Zogal the Killstealing, Exploiting Roleplayer

Davian and I are both level twelve.  We've been hunting lions and bears and spiders and beetles (and when we can find them alone or in non-spellcasting pairs, bandits) in W. Karana.  More than half of our treasure has consisted of Ruined Pelts worth 8 coppers.  Money is extremely hard to come by.  We have - somehow - managed to save up enough money to deck ourselves out in armor (him in leather, me in a combo of patchwork and leather).
 
Our most recent purchase, though, was our most expensive purchase yet. Tuesday night, we purchased a Combing Lonsgsword at the gypsy camp.  A +0 Magic Sword, just for me.  I *never* get to go first, in our little duo. He always does.  But my sword was 56 platinum, and his was 115, so I got to go first.  Still, 56 platinum is seven THOUSAND ruined pelts worth of work.
 
We decided to go to Erud's Crossing and kill wisps.  Wisps have phat lewt. They have bits of money and lightstones (sell for 9 gold - almost a platinum) and sometimes GREATER lightstones (4 platinum).  Davian the paladin doubled as the cleric, healing me while I whacked them with my new magic sword.  Wisps, you see, are invulnerable to normal attacks.  So the only people who can kill them are Magic-users, or warriors who saved up enough to buy this FREAKING expensive sword.  (notice how i didn't say archers.  There ARE no archers in EQ)
 
In an entire day in W. Karana, we made 7 platinum.  In a half an evening in Erud's Crossing, we made 22 platinum.  You do the math.  Needless to say, we decided to go back again on Wednesday night.
 
I tracked a wisp as soon as we got off the boat.  We ran towards it and attacked it.  No sooner did we get it targeted than Zogal the level 15 Dwarf Druid run up, cast two or three spells at it, and kill it dead before our eyes, stealing the loot and the exps.
 
He says to us:  "This is my island!  You better leave if you know what's good for you!"
 
I said, "No, it's not, and we're not going anywhere."
 
Davian says, "Bite me."
 
Zogal says, "Yes it is!  A GUIDE said I could have it!  I am roleplaying, so beat it!  I have a house here that you can't even see!"
 
I said, "Impressive.  We're not leaving."
 
We take off to find another kill, that he steals from us also.  "The sooner you learn that Zogal and Goldenleaf(?) the druids own this island, the better off you'll be!  Leave now!  This is my island!"
 
By now, I am wondering if he has a Vendor Buy This Is My Island macro.  I /t him:  "No, it's not."  he /t's me back that a guide said he could have it, and that he is way older then me (his mis-spelling, not mine), so he deserves respect or something to that effect.  I /t him back that I could care less, it's NOT his island, and we aren't leaving, so HE better learn to live with it.  He mouthed off a bit more, calling me 'ugly one' and threatening to train a bunch of zombie sailors to us if we didn't leave.
 
I said, "We don't mind dying.  We'll just be back."
 
He says, "I'll just kill you again!"
 
I told him, "So then we'll be back again.  If you harass us, you WILL have problems."
 
[somewhere in here, I paged a GM to tell them this Zogal guy was harassing us, stealing kills, threatening to train monsters on us if we didn't leave. All through this time, about 2/3 the time we found kills, he would come up and steal them from us]
 
He says, "I am roleplaying!!  You don't understand, I don't leave this island except to get supplies.  I live here.  I have a house that you can't see!"
 
I said, "You're not roleplaying; you are abusing exploits - training monsters and stealing kills."
 
He says, "Just so you don't sound like a newbie, stealing kills isn't an exploit."
 
I said, "What is it, then?  And.. certainly circumventing the pk-switch is an exploit."
 
He says, "It is a way to tell you that you suck."
 
I said, "Ohhh... I see.  You're not a roleplayer, what you REALLY are is a kewlio in sheep's clothing."
 
He says, "I'm not one of those teenaged punks!  I am 49 years old!  YOU are the kewld00d!"
 
Why do I not believe that he is 49 years old?  I say, "How am I the kewlio? You are the one who just said 'u suk.'  Kewlness doesn't have anything to do with age.  It is ALL attitude."
 
He says, "You just don't like that I am roleplaying.  You need to go play quake if you don't want to roleplay."
 
I say, "I understand that you are roleplaying.  I even find the takeover of an island to be interesting.  However, the game does not allow you to do what it is that you want to do.  It doesn't really allow you to defend your island, because of the pk-switch.  There really isn't a whole heck of a lot you CAN do to us, besides abuse exploits and generally be a jerk.  I suggest you go to Rallos Zek if you want to defend your island, because you really can't do it here."
 
He didn't say much to us after that.  I think he stole another kill or two, though.
 
A GM responded a little while later with:  "Is Zogal up to his old tricks again?"  I explained what he was doing... and she says, "Okay, thanks for the info."  Right then, he tried to steal another kill.  I told the GM: "He's doing it again if you want to come see for yourself."  She says, "Don't worry, I fixed it.  :)"  He couldn't steal the kill from us.  I think she must have weakened his spells a LOT or something.  I watched him, trying to cast spells and have them either not work or not do a lot of damage, and said to the GM:  "Heheheee... thanks very much.  :D"
 
I am not sure if she talked to him personally?  After that, we didn't see him for the rest of the night, even though he was on the island.  Maybe he was in his 'house.'
 
Davian died twice and I died once from three wisps ganging up on us at once, though... and we hardly made any money.  First the jerk, then dying, then no cash... what a horrible night.  :(

 

 

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