Are the accounts freshly made? Because if it's the same person sending the rats, but different accounts, that's harassment.

Kukapetal wrote:

It doesn't seem like the same person...all the accounts look very different with different history and "personalities." So I'm guessing it's not harassment...just a bunch of people all having the same idea to play a "hilarious" prank on me.

I mentioned this to my friend who introduced me to this game and she thinks it's because I'm RPing as a minor but still nasty villain from another game. Though I myself am never nasty to any other players, and do my best to be helpful and friendly, if a bit eccentric, people who have played this other game may be taking it upon themselves to "punish" the character I'm RPing as.

It makes sense and honestly, if I'd known about this rat prank when I signed up, I'd probably have chosen to RP as someone else :P But I've come too far with this account to change things up now, plus the character has been a lot of fun to RP as. So while the prank is annoying, I probably invited it, so I'll just suck it up and not accept any more packages and consider it the price I pay for choosing to RP as someone with a lousy reputation.

Thanks for your advice, everyone

May I suggest that these players prank you in http://rattus.storynexus.com/s instead? They'll get their "revenge" while leaving your FL account unharmed.

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Now, as for the situation this thread is about: I don't think the live rats are that bad, especially if they can only be sent when you have below wounds 3. You could simply continue accepting whatever they're disguised as (what are they disguised as?) and just take the wounds and laugh about it.

It doesn't seem like the same person...all the accounts look very different with different history and "personalities." So I'm guessing it's not harassment...just a bunch of people all having the same idea to play a "hilarious" prank on me.

I mentioned this to my friend who introduced me to this game and she thinks it's because I'm RPing as a minor but still nasty villain from another game. Though I myself am never nasty to any other players, and do my best to be helpful and friendly, if a bit eccentric, people who have played this other game may be taking it upon themselves to "punish" the character I'm RPing as.

It makes sense and honestly, if I'd known about this rat prank when I signed up, I'd probably have chosen to RP as someone else :P But I've come too far with this account to change things up now, plus the character has been a lot of fun to RP as. So while the prank is annoying, I probably invited it, so I'll just suck it up and not accept any more packages and consider it the price I pay for choosing to RP as someone with a lousy reputation.

Thanks for your advice, everyone

Cimanyd wrote:

Now, as for the situation this thread is about: I don't think the live rats are that bad, especially if they can only be sent when you have below wounds 3. You could simply continue accepting whatever they're disguised as (what are they disguised as?) and just take the wounds and laugh about it.

I had this a little bit, shortly before I became a POSI, though it was only a couple people - but even so, it became particularly frustrating going along and seeing a social action, accepting it, and then being harmed in the process (especially as it took 3 actions to use the bed at my Lodgings.)

Like, if I'd gone up to them while they were playing and been like *Deletes 4 actions from your candle, using a single action of my own* they'd be pretty upset. Having it happen to me more than once became pretty disheartening, even though I knew I could recover from it easily enough.

Kukapetal wrote:

Great, now my supposed friends have moved on from sending me rats to poisoning me with lacre. Guess I'm going to have to stop accepting any and all social actions. Such a shame.

Seriously? this isn't a lot of people making a stupid choice, this is one person deliberately tormenting you with alts!

Report it immidiately. There's no way anyone with any sanity would send poisoned lacre! it's wasting a small fortune!

There IS a property "nolongeracceptingrats" that if nothing else, the staff can set on you.

It's a vengance option, and a malicious option for pranking purposes. If you wanted to, you could work through everyone on the list of active forum members, for instance, poisoning them or rat-boxing them, and that wouldn't be harrassment. But there's a level of repetition where you've either been very bad this hallowmas- rejecting dozens of individuals invites even as you recieved them- or you're being pestered by an individual who's making alts to make your life miserable.

Grenem wrote:

Report it immidiately. There's no way anyone with any sanity would send poisoned lacre! it's wasting a small fortune!

I can't. It's an option to do to people, so the person didn't violate any rules.

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