Clearing air about PandaPest

Hi.

Recently I just came over from (another game) to a place where I heard it was fun. I tried to bring my sense of humor along and just finnaly be able to play a game and relax without any problems.

Recently, within 2 weeks, a friend of mine "Hans" (not his nickname) left to go on holiday and asked me to run his faction.

I declined because I didn't want to be in charge of anything except light hearted humor, telling jokes, and singing songs in faction chat. (out of key of course)

I run all sorts of jokes, songs, funny nonsense ads which arent supposed to make sense. I talk smack to mobs I'm fighting and otherwise act like.. well a pest.

I get more fun out of being in a party against some hard to beat creature and then yelling at it or throwing "fake rocks" at it simply to amuse the other party members.

Out of the 1000's of jokes Ive already told since joining around Novemeber...

I sometimes run a little prank on fellow faction (guild) members that goes something like this...

When I see a member is online, talking, and fighting somewhere outside of town I go to town and say one of the following ...

"-nickname- is giving away free gold.. type /-nickname- Hey where's my gold? to get your free gold.
" Hey everyone msg -nickname- for a good time"
" -nickname- is feeling sad today.. everyone type /-nickname- aw here's a hug"

Now I admit the second one may be a little bit eye raising but truly its funnier if done on another male.

The *EXPECTED* result is that suddenly the guildie (faction member) gets a few strange msgs.
The IDEA is to sit back and talk to him normally and wait for him to acknowledge he just got some strange messages at which point I tend to whistle innocently indicating "Yeah it was me"

Now this little prank worked on about 10 faction members including Hans one fine day.. and then I picked a person at total "random" and ran the same joke on.

I got a pretty bad response from the "husband" of the person I ran it on. I honestly at the time did not know she was a she or that she was married to another faction member.

This "prank" isn't supposed to be a sexual prank at all but simply get the above mentioned expectation and then a laugh. -- THATS IT

The reaction I saw or remember seeing didn't seem to me to be anything but a mention. In fact it really wasn't memorable to me at all and didn't stick in my head as a "warning" (as later will come out)

I should mention that when I made another "joke" about the interim faction leader's pet spider being beaten.. I got scolded for that. Imagine getting scolded for talking about someone beating their imaginary pet tarantulax. b:puzzled

But that's another story.. I guess a logical person should have realized right then and there that this is a place to which some people's idea of humor is another person's idea of an insult.

But I guess Im not like that.. Im silly.. full of nonsense.. trying not to take things serious AT ALL.. but rather try and get people to laugh even at me if possible.

I think I made more jokes about myself from November to January than I did anything else. People did laugh at those.. and they all seemed to get along with me.

I helped out my fellow guildies... often making them 3 Star weapons for free and even at cost to myself.

Then comes last week.. last Thursday or even Wednesday... Heck it might have been New Year's.. or a day or two after.. I honestly dont remember the exact date.

I come online and am bored and no one is chatting in the faction and so I run a very old joke I've used on (another game) before as d0nKeY or as Pest (my rogue on Sarissa)

It runs like this...

In guild chat I say.. "You all are a bunch of beetle ticklers"

*looks around for today's "especially victim"...." (usually I add a number... like especially victim #409, to indicate "hey I do this a lot and to a lot of people and today you got chosen", guess I should have maybe added the number)

" especially.. -nickname- , yes -nickname is a panda tickler fer dang sure"
(whereas -nickname is literaly a "RANDOMLY" chosen person in the guild who I havent seen chat in a long time and this gag is designed to get them to at least type "LOL")

Now , on that day I did substitute the word beetle with Panda.. i.e Panda tickler

To my knowledge.. (and Im not a kid contrary to popular belief, cough) I know for a fact that "tickling" is not a sexual reference at all.

Tickling is the act of touching a part of the body, so as to cause involuntary twitching movements or laughter

Source link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickling

To throw something wild in there like "beetle tickling" or as I've done on (another game).. "Goblin Tickling" (goblins dont really exist ya know) is done to enhance the idea and to make it seem even more impossible and even more silly and harmless.

Incredibly.

The abovementioned "husband" of the abovementioned "wife" went ballistic.

I'm talking.. all caps.. "You were warned" lines multiple times.. He demoted me and then in his blind rage.. kicked himself from the faction while possibly aiming at me.

