Guy I stole from has a shitty mobile connection and barely plays the game, UOF is a PvP shard and he pretty much stopped playing and plays two other trammy shards because of this. I decided to install UO again in november and he logged into UOF for the first time in a year or so.
They introduced meta pets (tamer 4 lyfe) that you level a few years ago, I got one and didn't play for a few years, turns out it was one of maybe 5 on the server for a few years, and they're pretty valuable even now.
I offer to level his steed for him, it's just a macro where I ran around the world with the thing autokilling the nearest grey, turns out this leveling is a bitch and it took maybe a few hundred hours of doing this, i'm glad I have multiple monitors.
The initial trade went fine, he gave me his pet first and I gave him mine as deposit.. for some stupid reason you can't safe trade pets, taking any other item as a deposit would have been a safer option, but he trusts me.
Trading between "evolution stages" or whatever it's called resets back to 0xp at that level, so a stage 5 with 1499999 would be a silly thing to trade.
A few days ago I finished the grind off.. I was a bit pissed that he valued my time at 0, he hadn't offered anything in return even though i'd hinted at wanting something small. He trades my pet back to me and "I ban thee" cya later alligator. I could have taken this pet months ago and robbed his house blind too, this wasn't a calculated scam but rather a midnight jolly.
I now have stolen goods, and it's time to find a buyer. The guild is pissed as you'd expect and i'm tempted to make a new toon and turn my old one into a dirty red or something... that will take a couple hundred hours and i'll need to be clever to hide my iDENTity.. maybe take up roleplaying or something. Buying donation coins with $ to purchase this pet would be around $1000 worth.
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