Weirdest things you've seen...

[HWalsh]

Here are just some weird things I've seen since I started playing a month ago.

1. The Determined (Creepy) Suitors

So, this was like a week into playing. Four guys, all dressed in (what looked like) black leather show up in a car and all get out. They run up and surround me, spamming /bow.

One of them, without warning, initiates a trade with me. Trying to give me a bouquet of flowers.

I click cancel, and say: "That's not necessary."

To which he responds with: "I think it is."

He proceeds to keep trying to trade me, I keep hitting cancel, eventually I try to move away and they follow me. Feeling really creeped out I teleport to Ul'dah.

They follow me.

Finally I say: "I'm serious. Please leave me alone."

They all vanished into thin air. Not teleported. Vanished.

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2. The Repeating Chocoboman

I'm in South Shroud, at the silver mining area. I'm grinding out silver ore, trying to get 99 high quality ore (before I realized that, on my server) HQ silver ore goes for the same price as normal silver ore. Along comes a person who goes up to a mining spot on a chocobo, hops off, mines a spot, calls his chocobo, and goes to another spot.

Nothing weird there.

Until he starts his second cycle.

He mines the first spot, then: Summons chocobo, gets off, summons, gets off, summons, gets off, summons, gets off... This goes on for 20 minutes... Then he teleports away.

Not like the suitors, he normal teleports.

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3. The Seven Dwarves

I'm in South Shroud (Silver Ore is lucrative) again. Suddenly along comes 7 Lalafel, all perfectly stacked up on each other. They go to an ore spot, one of them mines. They move to another. One of them mines. They keep this up in perfect synch for about an hour.

One of them breaks off, runs up to me, and does /bow then runs back to each other and they all teleport away simultaneously.

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What were these events? I have no idea. What were they trying to do? No idea either. The truth is out there.

What weird stuff have you seen?

[Demetri_Delethorn]

4. The Confused Elitist

I'm just browsing the forums and some guy thinks that people care about his PC specs. Proceeds to call PS4 users trash and continuously talk about the computer he built for pages on end. Nobody ever asked. Eventually he gets frustrated that nobody is paying attention to him and becomes even more aggressive.

It was a crazy experience. Also, #3 on your story is just a Lalafell bot train. Truly a terrifying thing to witness.

[HWalsh]

4. The Confused Elitist

I'm just browsing the forums and some guy thinks that people care about his PC specs. Proceeds to call PS4 users trash and continuously talk about the computer he built for pages on end. Nobody ever asked. Eventually he gets frustrated that nobody is paying attention to him and becomes even more aggressive.

It was a crazy experience.

Not exactly the kind of weird stuff I was thinking about with this thread, but as Judge Mills Lane said, "I'll allow it."

[Kanitezz]

Alright there. I don't have any tales like yours but... When I started playing like 3 years ago I started on the Leviathan server. And in Limsa Lominsa, next to the big aetheryte there was always a male Miqote in a speedo doing the "Manderville" dance who was always AFK in the same spot. And I mean ALWAYS. For months, and months, and months. I went back to Leviathan a couple of years later (Sometime before world visit was implemented) to check in on my old FC. Annnnd the EXACT same male Miqote was in the EXACT same spot in Limsa Lominsa, STILL AFK, STILL doing the "Manderville" dance. It's always been a spectacle for me. Passed by him so much when Leviathan was my home server he almost felt like family. I bet he's still there to this day.

Apart from all the teleporting bots or hackers or whatever I see on occasion that's all I got.

[Ayuhra]

Sounds to me like you ran into some bots.

...Not those first guys, though, not sure what was going on there.

For me?

I recently did the MSQ roulette and half the party were in frog costumes. Made those Praetorium cutscenes something special.

[Bacent]

I tend to be the weirdest thing I've seen, minus this one time back on Cerberus we had everyone in the area replacing words in dungeons/locations in game with the word Nipples (The thousand nipples of toto-rak and stuff of the sort, also a friend started it but I sure helped the fire spread). Then it devolved to music bands and locations IRL (Nine Inch Nipples).

[Alucard135]

I'll just leave this here

[Mirhd]

Nothing really bizzare, buuut~

Does a male miqote standing behind my house, in the tiny space between the fence and building count?
Months ago (year ago? honestly don't remember) I left my house after doing some crafting to use the nearby MB. Running up the ramp, I saw this guy just standing in that spot. He had to have noticed I noticed him, but he said/did nothing, and neither did I. It wasn't really bothering me, him being there, so I went about my business. I port back to my house hours later for more crafting/gardening, and I notice he's still there. Hadn't moved an inch. Think "Alright, whatever", and continue on. He eventually left, but I still have no idea what that was about.

Another time, a different male miqote walked up to my character while I was just standing there, looking at in-game logs, don't remember what for. He remarks on me being "really tall", gets as close as he possibly can without standing on the same spot my character is taking up, and does the /hug emote, then flees. Strange.

Anyway, there's people I occasionally encounter that try to justify using/justify others using exploits, but that's not weird so much as irritating.

what

Holy crap that is horrifying. >>

[CorbinDallas]

I found RPers in my house back on an old server of mine, creeped me out a bit. Won't go too into detail, but it was lewd.

I also had someone randomly start caressing my chest in Syrcus Tower before, that was weird.

[SinSilverwing]

I'll just leave this here

What am i even looking at here?!