Quote by Justjon
I did eventually find my tagged target and thought it was so fun I captured the moment. One Jedi down and a few to go in the name of safety.
-Happy Hunting
I don't think I've seen a story like this since the early days of Ultima Online and the Anti-PK (Player Killer) squads. Back then, "PVP" wasn't a separate option.
No MMO game has created a truly-open-world simulation like UO (fauna ecosystems, logical harvesting systems (e.g. You saw a tree, you could carve wood off of it) and originally, no limitation on stealing (you could literally rifle through other people's inventory if your skill was high enough, and steal just about anything if you're skill and stats were up to the challenge) or killing (the advent of Player-Killer guilds).
To fight the very real menace of being killed by highwaymen, Anti-PK guilds cropped up as, essentially vigilante/bounty hunters, constantly watching for unethical activities and dishing out justice for those who were unable to on their own.
It was equally frustrating and exhilarating. I still remember I was up late one night, and went to one of the inns to log out. Someone had forgotten to stay ON their horse when they logged, so here was a tamed horse just ready to give me it's loyalty since it's owner had vanished. For the price of a few apples, I had my first mount. None of this waiting 25 levels then dropping your life's savings to get one.
In every possible sense of the word, UO was a new frontier. There's a certain nostalgia and magic about those early days that probably will never again be seen in online MMOs.
Stories like yours (at least for me) seem to be very rare these days.
Kudos to you!
