The triumphant Return of Turbo

As many of my long time fans know, I used to have a main, while training my current account as a mage pure.  Back August of 2006, I was scammed out of just about everything I had.  If anyone knows Reznal, he is the low life scammer who nailed me.  One name I will probably always remember.

Yes, I was stupid.  He replied to my forum post about buying 1k prayer pots, and I teleported to Edgeville to make the trade.  He wasn’t there, but sent the PM, “I am alching at the monastery.”  Stupidly, I ran the shortest way there.  That was back before the ditch and the easy non-wildy access to the monastery.  Out of the blue, at the deepest point in the wildy, I got nailed.  Ice barraged to death with not only the 1k p pots, but just about everything else I had just purchased in Fally 2.

A week later, I died in the bank.  Poison and lag, and lost the last bit of wealth I had in the game.  Angry and upset, I hopped over to ebay and bought 10mil from the cheapest source I could find.  I should have known better.  I made a dummy account, got the trade, then traded to a buddy and then traded to my account.  The next day all accounts that were included were banned.  I guess a 10mil unbalanced trade was pretty visible even back then.

I do check it once in a while, and last month, out of the blue, there was an appeal chance.  I appealed and got my account unbanned.  It is interesting to see a pre-GE, pre-tabbed bank.  I started organizing it already.  Now to decide if I want members back on it.  The sum I purchased half a decade ago seems paltry to my bank today, but it was still there, in the form of 4k dragon bones.  There are also a ton of seeds just labeled as ‘members objects’.  Wondering what they are as well.

All in all a very nice bonus this weekend.

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