This happened the week that Pacific opened.
Okay, so it's Saturday morning, and all the servers were crowded. I couldn't get into Xian to save my life, so decided to try to hop onto Pacific and pwn some Mangyang with a freshly made little twig...
The whole time silkroad is loading, I'm thinking I don't stand a chance to get in; it's usually full all day on Saturday so unless I stay logged in from the night before, I can't play again until late Saturday evening. Lo and behold, I clicked the connect button, and up pops the image verification screen!! I got in on the 1st try!! Didn't have to retype the verification code or anything (I HATE when they give you the lopsided 8; you can't tell if it's an 8 or a B and I always guess wrong).
So I head out the Jangan south gate into the fray with nothing but a bow, some arrows and the need to pwn every mangyang I see. Jangan was overrun with twigs!!! Every kill was a shared kill. There were so many bots you couldn't get a solo kill to save your life. Then it happened - at the same time I shot an arrow at one mob, along comes mr botter; we were both in the process of attacking the mob, but needless to say he hit harder with a glavie so he got the kill.
So you're probably asking, 'but phil, where's the sos part of this story?'
Guess what the mangyang dropped? I saw the sos box drop and clicked on it...
"You cannot obtain this item because it belongs to another player." or whatever that stoopid message says. The bot leans over and picks it up, then runs off to another mangyang.
I stood there for a moment, in disbelief. It was a bow too. I was so mad i tried to attack him but you know how successful that is below L20. LOL.
I wrote his name down in my 'players to kill' list, but since i haven't played there in two weeks or so, I wouldn't stand a chance...he's probably 64+ by now, lol.
The End.
