Recently I've been noticing some odd PCs on Shiva that seem highly suspicious.

The names usually all include Shiva in it somewhere, and they have some random arbitrary word or even not a word at all following as the second half of the PC's name. Then there's usually several of them all next to each other. They usually share a Race, but I've seen groups that had 3 Lalafells and 1 Hume and so on. One thing that really sticks out though is that they're all wearing the exact same gear.



For instance, warping into Ul'Dah I saw four of these matching PCs. They all had Shiva in the name, and were all Humans. Weirdest thing was that they were all Thaumaturges or Black Mages, didn't check the class, were using an Astrolabe HQ, and had very low leveled gear on, like 10s and 20s stuff. None of them were moving, and as I was telling someone else about the creepy thing I was seeing, they all disappeared at the same time.

What's going on with these sort of PCs? What is someone using them for? They don't have the usual RMT names but something weird is still going on.