every minute. - P.T. Barnum
Sounds fun, maybe i'll try some of these on my guild.
One of my guildies pulled a huge one on me.
I ran into a Twi'lek dancer in the Mos Eisley cantina. I had just finished one of the post-pub9 Jedi quests, the one with the promoter in the cantina. The dancer saw me there, and started asking about it in an RP sort of way, and me, being an RP person, responded in kind. I didn't think much about it, just noticed the dancer and we had a nice little chat.
Then I return home to Naboo and run into some guildies in the guild mall in the guild player city. We start talking, and another guildie walks in with the same dancer from Mos Eisley. She recoginzies me ("you're the guy from the cantina in Mos Eisley!") and we start talking. Then a another guildie whose RP schtick is to be a very annoying Bothan female comes up and starts hassling the dancer. The dancer came to our little town as a prospective new member, but the Bothan female is turning her off, big time. I send the dancer a tell, apologizing for the Bothan's behavior, telling her that this is her RP schtick and she shouldn't take it seriously, but the dancer is really miffed at the rudeness. The dancer leaves, the Bothan leaves, and we're standing around talking about how the prospects of the dancer's joining the guild can be saved.
Then one of my guildies just can't hold it back any longer.
I was set up.
The dancer was the new alt of one of our guidlies who had just unlocked, and this meant that the rude Bothan female was another of that guildies other account alts, and so the entire thing had been staged to get me to play peacemaker/drama referee (one of my many sort of real life roles in the guild) for one schizo player in real life.
This is what happens when you're in a guild with multiple account alts so bad you need scorecards to keep straight who is the alt of who.
CH, Jedi, Commando, Smuggler, BH, Scout, Doctor, Chef, BE...yeah, lots of SWG time invested.
Once a denizen of Ahazi
I just remembered another that I nearly forgotten about, but regrettably never had the chance to do this one.
Back in those early days, when the jedi grind was starting to pick up, I was working on Squad Leader. One of the skills a SL had was to send a system message to members in your group. I wanted to send a message to members of my group, something like "Congratulations! You've unlocked your path to Jedi!"
That would have be so cruel, yet so fun!
Or naming a pet "I'm with stupid" and setting it to follow a friend.
Just sending a rancor to follow some random noob was enough to evoke gales of laugher from observers. The rancor wouldn't attack the player it was following,, but the noob didn't know that...
CH, Jedi, Commando, Smuggler, BH, Scout, Doctor, Chef, BE...yeah, lots of SWG time invested.
Once a denizen of Ahazi
i took a rude newbie player asking for money on a ride to endor.... and left him there!
The newbies at mos eisly get scared when they see my rancor
Then i take out a cuter pet and the screams are silenced with 'aww'
LOL, I remember pets being tasked with following people around in starter cities. Ah, those were fun times. Someone with a grown Fambaa scared the crap out of me the day I started SWG.
I will add one fun little joke. One of the CHs in our guild bought a Kimo off of a BE, and took it into the house of his friend (he had permissions on the house) and dropped it in the living room. The home owner didn't know, so he walked into his house and got the shock of his life to see a grown Kimo leering at him.
Then it became a riddle -- "Who left the Kimo in my house?"
Eventually the culprit came clean, but it took a while to sort it out. Meanwhile, there were gales of laughter in guild chat as the home owner told us what happened.
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Not really sure this is qualifies as a practical joke but the first day the NEW Bomb droids came out our guild Droid Engineer(the best on Scylla server) make me a special and asked me to go test it.
So I grabbed my bounty and off I went to the large Rebel town on Dantooine(which was just a short ride away). I walked into their Cantina and was surprised that I somehow had avoided the ban list. A couple minutes later around 6 or so Rebels come in followed by their mighty Jedi Knight. After a minute I pulled out the droid named 'Say Cheese' or something, I really don't remember what I called him.
So I targeted the Jedi and started the countdown and 10 seconds later the bomb droid 1 shot the jedi knight and I was insta-Tef'd stuck in the cantina's open doorway. I still laugh at the chat screen comments after the bomb went off "WTF?!" and "So that's what that droid was for!"
