Jaiden long figured that the group was going to report the Jester to the GM's. Just going along with it while opening up another tab in the background. He may need to anonymously e-mail some data logs later on in the day to the Admin's or Devs, but for now he'd hold off going too far down the rabbit hole.
The game was for fun, not work. At least not yet.

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Claudia: Social Media? Why? I do have one, but I'm not sure I'm comfortable sharing. No offense, I just like to keep IRL and Endoroth separate.

Elian: Yeah, I have ChaosX. I'm Elian over there too. Why?

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Goibniu_The_Waylander: No offense taken. Essentially was going to have a group chat of sorts to help recover any items or equipment that may have been lost in the encounter. As for the Jester, yeah he's been going around and apparently attacking raid parties. Soon as he was spotted, was afraid the writing was on the wall except to save what could be done. From a couple forum posts GM's are pretty much after any lead on him. Although the situations being so brazen & blatant makes me wonder how they're messing with the Player ID, to not be banned or flagged.

Goibniu_The_Waylander: As for running the dungeon again, maybe? We didn't check out the courtyard much, or what was beyond the other door or so. Although, have to assign some skill points and all that before we go. So wouldn't hurt to stop by the quest hall, maybe get some more details or spread more eyes on the guy, and perhaps see what story arc or lore the quest is specific too? It seemed kind of weird that a person that's more often seen around large group or whale players would go to a mid-range dungeon. So figure the item is part of some... set or something for their employer, or guild head

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Goibniu_The_Waylander: Don't think it's a good idea to head after the guy again though. Probably more trouble and trolling than it's worth, since don't know what we could really do if we did encounter them unprepared.

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A friend request would be sent to Elian in the background on ChaosX. It was by someone named Aerial-TYM-3.
Jaiden was also running things and verifying a couple of files in the background. Although, such might not be needed given their upcoming encounter with the Admins.
He wasn't particularly as interested to chase the Jester character down at the moment though.



Goibniu had been set to auto-follow Elian the whole time. Since the player had been switching between a couple other things in the background. It didn't slow down his typing much at all though. But it may be a bit obvious, that Goibniu wasn't moving normally, just following along. Not quite unlike his own Automaton would unless given different commands. Jaiden was searching through data packets in the background.

He wouldn't speak with his mike as the admins appeared though. Instead opting to type again.


Goibniu would give the rest of the group a chance to add any other details, and perhaps the quest name.
Having an Admin provide over another artifact would work well enough for him. Although it may be entertaining to do another dungeon run, not particularly for the items but simply for the game play.

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"Running the dungeon again? Hmm...I suppose if all of you wish to. Though to be honest, I've felt like the experience has been rather soured. But I will tag along if you all wish to.

Robert would honestly just want to rage quit, screw doing the whole dungeon again. He'd vent his frustration by going to a low-level area and just farm some trash mobs by completely annihilating them for the catharsis. Claudia, however...she would probably be frustrated and would just want to go back to her home for the day, but will agree to join the party out of a sense of duty if they wish to run the dungeon again. Thus, whenever Robert and Claudia come into conflict in Endoroth, as always, Robert acquiesces and do what Claudia would do

Soon enough, two Admins appeared in front of the group. The first admin approached them, with the second following behind him. “Hello, I got your message, and I wanted to talk to you about this hacker. So you had seen him in a temple in Ocren? And he had stolen a quest item after killing your whole party? We had heard from other players their ID name was corrupted and could not be tracked. However, we do have one lead. The jester has been spotted in a forest in Skov. Walking around with a boy who doesn’t resemble any NPC in the game. We will be going there to see if we can find the player.” The second nodded before speaking.

“We can give you the lost quest item if you tell us what the quest was. Or if you like I or the other admin can escort you if the jester returns.” The second admin was looking over at the group, specifically looking over at Claudia.

As the admin came, Robert inwardly frowned at the fact that they didn't address what was probably the biggest issue with the hacker.

Through Claudia, he then replied, "I appreciate the swift response, but the most important thing here is how this hacker doxxed our IRL identity. Did they not do that with previous victims, if I may ask? Oh, and for your question, it was a quest we received in Shehar Guild Hall to track an artefact in the temple of Ochren," then, noticing the second admin looking at her, Claudia turned to the admin and added, "Yes? Can I help you?"

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"What a fucking asshole." Rath grumbled aloud as the party reconvened in a safer area. The others were sending messages out to moderators, so Rathello let them do that as he headed inside an inn to access his personal stash. Grabbing a few extra potions he headed back out to reconvene with the others, next run would just be a power run to make up for lost time. Goibnu and Elian started sharing their social media, though Claudia seemed reluctant to. Rath merely shrugged.

"I prefer in-game chatter but I suppose ChaosX makes things more convenient, mine is 'Reverett', I think my requests are public- I should probably change that."

Rathello frowned as the Uriel shared what the others had mentioned about this so called 'jester', something about a child being seen with him. Most of the NPCs in ToE were adults, and what children NPCs there were were typically in safe areas- so certain players wouldn't try to hurt them. That more or less meant the only 'child' that could be following the Jester was probably a player. Rath didn't even know they had child models for players- he didn't remember what the rating for ToE was, but he doubted it was particularly a suitable game for children.

"This whole Jester business goes a bit over our heads I think- I mean, even if we could kill him, its not like that does anything to him, and he still knows our personal info to boot. How's he running circles around the mods like this? Can't they just check which players were in the dungeon during that last instance and ban whoever isn't us?"

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Elian shook her head at the idea of going after the jester. As much as she wanted to make the guy pay, their little group just didn't have the ability to do so. And if even the admins were having trouble dealing with him...well, what could six players do?

She accepted Goibniu's friend request on ChaosX, and sent Rathello one of her own. She switched focus back to Endoroth as the admins appeared. They had questions, and together the group answered them. "I agree with Claudia -- I honestly think the doxxing is more serious than the griefing."

When Rath mentioned the jester business being over their heads, Elian nodded with a sigh. "Don't let one rotten player spoil the game for you, Claudia. There was a bunch more to explore in that dungeon than we got to see, and I saw you checking out the books. There's bound to be more interesting lore tidbits in there. But...if you really want to split, I won't stop you."