This was quickly remedied when his "alleged wife" (I still think its the same person with two pc's going ) banished me from the guild.

What do you think? Do you think calling people "panda ticklers" is an offensive joke?

I was honestly surprised at the action taken.

I really didn't know how to react myself... I couldn't believe what I just saw happen to me in an online video game.

I tried to explain to both person's involved but the "guy" was too hell bent for leather that I had committed the most unspeakable act on the planet.

Talk about taking something serious...

What do you think? Do you think that guy went a little haywire?

Anyhow to make a long story short, there was no reasoning with the guy or his wife or another guildie who was the ONLY other witness to what was said.

Four people total including myself saw what took place. The other 3 guildies were all afk in cat stores and the "interim" guild leader wasn't even online.

2 days go by.....

I'm out of the guild. I'm having fun ---by myself. Minding my own business.... walking through town.

Suddenly.. and out of the blue some guy shouts in world chat some sort of challenge and calls me out by name.
I had to read it three times before it sank in that someone I didn't even know used my name just then.

Never seen the name before...

I didn't respond or say anything at all, but rather stood there in Archasaur near Santa scratching the fur on my Panda head.

Then came the flood of private messages from the "husband" (name being withheld)
Here is a guy I thought.. that is not only taking this game so seriously that he went out and talked someone (higher level) into siding with him, but he was gonna make quote.. "dang sure I dont level again" with this new guy's faction ks'ing me at every turn.

He demanded to know where I was right then and there.. (I said far far north)
Then this new guy or as I call him.. "big shot", messages me with all sorts of name calling, insults, claims that I'm a "kid" and claims he'll hunt me down in real life and rip my head off" (death threat from a complete stranger)

Naturally, I'm still a bit confused at this time and I also didn't see the "shout" go off from them claiming I'm some sort of pedofile" ( I would have ss'd that instantly had I seen it)

Later I was told of that development by someone who I've since added to my friend list and she claims to have that ss)

All this... I was thinking.. over a "tickle joke" period.

This conversation went on for a couple hours in which it ended in some blacklisting against them by me (something I dont normally do)

I eventually took those blacklists off thinking I probably would miss more slanderous shouts coming from them after learned of one particular one which I didn't see. In fact I think it happened when I did have them on blacklist.

I also remembered that I'm da d0nKeY .. and I dont take threats, BS, or lip off of anyone reguardless of their level or social standing in a game.

I didn't take that off of anyone on (another game) and I ain't taking it here.

Still, everyday I've logged on since Sunday of this past weekend.. I've gotten 100's of pm's from people I don't even know or have never met who claim they are "so and so's" bestest buddy and they all want to see me die...etc...etc.

I'm thinking two things here.

1. These people have no real lives of their own and they are so high strung into the social fabric of their own faction that they sincerely believe if they msg someone whom they don't even know about something they didn't even witness that somehow they'll get enough brownie points to cover their entire face and hide just how brown their nose really is

2. I need to either fight back, ignore and report, or come on these forums and let the TRUTH out about what happened so some people if they are of "reasonable mind" might.. JUST might second guess the source (the irrate husband) see through the lies that were in fact told to enhance me into the villain that more than 20 people apparently believe I am.

So I chose all three actions.

I'm fighting back... (trading insult for insult)
I've reported two tickets already including screenshots
And Im telling it like it is on these forums.

I should stress that since I was removed from my faction (name withheld) I joined a fun group of guys in AirRiders .. only to learn that the "big shot" was such a powerful influence he msg'd the leader.. and either intimidated him or whatever..
I got scolded for pm'ing the guy. So I LEFT that faction.

The "big shot" likes to think I was kicked and bragged about this fact saying quote:

I got you kicked blah blah.. I can get you kicked from any guild I want

Well... here is the lovely ss of me being kicked



Those guys were at least fun, sad to see pressure from a "higher level snob" break things up.

Point is.. I'm not gonna "conform" to one higher lvl player's wishes simply because he's the best player in Perfect World.

I didn't take any lip off of WaXXorian from (another game) and I aint taking no lip off of anyone here.

I came here to play, have fun, and tell my silly mind numbing jokes and sing as many songs while fighting as I can.. no matter who is annoyed.

If in the end this guy 0wnz the GM's here as much as he 0wnz my most recent faction than fine.. I'll end up back where I came from.

Dare he show up there...

My Pest rogue has an attitude and I play it like no other character.