I was victime of some of those practical jokes involving the creation of alts and messing with other people's minds before coming clean about being alt to someone in the guild. Think the farthest I ever went on something like that was when I started my 3rd account. At that point I was playing on Chil and a part of an imp guild (*gasp* -- only time I ever did the imp thing, on other two servers I played on I was reb). The guild had a very specific system for having people join with being imp as only a start. As my newly spawned toon is making her way to the guild's city on Naboo, I send a tell to a guildmate asking if as a non-imp noob I could get an invite to the guild. When the person responded with a polite "no." I added the fact that the toon was an alt to a guild member. He asked who and with a laugh I told him. Since the toon was going to be a tailor, she got not only the invite but the points needed to become imp.
Other "jokes" I enjoyed were:
-- talking lekku with another person around guildies on Flurry in order to get their reactions
-- doing "romantic" emotes (/kiss, /slobber, etc.) with game hubby in front of the guildie in the first story because the guildie would react like he was grossed out by our interactions (in reality the guildie was a married man with children so I doubt he truly found the interactions to be that disgusting
), said guildie was also the one who introduced me to the joys of the "pbbttt" emote so that it practically became our greeting to each other
My silliest and dumbest but funnest practical joke was kiting one of the vastly powerful nightsisters - I cant remembher which one, perhaps Axkva Min - into Dathomir spaceport. That old lady would be there for an hour killing everything that moved. Scores of people were either stranded hiding in the Cantina - for some reason she wouldn't go there - or wondering why they zoned in dead. Happy days. In the end, guild would have to send in squads of two or three or four high level Jedi to deal with her. Watching them at work was, to me, more exciting than the Qi Jon/Kenobi/Maul fight in SW 1.
I know at least one person logged off, cursing over "... just wasted 15k on buffs..."
My friend used to do that with a DJM into our player city on Dant. It was kinda funny watching guildies run from a DJM when the shuttled in.
I had a buddy who was an early Jedi. He used to liike to force run up to noobs just zoning in to Moenia for the first time (in those days you could start in Naboo) unloak while firing up his lightsaber and say:
'At last you've arrived. Quickly now, take this item immediately to Princes Leia on Dathomir'. Then he would trade the noob some generic box or piece of wiring. 'Your fate in this star system will depend on it'.
What would happen then was that usually one of the Meatlump NPCs round the starport would open fire and my friend would say: 'You fool! You've betrayed us! I swear I'll be revenged on you if it's the last thing I ever do!'. Then he would cloak and force run off leaving the noob saying: 'No. Pls. It wuz a mistake'.
He he. I often wonder if any of them did set off on the long and frightening journey to Dathomir armed only with their CDEF carbine and their maroj melon.
Me and a friend used to go upto to random people and ask what their rank was in their guild. They wouldnt know and we'd tell them to type /guildr to find out
lol the fun times
After they told you and you found out that they were weaker than you did you pwn them?
Not to start a flame war or even call BS on this post but Jedi couldn't cloak in the 'early days'...
Shadowfire.
I remember near the final days of Pre-CU before they put in the CU and later the NGE of course that occasionally guilds and even my own would run out and draw a Krayt into bestine or even harder and better... Eisley. But one particular event was the best.. not really a practical joke.. but revenge..
One time a guild brought in two Krayt dragons to rampage the city, and about sixty people gathering for social events on Wookiee day were caught by suprise and immediately scrambled for combat. I remember going down multiple times from getting mauled while not paying attention or sending a tell and there being this one.. and the ONLY doctor around... i'd ask her for a resurrection and she wouldn't do it! I couldn't figure it out either.. she wouldn't help me at all... well to skip to that chase it turns out she didn't like someone in my guild.. so i was getting the bane for her frustration..
So with the whole thing over and several other guildies having shown up, one of them decided to follow her in hopes that she would head back to her home... she did.. and we made use of that.
Two other guildies pulled a krayt down towards her house as a "Thank you" gift for her kind 'generosity' at bestine.
Well i guess she didn't notice at first because she walked out at one point.. mounted her AV-21 and started to take off... and of course.. the Krayt charged over and destroyed her AV. she runs back in side.. luckily still alive.. and ten minutes later runs back out.. hops on a bike and tries to make a dash for it... krayt snatches it up.. she tries to book it back inside.. and it grabs her..
SCORE! Revenge served cold! Always good!
