here are some excerpts from some posts about my girlfriend's nephew playing some on my account... a mistake i do not intend to duplicate.
pandy's nephew stayed with us this weekend and he played a bunch of my characters. we discussed at length the protocol for playing my characters (I.E. not doing anything embarassing or stupid), but it would appear that i may not have gotten thru.
he is young and can't believe none of my characters are over 50th, so he took it upon himself to powerlevel as many of them as possible, in order to save me from some sort of imaginary consequence. i think he is under the impression that if you don't max a character out in the shortest possible time something bad happen to them, or maybe that it will happen to me, i'm not sure.
maybe he thinks the newb police will come and put me in AC jail for failing to hit 50th level in the required 12 hour period. it is true that i have been summoned to testify before the newb court in the past, about why my 3 40th level characters are currently living in phyntos menace grinding their way to 90th, but after explaining the fact that i actually like to play a variety of characters, they granted me special permission to just play the game. i had a really good lawyer tho who found a loophole for me.
regardless of the reason why, he doesn't know how to do anything without hitting a buffbot first (including visit the marketplace), so my apologies if he cleaned everyone out of comps or if he drove you crazy begging for buffs or anything else, please let me know so i can make amends (and then go throttle him )
it was really cute watching him try to hunt my characters in thier ususal hunting grounds and get them killed, even when they were uber buffed:
the conversation went like this:
nephew: don't be a gimp, you should get level 7's from a bot so you can get bigtime XP.
chris: i could, but i'd rather learn to play my characters with their own buffs, that way i actually learn how to play them.
nephew: whatever, newb, i have a level 73 UA on my server i am a better player than you. let me show you how it's done.
[tusker liberator kills you so swiftly even the lifestone shudders]
chris: wow, you are really good, i usually hunt for 20 minutes or so before i get waffled like that, but you got your face pushed in within seconds. and to think i have been wasting all these hours hunting at my level when i can just go to alphus lassel and get killed within minutes, thanks for the tip.
nephew: you're so funny. i wouldn't have gotten killed but i kept fizzling these level 7's cuz your mage stinks.
chris: funny, he cast levels 5's just fine, plus he has bolts for all 7 damage types and the vulns to go with them, that seems to be more effective than fizzling crushing shame over and over and getting eaten by tuskers. of course i am not l33t, so i wouldn't know.
nephew: laugh it up, you're gonna need those level 7's to hunt in VOD.
chris: wow, dying a gory death in VOD, that would prove your leetness once and for all. maybe you can get him killed somewhere really nasty so you need my whole allegiance to help you recover the corpse. once you get out of the hospital you could laugh in my face.
nephew: *after* i get out of the hospital?
chris: yeah, cuz if you get one of my characters killed by doing something stupid like that, i'm gonna break every bone in your puny little body. TWICE.