The Dangers of MMORPGs: #1 Girls

And this is just the First One

The other day, I thought that the citadel might be a great place to grind up on class points, as the crash site and the lair were getting way too boring. I mean, all you do all day for three hours straight is just kill some dwakels and draconians. Doesn't that get boring? Plus, you can freak out the people by dressing up as Inquisitor Guards or Captains. That's what I do.

So as I was just battling with two Inquisitor Guards (Yes, at the same time), I thought that I'd do something unexpected for the day, and answer that all-capped plea for help, "HELP!" with the unneeded exclamation point. After I got all healed up and ready for whatever that person needed help with, I typed in the '/goto' command, and went straight to said person who was in need of help. It turned out that the person needed to beat the Inquisitor Captain two times for the quest chain. So, I went and beat up the Inquisitor Captain with her. And as the quest chain progressed, so did our innocent chatting.

I'm really not the type of person who engages into these types of chats, where crucial information about oneself is involved, such as age and country (Seriously, she even asked about birthdays, astrological signs, height and weight; I think she even asked about my IQ; but she didn't ask about my gender, of course, because I was in a very big Crusader armor then); but that day, I didn't seem at all like my usual quiet self. Soon enough, she was saying, at a multitude of times, how I was her type. And somehow, we winded up in the Guru Forest, fighting the Wisteria. The laggy connection started up again, and soon, the monster had frozen stiff, and we couldn't attack it. So chat we went again, and she, again, said how I was her type; she even asked me if I had a girlfriend. And that was it, I told myself. I did the only thing a guy like me in a peculiar situation like this could do: lie. I ended up telling her I was a girl in real life. She seemed to have taken it well, faking that she had to go, when in fact she had just transferred to a different server, deleting me in her friends list in the process.

I swear, if I ever get into a situation like that again, I will not touch my AQW account for one whole week. But anyway, I can say that I've learned my lesson here: lie about your gender? No :). I guess just be careful. And I guess that the same would apply if it were a boy who did this to a girl. But I guess that being guys, we would be too caught up in the game rather than the many women who also play it, right? ;) Club Penguin, anyone?