Needless to say the bunch of us got reported and were all visited by a live CSR.. we explained why we did it and the Shadowfire main-CSR at the time (can't think of his name) told us not to do it again, but that it was a good act of revenge and let us off the hook.
We were also never supposed to tell anyone as it could get him in trouble for not punishing us.. but ah well.. that was so long ago.
Edit: typos!
Everquest - 2000 - '02
Anarchy Online - '01-'02
Earth and Beyond - '02-'04
Star Wars Galaxies - '03-'06('07)
World of Warcraft - '04-'07
Age of Conan - '08 - shelved.
-Waiting on-
Star Trek Online
SW: The Old Republic
Eichenkatze,
That reminds me of what we did to some guy who had a beef with someone in our city. He was acting childishly and setup a small house just on the outskirts of our city limits with some kind of rude name on the house.
So a few of us would hang outside of his house when he was there and we would pull out our pets, those massive ones that would shake the screen and make loud noises. I think they were those enormouse fambaa's or something. Anyway, it must have driven him nuts with so much noise and screenskakes. I think we even placed a few turrets and minefields nearby.
If your question was to blondeh's story of telling someone to type /guildr in order to find out their rank in a guild, blondeh wasn't in search of info about guild rank, blondeh was tricking someone into removing him or herself from his or her guild as /guildr is short for /guildremove.
Not to start a flame war or even call BS on this post but Jedi couldn't cloak in the 'early days'...
My friend, I didn't say 'early days', I said 'early jedi'. So he was. He unlocked before Pub 9. He played his joke - and let me watch - later, after the CU. I hope this answers your question.
I don't know if this story is true or not but, if it is, it is funny. It's certainly a ggood example of virtual world urban legend- hey, has any other game except SWG got its own urban legend? No. That's how good SWG was.
There was once a Bounty Hunter, an early adopter, had been a BH not only before the Hunter Droids worked but before there were even vehicles. What he used to do to find his jedi was hang out in Coronet, Bestine or Theed cantinas - or in the hospitals - talking to people and just finding out what was going on. Sometimes, after many visits, he would find someone who recognised the name of the jedi. If they knew the person was a Jedi, they usually didn't say anything and he would have to log in on an alt account and, a week later, meeting the same person again, would say that he had found a krayt pearl or a power crystal and did they know anyone who would buy them...
One way or another he found out where the jedi had their home. He'd set up his own house there and just wait. Logging in and out waiting for the Jedi to arrive, travelling to the closest starport to see if there were travelling between hunts, going to the closest cantinas to see if they were healing their mind wounds.
Long story short, he really enjoyed 'playing' a dedicated, grinding BH.
One day, he got a bounty on a Jedi. He went to Theed cantina to start his pursuit and began talking to a Twilek Master Musucian who just happened to be there. He asked if she knew the name and the dancer, to his surprise, said 'Sure'. The person he was looking for was a friend who often hung out in this cantina and, to his surprise, he had just arrived and wsas standing behind them. Indeed another Twilek dancer had just come in. Though she was tagged 'Novice Entertainer', she had the name of the Jedi and was obviously his mark.
It turned out the Jedi was a maaaaad role player. She loved coming itnot he cantina and dancing with her friend, disguised as a little dancer - it kmade a nice change from all those hours spent grinding alone in Dantoine.
The BH did not attack immediately but began talking and roleplaying with the two Twileks. After a while, he went to the toilet and when he came back, the Jedi had logged - so he missed his opportunity to kill her. But the Musician, still unsuspecting, said that her friend had to go vbut would come back the ssame time the next day.
So, a day later, they met again. They got talking, liked each other, even flirted a little. After two or three 'accidental' meetings like this, the Jedi began to trust the BH. She even told him her great secret - she was a Jedi. More meetings, more flirting. Finally, the BH asked the Jedi to marry him.
...And she accepted. Now, as i said, she was a hard core roleplayer. And so were all her guild. She got together a great ceremony in a 'invitees only' guild hall and had a friend who was a wookie put on one of those red christmas dresses to perform the ceremony wih all due reverence. Finally, when she said, 'I do', three or four of her friends who were also Jedi, fire dup their lightsabers in celebration.
At that point, our BH opened fire on her and killed her. He became a pariah to almost everyone on the server.
He he. Well, i thought it was funny.