After my relatively long story, I'd love to hear your own...
Ok, when I first began leveling as a Shadow Priest around level 20 I met a player, a Paladin, who seemed like a really nice guy. We wound up in the same very large guild and spent a good deal of time leveling as a duo. Paladin and Priest worked well together.
He met another girl - a Warrior - and they became in-game sweethearts. The three of us ran together through out 40s and were doing really well until around level 50.
The Paladin and I talked all the time on voice chat, and the girl didn't have it. Some resentment (and probably some jealousy) seemed to flare on her part and she became very cold to me overnight. I intuited that it was her own personal issue, took into consideration the fact that she is very young (19, or so she says), and quietly backed off from both of them.
I began running with other people, and though every now and then the Paladin and I would run an occasional instance, we never again duo'd together and things were not the same between us. Whatever. Things can get weird in games like this and my feelings aren't easily hurt.
A few days later I messaged the Paladin and discovered I was on his ignore list. I was bummed and mystified, but I really hate in-game drama and decided to just let it go. I knew that the fact he put me on ignore would come back and burn him because I was his go-to for healer in the parties he put together, but again, whatever. Days went by, then about a week. I was over it and enjoying the other relationships I'd made.
Flash to last Thursday. I got a message from a Death Knight guild member asking if I'd be willing to heal for a Saturday night (really Sunday morning) party at Scholo. I figured I could show up at midnight with no problem, and I didn't question why he'd want to make a party for 2 am eastern time (I figure some people work swing shift, whatever).
I got online at 11:30 pm and tooled around Outland finishing up some quests. I was annoyed and about to log by 12:30, but the DK showed, apologized profusely, and said he'd get the party together. He had voice, so I let him know that I'd thought he had a party already set up. I was annoyed again while he spent half an hour wheeling and dealing to get a party lineup.
So he winds up with four - count 'em, FOUR - Death Knights, and me, a shadow spec'd Priest.
I almost quit the party but them decided I'd be up for a challenge. I made it very clear that I would keep heals only on the tank and that the others would have to rely on potions and luck to get them through if they couldn't manage hate.
Here comes the weird part.
Remember the Paladin? I did. I'd talked to him for weeks, and he has a very distinctive voice and accent. He was one of the DKs, and he was trying to pass himself off as another person entirely.
I knew immediately, but I decided to play along. The evil Shadow side of me considered letting him bite it on a regular basis, but I decided to take the high road. I kept them all alive because I am a damn good healer and because after some scrambling they actually managed to keep most of the hate squarely on the tank.
The guy who started the party is also in our guild, and he knew that the Paladin and I were no longer on speaking terms...but he slipped at one point and called the Paladin/DK by his Paladin's character name.
I wouldn't be surprised if one of the other DKs was the ****** in-game sweetheart. I know they both had plans to roll and level DKs together.
I felt, I don't know...used? I guess that's the best way to put it. I resented being treated as though I'm stupid. I passed on every item that dropped (not a decent piece of cloth gear and no good weapons, and I just wanted to get out of there).
Final battle went well, no deaths, everyone in good health, and as SOON as the final piece of loot was distributed the shifty ex-Paladin logged without a word.
My ignore list grew to include the DK who put the party together as well as the Paladin/DK.
This whole experience left me feeling sad and kind of slimed. It's put a real damper on my enjoyment of the game, and though I still plan to level my Priest to 80 a lot of the passion I had has fizzled. I'm a lot more cautious in my dealings with other people now. I know it's just a game, but they ARE real people, and being deceived like that always sucks.
I hope the slimeball winds up with incompetent healers for the rest of his gaming career. What a scummy guy.
Any of you have any bizarre interpersonal experiences in-game?