User:Mecha

Mecha, the one and only...
I will fill this page with crap from over the years, the highs and lows of my time spent in tibia, this will be ongoing and based on memory as well as researching so will be updated gradually as myself or others remember it.

Origins

Feb 2003: I created the character Mecha on the game-world Lunara, proceeded to journey down a ladder and couldn't figure out how to get back up it, click the base?! Pah! The character was subsequently abandoned as was the game for the moment.

May 2003: My cousin Kenny told me he was going to start playing as a few of our friends from other games were on Eternia, such as the legend, Orothin Beroloth, so we made new characters Rivian for him, Ryusan for me and began our slow campaign through rookgaard. Eventually after 4 days we made it to the holy grail of level 8, with us picking sorcerer and knight respectively.

2003 - 2004: My first day in main wasn't the best start I suppose, with me buying a battle hammer from Sam and squandering 4 days of gold looted in rook, then subsequently becoming poisoned by a lured scorpion in thais trolls, leading to my first death and losing my beloved hammer. After this point I can only remember training continuously, never afk for more than a half hour or so, no macros or such so me and my partner would just fish for 10 minutes then eat up and go afk, assuming we couldn't kill each other (proved wrong on that a few times sadly), after a few months I got to 80 sword fighting and decided it was time to level.

Traveling deep into the ancient temple I came across a hole with strange roaring sounds emitting from it, then fell down somehow only to resurface with red hp after the dragon had fried me. Heart racing from the close call I proceeded to walk back down the hole without healing and feel my first real loss of the game with my sword fighting diminishing back to 79 as the dragon couldn't believe it's luck.

Eventually after what felt like years, although it was probably weeks, I achieved the goal, set for me by my friend Orothin Beroloth, level 36. It was at this level that I was invited to join his prestigious guild, The Redeemers. I spent a week enjoying the nice warm days on cormaya at their Castle of the White Dragon guildhouse before Eternia rumbled into another war, Redeemers & Ad Infinitum vs Reign of Darkness, I was kicked for my own safety (wasn't too happy though) but not before winning my first and only amulet of life when someone held a "guess how many gp I have in my backpack" lottery. The war raged on for a few weeks with, as far as I remember, RoD winning and Orothin paying the whole guild out himself which made me happy to be able to play with my friends again*.


 * Except my 'good friend' Leia Teguzi who begged for my AoL just incase he got killed, then proceeded to test RoD by running from central circle to edron depot and back and dying, still bitter about that lost AoL since a few weeks later the new amulets of loss came into being and I never tasted the sweet consequence-less death of the old AoL.

As far as I can recall at the moment life was pretty dull for the next few months until my real life friend Frojin let me in on a bombshell of a secret, him and another friend Ejpaa, were planning to hack a helluva lot of people using a backdoor inside a cheat-bot released by Aphexx (guy who hacked CIP and summoned 2 demons at thais depot). The retrieval of accounts and passwords was quite ingenius as the retriever would enter his name into a ROT13 encoder and it would be changed into a different series of letters which he would then paste in a public channel, and anyone using the bot would automatically private message them back in the form of : Name:account/password, without them even noticing. After a few days we commenced the en-masse hacking of pretty much every tibian server making new characters and getting level 2 and sending ourselfs loot off of peoples accounts before we even reached main. It was the most exciting time I'd had on tibia and even more so when Ejpaa told us he had hacked the legend himself, Smoked and obtained his rareset, he traded this with Kevin MacLathlan's antican character as he was hunted on Eternia at the time, and in return recieved Eternia's only Demon Legs. The hacking continued for about 2 or 3 weeks before people caught on and stopped using the bot, but we'd already amassed fortunes on our chosen 'main' servers. Mine was Isara but I decided (stupidly?) to sponsor Damgrath to let him powergame as I'd known him in Redeemers back in the day, he got pretty damn high, 120 or so I think, then got deleted for calling someone a scumbag, owned. Anyway, it was at this time that the encoding for password retrieval was changed and Frojin took the initiative and contacted CIP, he told them all about the hacking and the way in which it was being carried out, in fact telling them how to hack it themselves to which they did. Inputting the retrieval command and banning anyone who messaged them their account details, in what would become known as the Black Weekend. Frojin was rewarded for this with a Helmet of the Stars and for some reason his friend Krin got a Thunder Hammer, I recieved nothing and Kenny recieved a ban for hacking (LOL). But it was all good as I went on to take level 63 with a full rareset on Eternia at the peak of my playing.

